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.

The sky is blue, the grass is green. Please may we have our Halloween?
Ours was "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!"

Makes no sense either!

I think that's a lovely idea and I think kids would love them!
I have 4 dc ages 2-11 and while they love all the sweets at Halloween most kids love mini oranges and the novelty factor would appeal.
As a parent it would be great to have something other than sweets for them to gorge on!!

JWreks we had the same, with the additional line 'if you don't, we don't care, we will steal your underwear!'

Which isn't really great, tbf, but they were more innocent times....

Op you're doing it all wrong! Chocolate covered brussel sprouts are the way to go.

I've done satsumas alongside sweets. You will have leftovers but as long as you don't mind finishing them yourself that's fine.

Have also made my own sign for trick or treaters, before the supermarkets started selling the ready made ones.

I think they’re cute and I like the idea of offering both fruit & sweets. Think I might actually do the same myself!

yep I don't mind any left overs my toddler loves them anyway.

yep I don't mind any left overs my toddler loves them anyway.

One way to stop anyone coming back next year.
As long as you'll be happy for the same in return once your DC is old enough to go.

Don't give out anything not in a sealed wrapper and don't allot your children to eat anything not in a sealed wrapper.

I thought that was standard to be honest

My early childhood was spent in Glasgow and we always had fruit for guising at Hallowe'en - tangerines, apples and monkey nuts. When my own DCs went out they would come home with a fair haul of fruit so it's not that unusual.

The stuff in a sealed wrapper makes no sense for oranges or satsumas - which have their own sealed wrapper. If someone stuck a razor blade in an orange it would be pretty obvious.

An evil tamper-minded person could just as easily inject bleach or similar into a Mars bar through the wrapper (who really would notice a pin prick hole carefully placed within the join/seam) as inject shit into an orange or an apple.

Besides in the UK do people really let their children go and knock on stranger's doors to be given stuff?!?! Doesn't matter whether it looks sealed or not, it's not that difficult for someone to tamper with something if that is there aim.

Where I am it's only go round to people you know and vice versa.

My kids love getting fruit on Halloween. Last year, ds2 was scoffing apples on his way round, there were 5 Apple cores in his bag when we got home.

I think it's far less common in the UK or certainly in England to knock on someone's door you don't know. Certainly none of the four-hour collections that take until Christmas to eat, which seem to be common if not universal in certain parts of the U.S.

I have also never come across anyone ToTing in daylight in the UK. Since the sun is setting by about 4.30pm there's not much need.

I think they're awesome. My 3 yo would love them. My 6 yo would prefer sweets :P

I think if you offer both, you'll be fine. Most kids will probably choose the sweets, but I'll bet that at least a couple take the cute satsumas :)

I can’t believe some of the comments on this threads... why would you bin the fruit that’s been given your child? (FYI they don’t have to give out anything or even open the door).

I would happily accept them! Although I would use food dye for the face, not black marker!

RTFT, @chipscheeseandcurrysauce - people have said half a dozen times why you should bin it.

I would probably bin the fruit as it would be bruised and nobody would eat it. Or I'd see if it's any use to the pet shop. It's hardly the crime of the century not to eat fruit that you don't want or like.

Get out the cadburys or don't answer the door

But the satsumas are a bit cute as a decoration if you buy them anyway.

I think they're cute and it's a nice idea to give them a choice. My DS's would view it as a treat because they love fruit. A lot of kids do. :-)

My dd would have liked it too (she’s grown up now).

You could compromise and give those fake marzipan fruits instead!

Why give anything at all? We are not the 51st state of the US.

No we live in the birthplace of Halloween though!

Kids get fruit, sweets, cakes and money round here, they say thank you and take it and eat it.

And they get (and we give out) unwrapped stuff, 'spooky' jelly sweets, foam sweets, fizzy laces etc Never been a problem all the years we have done it. (and I did it when god was a boy)

The satsumas are fine just have a mix of fruit and sweets.

Why give anything at all? We are not the 51st state of the US.

There is such a xenophobic fear of doing anything "american" that people are forgetting their own traditions.

You would not be unreasonable to give fruit. I hand out apples, monkey nuts and some sweets for the guisers when they come round and usually a little money too if their joke or song is particularly good. When I was wee (1970s) we mostly got money when we went guising in town.

As a Scot, not an American, we used to get some fruit and monkey nuts as they were then called when out on Halloween alongside sweets, although I seem to remember some coins as well. I think as an offering alongside sweets they are fine. They have small orange bouncy balls with faces on in the USA which I think my pair would like if you want something non sugary.

Excellent idea to have it in the bowl for toddlers. They might well be attracted to it above the more ordinary Haribo.