Halloween is over and the kids have come home with far too much candy. In an effort to preserve health we limit the candy intake to 1 piece a day. Even then it would take years to eat it all, so what do we do with all that candy?
The morning after Halloween, we collect all of the packages of plain M&M’s and we have M&M pancakes. Tasting more like giant chocolate chip cookies, these beauties can be frozen and used for breakfast for days to come.
Solid candy bars like Snickers and Milky Ways get cut up into pieces and put in the freezer. We then use a handful to throw into the mix when we make brownies.
Peanut butter cups get chopped up into large bits that are then placed on top of sugar cookies – it’s sort of an anti-peanut butter blossom.
All hard candies and lollypops get put into a “sick jar” to be used when the kids are sick and throats are tickly.
And our best trick of all for controlling the amount of candy in the house? We simply throw it out. Gummy candies, sticky, teeth pulling candies and any candy that is blue (seriously? Someone thinks that blue candy is a good idea?) go straight into the trash.
There is not a recipe on earth that can make gummy monster toes taste good.
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November 2, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I think the best idea I’ve seen came from last month’s Family Fun Magazine. It was reader submitted and called Halloween Candy Science. Basically, you take candy and experiment on it, freeze it, microwave it, dunk it in water etc. Not only does it get rid of the candy, but it encourages curiosity. We’re already putting candy aside to experiment on.