100 lb. Club - What is your strategy for dealing with Halloween candy?

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It's coming soon. It's not too early to start thinking about a plan to deal with it. Some folks here at 3fc have kids that go out for Trick or Treat. Others pass out some kind of candy or goodies. Seems like people like to go all out.

I will be at my son's home to see my 19 month grandson dress up and go to a couple of their neighbor's. I know there will be candy around when I am there. I will have to dig down deep to stay out of it. At least I can leave the candy when we come back home.

When I am home - I usually get candy I don't care for to pass out (Yes, there is such a thing;)) & I buy my candy the day of Trick or Treat. Then the last child gets whatever is left. Often I'll give away pencils or stickers. The kids like those alot.

What is your strategy for this year? :witch:

For me it's not just giving it out, it's having it in the house in the days leading up to the day. I would be hard pressed to find a candy I don't like!

I'm just going to dig down deep, as you say, and not eat it. I would only be hurting myself, afterall. I'll probably have nibbles on hand, like baby carrots, that I can mindlessly munch.

As well, my husband will be around, so we can block for each other ;)

I dont eat candy at all so for me its easy, now cake is a different story!

I think.
I think about how many empty calories are in that piece of candy. I think about how much salad or fresh pineapple I could have for the same calories. I think about how that first piece of candy is going to be lonely in my stomach and invite all it's friends. I think I've come too far to take a step backwards now. I think I'll pass :D

I will pass out treats to the neighborhood kids. I won't buy anything until Halloween and I will make sure to give it all out by the end of the night. I have 2 young boys that will go trick-or-treating. I will let them have a few little treats and I'll get rid of the rest (if hubby doesn't eat it first). My office will have all kinds of candy around but I will ignore it and bring in healthy treats - today I brought in a bowl of fresh fruit for everyone.

I MIGHT let myself have one small piece of my favorite candy, but honestly....it's NOT worth it!!! Getting healthy, feeling good, exercising...feel much better than any piece of Halloween candy tastes!!!

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No Halloween candy for me. Its hard, but I've found that I have to go "all or nothing", and I certainly don't want to eat it all!!

I've done it before, so I know I can do it again, but I just have to keep at it. I like yoyo's advice to "think" - and I know how eating just one piece brings all of its friends too!

To make that a little easier, we won't open the bags of Halloween candy until the 31st, and the day after they'll go right to work with hubby.

We probably will get some of those mini bars or Reeses pb cups for Halloween. What I usually do with leftovers is take them to my office. They will be a temptation but what I have found that is satisfying is to take a candy and eat it as slow as possible or put the whole thing in my mouth and suck on it or let it melt in my mouth. If I want another, I'll have it and eat it slowly. This works. I don't want anymore.

Since I do a low carb diet, I keep low carb candy in the house for Halloween. I don't feel deprived and I don't give in to cheating.

Surprisingly, I don't have an issue with halloween candy. Don't ask me why. I did buy candy last week to pass out and don't expect to open the bag (assortment from Costco) until halloween night. If there are any leftovers, I'll send them to work with my husband. I did tell my husband that I feel bad passing out candy to kids but I said they aren't my kids so what do I care.

I just won't eat it...I have 3 kids and I know they'll be bringing lots of candy into the house. Last year I put the buckets up high for the kids not to get it all over the house and we would up throwing a lot of it away.

I have low point candy for myself and I'm pretty good about not binging now...but I really was never a candy freak. My weakness is cake and cookies lol :)

I'm also not too bad about Halloween candy, surprisingly (although before I started my lifestyle change, we had a candy bowl and I would go through a bag of mini PB cups a week -- yikes!) But I'm definitely, definitely going to make sure to start giving generous handfuls to the kids as trick or treaters start to dwindle, so there's none left at the end of the night. I'm going to buy myself a two-piece box of my very favorite organic handmade truffles from the farmers' market the Wednesday before Halloween and enjoy them after the trick-or-treaters come as my grown-up version of trick-or-treat.

My strategy is simple. I buy Hallowe'en candy with nuts in it. Since I am deathly allergic to nuts, there is no problem having it in the house before or after Hallowe'en.

I realize this strategy won't work for everyone. :lol:

I think I'm giving out stickers this year :D.

The candy the kids get goes straight into the cabinet above the fridge for me to forget about. DS will get one piece a day until he gets sick of it.

I don't eat candy anymore (I don't eat sugar), so it's not a problem for me. However, I am thinking of letting my kids eat whatever candy they want on Halloween night, and then offering them each 20 bucks the next day if they'll throw the rest of their candy away.

We've decided we're not going to bother with Halloween this year ;)

Instead we're going to dress up and head out to our favorite pub for halloween Karaoke.

Not too much of a candy lover :) . I like chocolates but it's not something I crave all the time or am crazy over. I have chocolates sitting at home right now and I haven't touched them in a while. My favorites are - mars, 3 musketeers and almond joy. Both DH and I have decided to get candies that we don't like hence less of a temptation. My major weakness is cake.

We're buying it the day of... I'm taking the littles out trick or treating and then our strategy is they can each have ONE bowl (small, cereal size) of candy to keep and then the rest goes to the "great pumpkin" who comes and trades GIFTS for CANDY!

Then THAT candy goes to my husbands work place in the staff room ;)

I have been blind-sided by this issue..... For some stupid reason, at home I don't eat candy. Halloween can come and go and I don't care about having any at all (except one tiny roll of Smarties - is that bad?).

ANYWAY, some sadist at work has brought in a GIANT bowl which she fills with the good stuff -- bite-sized Butterfingers, Kit-Kats, Snickers, M&Ms, etc. AND she puts them right next to the coffee pot AND she refills the bowl every day! AND it's not in a very heavy traffic area...... so, if you're not seen.....

Why, oh why, oh why MUST I grab *just a couple* each day?!?!?! They give me a headache (I'm diabetic).... but I have to have them!

My solution is to have her written up and dismissed. That seems reasonable.

Eat every piece I can and then buy more!! Oh, wait...that was last year's strategy.

We're just not buying any, and I don't have an office job or anywhere where I might be given some.

Halloween candy isn't too big of a deal for me. I usually go for the sour gummi candy and I get sick of it fairly quickly, so I don't worry about it. I've had the same Halloween candy in my closet leftover from last year, as I had NO trick or treaters at all, and I've touched it I think a few times (like 3 or 4) in the past year... a mini box of jujyfruits here or there. Most Halloween candy (especially chocolate) just doesn't taste good to me because it's not very high quality. When I do get good chocolate, it's usually so expensive and rich that I'm not tempted to overeat it anyway.

Now cake and cookies, etc. are a different story! :lol:

My solution is to have her written up and dismissed. That seems reasonable.

HA! This made me laugh out loud at work!!

I'm probably going to do the same thing Tamara is--go to the local pub for SCARE-E-O-KEE!

I'm not a fan of Halloween candy anymore. I used to adore Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and sour things, but now I think they taste like crap lol.

I did buy a bar of dark hazelnut organic chocolate and that will last me until November. I have like a piece now and then and it isn't horrible on the health scale. :D Satisfies me just fine and is very rich and makes me go "mmmmmmmm candy" lol.

I have purchased our Halloween candy, but I have made dh promise NOT to open it. It is also in a cupboard (out of sight, out of mind....). On Halloween, I will cook us a healthy dinner that we will eat before I bring out the candy. I will choose two favorite pieces for a 'treat' that night. Any leftovers, I will bring to work and share w/ my residents.

This worked for me last year and I am planning on it working again!

I live on a farm and don't get anyone at Halloween. To far off the road! My daughter is 22 so the candy thing is over around here! If I really wanted candy, I would buy some sugar free Reece's Cup or sf peppermint patties!!