Each year, Matix, Marley, and Cash come home from trick-or-treating with loads of candy?enough to feed an army! Or to make an army sick, I should say. I must admit, I totally overindulged (compared to my normal sugar intake) this Halloween, and woke up the next morning with a severe blood-sugar crash. Even after breakfast, I was seeing spots, had a stomach ache, and was wishing I hadn?t consumed so much sugar the night before. Don?t worry ? I remedied the situation by bypassing the oats I had eaten with a quick shot of OJ to bring my blood-sugar levels up to where my body thought they needed to be. Ugh?
The worst part of all of it is that I still have candy galore laying around our house now, and Cash is constantly walking up to me with his puppy eyes, saying, ?Mama, trick-or-treat?? This means he wants to trick or treat in our pantry. ?
Time to break out the Powell Pack Family Tradition. What is it, you ask?
While we do believe that the kiddos should indulge a little, and not be restricted from sweets of their choice every now and then, we also feel it?s a good idea to guide them to choose health. This tactic has been a miracle worker in our home: we buy their Halloween candy! Chris and I offer them the option to save 10 pieces of candy (of their choice) to enjoy, and the remaining pieces are purchased by us at a nickel a piece. For 60 pieces of candy, the kids receive $3.00 to use at the local dollar store.
They love this, and I think they have more fun choosing toys at the dollar store than they could ever have eating candy!
I have never been more ready to buy (and throw away) so much candy?
Daddy, get ready to open up your wallet?for a good cause!
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38 Responses
OMG I am totally doing this!!!! I have three teenage daughters so they will want a little more cash but what an awesome idea!!!! Thanks so much!!!
Danna Philpott
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Our dentist office buys the candy from our kids and sends it overseas to the military.
We have a local dentist that buys the candy from kids in the area (of course the kids keep a little) each year for a dollar a pound and then the dentist sends it to the troops. Maybe there is something like that in your area. Then the candy does not get thrown away and it helps someone that did not enjoy Halloween.
Have you ever thought of donating it. Local Army soldiers will send it over sea for thr soldiers to hand out. It help kids trust our soldiers.
Great idea! We have used the treat fairy for the past 10 years, since my oldest had his first Halloween. The children also get to pick out a few candy keepers, the rest go to the treat fairy. In the morning, the candy is gone and replaced by a brand new book. Win win! The children love getting a book rather than keeping all the candy. 🙂
Great post and so timely! Thanks for sharing the Powell secret!
That’s a great idea…at our house “Glenda the Good Witch” comes on Halloween Night, the kids indulge on their candy that evening and choose 10 pieces to keep, but the rest is left out for Glenda to pick up and in exchange she leaves them a gift. The candy is donated! Works for everyone!
This is a FANTASTIC idea! 😀 Saving this one for when I have my own kids! Good Job Heidi and Chris!
Great idea! Some dentist do candy buy back too! Also, my daughter has the same purple pumpkin bucket too 🙂
This is an AWESOME idea!! I’m going to try it on my 11 year old tonight. I’m trying to make better eating choices, and it’s so hard with all the candy laying around. Thanks for the tip..;)