We’re the scary house on our road and our doorbell doesn’t work. This equals few or no trick or treaters. Once I didn’t have anything to give the kids so I gave them £1 each. They were happy enough with that.
Eh, granola is better in that it has fiber, healthy fats, and vitamins that candy bars don’t, but yeah, it does tend to have tons of sugar and fat.
But who cares - it’s freakin’ Halloween!
When I was little, there were not many kids in our neighborhood, so one year my dad gave out 1-qt cartons of Whoppers and giant-sized Hershey bars. I probably don’t need to tell you how much he was adored.
Damn, last year we didn’t have many kids at all… maybe we’ll give out full-sized bars. Problem being, Dave’ll get to all of the Reese’s cups before I can give them out.
My birthday is three days before Halloween. A couple years back, I was going out with some friends to a Halloween party, so I didn’t buy any candy to give out. But before we could get out of my house, a bunch of kids showed up at my door. So, they all got slices of left-over birthday cake.
Wow, yeah, that is a good price. Just curious. Did you go to an outlet store like erie774? I can’t imagine getting that good a price at my local market.
One year I gave a lot of good candy for Halloween. I don’t know how the kids felt about me, but I know at least one mom that was mad at how much candy people were giving. So I give up.* My porch light is off this year.
Get off my lawn!!
*well that, and a bunch of other stuff associated with Halloween
WTF? I was thrilled when I got money while trick-or-treating. It meant I could later go out and buy the candy and snacks I wanted, rather than just accept all the candy corn, Sugar Daddies, Whoppers, generic Sweettarts, and other cheapo crap I hated.
I give out small cute toys*, although I have nothing against kids gorging on Halloween. But the Op makes a good point, a Snickers Bar is healthier than some of those “granola bars”. :rolleyes:
But I only have a few TorTers, anyway.
- I am careful with the teensy kids and make sure the 'rents know what their kids get so they don’t eat the toys.
Yeah, but look at popcorn:
A single serving is 1 cup
Mass: 8 grams
Calories: 31
Calories from fat: 3
It looks like popcorn is healthier, but once we scale up to Fun-Size (you know, the size of a Butterfinger bar) we see an entirely different picture. 60 grams of popcorn has 232 calories! Only 22 of them are from fat, but it’s still over 200 calories from a modest popcorny treat. Why won’t somebody think of the children? The children with gram scales who weigh all of their food and then consume it according to total mas, that is. They’d all be fat little roly-poly children if the cocaine residue from the scales didn’t keep them nice and strung out.
This will be our 3rd Halloween in this neighborhood, but we only gave out candy the first year. Our dog was still living with our daughter, so there was no insanity when the doorbell rang. Now we’ve got 2 dogs, plus the cat, and Halloween is on a work night - we typically crash about 8:30.
So the lights stay out and I don’t have to make any candy decisions.
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Now get off my lawn!!!*
Yeah, I went to Sam’s and bought bulk boxes of Snickers and Twix bars. As I recall, the Twix boxes had 36 bars and cost around $11, and the Snickers box had 48 bars and cost $13 and change. So, okay, with two boxen of Twixes I went over $30, but still.
(yes, I meant to type “boxen”. I love Brian Regan.)
I’m giving those little airplane bottles of booze. It’s that, or fistfulls of ground beef. Either way, we won’t be bothered next year.
I have no idea what you mean by this. Mrs. Magill and I go through Fang’s stuff, pulling out things he doesn’t like. I know for a fact that he cannot stand those little Baby Ruth bars. And Tootsie Pops, [del]I can’t get enough[/del] the boy can’t stand them.
Not with little treadmills, I hope.
We should not be alarmed at giving children anchovies. Hypertension is rarely a problem among kidlets, and the Omega-3 oils are good for them. Salt is only a worry if you already have high blood pressure, it doesn’t start it.
Of course, you realise that you will be sued when someone’s precious little snowflake swallows the quarter and chokes on it or shoves it up his snothole, right?
By the way – your grandma ROCKS!