What Kind of Candy Do Kids Want For Trick or Treat?

[whogirl'smom]

Chocolate!! The Laffy Taffy and Jolly Ranchers and Now& Later's are just gross.

Add to that the Good-n-Plentys! Chocolate is the hands down winner, IMO, along with Skittles and Smarties!! Last year we gave out bags of potato chips (we have a vending business) and they were a big hit. Well, we assume they were a big hit--we left a big box next to the sidewalk while we trick or treated and when we came home, box and all were gone!

 

[tmarquez]

At our house plain Hershey's chocolate is a hit as well as some gummy body parts I found.

When I was a kid there was 1 house that always gave out raisins, and another house that gave religious pamphlets...they both got egged or tp'd each year...never learned.

 

[mickeyfan2]

The candy that we give out is Reese's peanut butter cups, snickers, hershey bars, kit kats and nestle crunch bars. Each kid gets one of each plus - gummy fleshy fries, chocolate wrapped body part, eyeball superball, skull stickers, trick candy and another thing that I can't remember.

 

[NotUrsula]

The good stuff; chocolate of course. I've been avoiding buying candy with peanuts or peanut butter in recent years -- too many kids are afraid of peanut stuff and won't take it. Plain M&M's are always a hit. DS loves dark chocolate, but most kids of t-or-t age don't, so I buy the milk.

A dietician on the Today show the other day mentioned that lollipops are considered a "good" candy to give because they take a long time to eat. She was also pushing the idea of giving glow necklaces, bracelets, etc. -- I have to say that is the only non-candy idea I've heard that sounds like something kids might actually enjoy.

 

[stczt]

We give the good stuff Reese's, snickers, milkyway m&m, skittles laffy taffy etc. I always have a basket of toddler candy safety-pops, gummies, etc. The one year my son went trick or treating ds was almost 2. Someone gave him "toddler" candy and I really appreciated it so every year dh buys for the big kids and I buy for the little kids.

 

[murcor]

We are giving out halloween bags of Teddy Grahams - my kids love them and the Goldfish

Same Here

We are also giving out juice packs.....something that the kids can always take in their lunch to school as the schools policy is no junk food.

 

[LISAVWL]

Well, I'm looking forward to Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and DH can't wait for the Snickers!

same here!
we're giving out M&Ms and mini Crunch bars this year. The kids are looking for CHOCOLATE! It's unanimous!

 

[scouthawkk]

We're going with Nerds ropes, sour patch kids and a mix of chocolate minis (kit kat, almond joy, reeses cups and 5 grand).

One year we gave out pez dispensers shaped like whistles, and whistled like them, too...the neighbors hated us! Another year we gave out ring pops...we were the hit with all the kids that year. By the end of the night we had kids asking us if we were the house with the ring pops. They were excited for something new and different.

 

[MSSANDRA]

Who care what the kids want!!! Give us moms chocolate!!!!!

We are giving out the mini popcorn bags, teddy grahams, stickers and pencils. I had a huge bag of hershey minitures till DH remembered last night at 7:00 he planned to take his workers treat bags! there went the chocolate. I did DS who has outgrown T or T a huge bag of chocolate.

 

[eyeheartgoofy]

My kids love candy - they even ooh and ahh over that gross cheap, waxy chocolate. My kids also love suckers - sounds like they are the odd ones out, but they really like 'em - a Tootsie Pop is a huge score to them!

 

[lucky1]

No, you'd be the coolest house if you gave out whole candy bars.

that is what we are doing this year. Costco had a special about a month ago and we are giving out full size candy bars. For the past few years we have only been getting about 5 kids. Lets see if the word gets out and we have more kids this year.

Crunch bars and baby ruths

 

[java]

We do the full size Hershey bars from Costco- and we get the return kids every year so I feel like I HAVE to do it. My kids love to get anything honestly- but the first thing they eat are
dd- chocolate and tootsie rolls
ds(3) straight chocolate
ds(1) lollipops
ds(12) anything sour
Our candy is gone.... went through the full size bars, a big bag of milky ways a box of ring pops and a box of the mini m&m tubes. Actually I should say all but one is gone(I saved one for our football playing friend that had practice and said "please save me the full size..." so I did

 

[SeeDisney]

Anything else but candy --- kids get too too much of it already. Loved the playdough idea!!!!!!

How about money like dimes??? When I was a kid that was VERY common to receive pennies, nickels and dimes and once a quarter!!! Money isn't handed out anymore.


By the way, my kids hate the tootsies rolls.