Halloween horror?
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I bought a candy that I'm not so likely to tear into--plain mini Hersheys bars. I have my own stash of dark chocolate that I eat daily. But I know if I had a big bag of mini Snickers, Twix, etc. I would be eating those, so I'm avoiding buying that this year. Also, another problem I've had in the past is when my kids come home with three huge buckets of candy. I will have to try not to put my hand in their bucket too often!1
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I faced the same thing but did pretty well last year. Save room for a few treats, last year I ate light all day and the one I looked forward to was frozen yogurt. Hide the candy or make sure it's given all away. I also decided to save money that would be spent on food for new clothes0
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Put the candy away until that night. Chew gum for those few hours while you're entertaining trick or treaters. Give the last few kids the rest of the bowl at the end of the night.0
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Halloween/trick or treat is a fairly recent thing here, in fact it's only my foreign neighbours that do it (we're more Penny For The Guy in the UK, and that's on the wane and not done door-to-door). I've bought chocs for the last two years but this year they're having tangerines so the leftovers aren't so tempting for me!2
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I keep the big bags of candy closed until trick-or-treating, and will have maybe one small bag open in a bowl in the house. I have kids, and they aren't buying the "we don't have any candy" routine. They get to have a piece for dessert leading up to the holiday. I also sit outside to hand out candy so all the neighbors would see me if I were to just sit there shoving chocolate down my gullet, covered in empty wrappers.
Once the kids come back with their trick-or-treating haul, we go through it and set a bunch aside for the Switch Witch, everything else goes into a labeled ziplock bag. Switch Witch candy and anything I have left over get taken to the dentist, they pay by the pound and donate the candy to service members overseas.3 -
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.
The "fun" I was referring to was the children's.8 -
This year, I'm buying candy the day of trick-or-treating (10/31) and the last kid gets whatever if left in the bucket at 8:30 -- then adult party time.3
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Then buy it the day of Trick or Treating. If you don't give it all out, throw that *kitten* in the garbage.
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I'm just waiting until later this week to buy it and am going to buy less than we normally would in previous years to avoid leftovers. I'm not going to buy gross candy though just because I used to have a weight problem- self control and mindfulness are important things to practice afterall1
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I don't buy the candy until the actual day comes, and the last kid to come to my door gets whatever is left in the bowl. Sure...I end up eating a few pieces while giving it out, but it isn't around long enough to do any damage.6
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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.
Cheers, h.4 -
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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