Ideas for Halloween Candy Leftovers
October 17, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Parenting
How many of you tend to snack off of all that Halloween candy? I know many of you probably sneak into your children’s bag of treats and take a few pieces.
Others may actually just take the bag and divide it up for the kids, placing it on the table. Some place it all together and let everyone snack on it. I’ve heard rumors that the candy may be used in recipes, as rewards, to snack on and some use it to get the neighbor kid really hyper right before going home. (hehe)
Here are a few ideas on using those halloween …read more
Grossest Halloween Treats
October 13, 2009 by Jennifer Walker-Journey
Filed under Parenting
So, let’s say you live in one of those keeping-up-with-the-Joneses type of neighborhoods, and you do scarcely more than put out a pumpkin Halloween night and pass out Kit-Kats. Here’s one way to redeem yourself – hand out the coolest Halloween candy on the block. Here are some most creepy suggestions:
Gummy Candy Boogers. Picked out especially for your Trick-or-Treaters. You’ll surely want to test-taste all three of the flavors – Snottermelon, Sour Green Boogy and Lemon Loogy.
Gummy Body Parts. Choose from ear, finger, eyeball and other freaky body part shapes colored red at the sever line for even more effect. Splurge, …read more
Halloween Tips from the Dentist
October 12, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Parenting
With Halloween only a few weeks away, I’m sure many of you are imagining how much candy your little one is about to consume. Children that will go outside and knock on doors wearing ghosts, goblins, little witches, super heroes,etc with their pillow cases in hand until they get too full of candy that they have to run home and deposit their winnings on the living room floor.
Once the bags are empty the children are off and running again in the hopes to score more sugary goodness. Never thinking as they pile one candy bar into their mouth after another. …read more
Got Halloween Candy? Now what?
Did your tweens and teens go trick-or-treating last night? My 16-year-old went to a friend’s house and together they hit the streets in search of a little candy. My 14-year-old chose to stay home, but he did sneak a rather large bag of candy from the stash we were handing out. And I took my two 9-year-olds and my 6-year-old trick-or-treating. So we have an abundance of candy in the house right now.
Candy isn’t something we normally have in the house. We get some candy at Easter. We make some candy (and cookies) at Christmas. And occasionally we have a …read more




