More ideas for using up the Halloween candy
If your kid's Halloween haul looks like ours, you'll be well-supplied with sugar till the candy canes start arriving in December. A few suggestions to help you disperse your little pirate's booty:
- Chop it up and mix it into ice cream
- Add it to cookie dough
- Bake it into birthday cakes
- Float Junior Mints in your coffee
- Share it with your mail carrier, your garbage person, your dog walker, your housecleaner, your boss...
- Freeze it to bring out for family movie nights, or save it for decorating a holiday gingerbread house
- Give it to the bridge toll taker (my mom does this and always gets a smile)
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A number of folks in our neighborhood are sending the candy to the soldiers and kids in Iraq... Better than around my midsection!
Posted by: Pete | 01 November 2006 at 05:51 AM
We also set clear expectations with our kids. When we came home last night we dumped the candy and did the safelty check. Then each kid got a ziplock bag. They made their choices and filled up their bag. The rest is going out of the house. I am thinking the nursing home.
Now that they have their smaller bag of candy, they get one piece after lunch and 1 after dinner. We definitely let them endulge last night.
We thought about introducing the Halloween fairy, but decided not to. For our family it's about trying to make good overall choices when it comes to food. My husband wrote this post about it: http://www.gnmparents.com/the-halloween-fairy-doesnt-replace-authentic-conversation-with-kids/
I am hoping it doesn't end up on my waist!
Megin
Posted by: Meg | 01 November 2006 at 06:57 AM
Great ideas for getting rid of all that evil pants resizing stuff!
But be wary about freezing some candy to reuse later. Some candy turns into a goopy mess when it cools down to room temperature because of the condensation.
After my little one gets done doing candy swaps with her cousins the next day, Daddy takes all the unwanted candy to work to share with his warehousemen. The guys love it! Especially the ones without children.
Posted by: Saundra in MO | 01 November 2006 at 07:58 AM
Any birthdays coming up?
Make a Pinata and stuff it with Halloween Candy.
Posted by: Michael G | 01 November 2006 at 12:50 PM
I'm loving the gingerbread house idea. That's what I'll do with the stuff I don't like. The kids have seen the last of it. People started giving out candy early this year, so they've had quite enough.
Posted by: Kara | 01 November 2006 at 07:48 PM
Getting rid of the candy (and this post) have reminded me of that Paul Simon song, "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover."
Posted by: Kara | 01 November 2006 at 07:50 PM
Just chop up the Mars, Lars...
Next?
Posted by: Parent Hacks Editor | 01 November 2006 at 09:16 PM
And freeze all the Heath, Keith...
Posted by: Elizabeth | 02 November 2006 at 05:47 AM
And pitch the M&M's, Clem.
Posted by: R-Bro | 02 November 2006 at 07:00 AM
You just gotta be mean.
So dump the candy corn, Bjorn...
Posted by: Parent Hacks Editor | 02 November 2006 at 07:42 AM
Don't let them obsess much!!!
Posted by: Allen Knutson | 03 November 2006 at 10:38 AM
Toss those Milky Ways, Blaise;
and eat healthily.
Posted by: Allen Knutson | 03 November 2006 at 10:40 AM
Glue some peanut chew, Sue,
Put some gummy bears there, Cher,
Gingerbread house for me!
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Posted by: Scott | 01 November 2010 at 01:47 PM