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Deep in everyone’s heart is the desire to dress up and have fun. We like to decorate ourselves and our houses. At Halloween, treats are a part of that. The best thing to do is have a strategy for your kids and yourself to deal with tons of candy.
It should not be an excuse to eat candy corn. Rethink your approach to Halloween so over indulgence in not a part of the plan. Stuffing yourself full of left over trick or treat candy should not be an option.
From Parenthood.com great strategies for dealing with an over abundance of candy.
The best thing about Halloween for most kids can be summed up in one word: candy.
Every family has its own methods of getting through the post-Halloween mounds of joy. Some let their kids gorge themselves for a day or two. Others dole it out a little at a time. Some parents even ban the candy bars altogether. For some nutritionists (and dentists!), Halloween candy is downright scary.
Whatever candy camp your family falls in –– there’s more to do with candy than eat it. Check out these ideas of what to do with leftovers:
1. Recycle it. Practice instant recycling. Screen the candy your kids bring home. After throwing away any unwrapped goodies, take out any candy your children don’t like or you don’t want them to have and then send that candy back out the door with other trick-or-treaters.
2. Freeze it. Put the chocolate bars right in the freezer to save them for later. Frozen chocolate takes longer to eat, so children can’t wolf it down so quickly. (read more)
It's not hard to rethink Halloween and a lot of people are doing it.
Web MD had great ghoulish treats including a trick or treat trail mix. The SF Farmers Market Examiner has an array of healthy,seasonal and local snack ideas
Family Fun has a run down of creepy cuisine. Fun to make and eat and healthy too.
This is the funniest take on Healthy Halloween from Food Media at Chow
"Healthy Halloween Treats Are Tricky
The RiffTrax blog is frightened by creepy candy alternatives.
Pity the poor new-millennium mom. She’s caught between wanting to make mealtime fun and trying to feed her kids a healthy diet to avoid childhood obesity.
Maybe that’s what drives people to try and healthify junk food. Or worse.
At the RiffTrax blog, they’ve created a roundup of disgusting looking—but healthy!—Halloween treats. While RiffTrax sees only pathos in a cookie sheet of cut-up veggies arranged to look like a skeleton, the up-to-date mom sees a clever toddler party snack that won’t have the other moms hag-riding her for feeding their kids sugar. And a sandwich made with crispy-fried yams cut up to look like bats? That’s the perfect Halloween lunch if I’ve ever seen one. Still, I have to draw the line at the vegan mummy dogs. That s--- is just weird."
According to Greentopia, Best Healthy Halloween Candy EVER! is politically correct fair trade chocolate.
"The season of sweets is right around the corner! While you may have to adjust your diet to allow for a few extra treats, you need not give up on your eco-morals. Fair-trade chocolates and organic, individually wrapped fruit treats are widely available."
Halloween starts the winter season of parties. It's a good time to think about having celebrations that do not revolve around food. For Halloween, why not learn more about Day of the Dead Celebrations. The picture shows the celebration of a breast cancer survivor.
When you are celebrating, eat and drink only the best.
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