Worst Halloween Candy

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  • Learning2LoveMe
    Learning2LoveMe Posts: 1,430 Member
    I'm lucky, I'm just not into candy, and I really don't want to be the house that hands out pencils. My kids are grown up now, but i know what they used to say about "those" houses.

    I always hated "those" houses when I was a kid. I loved the one year when the house I went to had run out of candy and was handing out cold cans of soda. :laugh:

    I love Halloween, it is by far my favorite holiday. This year to keep me from snacking I went to the store and got some cheap black Tulle and some orange ribbon and have begun making candy bags for the kids. I know I would feel too bad to open up a bag for me to eat and I won't do it. If the candy is just laying there it makes it easier to take a few everyday and not think much of it. Though I do snack on a couple candies while I make up all the bags, I'm sure it will be better in the long run than me munching out Halloween night while handing out candy... I can just focus on having fun and handing out bags :bigsmile:
  • justahorsen
    justahorsen Posts: 234
    I'm lucky, I'm just not into candy, and I really don't want to be the house that hands out pencils. My kids are grown up now, but i know what they used to say about "those" houses.
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    I'm with you.....I will try to not "overdo" it by I will allow myself some candy.....I don't have trick or treaters at my house so no excuse to buy any to start with.....
  • candlegal
    candlegal Posts: 220 Member
    You guys are all too funny!! No the person who shuts their lights off and doesn't answer the door ON HALLOWEEN!!! I never did anything bad to those houses when I was a kid, but I thought BAD things about those people. So unfun!!! I LOVE HALLOWEEN, it is my second favorite holiday, Christmas of course being first. It's just so mysterious and scary and fun and you can dress up and act silly! I do buy candy that I DON'T LIKE, that's how I handle the temptation of eating it. I even dress up my dogs!!! I'm sure they hate it but it's just for the night. HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone!!!:devil: :bigsmile:
  • AllietheLOSER
    AllietheLOSER Posts: 19 Member
    Twizzlers are my faves! I feel like crying. I thought that would be the only "safe" candy for me this year..... :'-(

    Nine Twizzlers carry as many calories as a Wendy’s Double Stack Burger.

    WTH?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
  • nisijam5
    nisijam5 Posts: 9,964 Member
    I re-treat. Its like re-gifting. The candy we put out for Halloween is the leftover Christmas and Easter candy we don't like. DH stays at home to answer the door while my son and I go trick or treating. Everyone in my family is ADD/ADHD, so my son only gets 1 piece of candy on Halloween night. Then we pour his candy into the bucket. And at Christmas it goes in his stocking. And at Easter it goes in his basket. And next Halloween, what candy managed to last all year, goes out to the trick or treaters!

    Saving candy for a whole year to give out is gross...
  • nisijam5
    nisijam5 Posts: 9,964 Member
    I hate Halloween

    and I hate Thanksgiving. I don't even like Thanksgiving food :ohwell:

    Bah hum bug:tongue:

    YOUR CHOCOLATE IS MELTING IN THE TRUNK :P


    :wink:

    Nope, I live in MN...it's safe in the trunk...:bigsmile:
  • lupuslady
    lupuslady Posts: 99
    I only have two little boys in my neighborhood that I am close to, so stickers and little books is a great idea. I am going to buy pudding and fruit cups for the rest of kids who I see, but don't really know. Can you believe one little kiss is 22 dang calories, do you have any idea how many I can eat in one sitting. I ate one at the bank and had to record it, I am saving up my chocolate for a big spurlge like brownies or some really good chocolate ice cream.
  • MisdemeanorM
    MisdemeanorM Posts: 3,493 Member
    I live on a dead end street in the country so I never get trick or treaters, wish I did tho!!
    It is one of the few things I miss about living in the city.


    We live on probably the worst street in our city. The one where all the kids on the street get in a car and go to the rich neighborhoods :) So we have never gotten a single trick or treater. Saves me from having to buy candy, but I sure eat what my son gets from going out. Tasty! I might eat a lot of calories, but I enjoy them as I should! (much like sometimes going to a restaurant)
  • lupuslady
    lupuslady Posts: 99
    You must realyze that candy like everything else goes bad. It would be safer for the kids to throw out everything that is over 6 months old. Or stick in the freezer. What do you do about the candy that is decorated with Christmas trees, or easter bunnies?
  • DrBorkBork
    DrBorkBork Posts: 4,099 Member
    Better way to survive Halloween: Don't buy candy. Buy pencils, stickers, and play doh to hand out instead!

    Dang, I'm skippin your house :noway:

    Aw, give me a break. Pencils, stickers, and playdoh is a huge improvement for me. Up until I had my daughter, I was yelling at kids to go away and have fun freezing their butts off, lol. There were a number of years where we even spider webbed our entire porch so you couldn't get to the door. I would laugh when they'd try.
    Now I'm kinda sad that Halloween is on a Sunday. Will have to take my 2 year old to the trunk or treat on Friday instead.
  • laura11248
    laura11248 Posts: 49 Member
    In the past I too have bought candy I do not care for...nerds...laffy taffy...etc. I was thinking this year I would have cold bottles of water. The trick-or-treaters get very thirsty after trick or treating and munching down some of their candy.

    Funny as I was typing this, my 8 year old said..."What...water...I don't think I will come to our house!" I may need to re-think this! lol
  • LilynEdensmom
    LilynEdensmom Posts: 612 Member
    I love halloween, and I love peanut butter pumpkins...However I will not eat a million of them lol. I go out with the kids and leave huge bowl sitting on my porch. I let my oldest one pick out a gallon size bag of candy once she gets home, and that it what she gets to eat on. The little one I have to go through myself and pick out what she can have..The rest I donate to the oldest ones cheerleading group to throw during the xmas parade, take some to work and leave it in the break room and donate some in those food boxes for food banks :P....
  • jessmomof3
    jessmomof3 Posts: 4,590 Member
    Great article!!! I let my kids pick out their favorites and then we send the rest of the candy w/ my hubby to work on November 1st. I don't keep it in the house for an extra day! :wink:
  • nursevee
    nursevee Posts: 344 Member
    Better way to survive Halloween: Don't buy candy. Buy pencils, stickers, and play doh to hand out instead!

    Oh gosh, well all know candy has no nutritional value but I refuse to be the miser who hands out pencils and stickers. My kids rarely get candy throughout the year and Halloween is one day I'm gonna allow them that treat. Mind you, they do get a lot so it's my job to limit the quantity.... Still, pencils and stickers? If I were 8 again, that'd make me cry.
  • ischmelle
    ischmelle Posts: 203 Member

    I give the candy a day or two then take it to the school and foist it off on the teachers :D

    Boo to that! I'm a teacher so your candy is the stuff I'm trying to avoid! :laugh: And really, no pun intended with the boo! haha
  • ltlemermaid
    ltlemermaid Posts: 637 Member
    You can also donate any leftover/extra candy --several charities will take them.

    There is also a program that dentists are participating in all over the country where they will give $1 to $5 per pound of candy that is brought in--so you can get cash for your candy!! Just check your area to see what days and dentists are participating.
  • DrBorkBork
    DrBorkBork Posts: 4,099 Member
    I loved stickers & play doh as a kid. I would've flipped if I got them. Give the candy to mom, I'm playing with my play doh!

    then again my mom made me stop trick or treating when I was 10, and do candy duty every year thereafter, so I got to be a little bitter over the years, but I'd still have a blast with pay doh & stickers!
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