Ok...I recognize...it's good/easier NOT to have little kids at home for this night...makes handling Halloween candy easier:

What ideas does anyone else have for handling the "Hallowed Evening of Chocolate" this year???

This is my first time living in this house for the Halloween holidays. I actually just plan on keeping the porch lights off and the windows shut to give the impression that no one is home / no candy at this house.

I don't know if I will get 5 kids or 100 kids! I may keep a tally on how many kids come by so I have an idea for next year. I didn't want to risk buying 50 chocolates or whatever and only having 10 kids show up.

I live in the woods so luckily we don't get trick or treaters. Now the candy that my DD brings home is goingto be another matter....

I fill the bowl and set it on a chair on the front steps so I don't have to answer the door.

I am not a Halloween fan at all.

ohhh, i LOVE halloween! decorating for it always so much fun. and i love passing out candy to the little costume wearing trickortreaters. i've decorated my desk at work with pumpkins, fall leaves, spiders, and scarecrows. love, love, love.

i've had a huge bowl of chocolate candy (it's a black bowl with a skull and the word "poison" on it.. haha) on my desk for the last week or so for halloween, and it hasn't bothered me at all. i just see them as little fat bombs. little nuggets of cellulite and puffy cheeks and tummy rolls. it's all a mental game. win it.

This is awesome. I was just thinking about how/if I should hand out candy this year, or turn off the lights and watch a movie in the dark to avoid temptation and leftovers, but I do love Halloween. Hmmm...

My neighbor hood doesn't get many trick or treaters, either. We are kind of off the beaten path. My teenager (16) does her own thing usually a party at a friends or handing out candy at her G-parents. My sweetie and I usually dress up and tag along with our best friends and their daughter, our god-daughter. They just had a new baby 9/16 so we don't have a plan yet.

The candy has stopped being a temptation for me. There is a whole desk drawer in our office full to the brim but I just don't want it. I'd rather have my caramel nut bar or my cookie dough swirl! If a craving hits I go for a walk around the casino or grab a cup of coffee. For some reason the coffee usually satisfies me.

haha.. thanks!

here is the poison bowl in all its glory:

This thread is reminding me of a funny story (and making me giggle). When I was in Graduate School, I lived in an apartment building and wasn't expecting Trick or Treaters. So I was shocked when my doorbell rang at 7:30 pm Halloween night with a little dressed up goblin. Distressed and looking frantically around my efficiency apartment for SOMETHING -- all I could find was a half a pint of rum!! Suddenly a light-bulb went off in my head and I grabbed my purse and gave the little tyke a dollar bill. Well wouldn't you know it, he proceeded to tell all the other trick or treaters in the building that the girl in 313-C was giving out dollar bills!! Five minutes later I must have had 30 kids ringing my doorbell and banging on my door wanting their dollar bill "treats" ... meanwhile I proceeded to crawl (very quietly) under my bed.

No little kids at home.
We go out to avoid the whole situation.
Schools are infiltrated with the stuff, however -- on a DAILY basis. Halloween just makes it worse.

For many years, Nov 1 was a personal day for me...children over-sugared are NOT fun

We end up with two giant bowls of candy to hand out. My DH has a hard time keeping his mitts off of it, but I am fortunate that candy was never one of my weaknesses. If it was a big bowl of mashed potatoes and gravy I might have a problem. ha ha.

I think it may be a good idea to fore-go the candy this year for my DH's sake.

I agree - last year after the Halloween Parade at DD's school we had tons of candy left over. We normally donate it to the St. Vincent DePaul's at the school. Well, the lady in charge decided to give it to the teachers to hand out as "incentive treats" last minute.

Candy kept being given to the kids for a few months after that. I was NOT HAPPY that I wouldn't know when my child was given candy. I don't want candy used as an "incentive!!!!!!!!", there are SO many things wrong with that!

She would come home and her backpack would be littered with it by the end of the week!!! We will NOT be doing that this year!

Schools are infiltrated with sugar, in general
Take one look at the "healthy" government-provided breakfasts.
One day, one of my students came in late so I went to the cafeteria with him to grab breakfast. He grabbed Corn Pops and chocolate milk.

This would have NEVER been okay with MY MOTHER (pouring choc milk on corn pops, really???). Ugh. How are they supposed to learn all hyped-up on sugar???

But the food lobbies win...
Not with me. Not anymore. Not at my house.

We are in a new house so no idea how many kids we will have. But, my solution is to buy candy that I don't like. NO temptation that way.

I actually love our lunch program. We have about 110 kids from pre-k-8th grade and she makes everything fresh everyday. When they have chicken soup, she starts with whole chickens, fresh vegetables, and starts making soup at 8am. She spoils our kids like crazy (but NOT with sweets).

We all know that we are so lucky to have her making fresh, from scratch meals for our kids - so why ruin it with so much candy in the classroom?!