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What to do with leftover sweets?

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User5306921 · 31/10/2025 22:17

We had very few trick or treaters this year. They started early with the small kids and I thought I was being very smart giving each of them a bar of chocolate and a few sweets. The doorbell rang less than ten times so I am now left with a huge amount of sweets. My DC went out as well (I stayed at home to answer the silent doorbell) and brought home even more.

Someone mentioned donating leftover sweets to a food bank. Would they really take random sweets that don't have a sell by/use by date?

Seems a waste to throw so many into the bin.

Next year I will buy far less and throw handfuls at the first ten kids and turn off the lights!

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workingcocker · 31/10/2025 22:18

Why would they have no dates?

Tiebiter · 31/10/2025 22:19

Mine get put on my desk and I eat one berry time a colleague annoys me so they are gone pretty quickly

Pancakeflipper · 31/10/2025 22:20

Give them to a neighbours child? I don't think food banks will.take them once original.packaging has been opened.

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Tiredofwhataboutery · 31/10/2025 22:21

I tend to donate leftover sweets to community Christmas party or the school Christmas fayre. They give them as prizes for games.

WhiteCold · 31/10/2025 22:21

Either save them for Christmas or take them to share at work.

Coffeeishot · 31/10/2025 22:22

Why would your sweets have no dates on them i don't understand? But yes a food bank might take them depending on the set up OR just keep them

CalmShaker · 31/10/2025 22:22

Perhaps a little extreme but, advert in local paper?

StrumpersPlunkett · 31/10/2025 22:23

DH takes them into work and leaves the bowl in the communal kitchen, they have usually gone before lunch.
However, this year we were over run with families and small groups of youngsters and ran out of sweets before 7pm.

Terrytheweasel · 31/10/2025 22:24

Give them out next year?

OSTMusTisNT · 31/10/2025 22:26

I know this is a bit of a weird one but after thinking outside the box I would suggest you and kids eat them with a target to get them finished by Christmas?

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User5306921 · 31/10/2025 22:27

I work from home.

They are individually wrapped sweets e.g. Cadbury roses etc, individually wrapped chewy sweets and bars etc. Maybe there is a date on each one but I doubt it and my eyesight is too rubbish to spot dates.

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Whatwouldnanado · 31/10/2025 22:27

Do a how many sweets in a jar thing at work for charity.

shellyleppard · 31/10/2025 22:28

@workingcocker the individual sweets don't have a use by date, just the big bag they came in

Kitkat901 · 31/10/2025 22:28

Not to be rude but do people really struggle with decisions like this?

Surely just save them and eat them, give them to someone you know, take them to work…

hamsterchump · 31/10/2025 22:29

What are leftover sweets?

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User5306921 · 31/10/2025 22:29

CalmShaker · 31/10/2025 22:22

Perhaps a little extreme but, advert in local paper?

I forgot that our local Facebook community group will have a number of posts up asking people to collect sweets from their houses tomorrow.

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User5306921 · 31/10/2025 22:30

Terrytheweasel · 31/10/2025 22:24

Give them out next year?

They'd go off surely.

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drspouse · 31/10/2025 22:31

Make chocolate bark or sweetie fairy cakes? That would require buying more sweet ingredients and eating them though.

SausageRoll2020 · 31/10/2025 22:31

They aren't going to perish if not immediately eaten. Just stick them in a box / tin in the cupboard and eat them as and when.
I don't understand why you'd be thinking about throwing them out.

DeanStockwelll · 31/10/2025 22:31

Why do you need to 'do' anything with them ?
Portion them out into what ever you think is acceptable for your dcs and yourself per week and work your way through them.
Generally speaking sweets don't go bad / out of date for months .

FrodoBiggins · 31/10/2025 22:32

I would simply put them in my face

MaryGreenhill · 31/10/2025 22:32

I take mine to my Mum's care home

DeanStockwelll · 31/10/2025 22:34

@SausageRoll2020 great minds think alike and post at the same time apparently 😄

rainbowunicorn · 31/10/2025 22:35

Of all the utterly bizarre threads on here today this one definitely makes the top 3. They are sweets not like they are going to go off in a week. Stick them in a tin and have a couple as and when you feel like it. I dont know why you went to thinking they needed disposed of immediately.

Beachhutgirl · 31/10/2025 22:39

Keep them to put in your DC's stockings