Member Comments for the Article:BOOtiful Halloween Treats!Give Your Trick-or-Treaters Something Healthy41 Comments
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NJTTHOMAS
10/27/2012 8:12:19 AM
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We give out glow bracelets. The kids love them and if you plan ahead and get them off ebay you can get them for about 5 cents ecah which is way cheaper than Halloween candy. Additionally, if you have left overs you can store them for the next year (no temptation to eat the leftovers). |
10/23/2012 9:29:49 AM
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Lots of good suggestions but I have to admit, the thought of handing out shoelaces to the neighborhood kids made me laugh out loud. |
10/27/2010 11:55:10 PM
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I get about 20 full size candy bars for the kids in the close neighborhood. Once it is gone I turn off the light. I think that if the child works for the candy by walking for it, then it is theirs. It is stealing to take it from them. They worked for it. I use to go out walking for hours with my friends and we brought it home and divided it into baggies with all the same things in them. we would give mom and dad the ones we didn't like, so they would have some. But again it was our candy. we would through it away when the Christmas candy got there, and through that away when the Easter candy got there. What are you teaching your children it is ok to steal. What if they took just a little money from you without telling you, every day! |
10/27/2010 11:21:41 PM
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Mother let us keep our candy and eat some at night after supper. We were able to trick-a-trick over the neighbor hood without suppervision. Now no parent should let thier child go alone or just a group of small children to walk alone. The world has changed for the worst. We now live out in the country and never have more than our own grand children come to the house. I learnt long ago to buy little candy. Even the other children around us have out grown Halloween. We now take the babies to churches that hev trunk-a-trick and a few friends and that gives them enought candy and a good time. I have bought candy when it goes on sale and put it in the freezer for Christmas stockings. |
WALKMAMMAWALK
10/27/2010 4:14:32 PM
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Use a SMALL container to hold the Halloween loot - limits how much there is. Focus on OTHER activities like hay rides, haunted walks... It's best to eat it all at once - then ration over weeks. Decreases the risks of prolonged exposure to sugar on little teeth. |
10/27/2010 3:05:00 PM
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When I was young, our Halloween candy lasted for months becasue my paresnt only allowed a piece or two a day. It always worked fine. My parents still get Trick or Treaters but now they also mix in the silly little toys that come in cereal boxes. The kids go crazy for those and the toys are gone long before the candy. |
10/27/2010 2:13:02 PM
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We ration our kids candies over a long period of time (most candy has a LONG shelf life). As for those giving out pretzels and boxes of raisins, I can vouch for my kids (and me when I was a kid), they don't eat them. They set them aside until Mom gives up trying to get them to eat them. They end up getting wasted. My kids eat raisins and, slightly less often because of the salt, pretzels in their day to day life. Doesn't feel like a treat, no matter how many pumpkins and ghosties they put on the packaging. I do give some candy out but balance it with glow-in-the-dark bouncy balls (I buy them in bulk from Oriental Trading Company) and glow bracelets/sticks when I can find them cheap. They love the toys but only if they're not the throw-away/break when you play with them type. |
10/27/2010 12:45:43 PM
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Thanks for the ideas, did some of these in the past... I bought candy that any extras can be used for my daughter's school fundraising booth - |
10/27/2010 12:22:36 PM
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As a suggestion of where to take the candy, when my wife was going through chemotherapy, I occasionally brought along small little halloween-size candy bars which were *very* popular with the patients as well as the other guests/visitors that accompanied the patients. I never saw anyone eating candy to excess, but a little chocolate was certainly a mood lifter in what was otherwise a pretty sucky day. |
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10/27/2010 12:05:24 PM
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I also agree that to throw candy away after five days is wasteful - find a new home for it somewhere...maybe a community center where it is not a safe neighborhood for the kids to Trick or Treat. Also, salty snacks can do more to corrode teeth than sugar. |
10/27/2010 11:51:43 AM
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When I was growing up, we didn't dare give out anything but candy. Otherwise, we'd get our house egged. Sometimes we got egged anyway. Rough neighborhood. |
10/27/2010 11:51:15 AM
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Throwing away the candy after 5 days is crazy wasteful!!! Don't let the kids collect it if that's what you're going to do with it. Maybe bring it to work or donate it or dole it out more slowly. Hide it if you can't resist it, but let the kids have 1-2 pieces a day for a while. (most halloween candy keeps just fine for months). |
10/27/2010 11:05:20 AM
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I like the ideas for the non-food treats. We already bought for this year, but next year, we're going to do non-food treats. |
10/27/2010 10:42:39 AM
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We leave most of the candy on the porch the night of Nov 1 for the "Halloween Fairy" who replaces the candy with a cool toy. It has worked wonderfully for years but I fear my daughter may outgrow it soon (she's 8)! |
10/27/2010 10:32:28 AM
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i agree with some of the comments too, why would you let them eat a bunch of candy all at once, they could get a tummy ache, and throwing out the rest of the candy after 5 days seems wasteful too. just my thoughts... i like the healthy suggestions instead of candy though. |