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.

My DD has allergies so can't eat most sweets (we go out for the experience not the sweets) last year a neighbour offered her fruit and it made her night because she could eat it!

I can not believe some sick people out there would even tamper with sweets and fruit to harm children.

Unfortunately it must happen obviously or that rule wouldn't exist.

It's my first year at a new house so am unsure on numbers. I know there is some children over the road am hoping for quite a few callers. My last place was a side entrance on a main road so never had one in the four years we lived here.

My toddler would love that (can I steal the idea for her after dinner treat)

Good luck with that. Do come back and tell us how it went

I will update next week after halloween

I can see why someone might bin fruit. You don’t know who’s handled it or where it’s come from. There were some horrible stories in the US about people hiding razor blades in sweets on halloween, and things like that. I have no idea how true it was, btw. It was quite a few years ago now; there were threads about it on MN even!

i have a bowl of sweets, a bowl of fruits and cookies (decorated with fake spiders!) - i let them pick which they want.. most of the time it all goes. last to go are the sweets!

Nobody ever comes to our door, despite the 🎃 in the window. It's because we're set behind the road. I have to ask friends to bring their kids so DD (18 but with sn) can give out sweets.

She'd love those oranges; I'm going to decorate the ones in her packed lunches this week!

oh we now have boo nanas too. Am so tempted but think its one step too far.

Yabu! Very cute op but Halloween is all about the sugary crap!!! It's one day a year! You don't really need to be the moral compass if people don't want their kids eating sweets then don't take them trick or treating! My kids have fruit every day and love it but Halloween they'd be disappointed tbh!

I'm Scottish and we have a long tradition of handing out tangerines and apples along with confectionery (and coins, though this seems to have died out). It is called 'going 'guising' (as in disguise) rather than trick or treating and you need to do a turn to get the goodies - this was often singing but now usually telling a joke. It's habit where we are that you make up bags for each visitor with several sweet things, a bit of fruit and sometimes a homemade bit of tablet in it, or even these days a bag if crisps. I think your tangerines look good!

Shockers could you put more pumpkins by the road and leading down to your door? It’s what we do, about 4 of the buggers!

Maybe a sign like this one from Sainsbury's or something you DIY to put on the front lawn or gate? A pumpkin there to light it?

my kids would love them but they are all under 9, weirdly love fruit but i'd have sweet too.

Also Scottish, and it's common here to get some fruit in with the sweets and crisps. Occasionally money or drinks but not often. Some people give out home baking.

I do stick to my local area where I know a lot of the people giving stuff out, so no worries about food being tampered with.

I usually get some small Halloween toys/stickers/badges/balloons to put in the bags. I've started doing Teal Pumpkin allergy friendly stuff.

I quite like the boonanas idea!

Can't get the DCs to go near them!

We used to always give out fruit on Halloween - a bowl of apples and oranges and a bowl of sweeties, dh would make the kids take a piece of fruit before dipping into the sweet bowl.

"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."

And we thought Canadians were all so polite & harmless!

I'd eat your satsumas, OP. Not sure DC would, though.

Am I the only one who thinks some of these responses and attitudes towards fruit are quite sad. It's a lovely idea and I wish more people were open to challenging social norms

We do these (alongside sweets) and they're popular with toddlers and some of the teenagers - quite often chosen instead of sweets.

They take ages to do though, and you need loads of Sharpies/biros! I reckon sticky-backed black plastic would be a good way to make them if you could get hold of some.

Apples and oranges are traditional at Halloween, as PP say.

DS loves Satsumas and is too young for sweets but I would be another one binning anything not in a sealed wrapper I'm afraid. I used to live in the US where it's actually a government guideline so would stick with that.

My dd2 would go daft for a boonana!!!

I like the idea of having them in a mixed bowl with candy and letting kids chose.

One year I forgot to buy sweets but had some glow sticks the sort that make onto bangles and necklaces left over from a camping holiday when I had forgotten to pack them .....these were the most popular things I have ever given out. Kids were queuing up.

Never ever have we had a single trick or treater
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