Halloween candy....

TrailRunner61
TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
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Yikes! It's all over in the stores, everywhere you go! What are you doing to avoid over-indulging on the stuff??

I for one,if I buy candy, refuse to buy the stuff until 2-3 days before Halloween so it's not IN MY HOUSE. I also pool my candy with neighbors at a Halloween block party so.. since there is already so much candy to dole out to the kids, I buy tattoos, other random cheap toys and mini bags of popcorn. The kids seem to love picking out their faves and again it keeps me from having tempting treats in the house.

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  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    This is how I deal:

    It's just candy. There will always be candy. I can have candy any time or place that I want some. I have a car, a job, some money, and a little free time. I can get candy anywhere. So, I don't have to eat this candy. If I really, really want candy (not just mindless eating), I have some. But if I don't really want it, I won't. I can have it some other time.
  • cylima
    cylima Posts: 24 Member
    This is how I deal:

    It's just candy. There will always be candy. I can have candy any time or place that I want some. I have a car, a job, some money, and a little free time. I can get candy anywhere. So, I don't have to eat this candy. If I really, really want candy (not just mindless eating), I have some. But if I don't really want it, I won't. I can have it some other time.

    I totally agree!
  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    I agree but for me, I live out in the middle of nowhere, so I'm not tempted by it that much. I'm too lazy to drive to town to buy candy and the other times I see it is usually when I buy groceries. Gas stations used to be the worst for me when I had to go IN the store to pay, but now with debit cards, problem solved. lol
    And yes, I do eat candy occasionally. I refuse to totally eliminate anything I enjoy out of my diet, I just make room for it with exercise and careful calorie monitoring. If you don't, it's a DIET and we all know it's not, it's a lifestyle, because a DIET is temporary. We need to be able to maintain after we reach our goals. However,,, if I had a bag of Reeses peanut butter cups sitting in front of me, I KNOW I'd have a hard time keeping my hands out of it!
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    Same way I deal with any other food, by not eating too much of it.
  • Nimiko
    Nimiko Posts: 52
    Candy corn is my weakness! Just look at my food diary. :laugh:
  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    Candy corn is my weakness! Just look at my food diary. :laugh:
    Mine too! Candy corn mixed with peanuts. Yum!
  • Troll
    Troll Posts: 922 Member
    We dont get many trick or treaters, but i always buy a bag of candy corn :)

    i dont walk into the halloween section otherwise. :)
  • penguinlally
    penguinlally Posts: 331 Member
    great plan --- i buy tattoos, stickers and such..... and if I buy candy at all I buy the type we don't like..... now if they gave away cheese........
  • jillschorr
    jillschorr Posts: 2
    Buy the type of candy you dont like! I love chocolate, so I make sure I by non chocolate, sour type candy that all the kids love anyway..Nerds, Warheads, sour patch kids..

    That stuff does not tempt me at all!

    Now they stuff my kids collect that night? Thats a whole new topic!
  • seaKind
    seaKind Posts: 136
    Candy corn is my weakness! Just look at my food diary. :laugh:
    Mine too! Candy corn mixed with peanuts. Yum!

    me too!
    and sometimes the candy does suck me in, but fortunately- with this new whole foods eating 'style', I shop at the farmer's market more than the grocery store & when I HAVE TO go to the dreaded grocery store- aka temptation hell-, I try to stay on the perimeter and OUT of the Isles (except the coffee isle, of course!)...

    edited to add:
    oh yeah, and this halloween, we are decorating tangerines to look like mini jack-o-lanterns as give out treats :laugh: the kids will probably egg my house, but dang they are cute!!!
  • GreyEyes21
    GreyEyes21 Posts: 241 Member
    I personally just got like 5 bags of halloween candy. I eat 1-3 pieces (depending on fat and calories) a night. I have a major sweet tooth that can't be denied :D
  • Dreajewkes
    Dreajewkes Posts: 73
    I bought otter pops this year for the trick or treaters. That way if there are any left over i can have three for 45 calories :drinker: and that makes me very happy:happy: If candy is in my house i'm more likely to be tempted and want to eat it just because its there. Another fun Halloween idea; my sister bought glow stick bracelets she bought them online for cheap.
  • eleanoreb
    eleanoreb Posts: 621 Member
    i deal with it by eating it! especially when ppl bring it to work tis bad!! I will try and stay away from it..thanks for the tips
  • testease
    testease Posts: 220
    I do the same thing as i did when i was a kid, only i wait for the candy to go on sale the day after. I buy a box of 100, empty box into a pillow case. Sit inront of the T.V and eat myself sick.
  • AnninStPaul
    AnninStPaul Posts: 1,372 Member
    Candy corn is my weakness! Just look at my food diary. :laugh:

    I'm with you. It's all good until I open the bag.
  • Amazingday
    Amazingday Posts: 682 Member
    Pumpkin mallow candies keep taunting me! I LOVE THEM! Halloween and Easter.... pumpkins and jelly beans! And now the holiday candy is in the stores 2 months earlier than it used to be.... torture!
  • ladymiseryali
    ladymiseryali Posts: 2,555 Member
    My fiance and I will usually get a bag or three of candy a day or two after Halloween and then ration it out modestly. We get it at a discount , so it works out really well. We don't over-indulge and we only do this after Halloween, X-mas and Easter.
  • wholenewme03
    wholenewme03 Posts: 95 Member
    Instead of having it in the house 2-3 days before Halloween, why not just buy it ON Halloween, and then just enough for your trick-or-treaters? "We ran out of candy on Halloween" said no grocery store ever.
  • GreyEyes21
    GreyEyes21 Posts: 241 Member
    Instead of having it in the house 2-3 days before Halloween, why not just buy it ON Halloween, and then just enough for your trick-or-treaters? "We ran out of candy on Halloween" said no grocery store ever.

    Grocery stores around us run out of candy all the time. :(
  • Rhia55
    Rhia55 Posts: 247
    I just don't buy it. I don't hand out on Beggar's Night and I have no kids so there is no reason to.
  • TheCaren
    TheCaren Posts: 894 Member
    I haven't figured out yet what to do with the Halloween candy situation. It's my first Halloween in my house so I don't know what the trick or treater population will be. Last year at my old place I bought three bags of candy and had two trick or treaters. Of course, I bought the kind of candy I liked, so it was all good (or bad, depending upon how you view it...). For me, candy is a no-no for right now because I'm still having a hard time regulating it (and my blood sugar). So I'm swearing off candy for now. I hope one day to be able to control the way I eat it and enjoy a piece or two here or there. I'm not there yet... LOL
  • angelique_redhead
    angelique_redhead Posts: 782 Member
    I used to buy the giant economy box of microwave popcorn to give out to the trick or treaters. Most of them were SO excited! I also bought Halloween pencils with bats, cats, skeletons and other things on them to give out that they loved. Now that we're out in the country and don't get trick or treaters I don't buy anything until after Halloween and I don't eat it either.
  • NHLeah
    NHLeah Posts: 48 Member
    I bought full sized bars of candy this year. Here is my thought process, we will see if this strategy works or not. If it is the bite sized candy, I will think "oh, one or two or three won't hurt" but I won't be able to stop and next thing I realize I've eaten five, six or seven that day. That would be about 400-600 calories right? But one candy bar if I have the calories to spare or the time to exercise at 250-300 calories will satisfy the urge if I choose to indulge. I guess what I am saying, a regular sized candy requires more of a commitment on my behalf, whereas, the mini ones are not. I can usually resist having a regular sized bar, but the little ones I can not especially if it comes to Reese's Peanut Butter cups.

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