Halloween Treats

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ChemGal

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As I look at my leftovers - less than expected due to record numbers for us I wonder -
What's your favourite treat?
Least favourite?
Any weird items?
 
As a kid one of my favourites were the fruit flavoured tootsie rolls - fairly rare. Sadly I don't think my digestion could tolerate them now, so have never bought them.

Was excited to see Whoopers - not something I associate with Halloween. Will put that up there as a favourite but I do think a part of that is I rarely have them in general and Halloween is definitely new.

Regular favourite - cheese sticks (the cheezies type of thing, melt in your mouth, not the hard ones)

Least favourite - those hard Halloween kisses, the chinese candy with the edible paper, forget the name. That I gave - regular chips (all given out, there was a dairy free request), coffee crisp (not much, I will eat but of the chocolate it's last).

Weirdest - didn't see it personally but know someone who did participate - what's with the potato trend?
 
All healthy junk food if that can be translated from what the advertisers intended you to believe! Thus propped ...
 
Favorites (in my trick or treat days): sunflower seeds (yes, I got them), Kraft caramels, Three Musketeers bars (as a sheller outer): cheese sticks
Least favorite: Also not a fan of kisses
Weirdest: Chick tracts (in my trick or treat days)
 
I always liked the 'fun size' bars for some reason. That and the small bags of M&M's.
And no one has yet listed among their favourites Candy Corn?? I'm shocked....:oops::jackolantern:
 
Redbaron said:
I always liked the 'fun size' bars for some reason. That and the small bags of M&M's.
And no one has yet listed among their favourites Candy Corn?? I'm shocked....:oops::jackolantern:
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Neither a favorite nor a least favorite for me. It was there, it was sweet, it got eaten.
 
Trick or treating was unknown in my chldhood. I was appalled when I discovered Canadian parents encouraged children to go begging from door to door. My viewpoint changed quite rapidly!

I struggle with the vast amounts of candy and related junk that some kids devour during this season. I encouraged my own kids to toss out everything that wasn't a favourite - no prizes for guessing they claimed everything was in that category!

When we lived on the farm we didn't get visiting kids. Now we get very few - five this year. I gave them each a toonie to spend as they wish. They seem happy with this and it means I'm not contributing to the tooth rotting extravaganza.
 
Mendalla said:
Neither a favorite nor a least favorite for me. It was there, it was sweet, it got eaten.
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I'm the same, don't mind it in small amounts. It's so rarely around though. I don't even recall seeing it as a packaged treat it's moreso sometimes at parties if someone likes it.
 
When I was a kid, (oh so long ago!!) there was a person in our neighbourhood a few blocks over from my house who made amazing Candy Apples! And another person who made Popcorn Balls. Today you don't see any home-made goodies, sadly.

It was always best fun to come home & dump all the treats out on the floor, sort them, & trade them. But then mom insisted we put them on trays where they would then get stored on top of the fridge where we couldn't reach them - doled out a few at a time.

Used to love the little TWIZZLERS pks - but sadly I later learned they are made mostly from wheat - who knew! So they went off my 'menu'.
 
As a mother of young children, I was almost always the adult designated to walk with the kids. The 'fee' for this arrangement was all of their
Reese's peanut butter cups.
 
Every single one. They needed to pay me for losing a pair of gloves (or at least one of) every year. Every year, I would say "put on mitts; it's cold". They would reply "looks dumb with my costume", so I'd put on gloves for myself. Half way or less through the route, they would be wearing one of my gloves each and one or both of the little buggers would lose 'their' glove.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Every single one. They needed to pay me for losing a pair of gloves (or at least one of) every year. Every year, I would say "put on mitts; it's cold". They would reply "looks dumb with my costume", so I'd put on gloves for myself. Half way or less through the route, they would be wearing one of my gloves each and one or both of the little buggers would lose 'their' glove.
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Gloves were definitely a standard here for Trick or Treating! The 16+ days to snow covered streets today? To me this change seemed more often than not to occur on Halloween, if it wasn't already cold on the 30th.
 
Is there any greater icon of junk food heaven when you consider the concentrations of fat, sugar and salt ... this could misdirect the intuitive sense!

An some pros say that folks are ill because they know no better?
 
Oh, what nice memories of Halloween past. My favourites were the mini O'Henry bars, potato chips and those sweet sour fruit flavoured candies in a roll. One neighbour always gave out homemade candy apples and popcorn balls. I remember cookies in the shape of pumpkins too. When I was older and went with a friend, we were invited into someone's house down in the basement. My parents warnings rang loud in my head but my friend and I decided to chance it. Much to our surprise, there was an elderly couple giving out those Dixie cups of ice cream! When my son was small, we went with him and carefully monitored everything that went into his bag. I kept a stash of safe treats at home. He has a severe peanut allergy so we began from the first time to do this. He was quite happy watching us sort his treats into the piles. With the stash, his pile was always larger. Dad and I got to eat the other stuff. The only time he complained was that one of our neighbours always gave out giant bars of O'Henry and he couldn't eat them. He eventually went out on his own with his friends and we were lucky not to have any problems. Where we live now, we don't have any children. However, my husband still gets tempted to buy one of the large boxes of mini chocolate bars anyway. He is realizing thought that he can't eat as many at one time as he used to. Oh the joys of getting older.
 
When we were kids our next door neighbor gave out homemade caramel apples and they were the best.

I always liked the other treats with exception of those candy kisses. I haven't seen them in years.
 
wrdwrytr said:
Oh, what nice memories of Halloween past. My favourites were the mini O'Henry bars, potato chips and those sweet sour fruit flavoured candies in a roll. One neighbour always gave out homemade candy apples and popcorn balls. I remember cookies in the shape of pumpkins too. When I was older and went with a friend, we were invited into someone's house down in the basement. My parents warnings rang loud in my head but my friend and I decided to chance it. Much to our surprise, there was an elderly couple giving out those Dixie cups of ice cream! When my son was small, we went with him and carefully monitored everything that went into his bag. I kept a stash of safe treats at home. He has a severe peanut allergy so we began from the first time to do this. He was quite happy watching us sort his treats into the piles. With the stash, his pile was always larger. Dad and I got to eat the other stuff. The only time he complained was that one of our neighbours always gave out giant bars of O'Henry and he couldn't eat them. He eventually went out on his own with his friends and we were lucky not to have any problems. Where we live now, we don't have any children. However, my husband still gets tempted to buy one of the large boxes of mini chocolate bars anyway. He is realizing thought that he can't eat as many at one time as he used to. Oh the joys of getting older.
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I participate in teal pumpkin project, wish more people would do that. I do hand out stuff with nuts but keep the non-nut stuff separate plus have the non-food items. This year someone asked on Facebook ahead of time for dairy free as well so I set a few of those.
 
Oh Henry bars were my favourite. Loved reading the Fleet comic strips that came with the bubble gum. Our family made popcorn balls and they were usually gone quickly.
 
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