You know what’s creepy, scary, and frightening about Halloween? Of course you do, it’s all that bite-size candy.
Here’s my issue with the bite size stuff – I can easily make a good decision about ripping open a Big Block: Nope, that’s just too much chocolate for me; I’ll wolf down the whole thing and then feel like crap. It will give me gas pains, make me feel nauseous and guilty.
But an itty-bitty little bite size? Come on, what’s just one little old teeny weeny bite size piece of candy, right? Nothing unless it’s one an hour until the entire plastic pumpkin is empty.
I think it’s a conspiracy, to be honest – an evil plot schemed up by candy makers to put more of the stuff down the gullet. It’s like bar nuts all that salt so you get thirsty and order more drinks.
But I’m not fooled by this marketing mayhem, no; I’ve got a plan!
Stealing Candy From A Baby (Kind of)
When my daughter was little I used to actually gaslight my own kid (If you’re too young to know what gaslight means, go ask an old person). I’d eat all the leftover candy that we had for handing out (and who bought enough candy to have leftovers? Exactly).
After I’d eaten all of “my” candy, I’d start on my daughter’s. I’d sneak a couple of those babies out of her sack when she wasn’t looking in hopes that she’d think she ate it all herself. When she got a little older, she started hiding the sack, so I guess I didn’t fool her after all.
How crazy is that to steal your own kid’s candy? It was just so tempting. I never took a big bar, one she might be sand-bagging which she did often; a tiny expert at delayed gratification. No, I’d swipe the bite-size candy, ever so stealthily until there were just a few left.
Then I’d leave the sack alone, I mean, she was old enough to count and would certainly miss one of the four remaining pieces.
My New Halloween Mindful Eating Strategy
Now my daughter is off on her own leaving me no sack to pilfer. I still have to buy my own stash, however, for the trick-or-treaters that knock on my door so I’ve decided to alter my Halloween Candy environment.
As I mentioned earlier, I seem to have no problem turning away from the giant bars, the colossal behemoths that will give you diarrhea and a headache, so that’s what I buy for the kiddies!
Not only are they easy to get out of the house at the end of the evening, it’s worth the extra expense to see the look on the kids’ faces when I hand them ten dollars’ worth of chocolate at a pop!
I think of it as a joy-filled evening for everyone.
Problem solved!
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