How to Manage Your Halloween Candy (for you AND your kids!) 🎃🍫
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It used to freak me out to have my kids go wild with the candy on Halloween but then I really took a look one time and realized they weren’t actually eating most of the candy 😂 we would get home from trick or treating and things would get dumped out and it looked like a pack of wolves had descended on it but when it was time to get cleaned up I would say 80% of that candy has one small bite taken out of it and then was tossed to the side. Yes I understand this is wasteful, but it shows me that my kids are actually listening to their bodies and really only eating the candy they love. As they are getting older they are getting better about not even opening the candy they recognize as ones they don’t like
I learned a lot about self control with treats around Halloween growing up. I had unlimited access the first few nights and then I got to have a piece or two a day until it was gone, usually sent in my lunch to school. Once I got older my parents started to trust me to limit my candy intake on my own and I’d regularly end up having candy well into the new year
Same!
I just love the moderation and building a healthy structure with food for life instead of restricting and making a huge damage in the long run
Love the devil horns! They show that it’s okay to indulge in a little sin aka candy ❤️
THANK YOUUUUU
This sounds a lot like Ellyn Satter’s guidelines. Love her, so ahead of her time.
Any suggestions for kiddos who are very reticent to brush teeth after candy-eating? My kiddo is great at knowing when she is full around sweets, but hates toothbrushing.
Maybe a different flavored tooth paste? I like cinnamon or watermelon over the minty ones
Our youngest went though a real hard phase of just refusing to brush his teeth, im talking full on melt down whenever the time came. I don’t know how old your kid is but for us the game that got us through that phase was playing dentist. He would sit on my lap and push the imaginary button on the bathroom counter that would recline the “seat” back. Then I would just pretend to be the dentist by counting his teeth and being like “oh my kaden your teeth are looking great! You must be real good about brushing your teeth” and is count his teeth and then sit him up and have him show me how he brushes his teeth on his own. He loved it, got practice brushing his own teeth with me still going in and making sure he didn’t miss any spots, and he’s always had a good report from the dentist.
I always let my kids have their candy and decide how much of it to eat growing up. Many times, the candy is was still sitting around months later. I suffered from an ED growing up and I made a silent promise to my kids to never abuse them with food like my parents did. They are thin and trim young adults now. They have next to no cavities and their relationship with food is normal. Mission accomplished! I’m another story. The struggle with food remains to this day.
❤ This gives me hope. I don’t know if I’ll ever fully heal my relationship with food, but I know I don’t have to inflict that on my kids
I would recommend planning an event too, so that trick or treating isn’t an all night thing! As a kid, my 4 sibs & I would get garbage bags full of candy. It was not a joking matter! If I had other fun things to do, maybe I wouldn’t take the trick or treating so seriously.
Or just having a curfew. One parent would always come with us to trick or treat (I went with my cousins so usually one parent went with the kids and the rest stayed at the house)
Usually by 9pm we were done and all went back to the house to trade candy. As I got older the few times I went with friends people started shutting their lights off by 11 the latest so we were never out past 10:30.
Such great tips 🌸
The biggest thing that helped me curb my sweettooth was tonsilitis. It doesn’t even matter is I brush and gargle after, If I have too much sweets, I just get them so I eat them once in a while (usually when I’m craving something sweet which isn’t often). I’m more of a carbs and salt person. I’ll take a bag of potato chips over a bag of candy anyday!
my dads strategy was to let us keep one small ziplock of candy and leave the rest out for the “halloween fairy” who would trade it for a small gift. we tease him for it but looking back we had fun picking the pieces we really wanted to keep and complaining to our friends about how annoying our father was 😂 he also let us eat what we wanted on halloween night within reason
We let our 2nd born son eat as much as he’d like on Easter last year and he quickly puked it all up. We tried again this year after a trunk or treat… puked again. Some kids don’t do well with the unlimited access! 😂
Yes, there is a reason humans don’t just let their kids fend for themselves as soon as they can walk.
growing up i was a bit of a chubby kid and my mom would make me go trick or treating so that i’d walk around and exercise and when i’d get home she’d take all my candy and hide it and eat it herself because “it was unhealthy” and “had too much sugar”… the hypocrisy was crazy in my household. safe to say i won’t be doing that to my future children.
My parents only allowed unlimited access on halloween night, and then I got knocked down to 5 pieces a night. Which I don’t blame them. I work for a school, and kids are sugar high and cranky, the day after Halloween 🤦♀️
I’ve always allowed my children unfettered access to candy, just like all other foods. They rarely went wild eating copious amount of sugar, in fact, since it was just another source of food they chose it only when a craving hit. I think when a food is “forbidden” like say candy, it becomes a focus. My 3 kids are now fully grown adults with no food attachments, aversion or weight/body image issues.
Are you going to let your kids have real m&m’s this year or are you still not letting them have “artificial colours”? 🙄
i wish my parents did something similar for me when i was a child (we don’t do halloween in australia). my parents were very restrictive with lollies and chocolate so the moment i got my first job when i was 15 i would literally spend ALL of my money on lollies and chocolate and mcdonald’s and kfc i just totally lost control and got sick for a really long time because of it. i binged like crazy for a few years and then eventually developed a restrictive ed as a result. i really do believe those awful 5 years of my life could have been avoided if my parents let me eat treats like this often !!!!!
I had a serious problem as a kid I think 💀 I’d eat all my candy on the first night, minus the few candies I didn’t like. But I’d still eat those ones over the next few nights. And then I’d beg my sister to give me hers 😂
My mum learnt the hard way with me i went to a party and over ate after that shes allowed me then us (when i got a sibling) to have treats occasionally when i was at school it was always after school,