slo’s WEDNESDAY 12/27 poll - Holiday Candy 🍬

[slo]

I think many of us can relate to having to much candy around our home after the holidays. Many of us get it as gifts or buy it to have when guests come over. So I’m wondering today…..

How much holiday candy do you have around your home?
Did you buy it?
Did you get it as gifts?
Do you enjoy having it or want to get rid of it?
(multiple choice)


For Me…..This is the first year that I have no holiday candy here, and I’m so happy about it. Normally I put out Meltaways and a chocolate treat I make on the dining room table on Christmas Day. I decided not to this year and not a single person asked where they were, so that speaks volumes to me - nobody missed it, which is just fine with me. Nobody gave us candy this year, because they know none of us want it. My MIL though has a mountain of it, so anything that’s individually wrapped she is giving to me to take to work - we have a candy bowl for our patients and they take candy like they’ve never seen candy before - LOL!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I still have quite a bit here. I didn't buy any candy, it was all gifts that I accumulated over the course of the season. I am trying to give it to anybody who wants candy because I am trying to behave myself and not get those extra calories.

 

[Meriweather]

I have a lot left. I bought it all. I use it for months to come for decorating baked goods, treats for the kids.
I used it for holiday baking, especially the M&Ms and Kisses.

 

[Disneylover99]

I have an obscene amount of wine gums and chocolates.
Hopefully it will last until Valentine’s day. Lol.
I bought most of it.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I have a lot, and I do give some as gifts, and we received some.

Some will be passed along to others. I do enjoy having something in my purse.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

I already had a lot of chocolate, not as much candy per se. It'll get eaten over the course of the next couple months, here and there type thing. My wife did get me my favourite chocolate marshmallow snowmen so I will be rationing those.

 

[amcnj]

I have some that I received as gifts, so probably have more candy around than is typical. I also gave some as gifts, including peanut brittle that I make. I try and find other homes for some of what I receive, and currently have two items in bags that I hope to convince others to accept when I see them later this week.

 

[Kitty 34]

We have some candy from Krakow, Poland (from our DIL's parents) and a bag of Reese's.

 

[MIGrandma]

We have some. I love the old fashioned hard candy, and cut rock candy. Our dime store (yes, we still have an old fashioned dime store in our town) always has it so I buy some every year. This year I also found some of my favorite at the Dollar Store, $2.50 for an 11-ounce bag so I bought 4. On Amazon the same candy is $9.99!

I also bought some Dove chocolate, and a chocolate orange.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I have way too much, but I am partly to blame.

I bought some to put out when we had company last weekend, but they ended up not being able to come, so most of that is still here. I bought some traditional ones for DS, plus some sugar-free varieties for DH.

Then there's the gifts I'm not responsible for - DS bought me two of my favorite kinds, and DH's aunt gave us some in these really cute jars, and...

I will have plenty of candy to last a while!

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Well.... I started buying it weeks ago. I have 2 homemade ceramic candy dished and it's not right to leave them empty!
It started with mini candy canes. It then went unto Hershey Kisses - Birthday cake and Hot cocoa. I hid those packages and only put out 15 or so pieces at a time. Now my GS received a few gummy bear type packages from his uncle but they aren't individually wrapped so I will wrap the dishes and bring them downstairs.
Cookies are another story- they're in the freezer where they stay!!!!

 

[Dan Murphy]

I don't think we have candy around this year. We do have baked stuff though for the sweet teeth.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

The only candy we had was Ghirardelli chocolate suckers that my 12 year old granddaughter and I made for our family Christmas lunch and they were all eaten.

 

[LoveDaisy]

A few candies in stockings. I did buy Hersey kisses to make peanut butter blossoms, mini peanut butter cups to make peanut butter cup cookies, and candy canes to crush for cookies.

 

[tvguy]

Our house is full of homemade, gifted and purchased candy. The single largest candy item is the 3 pound box of Lindt chocolates our Financial Advisor sent us.

 

[leebee]

Some I purchased, some was given to us. We'd pretty much gotten away from doing stockings but now with a kid in the house, we are back to doing stockings, so back to having candy. Everyone's stocking had a generous number of Lindt balls (I went to the outlet in Exeter, NH. Not sure there were outlet prices, but MAN was there a lot of chocolate). As with Easter, I'd rather give smaller amounts of good chocolate, but I kind-of lost my head at Lindt. DH loves Dots (he and DD got boxes of Holiday Dots) and he also found licorice, Swedish fish, and... something else in his stocking. Somehow I got Sno-Caps in mine (I hate them) so they went to DH also. I bought DH a half-pound of handmade chocolates from a small shop in Massachusetts. I usually give him a pound, so felt I was using restraint, hahaha.

DD's grand-MIL gave them a 3 pound box of not-great chocolates (but it's the thought that counts) so that will go to work with me. There's a box of chocolates that were a "freebie" from Swiss Colony so those will go to my department admin assistant when I see her sometime this week (we didn't cross paths the week before the holiday). We have more cookies than we ever have had before, especially considering that I don't bake holiday cookies, but most of these will go to work. Grad students are on campus over the break and they are usually happy to eat anything!

 

[RedAngie]

I bought about 4 or 5 bags of Christmasy Reese’s trees or bells and holiday M&M’s but somehow they all disappeared before December 25.

 

[loves to dive]

I have 2 large candy canes from stockings in 2022 (I need to throw those away but they don't really go bad)and a small box minus 3 of small candy canes from this year. Hubby got me the small box for driving snacks for my trip at the beginning of Dec. and to give my grand daughter in the parks if she got cranky. I ate 1 each on the drive down and back and one while at the resort.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I received a box of chocolate-covered cherries, and my stocking was full of chocolate as well. The tree is full of peppermint candy canes.

 

[snowwite]

I have an obscene amount of wine gums and chocolates.
Hopefully it will last until Valentine’s day. Lol.
I bought most of it.

Ooh I like wine gums! We only have some old fashioned hard candy and some peppermint bark that I will ration over the year.