My husband took our girls around the neighborhood last night for Trick or Treat while I stayed home to hand out Tootsie Rolls and Pops.
I ate all of the cherry flavored Tootsie Rolls myself. I did leave the kids the lime though.
I’m pretty sure I had a Reece’s peanut butter cup. Oh and I might have had a couple boxes of Dots. After that I don’t remember much.
This morning I woke up with a slight headache, so I nursing my coffee and cursing at myself for eating so much candy. Bad girl!
My girls received a ridiculous amount of candy last night. We live in that kind of a neighborhood. We did let the girls eat a few pieces when they got home from Trick or Treating. It’s one night a year.
I will store their bowl of candy high up where it is out of sight and soon it will be out of mind.
When trick or treating is still fresh in my girls’ minds, I’ll let them each choose one piece (or 2) each day, but soon they will forget about the candy. Honestly I have to worry more about whether I’ll forget about the candy–I think I see some Peanut M&M’s in that bowl.
In a couple of weeks, I’ll go through what is left and store what we like in the freezer and throw out or give away anything that I know none of us will eat.
And then we’ll do it all over again next year.
I hope you all had a fun Halloween. How do you manage all of the trick or treat candy that comes into your home? Let us know in the comments.
Kristia, how many of us have been in your shoes? (And eating that candy?)! It sounds like y’all are fortunate to live in a very family-friendly neighborhood…..that gives out LOTS of candy. 🙂 I like your idea of putting the candy up- kind of helps everyone pace themselves. I also like the idea of freezing the candy- I remember really liking frozen Snickers bars! 🙂
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