It’s time for the sugar overload. On this night your children will collect more candy than they will get the entire rest of the year. What do you do about it? Halloween is so much fun for the kids, I think every child should dress up and have fun, it’s almost a right of passage. It’s the aftermath that’s kind of hard to deal with.
As a single mother our trick or treating was always limited. I worked long hours so a lot of the time by the time I got home the rest of the children were already out and about so it was just Hailey going from door to door by herself. Once we were home we had to figure out what to do with all that candy.
I knew that if it was in the house Hailey would eat more of it then she should, after all, she came home alone after school and a bag full of candy would be just too tempting. The thought of all those stomach aches and cavities was more than I could stand. I had to come up with a plan.
First, I let Hailey choose seven things that she really wanted, she could then have one piece of candy every day for a week after school. We would then pick out some of the chocolate bars to smash up and use in cookies instead of chocolate chips. The rest she could trade in for a book or a new movie. I would take the candy she traded to work and put it in the kitchen for everyone to enjoy.
This seemed to work well for us, Hailey got to enjoy some of her candy and got a new book or video as well. It was also always fun to take out the frozen candy bars and smash them up to so we could bake a batch of cookies. What are some of the ways you deal with candy overload?