Handling Halloween sweets

[mollyfolk]

My DCs have a shocking amount of sweets after trick or treating.

And idea about how to handle the excessive sweets. When they were smaller I used to dump it slowly but they are too smart for this now.

We just store them all in a cupboard up high and they know they are only allowed maybe a piece or two per day. We tend to just put them in packed lunches if they are having them. We have never thrown them out before!

Just hand them out slowly, it's not like they'll go off! Maybe have a look through for anything sticky or chocolate and use those up first.

Honestly don't throw them away that would be a real waste 😵‍💫

We put them in a bag in a cupboard out of reach and they forget about them.

I used to take them into the office to rot my colleagues teeth instead 😂but they just go in the cupboard now and get eaten very very slowly..

though I enjoyed a mini packet of love hearts myself yesterday!

What do you mean dump it? Chucking them in the bin?!

I've put them in the general snacks & treats cupboard at ours, so DS can choose one for dessert/small treat/add to non-school packed lunches as and when he normally would. I imagine they'll be gone within a few months (ready for the Christmas treats! 😂)

Mine have always eaten it in one go on Halloween. I don't want them having sweets every day.
Any left over I eat.

There used to major bargaining between them trading to get their favourites. They of course ate too much on the night but after that seemed capable of just having a couple and often would forget they had them. There wasn't masses of sweets really and I 'generously' offered to have the ones neither liked!

They don't go off very quickly, so we just stash ours and they have one every so often. Never felt the need to bin them tbh 🤷‍♀️

They have a box each in the kitchen and have one every day.

If you don't want them to have them... dont take them trick or treating or go to less houses!

Don't forget the Mum Tax too! 😬

I'd let them pig out. One or two feasts is far less damaging for their teeth than one thing every day for weeks.

I just let mine eat as many as they want until they were all gone. Ditto Christmas and their birthdays.

I do the same. After a few weeks DC have mostly forgotten and I throw a lot of it away or put it in jolly jars for mufti day.

Mine came home with literally a kilo of sweets each, we weighed them. Not going with this approach.

Ours will go up high and they'll slowly forget about them. We finished their Easter eggs last night after they went to bed.

When mine were young they went in the treat cupboard. I can’t believe people would bin them, that’s so disrespectful to those who have spent money on them. We used to use them at Xmas too because the school would do decorated filled jars for the tomboys do we used excess then.
If you don’t want loads, do less houses?

I let them pig out yesterday and I've eaten a fair bit myself but we still have 3 full tesco bags! 3 kids. They did too many houses!

a box each and they can chose a couple after dinner.

Why go trick-or-treating if you don't let your dc eat the proceeds? The whole point is that they are given loads of sweets and then take a week or two to eat them. Don't dump them - that would be a huge waste of time, money, resources and goodwill!

@HesterMalingerer has the right of it. Let them binge a few times.

My GP recommended this because it is actually better for them than doling out the sweets daily which will lead to weight gain.

After a few binges, tell them they've eaten it all and take the remainder somewhere else: work? homeless shelter (they like treats too)?

When my DC were younger I bought jars to stop squabbling over the sweets. Then they had a few sweets after dinner.

I just stop giving pudding or other treats for a few weeks and let them pick something out of the bucket at those times instead.

I can't believe people throw away the sweets that friends and neighbours buy for them. So disrespectful and wasteful. If you don't want your children to have them, don't let your children go trick or treating, give them away. Or sort them into jars and donate to the next school fete for the bottle stall. Or do something with them. Don't throw them away.

DS5 is allowed to eat whatever he wants, pretty much whenever he wants. He's been choosing around 4 sweets a day since the big night.

It's only going to be a for a few days, so can't get worked up about it tbh.

Put them in the food banks.