How do you "dole out" the candy to your kids once they have finished with TOT?

[C.Ann]

Do you allow them so much each day?

Allow them to take any to school for snack?

Give them pieces for dessert?

OR

A free-for-all and they can eat it whenever they want - as much as they want?

AND - how long do you keep all this candy around before you pitch it?

 

[Angelhalo]

I don't have kids but when I was little it was a free for all and there was never any candy left over to pitch! LOL!

 

[SaraJayne]

They usually are allowed 2 or 3 pieces a day.

It typically lasts for a few weeks and then is gone ~ 'cause DH eats it. I'm not much of a sweets eater.

 

[AKL_Megs]

No kiddos here, but when I was a kid, it was a free-for-all... plus my mom would put 3-4 pieces in my lunch. The funny thing was, even though I could have all I wanted, I usually didn't eat much. My mom usually threw some away by Thanksgiving!

 

[Mrs.Toad]

My kids have a free-for-all Halloween night and the next day. Then it goes in the cupboard and they are allowed a few pieces a day, but by then they kind of forget about it and only have some every few days or so. I sneak in and eat the "good stuff" when they're not around, then after a couple of weeks, all the leftover tootsie rolls and dum dums get tossed in the trash.

 

[mefordis]

Two pieces a day even on Halloween. And I try to stay out of it.

 

[clutter]

Sadly, I don't have to keep my dd12 from it. She'll eat a piece or two that night and not touch it again.

Me, that's a whole other story.

eta: That's probably how I got restriced to 1 hour of tv a week. worth it. Totally worth it.

 

[pennymom]

My kids have a free-for-all Halloween night and the next day. Then it goes in the cupboard and they are allowed a few pieces a day, but by then they kind of forget about it and only have some every few days or so. I sneak in and eat the "good stuff" when they're not around, then after a couple of weeks, all the leftover tootsie rolls and dum dums get tossed in the trash.

Us, too, to some extent. Since they tend to forget about the candy, around Dec. 1st I use a very long sheet of wax paper to make a candy countdown to Christmas. They pick one piece at a time and I twist the paper in between each piece and tie with yarn/ribbon. The whole thing looks like a chain of sausages tied in between with red ribbon. Any candy not in the countdown gets tossed. We number the sections in reverse order, then every night we cut the next piece off for them and they always know how many days until Christmas.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I used to know a woman who had a routine in place: Her kids were given 3 days to eat candy until they were sick. After that she made them an offer of cash in exchange for their hard earned candy. It was a one time offer, take it or leave it. At that point, green from having stuffed themselves with candy, the kids would take the money.

She would root through the candy and throw out anything cheap or nasty, then put the rest in quart sized bags and drop it all in the freezer. Then during the year when anyone went on a sleepover or a bus trip or something along those lines, a quart bag of candy would be retrieved from Mom's stash (and she controlled it - after all, she'd paid for it!) and handed off. At some point near the end of the school year, she'd haul out any that was left and send it off to school with her kids to give to their teachers as an impromptu teacher appreciation fest. (She never left it in the freezer during Summer vacation.)

In this manner the mom did not eat ANY of the candy, which was, after all, the whole point of the exercise. . .

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

Im still eating halloween candy from last year (or the year before....). I dont trick or treat but I do take my aunts kids out so they MUST share with me (and usally mom). No wonder I gain 5 pounds every halloween.

 

[NHdisneylover]

In the past my kids have always sorted out anything they think will look good in gingerbread houses first (while munching away on the rest--they are not the types to make themselves sick eating it). After they put the "decorating" candy safely away the rest gests dumped in a bowl and left on the counter. They'll grab a piece or two after school or dinner (so will DH and I) and I will usually stick one or two in their lunchbox. By Thanksgiving we are sick of it and will bag up the rest to go in a pinata at one of their birthday parties in December.

 

[alexandria674]

Actually, I remember my brothers and I sorting out our candies into different piles and categories, like for instance Reese (my favorite) were in the "Do not trade pile" whereas Dum Dums were in the "trade and get rid of pile" It would be an hour of high stake trading between us, we bartered everything in our bags as we could and we were very cutthroat about it. Then, it was days of eating our treats We always gave some to our mom. I thought that it was just us who did it until I saw my nephews doing it last year, difference is their candy was put in a bowl and put away. Poor things. lol

 

[golfgal]

We let our kids eat however much they want, when they want. For the first day or two they eat a lot, then the novelty wears off and they eat a piece here or there. I think when you make a huge issue out of how much they can eat it becomes more tempting and that is where you end up with the struggles. We usually end up tossing some around Christmas time.

 

[KirstenB]

Our kids aren't big on candy, so they get what they want, no rules. However, I have a neighbor whose kids will just inhale candy, so she limits it. Makes sense to me.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I don't dole out candy ever. We eat it year round. We are chocoholics.

 

[disneygals]

Us, too, to some extent. Since they tend to forget about the candy, around Dec. 1st I use a very long sheet of wax paper to make a candy countdown to Christmas. They pick one piece at a time and I twist the paper in between each piece and tie with yarn/ribbon. The whole thing looks like a chain of sausages tied in between with red ribbon. Any candy not in the countdown gets tossed. We number the sections in reverse order, then every night we cut the next piece off for them and they always know how many days until Christmas.

What a great idea!

 

[pyrxtc]

My kids get to pick about 15 pieces and then they trade the rest away for something fun in the less than $10 range.

 

[Darsa]

I don't know how I managed it, since DH and I were always candy-hogs as kids, but our DD has never once finished all of the candy in her bag any year. Not even close; she will have a few once in a while up to a couple of weeks after, then completely forget about it. Same thing with the candy she gets in her Christmas stocking.

And no, DH and I don't eat it

 

[Sleepy]

Our neighborhood was like a treasure find at halloween. We would get more than a pillowcase full of candy. Mom let us take it in our room, where we put the sac in our closet. We ate what we wanted when we wanted. We picked out the gum and the rest was thrown out in December.

My son was the same way. Bag o' goodies in the closet and by December it was ready for the garbage. Nobody in my house ever wanted it.

 

[ilovejack02]

Eat what you want for a cpl of days then it goes in cabinet. I usually end up sending it to hubby's work within a cpl of weeks because he loses interest after a little while. I am not even giving candy out this year, it is mini bags of popcorn and pretzels.. I had to hide that from him LOL!!! He would eat it all!!

He never finishes his stocking candy or Easter Candy. I have really been cutting down and there will prob only be a cpl of things of candy in his stocking this year. For some reason I just can't totally give it up LOL.