So I’m at the store. I notice a big giant bag of M&Ms on sale for $9. I thought to myself: “Those would look really cool in that candy dish I never use.”. So, on a whim, I bought it.
When I got home, I had the right of mind to not put the candy dish on the coffee table. As it would be too easy to lean over from the couch and grab a handful. So I set the dish up on the bar and out of reach. That way, if I wanted an M&M, I’d have to get up off my fat ass to get one.
At the time, I thought using this strategy, the M&Ms would last for several months. They lasted two weeks. :o
Yeah earlier this year my dad was going to Walgreens while I was visiting and he asked if I wanted anything, as he always does. And I was like “a big-ass bag of peanut M&M’s.” My dad is always willing to oblige so he comes home with the 42oz party bag just for ME to take home.
I think for the first couple days I skipped lunch because I was full up on peanut M&M’s (hey, protein!)
But I eventually put the bag away in a cupboard and yeah they lasted about 2 weeks. Not for lack of trying
Hey at least you got a lot of exercise from getting up to reach the bowl, huh?
I’m the opposite. I have thrown out candy which went chalky and dried out(chocolate) or absorbed too much moisture and became chewy(toffee) in the past because I just don’t eat much candy at all. Savory is my poison. I will go through nachos and jerky like most people go through M&Ms.
The idea of not eating an entire bowl of M&Ms that’s just… sitting out is completely foreign to me. Don’t understand it even a little bit. My brain just isn’t wired that way. It’s why I don’t buy snacks hardly at all, let alone in bulk.
First of all, I have never been brave enough to attempt the whole candy dish thing. It sounds almost torturous.
I have, however, had the good fortune/misfortune to have been gifted sweet things, such as a box of chocolates. In those cases, I eat the chocolate at a furious pace. My rationale is that as soon as the chocolate is finished, I will no longer be distracted by the knowledge that there’s chocolate in the house.
Though I have also been known to throw out a batch of brownies after eating one or two, using the same rationale: Once it’s gone, I’ll stop thinking about. This method is a lot healthier, and I should probably employ it more often.
When I was a kid in the '50s, we used to go out on both nights of Halloween, to every house in our extended neighborhood. We each wound up with 4 paper shopping bags filled with candy. You’d think that would last all year. Nope, only a month or two.
Concur. My mom still gives me Easter candy, and every year I find last year’s basket in my pantry, which I’ve only half eaten. I don’t dislike candy, but I have no desire to eat unlimited amounts of it. I can eat unlimited amounts of nachos and jerky.
I was a big kid, and people used to always joke about how much candy I always had stashed away. They never realized that the reason I always had so much candy is because I never ate any of it.
The reason I was a big kid is that I could eat two Tony’s pizzas for dinner every night for a week and once made a sandwich for lunch out of a loaf of French bread and a pound of bacon.
I’m the same way with the Halloween candy I buy to give out. I used to bring the leftovers to work but now that I’m retired they just sit around. I often find that I still have some of last year’s Halloween candy still around when I’m getting ready for this year’s Halloween. And, yes, that includes bags of M&M’s.
I want to know who the heck has candy dishes anymore. My grandmother gave up on her Depression-glass dish full of Werther’s Original circa 1992. I haven’t seen one since.
when I go to friends’ houses and they still have cake from a birthday earlier that week. IOW, you did well – two weeks is a long time!