OT: What do you do with all the Halloween Candy?

[Coronita]

So my kid got about 3 bags of Halloween candy from Trick-O-Treating for a long time on the 31st..

I really don’t want her nor all of the family to consume so much crap.. (though my kid is pretty good about not eatting too much sweets)….

I was thinking of a creative way to dispose of two bags of candy. But I didn’t just want to throw it out. Any suggestions? Are there places which take donation of this stuff?

[NotCranky]

My kids always pick their 5 favorites and my wife takes the rest to her break room at work.

[Coronita]

[quote=Blogstar]My kids always pick their 5 favorites and my wife takes the rest to her break room at work.[/quote]

Wow…They don’t mind?

[Coronita]

….Maybe I can save a few pieces and melt the rest into one big pot…Freeze it and use it as some icing of some sort….

It’s just kinda gross to me if I were to think folks would consume it all…

[cvmom]

The schools collect the candy and send it to soldiers overseas.

[scaredyclassic]

i eat it. all of it… i love candy…

[maverick]

I think there are a couple of pediatric dentists that take candy and donate it.

[svelte]

Two things we’ve done.

First is to let the kids keep it, but limit how much they eat. As the months go by and they see the remaining candy becoming inedible, they get smarter about how much trick or treating to do the next year.

Second is to let them pick their favorite and take the rest to work as giveaway. A very common practice, many other people do this too.

[NotCranky]

[quote=flu][quote=Blogstar]My kids always pick their 5 favorites and my wife takes the rest to her break room at work.[/quote]

Wow…They don’t mind?[/quote]
I don’t think they mind or else my better half would not do it.

[Aecetia]

I think some of the schools donate it to shelters and some of the Catholic schools donate it to orphanages in TJ.

[Diego Mamani]

How long is a Snicker’s shelf life? Can I save the candy to give away next year?

[Aecetia]

Here is a link:
http://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/shelf-life.php

[Diego Mamani]

[quote]Here is a link:
http://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/shelf-life.php%5B/quote%5D
Hmmm… the website belongs to a candy retailer. No wonder they give such artificially short shelf lives. I’ve eaten chocolate that was 1 or 2 years old, no problem.

[Aecetia]

I agree. You can probably double the best by date on the candy.

[UCGal]

This was the first year we instituted the eat it before it gets tossed out rule.

First I clean out the unacceptable stuff.. (I have one kid who reacts to red dye 40, and the other just got braces, so no sticky candy like wacky taffy or caramels). I brought that stuff to work.

A few days of gorging, and then it’s over.
So – after dinner, they could have a bunch.
They had an FLL competition this weekend – I brought some of their stash for after they competed but before the awards ceremony.
Yesterday they killed it off.

Yes – they got tummy aches- that’s part of the natural consequences… perhaps they’ll learn.

And now I have a house free of candy.

Kids don’t feel deprived – because they got all the candy (with the exceptions listed above).

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