What Do You Do With That Halloween Candy Each Year? 

Some Great Comments About Halloween Candy

These comments where taken from a friend’s thread on Facebook today about how to deal with your child’s mother-load of Halloween candy from trick-0r-treating.  The question posed:

Audra:     How do you all handle the insane amount of candy from trick or treating? We’re trying something new this year – a “candy swap.” They can each pick their 10 favorites that will be doled out over the next month. The other candy they can trade in to me for a toy. They seem excited. Let’s see how it plays out!

Melissa:   If you do the shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child, put the hard candy in those! 🙂

Tiffany:   I eat it

Shawn:   Over the past several years our kids have gotten to the point where they ask if they are allowed to have a piece. If we say no, they don’ t usually object. It has worked well, we usually throw Halloween candy away at Christmas time. Christmas at Easter. Easter at the 4th of July, and then start over again. .

Colleen:   I let my kids pick 20 pieces and trade the the rest for $10.00. Shawn then takes it to work with him the next day and all the soldiers eat it!

Jessica:   We use the M&Ms and the like for cookies (instead of choc chips). We keep the snack bags of stuff for lunches and snacks on the go, keep a little candy and give the rest to our neighborhood college friends.

Kelly:    We do this with Ben! He ‘sells’ us his candy and then can use the $ to buy what he wants.

Andrea:    The first few years were easy – Tucker was allergic to milk, and we don’t let him have chewy gummy stuff b/c it’s bad for little teeth. We would buy him a few better treats – pretzels, peanuts, a box of animal crackers, and trade him for giant bag of  junk. Then we the parents would eat the junk. This year we will let him have some the first few days, keep some for lunch treats. I like the idea of trading him for a toy or money.

 Donna:  These are great ideas!

Deborah:   We go to a local dentist and give them the majority of the candy. The dentist gives the boys $1 for each pound of candy. The candy is sent to troops overseas

Angel:   I throw some away…..lol

Trish:      My kids only do our street which might be at most 30 houses Its not too obnoxious and I only dress them warm enough to want to only do our street they get cold and want to be done 🙂

Tasha:    We let them have 3 pieces for dessert if they finish their dinner. Then Nathan eats the rest.

Tonya:    Dont forget a heavy duty candy tax 🙂

Wendy:    Um…you eat it after they go to bed! Well the good stuff, the rest you take to the office and leave in the break room. 🙂

Tara:      We eat it. Hailey isn’t a huge candy kid and Caden has to ask first. We put it in lunches and if it is an obscene amount , we will take some to work. It only happens once a year! It IS Halloween after all!!

Audra:    I am considering offering to trade them for the UNREAL gmo free candy that is scrumptious though id be tempted to sneak that from them!

Shawn:     That threw me off for a minute that someone on here was talking about Hailey and Caden.

Victoria:    so far we just don’t go trick or treating, but she’s only 18 months. I am hoping that in he next couple years we can start a tradition of a Halloween party rather than trick or treating

Audra:    We are going to our new neighborhood to meet people. I didn’t want to trick or treat but it was such a fun community event at our last place.

Theresa:    my kids traded theirs for a pumpkin full of healthier candy from mother earth, then they both picked a toy. worked great!

Robin:    WE EAT IT!!!

Amy:      My kids eat it, but I steal the kit kats when they aren’t looking because they are my favorite. Then in about a week when the good stuff is gone, it magically disappears out of my house.

 Audra    (This is Audra’s FB thread.  Visit her FB and ask to be a friend.  She has very interesting comments and lots of info she passes on!)

Halloween Candy When Your Kids Are Older

Personally, my parents would eat some of the candy as we did when our kids went trick or treating.  The time came when they were older and I really didn’t want them roaming the streets on Halloween.  We’d offer to buy them any bag of candy they wanted if they would just stay home…it worked!  Just had to be sure they remembered to brush their teeth as we watched the bags of candy deplete. 

Thanks to all of Audra’s Facebook friends who come up with some of the most interesting topics for moms.