Another Halloween in the books.
The Dino Wrangler.
The Candy Doctor.
The dinosaur really wanted the doctor’s stethoscope, resulting in many minutes of tears. Then the doctor lost his scrub cap and was deeply disturbed. (Perhaps he will not be allowed to scrub in on today’s cool surgery because he can’t keep up with his personal belongings?) Then we waved a Reese’s pumpkin in front of him and the memory of his scrub cap was permanently erased.
Crises mitigated, and we can call Halloween 2011 a reasonably successful venture. Now we face the aftermath: the candy. It’s hard to resist all that high fructose corn syrupy deliciousness, so here are a few thoughts on candy consumption management.
In An Ideal World
My favorite Skinnygirl recommends keeping a few pieces of your favorites in the freezer. They take longer to eat, so you enjoy each piece more and eat less.
In My World
Favorite candy is nestled in the freezer, resting ironically on bags of organic vegetables. Twelve hours later, a dentist is necessary after breaking a tooth on frozen candy. Frozen candy is hard; thawing is tedious. Note to self: this is not a reasonable option for simpletons who need instant gratification.
Caution: Thaw Before Eating.
Ideal World
Take all the leftover candy, put it in a Target bag and tie it shut. Put the bag in the garage with a note on it, asking your husband to take it to the office. (What the hell, neighborhood kids? Did the school night throw you off your game? Even with those three boys who charged the door, pushed me backward, and lurched at the candy like wee crack heads looking at a bowl full of free pipes, we had a lot of leftover candy.)
My World
Husband forgets to take the candy with him, citing important meetings and a lot of work-related stuff on his mind. Whatever. Spend the rest of the day making up reasons to go to the garage. Discover that the Target bag is “defective” and has “hole” in it. Look at that, a fun-sized Snickers bar just “fell” out of the bag. Weird.
The Mysterious Case of the Hole in the Bag. A Scooby-Doo episode in the making.
Ideal World
Realize that you are a grown ass woman, in charge of your decisions and in complete control of your cravings.
My World
Sure, that’ll happen.
I wonder…
:: If you have control over the candy, rather than vice versa, I don’t want to hear about it. You are freakishly strong and mature. Move along. (Nope, not a question. I’m aware.)
:: What do you do with all the candy? We let the kids have a piece or two a day for a couple days, and then they begin to forget all about it. Eventually I throw it all out. It helps that I managed to convince H that candy goes bad after a few days. Just wait until he finds out the stuff is packed with preservatives and contains not one bit of actual food, allowing it to last through the apocalypse. Boy am I going to be in trouble.
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do what i do. eat it all in the first night. you won’t crave candy for at least a week!
I have no self-control. We, however, have over a thousand people who stop by our house to trick-or-treat. By 8:00 PM, I’m usually into the kids’ candy – stealing it to continue feeding the masses. As a result there is little left to taunt me. ; )
Guess what?
I don’t like chocolate.
So there.
That’s my vice.
My kryptonite is the candy of the jelly or sucker variety and i will be eating them: TRUTH.
My kids still have Halloween candy left from last year.
Why?
Because each October, we buy a ton of candy in the hopes that our neighborhood will be filled with trick or treaters.
And every October it isn’t.
So in addition to the candy my kids gather themselves, we have ALLLLL the stuff we don’t hand out to other kids that we dole out between the two of them.
They are misers and eat one precious piece at a time.
Then forget about their bags in a few weeks.
Until the dogs get into the cabinet where we store them…
Then?
We all remember.
I started a CLEANSE the day after Halloween, so that’s the way I’m managing my candy consumption! That, and I ate like 10 pieces or more Monday night. 😉
I just eat all the good stuff within the first couple days… get it over with quick.
After the kids eat their one to two pieces per day and then eventually forget about it I take it to work for the vultures…. I mean co-workers.
What do we do with all the Candy… You SHOULD SEE the bag we have filled! A HUGE DSW bag filled to the brim of all sorts of good stuff that I posted to Instagram. It is crazy… But somehow we have managed to control the consumption… or maybe it just hasn’t hit us all that we REALLY have that much chocolate and candy in the house (a rarity!).
I thought it was kind of funny that my middle guy said: Mom, we are gonna have candy all the way up to Easter! Perfect timing! 🙂
Ha!
You know what makes those candy cravings even harder to resist? The existence of a daily word count goal during NaNoWriMo. I’m all, “Look, I wrote 2 paragraphs! I deserve a snickers!”
I’m great at self control, as you can tell.
I’ve been eating the candy on an hourly basis.
Also, I’ve made peanut butter cup bars (Cooking Light) and Milky Way cake (Pioneer Woman). As if the candy needs more decadence. nom!
I think that dino costume is absolutely adorable!!
SHE lives! 😉
my kids put theirs in boxes in the fridge in the pantry and it seems to last them forevah!
(and i don’t sneak any – right)