Halloween Candy
 

I didn't buy any halloween candy until yesterday so I wasn't tempted. But I forgot about after halloween! We took our kids up and down 2 blocks, 2BLOCKS and OMG together they have a HEAPING bowl Full of candy and to top it off I only had 1 trick or treater again last night. I have 2 bags and one bowl full of the candy that I bought last night. HMPH Now it is going to be a month that I have this stuff in my house. I am going to send the stuff I bought with my husband to work, and I am going to let my kids go at it. But they are 3 and 1 so I do have to limit it to a point. :dizzy: But the bowl is calling my name......:devil:

We had a lot left over too. But I learned a trick a longggggggg time ago. When buying Halloween candy, buy stuff that YOU DON'T LIKE. That way, if there's left overs, you won't care! :D :carrot:

Also, after Halloween, you can throw it out without remorse. After all, it's only once per year; no feeling guilty over throwing something out just one time per year, eh? ;)

how about taking it to a food bank (the leftover candy)

I bought the stuff I didn't like (3 Musketeers, Milky Ways and Almond Joys). I would have a hard time resisting candy I liked. I would:

1. Make sure it is out of sight (if I can't see it, I tend to forget about it). A good place for me would be locked in the trunk of the car.
2. Give it to your husband to take to work immediately - little kids don't need candy either!
3. Throw it away.

I definitely wouldn't keep it in the house, I don't do moderation well and I looove chocolate.

Well I found a solution (sort of) It will still be in my house but my sister wants to have my nephews b-day party here (because it is the biggest neutral house, my parents are divorced and she lives with my dad). So I will either put the candy in goody bags or put it out on the table for the kids to eat. Plus if I have left over from that it will go in the stockings of my neices and nephews. If I have plans for it like that I know I won't eat it! (especially if I send it to my sisters house!!)

I have a lot of people where I work - a lot of food always around. Plus, we do birthday cakes once a month for all the people having a birthday in that month.

The only way I can stop myself from going overboard with all the goodies at work is to have a bite. So if my favorite candy is around, like it is today, due to so many people bringing in their "leftovers" - I'll have ONE. JUST ONE. I don't get crazy with it because I feel ashamed if people see me grab more than one! - but if all that candy were at home... I'd eat it til it was gone!

Which is why I buy the kind of stuff I don't like. This year, we had plenty of "peanut butter kisses" - those are the chewy little peanut butter tasting candies. ICK.

I think taking the leftover Halloween candy to a food bank is a great idea. There are also shelters for women and children where the candy would be appreciated.

I feel ya! I don't have this problem yet because my kids are too young for candy (5 months and almost 3 years old), but I'm dreading NEXT years Halloween! My husband works in an office, so we're thinking next year we'll give my (then) almost 4 year old one or two candies and then have my husband put the rest in a bowl on his desk for all passerbyers to snack on.

I forgot to mention that a good alternative to normal trick-or-treating is to find a Safe Halloween in a town near you. We went to my husbands home town 30 minutes away for a Safe Halloween for 3-8 year olds. The kids got to trick-or-treat down the business street and the shop owners handed out healthy treats. No temptation for me this year!

I don't mind if my kids have chocolate, but they cant do the hard candies which is what the businesses around here hand out. I switch out Tommy's with teddy grahms or cookies things that he can eat. I didn't expect the amount of candy we got. Like I said we only went down two blocks! DH his taking alot of the candy with him to work, but he won't take it down today until after his lunch break!

I made it very simple this year. No candy. Door locked. Lights out. No problem!

I probably sound like ba hum bug, but i don't buy lollies for halloween.
I don't like to give rubbish to kids to eat. I wish that halloween could move away from sweets and maybe into dances or something else that kids could enjoy. With all the over weight kids these days, I would rather they saw happiness and fun coming from doing some thing in stead of eating some thing. my boys do get rubbish food (lollies , ice cream and biscuits ) but I've cut it down heaps. Sorry if I sound like a party pooper. :)

If you sound like a party pooper, I'm right there with you, Kiwi. I hate that holidays are so food-centric, and I would much rather see kids doing fun activities rather than just collecting candy. :)

Halloween was always about the scary things and dressing-up for me, though. Not that I didn't EAT the candy I got, mind you, but I think a lot of kids would be just as happy having parties with costume contests, etc. as going trick-or-treating. At least I hope so!

I bought Sugar Free candy. At least I felt like I could have something. I got the toffee so it would get stuck in my teeth and take a long time to chew.
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