To give fruit out on halloween?

[MrsMotherHen]

I was looking on pintrest last night and seen these (will attatch pic)

Would it be grim to give them out rather than sweets? I think they are fun. My sister thinks my house will be egged as a result.

Seconding a poster who said after all the Swizzells crap most kids get, the odd piece of fruit went down really well. But I'd let the kids choose if they want it or not.

Maybe the poster who said she binned any fruit given to her children meant that her kids just left the fruit, so it ended up in the bin, rather than that she actively went and chucked it on principle?

Isn’t fruit a hell of a lot more expensive than sweets? misses point

Cute but sweets will be appreciated more. I can’t imagine many children choosing an orange instead of a chocolate Halloween sweet.

I've been handing out satsumas and little boxes of raisins to trick or treat kids for years.

Hopefully we will get a reputation for being boring and they will leave us alone !

Good idea about making faces on the satsumas so they look like little pumpkins. The peel is going in the bin anyway so that should be ok.

No don’t do fruit.

I like the stuff but apparently it has so much sugar in it it’s worse than a cocaine covered mars bar

You will get lynched by mumsnetters in the local area

I wouldn't.

For one thing, halloween is for fun and people expect sweets.

But more importantly, it's always best to give factory-wrapped candy so that parents can be assured that nothing was ever tampered with or poisoned, and they can know exactly which ingredients are in it.

People need to know exactly what they're getting when strangers give their children candy!!

They're really cute! I'd put them in a bowl with other sweets.

Neighbour did little bags with a satsuma, bag of sweets and a lolly inside. Kids loved them so much-not sure if the fruit got eaten though! We have a full fruit bowl here all the time so fruit isn't really a treat or novelty although they do love it.

Those are very cute. I would use it as window decoration or whatever and eat it ourselves later.

They are lovely but they won't be appreciated and they will cost you more in your time and your pocket than a few Halloween sweeties my dear .

neither flumps nor haribo are vegetarian or kosher or halal either (usually) why not do funsize chocolate bars, celebration type things, etc. that are more inclusive? Oreos and bourbons (usually check packet) are also vegan!

Seriously? Who gives a crap if they're vegan? My DD doesn't actually like sweets, but I wouldn't expect anyone to offer an alternative. Its just a fun gesture. Nice for the kids who do want to eat them and for the others who don't its just a chance to dress up and do something different.

I would only serve fun spooky fruit at a Halloween party, not to treat or treaters.

I remember an urban myth in the states probably around the 80s about razor blades in apples and kids being told not to accept anything except wrapped sweets when ToTing.

Fruit's fine, just seems like one night of the year when healthy eating can be put to the back burner.

I've just asked dc who has stated that they'd be totally unimpressed, but would take one to be polite.

When I was a kid, mum used to give out fruit and sweets....you had to have a bit of fruit if you wanted a sweet. And of course, you had to do a 'turn'. I remember a group of kids who'd dressed up as an elephant, made with cardboard and fabric and they did a little performance. Mum was a teacher so we got plenty guisers at the door.
They don't open the door now because it's not guising anymore.

I did this a few years back. Found them all squashed at the bottom of my driveway the next morning.

I gave out fruit last year when we ran out of sweets (we moved shortly before and I had no idea how many kids there are round here). Apples and bananas. If they didn't like it, they can go threaten someone else.

Awesome idea but with the faces I think I’d be weary of them. You could think they’d been tampered with, but also do you trust often random neighbours 100% to use a pen that won’t definitely have chemicals leak Into the fruit?

I agree saying offer them alongside the usual. My 6yr old DD would love them. 9yr old DS would complain about the offering the rest of the evening if it was the only thing, but would take it to be polite.

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We did one year. The look (disapproval) of some of the kids was priceless. Didn’t do it again though!

I'm in Canada so things might be different here but...every year we have incidents of razor blades or pills hidden in stuff given out at Hallowe'en.

As a result our kids are not allowed to eat anything while they're out trick or treating, and we check over everything before they eat anything when they get home. Anything home made or any fruit is binned unfortunately.

Although the satsumas are cute, they'd be binned at our house. Sorry!

From the US Food & Drug Administration. This advice has been out there for at least 40 years or more:
"Tell children not to accept – and especially not to eat – anything that isn’t commercially wrapped. Inspect commercially wrapped treats for signs of tampering, such as an unusual appearance or discoloration, tiny pinholes, or tears in wrappers. Throw away anything that looks suspicious."
My grandmother used to get great joy out of making home-made fudge and candy apples to give out to the kids on Halloween. She grew up in a very small hamlet but moved to the city after she married. Anyway, she was horrified after she found out about this official advice and henceforth she took to switching all the lights off and sitting in the basement on Halloween.
As for fruit, as a kid, getting fruit in your Halloween bag was worse than getting an orange in your Christmas stocking!

First year here, which turns out to be on a popular trick or treat beat, we were running out of sweets early on, so i padded out the tray we offered with satsumas, DH was disgusted by how popular they were (alongside fun size mars/milky way bars and small packets of haribo) so i always include them now