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[chickenbutt]

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@AuntG wrote:

Disagree with the suggestion that moms won't let their kids eat candy bars. If moms let their kids trick-or-treat, they must realize 80% of the treats are some sort of candy bar. My bags contain three items each (Snickers Brownie Bars, Dove Milk Chocolate Pumpkin, and Skittles Mini Bags). 

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What's your address? 

[Teddie]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

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@Teddie wrote:

Our church is doing the Trunk or Treat on Saturday. 

I know for a fact a mother takes her two kids in and they have gotten so much she has thrown a good part of it away. That makes me a little sick to think of these participants decorating and providing a lot of candy, just for a mother to throw a lot away. Why not freeze and dole it out little by little throughout the year? She just didn’t want the temptation around, which I understand. But I hate to hear of the waste. 

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That would bother me, too. I HATE waste.  I know it's just candy but it's waste all the same and you could either mete it out, take some to work and share it, or otherwise share it.  So many choices aside from throwing it in the trash.  

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You get it, @chickenbutt ! 

[KBEANS]

I give out what I would like to get. Fun size candy packs like m&m's and skittles, whoopers. Kit Kat, Snickers fun size bars. 

Once you give it out, it's out of your hands what the parents do with it. I wouldn't let that stop me from giving what I want to give. Sort of like giving a present...sometimes they like it, sometimes they don't.

 If they don't want their kids to have the candy, they shouldn't take them out to trick or treat.

We can't possibly know who wants what and what they will do with what we give. 

[FiddleDeeDee]

Regarding throwing out your kids' candy.....

It really amazes me that these moms are unaware of the group who collects candy for the troops. Not sure of the EXACT name, but they did it back in MD (at least in 4 counties that I know of) and they do it here where we are. You bring in all your unwanted candy during a specific time to your school and it's donated and sent overseas to troops stationed there (often candy is not available where they are). Also, every dentist  office I know COLLECTS it for the same reason. It's a win-win.

If people really take the time and research it, they'd be amazed at how many organizations there are to TAKE things you choose to just throw away.