What do you do with Halloween Candy?
If your kids go trick or treating on Halloween, do you end up fighting over the candy for weeks? I did!
My creative solution to this pain in my butt is to:
- Let the kids enjoy the “bounty” they have received
- Let them do all the trading that they want for the MOST prized pieces of candy
- Let their parents buy our favorite candy from the kids :-) I love banana laffy taffy (and once a year I eat it!)
- The kids pick out 30 pieces of candy–one for each day of November.
- Each child gets his or her own bag of candy to manage. After all, if they binge eat 30 pieces . . . they won’t feel well but then it’s gone! (but the house rule of only eating in the kitchen still stands–if I find wrappers anywhere . . . I get EVERYONE’S bags!)
- Each day in November they decorate a “thanksgiving tree” (just a branch that has recently fallen down in our yard–we have plenty to chose from!) with a little scrap of paper that dangles from multi-colored yarn with gratitude.
Call to Action:
Consider giving out candy that is organic and non chocolate. I am giving out Annie’s bunnies and gummies. Last year I gave out bags of pretzels that I had purchased through the school’s market day program. I’m always looking for ways to help nourish our bodies and minds in a healthy way AND give back in an additional way.
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Ok, this had nothing to do with food but . . . are you dressing up for Halloween? I’m thinking about getting one of those morph suits and then just changing that up each year! or I have my standard cat ears.
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Books I suggest: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat,
Young Readers Edition
Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
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Anastacia Maness http://rocksolidfamily.com/31-days-building-commitment/
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Pamela Hodges http://ipaintiwrite.com
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I don’t know if this sounds too harsh for you all, but thought I’d share what we do here, at our house of four children, in Australia. My kiddies are extremely reactive to colours in lollies. We go trick or treating and everyone comes home and sorts and swaps and sorts and swaps. The next day, we pool our colour filled stuff together and everyone gets to go to the shop and buy one big chocolate bar of their choosing and trades in the coloured stuff for the chocolate… it works for us, so thought I’d share xxx good on you renee for providing some food school greatness, especially at this time of year . xx
Thanks for the kudos! I love this idea.
Be Blessed.
Great tips, especially like the rule about eating in the kitchen only, which should probably apply to all eating…I am done with Trick or Treat since my youngest is 16, but these ideas would have come in handy! The last couple years we donated alot of the candy to go in care boxes for deployed troops. I also froze most of the chocolate. Since it’s just once a year, I never minded a little binging.
thanks Kathleen! Since I wrote this I have found quite a few cool websites.
Be Blessed.
P.S. I love frozen chocolate–good thing Dr. Collins doesn’t read my blog! He’s my dentist . . . who fixes teeth that are broken on frozen chocolate.