My two smallest boys, Dictator and Taz, have a new obsession: Halloween candy.
They think of it 24/7 and beg for it constantly.
Dictator went with a James Bond approach the other day, slinking into the kitchen, scaling the cabinets and making off with a sucker. I watched him shimmy along the wall as if he thought I couldn’t see him. I started humming the Mission Impossible theme song.
One morning Taz rubbed his sleepy eyes and wandered into the kitchen. “I want choc-wet candy,” he said. Chocolate is his confection of choice.
“Honey, you really need to eat breakfast first.”
His eyes popped open and with palpable excitement he said, “Great! I’ll have pizza then. Pepperoni.”
I smack my forehead and offer him an eye-roll that could win the championship title in an eye-rolling contest.
Kids. They know what’s good but they don’t always know what’s good for them.
How many pounds of Halloween candy remain at your house? I’ve moved mine to a new undisclosed location.
I took every last piece to the office. Little Man forgot about it after Halloween (and didn’t even eat much on the day) and is perfectly happy with “treats” of orange or apple or the cookies and things we bake from my clean eating cookbook. He hasn’t missed it and neither have we!
Ours will go in the trash soon. Now that I’ve hid it the kids have forgotten about it. Out of sight, out of mind!
They’re crazy when the get candy on the brain, aren’t they? Our Halloween stash is in hiding, as well. Too many mornings of coming out and finding a trail of discarded Tootsie Roll wrappers leading downstairs to the boys’ bedroom. Plus the empty Kit Kat wrappers in their bedsheets. Admittedly, though, my stomach has become the hiding place for a fair amount of it.
Ha! That’s awesome. Sounds like our house. Candy does make kids crazy. Sugar is certainly addictive. I had mine up high and they STILL figured out how to get to it, practically rigging up a complex system of steps and stools. Hiding it away has worked. They seem to have forgotten about it.
The nutritional habits of youngsters and teens is beyond unhealthy. It is dangerous. Candy and Macfies and greasy, salty fast food dominates.I watched the kids lined up at the corner store each morning spending that lunch money on candy, sweet punch drinks and sugar donuts. More than half my 11th grade girls were in the 250-350 pound range ! Their future health problems are obvious. It is not because they have not been exposed to proper nutrition and health guidelines, either.
That’s so sad. I write a health blog at http://www.healthbentlife.wordpress.com, so healthy living is another passion of mine. I’m always surprised at what people will tell themselves about food – justifying unhealthy choices when they know better. My own children do pretty good but it’s a constant education process. Crappy food seems to have addictive qualities.
Can we have an eye-roll contest? Because my craft is pretty tight, yo.
All that’s left in our Halloween bucket are lemon Starbursts and unidentified pieces of hard candy. Between my 7-year-old, my husband, and me, we clean it OUT.
I’d love to face off in an eye-roll contest. We may have to vlog that.
Good job cleaning out the candy. Going “all in” and getting it gone is probably the best strategy.
Ours is gone.
I have to blog about it.
And how I cracked my front two teeth. Thanks for the reminder.
I remember when Monkey made his Halloween stash last until Valentine’s Day. Now that Tech Support is in the house, that shizz is gone. Even the yucky stuff.
My, how those growing boys can eat! None of mine have hit that phase yet. Princess grows so slow. She seems to never have a massive eating streak. We celebrated the fact that she passed the 5 foot mark recently! She was so excited.
Cracked teeth…yikes. I have to hear how that went down. Ouch.
THANKS so so much for the link love!! You rock.
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Did you know that you can donate your candy to a group called Soldier’s Angels? They use your leftover Halloween candy as packing peanuts to send soldier’s supplies. Here’s a website where you can find out more! http://soldiersangels.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=188&cntnt01returnid=15
That’s awesome! I had no idea. What a wonderful idea.
I know a 64 year old man that would shimmy along a cabinet for candy also!
Funny post….
So funny – I can just picture it!
We live in China so most of the candy the kids get for Halloween is stuff they don’t like. This means we still have pounds of candy left from not only this Halloween but from the previous two Halloweens as well.
I didn’t know the candy in China was so weird.