For those of you with kids ... How do we deal with the huge amounts of candy? I haven't had a piece since surgery or any dessert for that matter but it hasn't been in the house either! I wish I could skip the entire night except I kind of love everything else.

We're going to get the usual treats and I'm going to make sure they all are given out.

The last bags will be sugar-free chewing gum so just in case it gets leftover.......

We're going to get the usual treats and I'm going to make sure they all are given out.

The last bags will be sugar-free chewing gum so just in case it gets leftover.......

What about the candy collected by your kids?

Oh crap! I just realized I will be on my pre-op liquid diet on Halloween. My kids will be happy I'm not raiding their stash.

Edited October 21, 201510 yr by chuck415

We don't get many kids at my place, so not worried. The hard part is all the Halloween candy at the office! I walk a mile out of the way to avoid it!

My kids are grown, but we decided to give out the crappiest candy we could think of to give out. There's a bag that has Tootsie rolls and pops, along with some other "meh" candy. I figured if I broke down and had a Tootsie Pop, no harm

There will be no Snickers or Kit Kat's in my home, dammit!

We don't have enough trick or treaters to bother with candy. Lights we'll be off at our house. My kids don't trick or treat.

That being said, I have bought candy for the house and I have eaten a piece or two. For me learning to coexist around sweets is as important as avoiding them.

Can we talk about Halloween candy?

NO NO NO

why do those little monsters come to OUR door

not only do a bunch of rascals have the nerve to come to our door

they want candy!!LOL

i love kids, really i do !!!

my 3 little grand-kids are kids LOL

they live far away in GA!!!

i'm gonna try and find some candy i don't like

that's hard to do LOL

don't want my hubby to put his hands in the bowl either LOL

give me strength strength, strength, strength !!!i

I'll try and be strong

this too shall pass

lol

kathy

Luckily I'm not tempted by nerds and suckers and skittles. I'm more of a chocolate girl. So, I just bought all the stuff I'm don't care about.

I've been thinking about this dilemma four about a month now. Before surgery I would buy tons of our favorite snack sized candy and eat them all month long. I just want to buy suckers and other candy I don't care for and won't be tempted to eat. My daughter was not happy about this plan and tried some emotional blackmail to get me to purchase some twix and snickers lol. The jury is still out but whatever I do buy will be purchased right before Halloween and leave my sight once the door closes for the night.

We got stickers this year... and thankfully my kid is too old now

Just today I bought sugar free weathers, mints and lemon candy for my office at work. Not even going to bother with it in my house. I'm going to a wedding on Halloween. I'm pre op. I don't have kids but my friends do so I'm sure something will come of that lol.

Be strong!

I love candy! Im staying away. Im only 3 weeks out and i tried it. Put a small taste of chocolate on my tongue and felt sick. I think it was all in my head since im not supposed to have it. I wll not be buying or giving out candy. We dont get enough kids to even bother.

For me i plan on having a couple pieces but to leave it at that. And we have 2cbags of candy in our house right now that I've hidden from me and my husband. Of course i know where they are cause i "hid" them, but if i don't see them then i forget about them. And we'll be giving out extra candy to get rid of them.

I got Halloween shaped pretzels. There are little bags to hand out. Easier than candy that I would eat if there were leftovers.

Buy candies you don't like, like wax lips (I don't know if they still make those, but they were horrible, literally they were made of wax and shaped like lips) or bring the leftover candy to work on Monday or give it to your next door neighbor's kids on 11/1.