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.

Wowsers?? My ds got 40 things varying from little starburst cheese up to fill size mars bars. I don't think he could have eaten it all in one go!

3 Tesco bags full!my goodness I thought we had a lot but that is mad!xx

The kids getting "a full Tesco bag" or "40 items" - are they grabbing handfuls rather than taking one thing at each house?

We were out for over an hour and my daughter filled her little bucket (maybe 20/25 items) but a whole carrier bag full seems crazy.

We weren't allowed sweets generally, but at Easter and Christmas were allowed to eat as many as we wanted.
I grew up with an eating disorder. Just a different outcome

@mollyfolk Donate them to food banks. Get some cellophane bags and portion them out into treat bags to donate.

Next year don't take a carrier bag trick or treating. 55p for a treat bucket is more than enough. They must have visited a hundred houses.

Anything chocolatey you can melt down and make brownies with. Other sweets you can make stained glass Christmas cookies. These can then be given to grandparents etc. Any birthdays coming up in the next few months you can take some for party bags. Donate some. Keep a few to have on long car journeys.

Fun size chocolates and little bags of Haribo I would put in their packed lunch box if they have a packed lunch or let them choose one item everyday when they get home from school.

Chocolate you can melt to make tray bakes or to decorate cakes.

Put them in serving bowls and put them out at Christmas as part of the buffet. Does your kids school have a Christmas Fair? Ours always asks for donations for raffles/tombola's. Three carrier bags of sweets might go down well in a lucky dip.

A full tesco bag per child is extreme! We just do the little pumpkin baskets, go round the block, take 1 at each house and it’s maybe 30 pieces per kid. Then eat what they want on the night, they each had 5 pieces each, then pool the rest into a communal bowl and everyone can have 1 thing a day after supper in lieu of their usual biscuit until they run out.

Why on earth would you let them get so many sweets? 3 full Tesco bags is pure greed and stupidity.

Agree that you shouldn't have let them take so many sweets. Binning them because you didn't prevent them being a bit grabby is pretty poor. Can you even give them to the food bank if they're still in their packets? Next year, you need to get them to take fewer or don't go at all if you're so worried about them eating sweets you feel the need to slowly bin them all

Send any spare parma violets this way!

I'm not in the UK. A full tesco bag would be the average. Most houses hand out party bags. All their friends were the same.

Was able to persuade them to donate a bag to a local homeless drop in centre today. Down to a more manageable amount now.

Ha ha. They may have. They were with friends.

I'm in Ireland and people just give out a lot. We got a party bag from each house.

Mine had probably one party bag full each - a few lollies, a couple of little haribo packs, some moams and mini love hearts. We only do our street.

You're overthinking it. Eat them all yourself obviously!

It's Christmas soon. I'd do some stocking fillers and some Christmas family binging and sharing with friends.

I'd do a little Sunday snack day too. Sweets aren't the devil. Bad attitudes to food are - just put them in a box in the cupboard and use them. They'll last.

Next year don't let them bring so much home.