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Halloween Candy Dilemma

Posted on October 26, 2012 // 2 Comments
Halloween Candy Dilemma

Hal­loween Candy Dilemma — © Copy­right 2012 by William Beem

Hal­loween Candy Dilemma

This is just a quick post because I’m short on time, but I have a Hal­loween candy dilemma and would like your advice. Here’s the prob­lem. I just real­ized that Hal­loween is less than a week away and I haven’t bought any candy to pass out. Typ­i­cally, I buy what I like and what I like is choco­late. I’ll pass out Snick­ers, Kit Kat, Reese’s Cups, Milky Way, But­terfin­ger — pretty much name brand candy with choco­late wrapped around some kind of filler stuff inside. I mean, what the hell is nougat, anyway? I’ve never known, but I ate it. The rea­son I passed out the stuff I like, besides nib­bling on it, is that I never wanted to be the guy who passes out the cheap candy. No Candy Corn or Sweet Tarts, or that no-​name crap that I threw out when I was a kid. When a kid leaves my house, I want them to think they scored the good stuff (unless they like Sweet Tarts).

The Hal­loween candy dilemma is that I’ve been on a fit­ness kick the last cou­ple of months and I’m mak­ing progress. Load­ing up with a bunch of candy that I like is prob­a­bly not the smartest move right now. Then again, my alter­na­tive is to get stuff that I don’t like and take the risk that the kids will be dis­ap­pointed. Some of them prob­a­bly like Skit­tles, but I still fig­ure most of them want some M&M’s or some­thing with choco­late in it.

So what do you rec­om­mend? Get the stuff I like and try not to eat it, or get stuff and take the chance that the kids will accept it? I sup­pose my other choice is to turn off all the lights and hope the lit­tle bug­gers don’t ring my door­bell, but that seems wrong. I’m one of those houses that folks can trust every year and I have to disappoint.

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Author, Photographer and IT Manager. I have a fondness for chocolate. I also own Suburbia Press and Aperture vs Lightroom.

  • http://twitter.com/mhedstrom Michelle Hed­strom

    Tough call. I’ve found a lot of kids around here like sour candy, like sour gummy worms or pixie sticks (what­ever the sour equiv­a­lent is), so you can always get that if you don’t want to deal with choco­late. We already bought the Costco choco­late candy bags, and yes, we have opened it..

    • http://www.orlandolocal.com William Beem

      I went to Tar­get today and bought about $50 worth of candy — all with some kind of choco­late. The cashier asked where I live so she could bring her kids by on Halloween.

      For­tu­nately, one of the folks on my Face­book page told me that you can donate extra candy (if there is such a thing) to groups that will ship them to troops over­seas. My mother does send things with her church, so per­haps she can send along the addi­tional Snick­ers bars so I won’t eat them.