Halloween is come and gone. Now what to do with all that candy? Do you let the kids indulge? Do you ration it? Send it to the office? Or sneak it after the kids go to bed? Let's investigate the treat-a-pa-looza that is invading our households...
[Can I tell you how surprised I am - yet again - of how many peanut-y treats were in my kids loot bags this year?! I feel for all the families challenged with nut allergies on Halloween. I am very "give out peanut free" oriented however the 6 Reese's cups in the loot bags prove many others are not. I digress...]
So all that candy...it would be great to take a poll...as to what we all do with it all (see above).
I do have some activity ideas that might help with dealing with it all...
a) Make Piles. Make piles of lesser-loved loot and share with others. Send it to the office. Send it to book club. Give it to a sugar-lovin' neighbour. Send it to Grandma's house for her treat basket for when the kids visit (or for her to noch on a nibbly herself).
b) 2 and 2. (well, insert whatever # is reasonable to you) For example, you can have 2 treats after school and 2 treats after dinner (after you have had a fruit or yogurt).
c) Upgrade. Give me half you treats and you can upgrade to something better than candy. Like a movie out with Mom. Or staying up an extra half hour on Friday night.
d) Forget about it. Put all the loot in the treat basket and put it away in the pantry. Dole it out little by little over time.
This post was powered by the loot basket - sshh - don't tell the kids!
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