Halloween horror?
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SusanMFindlay wrote: »Get yourself hooked on really good quality chocolate. After that, most the Hallowe'en candy tastes kind of crappy and isn't very tempting. (Unfortunately, this can be an expensive habit - but a delicious one! And I find it much easier to portion control with good quality dark chocolate.)
Agreed. If I had trick or treaters I'd buy the typical low quality milk chocolate, which doesn't tempt me at all. I'd give leftovers to a food bank.
Last year my church was doing an Equal Exchange chocolate sale and I bought a box of minis for the coordinator to give directly to the local Head Start.0 -
I try to tell myself that if I get a good workout in then I can have a treat as long as my calories allow for it. Maybe eventually I will trick my brain into believing the workout is the treat. Just a thought.1
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drink instead - candy and alcohol don't go together0
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tcunbeliever wrote: »drink instead - candy and alcohol don't go together
Wrong... I often stir my margaritas with a stick of rock candy in the same flavor. Damn I can't wait to have a margarita.
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tcunbeliever wrote: »drink instead - candy and alcohol don't go together
Ha! You have never seen me with a desert menu and a bottle of bubbles or white wine.
The above, deep fried Mars bar, and a couple of glasses of wine was my dinner a couple of months ago.
So glad I decided to go for it when I did, I had been drooling over the concept for months, they took it off the menu a few weeks later. Whew.
Mmmm, don't know which of those drinks to have first.
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I buy candy for the kids, not myself. I have a good natural dark chocolate for myself if I am so incline. To tell the truth since I have had it in the house I haven't wanted it. Halloween is for kids to enjoy so why not make it enjoyable for them?
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Candy is for kids...dark chocolate awesomeness is for adults.5
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Buy candy you don't like. I'm a teacher and always buy candy for my students treat jar that I don't like so that I won't eat it.1
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Whitezombiegirl wrote: »
I dont find passing out candy to kids fun. I turn the lights off and watch a movie upstairs or go out for the evening.
It's not that I don't find it fun, but I live alone, so answering the door over and over again for strangers is not my idea of fun or safety, so I always skip Halloween.
I'll be at the gym anyway and then I will be catching up on my fall shows.1 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »Buy candy you don't particularly like! It's an incentive to hand it all out.
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Alatariel75 wrote: »Chilli7777 wrote: »Ive had a huge costco bucket of candy in my wardrobe thats been in there for weeka and remains unopened. We bought it for halloween as the closer it gets they tend to run out of stock. My freezer is full of cinnamon donuts which the kids take to school and my husband has a snack stash cupboard. I never feel tempted and just don't eat it. My sugar cravings went away around week 2 as i eat really wholesome food now and am nourishing my body. If you still eat sugar, even if you stick to your calories, youll always struggle.
That's a pretty wild generalisation. I have a sweet treat every day and haven't struggled through 80lbs down.
That part. I am pretty sure I have something sweet everyday also and i have lost 150 lbs. It may be a small piece of dark chocolate or chocolate covered peanuts but if I want it, I have it.1 -
Whitezombiegirl wrote: »I dont find passing out candy to kids fun. I turn the lights off and watch a movie upstairs or go out for the evening.
It stopped being fun many years ago when hulking teenagers holding pillow cases and not even making an attempt at a costume started hitting my old neighborhood shaking people down for candy. "Trick or treat MFer" isn't exactly what I'd call fun. I've also lived for the past decade or so in secure buildings so there aren't any kids (or teenagers) coming by. If there were, I'd go out for the evening too.
I think for the last few decades, parents with half a brain tend to trick or treat at houses they know rather than dropping off kids to hit up random houses. That at least is my experience with it.1 -
The little Halloween angel on one should loudly nags at me to get Butterfingers, which I hate and my husband loves. The little Halloween devil on the other should whispers "Reeses Cups....Snickers....Hershey Bars....Kit Kats...." Hmmm, wonder which one I am going to listen to!
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Also, disliked candy doesn't necessarily mean crappy candy. I absolutely hate Snickers & Milky Ways, but I'd rather buy those than be the house that hands out boxes of raisins and Necco wafers. If you're gonna be *that* house, why bother?4
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Don't hate me, but not tempted by candy. Luckily don't have to give out cheese for Halloween, then I'd be in trouble!2
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Whitezombiegirl wrote: »I dont find passing out candy to kids fun. I turn the lights off and watch a movie upstairs or go out for the evening.
It stopped being fun many years ago when hulking teenagers holding pillow cases and not even making an attempt at a costume started hitting my old neighborhood shaking people down for candy. "Trick or treat MFer" isn't exactly what I'd call fun. I've also lived for the past decade or so in secure buildings so there aren't any kids (or teenagers) coming by. If there were, I'd go out for the evening too.
I think for the last few decades, parents with half a brain tend to trick or treat at houses they know rather than dropping off kids to hit up random houses. That at least is my experience with it.
A lot of malls and whatnot also invite a lot of kids in...we rarely get trick or treat in our neighborhood...maybe a handful of neighborhood kids and that's it. We have our own kids, so we're out and about with them so not home to hand out candy anyway.
We have some friends that live in a neighborhood that really goes all out decorating and whatnot...we take our kids there and then have pizza with our friends when we're done...it's fun.2 -
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We live on a street with only a few kids on it, so I buy just enough to make a little goodie bag for each of them (plus a few extras in case we have some unexpected trick or treaters). I have four kids myself, so leftovers are promptly disposed of
. My two older kids bring stuff home from school, and all except the baby go trick or treating themselves, but that's their candy, not mine. I might skim one or two things that I really like and are worth it, but I'd rather have some good dark chocolate, as others have mentioned. 0 -
kgarcia1990_ wrote: »As long as it fits your calories,you should be able to eat the candy you like. Halloween is only once a year in October so might as well enjoy it.
May be fine, for one day. Think a lot of people have issues with eating the stash for a couple weeks before and all the way to Thanksgiving.0 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »I have 2 boxes of full-sized bars, a big Costco tin of pretzels and a huge bag of non-chocolate candy. I am not particularly a candy person so I can abstain, but my house is the go-to house for Halloween. Full sized bars FTW.
I usually do full size bars but went way overboard and went with king size this year - and pretty much a shopping cart full. I am not a huge candy person so I am not really worried about going crazy, and I usually try to have other stuff I can snack on so I really just don't need it. But of course I snack on things like ice cream or cookies - I just am sure to fit them in my calorie goals. If I did really want some candy I would be ok with it, again it is just a matter of fitting it in my calories (but honestly I would rather have cookies or cake or ice cream).2 -
Whitezombiegirl wrote: »I dont find passing out candy to kids fun. I turn the lights off and watch a movie upstairs or go out for the evening.
It stopped being fun many years ago when hulking teenagers holding pillow cases and not even making an attempt at a costume started hitting my old neighborhood shaking people down for candy. "Trick or treat MFer" isn't exactly what I'd call fun. I've also lived for the past decade or so in secure buildings so there aren't any kids (or teenagers) coming by. If there were, I'd go out for the evening too.
I think for the last few decades, parents with half a brain tend to trick or treat at houses they know rather than dropping off kids to hit up random houses. That at least is my experience with it.
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Please demonstrate, using calorie math, how it is possible for a normal-weight person to become obese by eating candy for one day. Show your work.
These threads show up on this board every single year. Every. Single. Year. So none of us has to relitigate all this, let me just let everyone know how it will go.
1. Someone posts in a panic because they have suddenly remembered that grocery stores sell candy.
2. A dozen or two newbie dieting evangelists jump in to lecture everyone about how sugar is EVIL and candy is TOTALLY UNNECESSARY TO LIFE and no one should be eating it, or if they do, they should only be eating dark chocolate harvested out of fairy rings on full moons by well-paid virgins in fair-trade countries, with a cocoa level of exactly 94.78 percent and not a tenth more or less. This should be eaten one square per day, in a heart-shaped whirlpool bathtub, while listening to Vivaldi and being fanned by cabana boys.
3. People who have been in the game longer or are maintaining try to point out that, unless it triggers a binge or something, there's nothing wrong with eating candy one day a year. Also, it's fun for the kids, ffs don't be such a Scrooge.
4. Someone, or multiple someones, will sniff that the kids shouldn't be eating candy either, that clearly their parents are raising them wrong, and it is the job and moral duty of adults on Halloween to save children's souls from sliding into a seductive and damning game of Hell Comes to Candyland by handing out raisins and toothbrushes.
5. Someone, or multiple someones, get their houses TP'd, and most of the Item 3 people think it serves them right.
6. Halloween comes and goes. Everyone wakes up in the morning and discovers that they have not exploded into Snickers-colored spheres in the night like Violet Beauregard. Some of the Item 2 people, a little sheepish at having discovered that the Halloween Food Apocalypse didn't amount to much after all, will become the Item 3 people next year.
Repeat, yearly, until the board dies or the planet does.10 -
Returning to report I bought $40 worth of aero bars, butter fingers and Swedish fish/berries thanks to this thread reminding me lol4
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Larissa_NY wrote: »
Please demonstrate, using calorie math, how it is possible for a normal-weight person to become obese by eating candy for one day. Show your work.
These threads show up on this board every single year. Every. Single. Year. So none of us has to relitigate all this, let me just let everyone know how it will go.
1. Someone posts in a panic because they have suddenly remembered that grocery stores sell candy.
2. A dozen or two newbie dieting evangelists jump in to lecture everyone about how sugar is EVIL and candy is TOTALLY UNNECESSARY TO LIFE and no one should be eating it, or if they do, they should only be eating dark chocolate harvested out of fairy rings on full moons by well-paid virgins in fair-trade countries, with a cocoa level of exactly 94.78 percent and not a tenth more or less. This should be eaten one square per day, in a heart-shaped whirlpool bathtub, while listening to Vivaldi and being fanned by cabana boys.
3. People who have been in the game longer or are maintaining try to point out that, unless it triggers a binge or something, there's nothing wrong with eating candy one day a year. Also, it's fun for the kids, ffs don't be such a Scrooge.
4. Someone, or multiple someones, will sniff that the kids shouldn't be eating candy either, that clearly their parents are raising them wrong, and it is the job and moral duty of adults on Halloween to save children's souls from sliding into a seductive and damning game of Hell Comes to Candyland by handing out raisins and toothbrushes.
5. Someone, or multiple someones, get their houses TP'd, and most of the Item 3 people think it serves them right.
6. Halloween comes and goes. Everyone wakes up in the morning and discovers that they have not exploded into Snickers-colored spheres in the night like Violet Beauregard. Some of the Item 2 people, a little sheepish at having discovered that the Halloween Food Apocalypse didn't amount to much after all, will become the Item 3 people next year.
Repeat, yearly, until the board dies or the planet does.
I'm a category 3 person, but where do I find these cabana boys from category 2?4 -
Larissa_NY wrote: »
Please demonstrate, using calorie math, how it is possible for a normal-weight person to become obese by eating candy for one day. Show your work.
These threads show up on this board every single year. Every. Single. Year. So none of us has to relitigate all this, let me just let everyone know how it will go.
1. Someone posts in a panic because they have suddenly remembered that grocery stores sell candy.
2. A dozen or two newbie dieting evangelists jump in to lecture everyone about how sugar is EVIL and candy is TOTALLY UNNECESSARY TO LIFE and no one should be eating it, or if they do, they should only be eating dark chocolate harvested out of fairy rings on full moons by well-paid virgins in fair-trade countries, with a cocoa level of exactly 94.78 percent and not a tenth more or less. This should be eaten one square per day, in a heart-shaped whirlpool bathtub, while listening to Vivaldi and being fanned by cabana boys.
3. People who have been in the game longer or are maintaining try to point out that, unless it triggers a binge or something, there's nothing wrong with eating candy one day a year. Also, it's fun for the kids, ffs don't be such a Scrooge.
4. Someone, or multiple someones, will sniff that the kids shouldn't be eating candy either, that clearly their parents are raising them wrong, and it is the job and moral duty of adults on Halloween to save children's souls from sliding into a seductive and damning game of Hell Comes to Candyland by handing out raisins and toothbrushes.
5. Someone, or multiple someones, get their houses TP'd, and most of the Item 3 people think it serves them right.
6. Halloween comes and goes. Everyone wakes up in the morning and discovers that they have not exploded into Snickers-colored spheres in the night like Violet Beauregard. Some of the Item 2 people, a little sheepish at having discovered that the Halloween Food Apocalypse didn't amount to much after all, will become the Item 3 people next year.
Repeat, yearly, until the board dies or the planet does.
I'm a category 3 person, but where do I find these cabana boys from category 2?
The Chit Chat forum obviously
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I like where this thread has gone. Mmm cabana boys.
I'm actually torn on whether to buy candy for Halloween. Here is Australia it's slowly becoming a thing, a few years ago you'd struggle to find decorations except for specialty party stores, this year stores are actually decorated for it. But trick or treating isn't really a thing yet - my MILs neighbourhood had a leaflet drop saying to put something Halloween-y on your front door if you're handing out candy so the parents know which houses to take their kids too, but my neighbourhood hasn't done anything like that. I do live across the road from a primary school, though, so there's definitely potential kids.
I don't want to not have candy if they knock, but the only thing I have in the house is liqueur chocolates, and... well, last time I handed those out, no one was impressed. I might buy a few bags of funsize snickers (can I hand out Snickers? Is Halloween a no nuts event?) and freeze them if I get to keep them.0 -
I actually bought toys to give out. Glow-in-the-dark bracelets and silly stretchy hand things.1
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