What to do with non-vegan/ unhealthy Halloween candy

[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

With our daughter, my husband and I let her trade-in her non-vegan Halloween

candy for vegan treats. But we've always had a problem with what to do with the

candy we receive from her, since we don't eat it.

 

Today I heard about this program, which allows kids to trade in candy to

dentists for $1/lb. The dentists in turn send it to troops abroad. I thought

some people on this list might be interested:

 

http://www.halloweencandybuyback.com/index.html

 

Jessica

vegbooks.wordpress.com

[Guest guest]

We make sure our kids are finished in good time (they're still young so

that's not too difficult). We then sort candy and remove anything

inappropriate, and they then go through and get rid of everything else they

don't want, and we pay them for everything they gave up. Then we give it out

by the handful to the other trick-or-treaters coming to our house.

 

This is necessary in our home also because one of our sons has a peanut

allergy, so the kids know before they touch anything we must sort through

and remove anything that is not peanut free.

Heather

 

 

2009/11/2 capevegan <j_almy

 

>

>

> Hi,

>

> With our daughter, my husband and I let her trade-in her non-vegan

> Halloween candy for vegan treats. But we've always had a problem with what

> to do with the candy we receive from her, since we don't eat it.

>

> Today I heard about this program, which allows kids to trade in candy to

> dentists for $1/lb. The dentists in turn send it to troops abroad. I thought

> some people on this list might be interested:

>

> http://www.halloweencandybuyback.com/index.html

>

> Jessica

> vegbooks.wordpress.com

>

>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

This is what we are doing with our candy!  We're taking my sons tomorrow to

trade the candy in and with the $1 they receive I'm taking them to the dollar

store and letting them pick out a toy with it.  Thought it was a wonderful way

to teach the kids about giving to others who need it more (not that they need

candy of course though!)  and a great way to get rid of it!

 

Thanks for sharing this info!

 

 

 

--- On Mon, 11/2/09, capevegan <j_almy wrote:

 

capevegan <j_almy

What to do with non-vegan/ unhealthy Halloween candy

 

Monday, November 2, 2009, 2:40 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi,

 

 

 

With our daughter, my husband and I let her trade-in her non-vegan Halloween

candy for vegan treats. But we've always had a problem with what to do with the

candy we receive from her, since we don't eat it.

 

 

 

Today I heard about this program, which allows kids to trade in candy to

dentists for $1/lb. The dentists in turn send it to troops abroad. I thought

some people on this list might be interested:

 

 

 

http://www.hallowee ncandybuyback. com/index. html

 

 

 

Jessica

 

vegbooks.wordpress. com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

My boys are young so we are finished early. They are not eating any candy so I

just " re-gift " it all to other trick-or-treaters.

Next year I'll start doing what my sister does and have them trade the candy in

to " the Sugar Fairy " who will give them a gift in return. I'll probably still

just give the other candy away though I wish that dentists in our area were

doing that trade-in thing. That sounds great.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Our son is 5 and we have always let him trick or treat and then we have traded

his candy for vegan candy. This year he got to trick or treat with his cousins

and he traded all his non-vegan candy for the vegan candy. Then we trade out all

the candy for " healthier " vegan versions. This year I threw all of the

traditional candy away. In years past my husband has taken it to school for all

the teachers but this year we are in a new state/district and he doesn't get to

eat with other adults and I didn't want it around.

 

Some families I know do a halloween fairy and the kids leave all their candy out

on the porch for the fairy and the fairy comes and exchanges the candy for a

gift.

[Guest guest]

Oh, I like the " Sugar Fairy " idea!!  I let my kids pick 10 homes and they could

not overfill their small treat basket.  They didn't get much candy, but I still

didn't like watching them eat it. 

 

I handed out Larabars and pencils.  I wish my neighbors would notice

 

~Gretchen

 

--- On Mon, 11/2/09, Amelia Golden <agolden wrote:

 

 

Amelia Golden <agolden

Re: What to do with non-vegan/ unhealthy Halloween candy

 

Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:33 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

My boys are young so we are finished early. They are not eating any candy so I

just " re-gift " it all to other trick-or-treaters.

Next year I'll start doing what my sister does and have them trade the candy in

to " the Sugar Fairy " who will give them a gift in return. I'll probably still

just give the other candy away though I wish that dentists in our area were

doing that trade-in thing. That sounds great.

 

 

[Guest guest]

We sorted ours (our son was done earlier, by his choice) and re-gifted it

(save for the last bit I ended up tossing out - no reason to keep it). We

kept the ones that were on the Farm Sanctuary page.:

http://vegforlife.org/resources_candy.htm

 

We let him have a couple pieces here and there - but he's more enamored with

the orange/black licorice gumdrops I found at WF that were vegan than the

stuff he got from Halloween. LOL. It's all part of the childhood experience.

Trick-or-treat, sort candy, give some away (as we've always done this, it's

just part of our experience) and enjoy a few things. It's one of the times

of year we really have any candy in the house at all, as it's a special

night and one of my favorite holidays.

 

We still ended up with quite a bit, but not as much as he'd gotten (I'd say

1/3 was ok and a few stray pieces that weren't on the list, or were from

another country). He thought it was great fun to go out, sort and then give

folks his discarded candy. He was so gracious about it as well - " Take as

much as you'd like! " LOL.

 

Missie

 

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Amelia Golden <agolden wrote:

 

>

>

> My boys are young so we are finished early. They are not eating any candy

> so I just " re-gift " it all to other trick-or-treaters.

> Next year I'll start doing what my sister does and have them trade the

> candy in to " the Sugar Fairy " who will give them a gift in return. I'll

> probably still just give the other candy away though I wish that dentists in

> our area were doing that trade-in thing. That sounds great.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

We've only done the trick or treat thing three years and my oldest is nine so it

was much easier to explain the wood sprite who takes and eats the candy. She

leaves homemade goodies or favorite fruits behind. The Great Pumpkin leaves

books and art supplies or board games, etc. My youngest is two and she wants to

do what the boys are doing so she didn't quite get the whole thing, but didn't

seem to mind. She just likes knocking on doors and saying hi so we asked that

they not give her candy after the fourth door. :-)

 

Linda

Http://triballife.net/

 

On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:22 PM, " karivegan " <whitney.kari wrote:

 

Our son is 5 and we have always let him trick or treat and then we have traded

his candy for vegan candy. This year he got to trick or treat with his cousins

and he traded all his non-vegan candy for the vegan candy. Then we trade out all

the candy for " healthier " vegan versions. This year I threw all of the

traditional candy away. In years past my husband has taken it to school for all

the teachers but this year we are in a new state/district and he doesn't get to

eat with other adults and I didn't want it around.

 

Some families I know do a halloween fairy and the kids leave all their candy out

on the porch for the fairy and the fairy comes and exchanges the candy for a

gift.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

My kids trick-or-treat with friends, and they know to swap candies with those

friends before coming home. Once the candy gets home, I check it again (they're

old enough now that they almost never make a mistake, though) and then put their

bags up on the highest shelf of a cupboard. They'll remember once or twice in

the following week, and when they do, they get one or two pieces. After that,

honestly, the candy is forgotten about....I wait a month or two, just in case,

and then throw the stuff out.

 

If your kids aren't used to eating sweets every day, they go back to that norm

pretty quickly. Out of sight, out of mind.

 

Liz

 

 

[Guest guest]

I wrote a little blurb about this- how parents are keeping the candy intake low-

on my Adventures in Mommyville blog. A friend of mine does the Sugar Fairy

thing, but calls her the Switch Witch. Not too surprisingly, I had people

commenting on the blog saying I was a " mean mommy " for not letting my 3 1/2 year

old keep every bit of her candy. Some people just don't appreciate the value of

a healthy lifestyle.

 

I asked my daughter how many pieces she wanted to keep and she decided on six.

The rest she traded in for a small present. She was thrilled!

 

I would have loved to have trick-or-treated at your house and got a Lara bar! We

gave out Yummy Earth lollipops and dark chocolate. I also started last year

doing a Trunk or Treat through our MOMs Club that is a " healthy " Trunk or Treat.

That means we all give out non-food treats, like bubbles, pencils, stickers,

play-doh, etc. The kids loved it and it cut down on the junk while giving them

another fun Halloween activity. I highly recommend it!

 

http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/adventures-mommyville/2009/nov/01/vanishing-hallo\

ween-candy-is-the-switch-witch-to-b/

 

 

 

, " Gretchen Goel, Wellness Coach "

<gretchen wrote:

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> Oh, I like the " Sugar Fairy " idea!!  I let my kids pick 10 homes and they

could not overfill their small treat basket.  They didn't get much candy, but I

still didn't like watching them eat it. 

>  

> I handed out Larabars and pencils.  I wish my neighbors would notice

>  

> ~Gretchen

>

> --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Amelia Golden <agolden wrote:

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> Amelia Golden <agolden

> Re: What to do with non-vegan/ unhealthy Halloween candy

>

> Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:33 PM

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>  

>

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> My boys are young so we are finished early. They are not eating any candy so I

just " re-gift " it all to other trick-or-treaters.

> Next year I'll start doing what my sister does and have them trade the candy

in to " the Sugar Fairy " who will give them a gift in return. I'll probably still

just give the other candy away though I wish that dentists in our area were

doing that trade-in thing. That sounds great.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Larabars?!  I'm going to your house next year!  haha!

 

It is really amazing how many parents don't think it's a big deal for kids to

eat all the candy they receive.  Some of my friends thought I was insane when I

told them I was donating it to the Halloween Buy Back program.  I did let my

kids keep 10  pieces each and they eat about 2 per day (which I feel is still

too much though!).  My friends wondered how the heck I got away with taking the

rest of the candy from them.  My kids really didn't even notice!!  I agree that

the healthier we raise our kids the less they will care about candy.

 

You guys are awesome moms!!!!

 

 

 

--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Dana <dpmurphy wrote:

 

Dana <dpmurphy

Re: What to do with non-vegan/ unhealthy Halloween candy

 

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 7:45 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wrote a little blurb about this- how parents are keeping the

candy intake low- on my Adventures in Mommyville blog. A friend of mine does the

Sugar Fairy thing, but calls her the Switch Witch. Not too surprisingly, I

had people commenting on the blog saying I was a " mean mommy " for not letting my

3 1/2 year old keep every bit of her candy. Some people just don't appreciate

the value of a healthy lifestyle.

 

 

 

I asked my daughter how many pieces she wanted to keep and she decided on six.

The rest she traded in for a small present. She was thrilled!

 

 

 

I would have loved to have trick-or-treated at your house and got a Lara bar! We

gave out Yummy Earth lollipops and dark chocolate. I also started last year

doing a Trunk or Treat through our MOMs Club that is a " healthy " Trunk or Treat.

That means we all give out non-food treats, like bubbles, pencils, stickers,

play-doh, etc. The kids loved it and it cut down on the junk while giving them

another fun Halloween activity. I highly recommend it!

 

 

 

http://gazettextra. com/weblogs/ adventures- mommyville/ 2009/nov/ 01/vanishing-

halloween- candy-is- the-switch- witch-to- b/

 

 

 

@gro ups.com, " Gretchen Goel, Wellness Coach " <gretchen@..

..> wrote:

 

>

 

> Oh, I like the " Sugar Fairy " idea!!  I let my kids pick 10 homes and they

could not overfill their small treat basket.  They didn't get much candy, but I

still didn't like watching them eat it. 

 

>  

 

> I handed out Larabars and pencils.  I wish my neighbors would notice

 

>  

 

> ~Gretchen

 

>

 

> --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Amelia Golden <agolden > wrote:

 

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> Amelia Golden <agolden >

 

> Re: What to do with non-vegan/ unhealthy Halloween candy

 

> @gro ups.com

 

> Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:33 PM

 

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>

 

>

 

> My boys are young so we are finished early. They are not eating any candy so I

just " re-gift " it all to other trick-or-treaters.

 

> Next year I'll start doing what my sister does and have them trade the candy

in to " the Sugar Fairy " who will give them a gift in return. I'll probably still

just give the other candy away though I wish that dentists in our area were

doing that trade-in thing. That sounds great.

 

>

 

>

[Guest guest]

As someone else mentioned...my son has pretty much already forgotten about

his Halloween candy (we never let him just 'keep it all' and I was even made

to put it away somewhere when I was a kid.

 

Luckily we also got our combo box from the CSA on Monday...so he's super

happy to have his favorite fruits in the house (bananas and apples - he

loves to core the apples with my melon baller so he asks me every day for an

apple he can do this to. LOL). So he's more excited by those and the globe

grapes that he says are bigger than his brain - than a small dish of candy

(the fruit is in a huge bowl and out on the counter, the candy is in a small

bowl on top of the fridge...He's not even asked about his candy at all

today.

 

 

Missie

 

 

 

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Dana <dpmurphy wrote:

 

>

>

> I wrote a little blurb about this- how parents are keeping the candy intake

> low- on my Adventures in Mommyville blog. A friend of mine does the Sugar

> Fairy thing, but calls her the Switch Witch. Not too surprisingly, I had

> people commenting on the blog saying I was a " mean mommy " for not letting my

> 3 1/2 year old keep every bit of her candy. Some people just don't

> appreciate the value of a healthy lifestyle.

>

> I asked my daughter how many pieces she wanted to keep and she decided on

> six. The rest she traded in for a small present. She was thrilled!

>

> I would have loved to have trick-or-treated at your house and got a Lara

> bar! We gave out Yummy Earth lollipops and dark chocolate. I also started

> last year doing a Trunk or Treat through our MOMs Club that is a " healthy "

> Trunk or Treat. That means we all give out non-food treats, like bubbles,

> pencils, stickers, play-doh, etc. The kids loved it and it cut down on the

> junk while giving them another fun Halloween activity. I highly recommend

> it!

>

>

>

http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/adventures-mommyville/2009/nov/01/vanishing-hallo\

ween-candy-is-the-switch-witch-to-b/

>

>

> <%40>,

> " Gretchen Goel, Wellness Coach " <gretchen wrote:

> >

> > Oh, I like the " Sugar Fairy " idea!! I let my kids pick 10 homes and they

> could not overfill their small treat basket. They didn't get much candy,

> but I still didn't like watching them eat it.

> >

> > I handed out Larabars and pencils. I wish my neighbors would notice

> >

> > ~Gretchen

> >

> > --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Amelia Golden <agolden wrote:

> >

> >

> > Amelia Golden <agolden

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> > Re: What to do with non-vegan/ unhealthy Halloween

> candy

> > <%40>

> > Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:33 PM

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> >

> >

> >

> >

> > My boys are young so we are finished early. They are not eating any candy

> so I just " re-gift " it all to other trick-or-treaters.

> > Next year I'll start doing what my sister does and have them trade the

> candy in to " the Sugar Fairy " who will give them a gift in return. I'll

> probably still just give the other candy away though I wish that dentists in

> our area were doing that trade-in thing. That sounds great.

> >

> >