Snickers & KitKats.
I only bought two bags. Every year I say I’ll remember how many kids came by. I think it was @20.
Every year, I seem to hear or read an interview with a nutritionist, who suggests handing out fresh fruit in individual zip lock baggies, boxes of raisins, granola bars, or reading material. I have to wonder if these people actually remember being a kid, and the disappointment accompanying getting a “healthy alternative”, rather than delicious candy.
I’ll be handing out mini Hershey bars (I stick with the classics).
The entire state of Michigan is most assuredly not TOTing tonight, perhaps some communities are but none that I know of.
I was so good this year, swore I wouldn’t buy any of my favorites and eat them all night like usual. I totally caved when bopping out to Kmart for a last minute costume adjustment tonight, came home with whoppers, snickers, reeses, hershey’s smores, milky ways and 3muskateers, uff da.
The rest of the stash came from a new old fashioned type candy store that opened this summer, about 500 pieces of penny candy, 200 lollipops and a big ol’ barrel of the pink bubble gum you always see this time of year.
We get a lot of kids 'round here.
Last year we went through twenty good sized bags of candy. We get about 250 kids here in huge roving packs. My first year I was woefully unprepared and went back to the store four times. I will not make that mistake again and have just about every candy known to man. My duty tomorrow afternoon is to salt away a secret stash that does not leave the house.
pennies.
Just kidding. We don’t buy any. My son and I trick and treat. He gets about 100 usually.
I check them all, take out not well wrapped ones, ones he doesn’t like, which leaves him about 15.
We hand out the rest!
I bought the mdium sized hersey’s, the hersey’s miniature, some fun sized Mr. Good Bars, Mounds, Almond Joy, Heath Bars, mini reeses cups, starburst pops, and a couple large bags of assorted candies, which includes tootsie rolls, nerds, sweet tarts, runts, smarties, and my weakness Bottlecaps!
I’m in Gainesville, too. Except for bigbadvoodoolou (who has moved)I had no idea there was another hogtowne doper.
Well, in our neighborhood, we had trick-or-treating yesterday afternoon, in conjunction with a block party. I usually buy one bag of good candy (read: chocolate) and a couple of bags of cheap crap (Smarties, SweetTarts); the cute little kids who are supposed to be trick-or-treating get the good stuff. The 16-year-olds whose idea of a “costume” is grease in their hair get the crap; also, anyone who comes to my house more than once gets crap the second time around. Of course, I’m not as bad as some people. I have a friend who lives up the block who is a dental hygienist; she gives real candy to the cute little kids and sample size dental floss to the ones who shouldn’t be out in the first place 
Now, in all this slamming of kids who are too old going out anyway, I’ll stand in defense of older kids who dress up to take out younger sibs. Especially if they’re not angling for candy, I’ll offer them some anyway.
I live on campus at a college and we had this program called Safe ZOne so all the little munchins could come and trick-or-treat with us. I was helping to run it, but my suite still had candy to hand it. We gave away a snickers and milkway mix, an m&m mix, a hershey’s mix, a Willy Wonka mix, and whatever it was my roommate got in the middle as we ran out. I thought that dealing with the 100~ kids in my parents’ was bad. Try 800 to 1000 running around a dorm complex in costume. I got hit with WAY to many plastic weapons. Oh well, it was fun.
Easy to eat chocolate or choc/peanut butter combos for the little kids–Reese’s, Almond joy, Hersheys plain;
for the older ones, Tootsie rolls, Tootsie pops, Dots.
Mini Hershey Bars and Milky Ways. I couldn’t find any bottlecaps, unfortunately. So far we have had one knock at the door, and I doubt we’ll get anymore. This is why we buy name-brand candy that we like to eat ourselves.
In addition to the above quoted, we also had some KitKats and Nerds that Mrs. Shibb had laid in. Officially it was a buttload of candy. Between 5:45 and 7:45, Mrs. Shibb handed out candy, one piece per kid. Then I got home with the Shibblets; Mrs. Shibb took a walk around to see the neighboring houses while Ms. A and I gave out candy. Mr. C also helped occasionally. Ms. A gave out 2 pieces per kid. About 8:15 pm or so I put away the pumpkins and turned off the front porch light. We had 4 pieces of candy left. Then 10 minutes later the doorbell rang. Ten kids, mostly older, on the porch. I told them I only had 4 pieces left so only the 4 smallest kids would get anything. That’s it, full out of candy. I’m officially impressed.
Oh, and “Hi”, Ravenous Lady. We sat out on the front step with the candy. This way no one got by without something. A lot of cool houses in our neighborhood, especially the ones giving out jello shots, beers or punch to the parents. Woot! Best kids place was a house at the end of the street that set up a cotton candy machine and gave out bags of fresh made cotton candy.
I am so ashamed of myself, but not enough to confess. I ate all 2 pounds of Milky Ways. By the time I saw the first trick or treater, I had about 8 left.
I shut the door and hid and ate them.
LOL, I’m a BAAADDDD girl.
Ravenous Lady, I might have done the same thing if I’d bought Junior Mints or York Peppermint patties. I am a mint freak.
Well, I managed to unload a lot of the Tootsie Rolls, suckers and Dots, but only by giving out three to each kid. It’s not that they weren’t out and about; it’s that most of the people on my street weren’t giving out candy, or were gone or in hiding; and I can imagine it must have been discouraging for the kids and their parents to walk nearly an entire block before happening upon a lighted house with treats.
Hi, keturah! That makes three I know of: me, you, and Johnny Bravo.
That’s funny! I wish I had thought to do that! 