It's the Scariest Time of Year!
 

Could it be? Nooooooo!!!! The frightening terrors that fill us with dread.....yes......they are HERE!!! :spid:

Halloween candy. :badbat:

Srsly*?

Yah, srsly! In my local grocery store. By the school supplies!

So it is time for our annual "Just say no to Halloween candy" pledge thread!

I'm saying no!

Who's with me?

:dracula:

*Halloween candy is only slightly more frightening than the fact I have slipped into "textspeak". Heaven help us all!

Too soon for Halloween
 

Are you serious? It's still August here, LOL.

I'm in; kinda sobering to think I have 2.5 months of this before Halloween, and then 2 weeks after until the stale, half-price left overs are all gone.

We have Christmas stuff in the shops already.....

I will go with my usual pledge -- I will only eat Halloween candy ON HALLOWEEN. Holi-DAYS, not holi-MONTHS, right? :lol:

I was also shocked when I walked into the grocery store the other day and there was a huge display of candy corn right in the entrance!

No way! Say it ain't so! :fr:

Sheesh, now we have THREE MONTHS of temptation to face! And then comes Christmas candy, immediately followed by Valentines Day, and then Easter. It's only a matter of time until a summer holiday is manufactured that features CANDY! :crazy:

Midwife, thank you for starting this thread! Last year it certainly helped to keep me on the straight and narrow. So I will happily join you in the pledge:

:badbat: No Halloween candy will pass my lips this year!! :badbat:

I noticed this the other day too, and it's already hit work! A co-worker brought in a 5 POUND BAG of chocolate candy. Grrrr.....

OMG!!! I join the pledge. No Halloween candy will pass my lips. Even on Halloween. Start me on the candy corn and I won't stop till I'm bowing to the porcelain deity in my bathroom.

I think I'm on year 6 of no Halloween candy.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0YIyuQFK2w...tootsie4th.jpg
Behold the 4th of July, Patriotic Tootsie Roll.

Excuse me while I go bang my head against a wall. That is ridiculous. I was just reading that the average American eats 136 pounds of sugar a year. So let's package it up in cute patriotic wrappers so we can get people to eat more. :rolleyes:

Re: summer. Isn't most barbecue just candied meat? :dunno:

Jay

But if we didn't do that, what on earth would we do with all of these cheap soy and corn byproducts?

Halloween candy is out already? Sheesh.

I am so not emotionally ready for Halloween candy to be out... I am in a vulnerable place right now - tired, stressed, eating on the run - and candy will kill me.

That's it. I just can't go shopping any more until after Valentine's Day. Now I need to find one of those mail order grocery stores...

ETA - my mom bought a bag of those patriotic Tootsie Rolls for their July 4th party...

One Halloween I made one of those cat litter cakes.....where you crumble a cake into a (new) litterbox and serve it with a (new) catbox scoop. We warmed tootsie rolls in the microwave and shaped them into cat poop. Fun times, fun times.

Now that is pretty funny.