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How To Manage Candy Overload On Halloween

Manage Candy Overload: Top tips
Manage Candy Overload with These Great Tips

Halloween is an exciting time for kids. And it might be a bit stressful on parents. After all, now is the time they do things they are constantly taught NOT to do every other part of the year – not to accept candy from strangers.

Basically as a parent you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Serve a festive meal

Feed them a healthy and wholesome meal before they venture out on the big night

Serving up a hearty and healthy meal before going our Trick or Treating is an awesome way to keep their energy up.

Serving good wholesome protein rich meals with all natural meat keeps all of us in top shape. It helps the planet too. Northfork bison and wild game product contain no additives, no antibiotics, no steroids. Good for the environment, good for you!


Older kids will gobble up the The RatLoaf Meatloaf It’s delicious and sure to please older kids. If you can get over the gross factor, it’s delicious! Use ground bison meat or elk meat instead of beef and you have a healthy, wholesome, high protein meal, perfect for trick or treating.

These cute mini pumpkins filled with chilli are a sure hit for your little ones. Not only are they delicious but they’re a great size for little guys.

Serve up a meal in a festive way. Put bison or elk chilli in a scooped out pumpkin. Awesome!

Hearty and Healthy

Serving up a hearty and healthy meal before going our Trick or Treating is an awesome way to keep their energy up.

Serving good wholesome protein rich meals with all natural meat keeps all of us in top shape. It helps the planet too. Sayersbrook meat uses no additives, no antibiotics, no steroids. Our animals are all grass fed. Good for the environment, good for you!

Setting limits

Prevent your kids from eating too much Halloween candy with these helpful tips
  • Try to reduce the halloween stash. A good way is to buy candy back. Pay them for some of their candy. It’s a win –
    win station
  • Let them trade the halloween candy for something they have been wanting – like a book or a toy
  • – Store candy in another part of the house other than your child’s room. Storing candy in their room makes it just too
    irresistible.
  • Set limits as to how much candy to consume per day
  • Remove candies that might be choking hazards (gum, peanuts, hard candy, small toys
  • Encourage your kids to be mindful of the amount of candy eaten and stop when feeling full or sick

Teach them to
not accept candy that is:

  1. not commercially wrapped
  2. discoloured or has an unusual appearance
  3. unwrapped items
  4. homemade or baked goods

As the Saying Goes: When in Doubt – Throw it Out

Great Alternatives

Great Alternative to Candy Treats to Give Out On Halloween

If you know your neighbours perhaps you can devise a plan to distribute treats other than candy to the little trick or treaters on your block.

  • Trading cards
  • party favours (so many to choose from at the dollar store
  • Stickers
  • Pencils
  • Temporary tattoos
  • Raisons
  • Small bags of pretzels, etc..

The calories

The calories in those little boxes of Halloween treats sure add up.

Check for the amounts of calories in your favourite candies

100 calories of Halloween Candy looks like this

  • 1/2 bag of M&Ms
  • 95% of 1 Reeses Peanut Butter Cup
  • 2.2 boxes of Nerd (and these are really small boxes!)
  • 14 pieces of Candy Corn
  • 10.6 pieces of Sour Patch Kids
  • less than 1/2 snickers bar

 

Halloween only comes once a year. It’s an exciting time of year for kids, so let them have a great time and eat the candy when they go to bed…

And feed them healthy protein rich food the whole year round.