At our house, Halloween Candy lasts until Valentine’s Day. I may have actually forgotten to throw out last year’s loot. While it’s bundled into Ziploc bags with the kids’ names on them, I can resist the temptation. It’s that whole out of sight, out of mind thing too. We only had two bunches of trick-or-treaters come by the house last night. This was in addition to the 4 we sent out to beg for sugar. DD’s figured out that our neighborhood gets better hauls than her friends who live in apartment complexes with lots of kids so she’s usually inviting someone else along for the fun. DH said they saw like five other groups last night. Ahh, the joys of living in a community with mostly retired folks.
Ok, so _why_ does candy last that long at our house? DD is a type I diabetic, so we dole it out in small quantities over time. The next couple of week’s she’ll think of it constantly and beg and cajole for pieces at every possible chance. Eventually, the out of sight, out of mind thing will kick in for her as well and it’ll sit lonely and ignored in the cupboard until I think to grab something to toss in their lunch box.
I decided I’d make a cheat sheet this year as I’m tired of looking everything up all the time, so I picked the 13 most popular candies at our house and figured out the carb counts for a single piece. This way I can refer back and easily add up the totals so she can take the correct insulin dose easily even when mixing and matching. BTW, the Daily Plate was helpful for figuring out the unlabled ones — they also have calories and other nutritional info.
| 1. Nestle’s Crunch Fun Size | 8.67g |
| 2. KitKat Snack Size | 9g |
| 3. Pay Day Snack Size | 10g |
| 4. Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Snack Size | 8.33g |
| 5. Milky Way Fun Size | 12g |
| 6. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (1 piece) | 12g |
| 7. Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups | 5g |
| 8. Twix Fun Size | 10g |
| 9. Butterfinger Fun Size | 15g |
| 10. Almond Joy Fun Size | 10g |
| 11. Plain M&Ms Fun Size | 12.5g |
| 12. Skittles Fun Size | 17.5g |
| 13. Starburst (2 squares) | 8.25g |
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Great thirteen post! I just posted my thirteen! Three in one!
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DEB
Can we get a truck to back all that up to mouth?
I love #2 and #11 especially.
That’s quite a haul!
You realize you’re going to have crazy hyper kids for the next three months with that kind of fuel right? LOL
Ah well, that’s what childhood is for, right?
ACK!! I’m scared to look at my kids loot. NO WAY. I donwanna know.
Whoa. And I thought the boys had brought home a lot…
Do what I do: put it in the freezer for a special craving. It lasts a lot longer and (hopefully) doesn’t muck with your blood sugar.
As for Trevor, you know he’s bad during the week, too, right? He doesn’t just wait for Thursdays!
Weird, the text with what happens to our loot and why went missing. It’s back! Ours definitely lasts a long time…
Susan, I’ll have to check up on Trevor more often then. He’s a riot.
Oh, how cruel to post those numbers! Now I can’t feign ignorance when I reach for a bag of M & Ms.
Oh yeah… M&M, Hershey, and Milky Way… My muses feed on those all the time. hehehe!
Ooh, M & Ms – my favorite. I like to feed my muse 😉
Way to suck all the fun out of Halloween! 😉
Us diabetes should form some kind of Halloween Candy Support group.
That should say “us diabetics”. I must have snuck a candy bar and it affected my typing skills.
Diabetics aren’t the only ones who need to watch the candy–our dog decided he couldn’t resist the bowl of give-aways last night when Dh wasn’t looking and Kidlet and I were out “begging for sugar” elsewhere (great term). Dh panicked and called us home. Turns out the dumb dog ate maybe 3 or 4 peanut butter cups. I researched on the net (love the avalability of info) and found he’d have to eat 3 pounds of milk chocolate to damage himself–think one baggie of Hershey’s miniatures. He’s a big dog. I’ll be a tad nervous until all the wrappers he ate work their way through, but the chocolate didn’t hurt him, thank goodness!
Any candy that survives here beyond November gets used as decoration for our Christmas gingerbread house.
Kelly, I’m glad your dog’s ok! My mom used to make chocolate candies in those little plastic depression molds. This meant she kept a supply of 2-5 bricks of chocolate around: milk, dark, white, various colors.
There’s nothing to compare to cleaning up after two large dogs who probably ate a couple pounds each. *shudder* Luckily, they liked the colored white chocolate better than the milk or dark. That would have been really bad.
I bet there are a lot of parents who would thank you for this kind of cheat sheet. You could always use some of those leftover candy bars in baked goods. Our local paper printed a bunch of recipes and ideas yesterday, including recipes for “candy bar cookies” and “peppermint patty brownies.”
I don’t think I want to know this much about what my kids are eating, but maybe I should send my dh here. He thinks candy is a food group.