Anyone else feeling guilty about passing out candy for Halloween?

(Wendy) #1

I bought two large bags. I don’t really know any of the kids that will be coming but I feel a bit guilty to be handing out more garbage. I know my little bit is such a small drop in the bucket and I can’t afford the non-candy options.
I don’t even feel good giving my granddaughter
Apple sauce, or juice anymore. I’m going to be that “boring” grandparent. I do treat her with non food items but I wonder how things will go as she gets older. She’s just 2.

#2

I bought 2 bags. I feel guilty about eating one of them

#3

No I cackle with laughter!

(Wendy) #4

I really wanted one of the Kitcats but ate a small piece of dark chocolate instead. That helps me so much with my chocolate cravings.

(Running from stupidity) #5

:metal::metal::metal::metal::metal:

(Omar) #6

I am not sure I want to allow keto to disengage me from the society.

We do what we can and I will not feel guilty for an event that happens once a year and it introduces happiness to people specially children.

#7

In all honesty I don’t really feel bad about it. It’s Halloween. If parents don’t want their kids to have candy that’s a decision they can make. I always buy chocolate because that is what I liked best as a kid.

#8

I consider it retribution for disturbing my peaceful solitude. :grin:

(Laurie) #9

Halloween is about candy. Participate or don’t participate. I don’t.

Having said that though. . . . Someone was just telling me about a guy in their neighborhood who had a wonderful haunted house every year, but gave out potatoes. If anyone complained, he said he couldn’t afford candy after paying for the haunted house.

Maybe you could give out little bags of almonds? Unfortunately, almonds (and most other ketoish packaged snacks) are expensive. Or maybe not that expensive, depending on where you buy them:

https://www.bjs.com/product/blue-diamond-whole-natural-almond-snack-packs-32-ct/3000000000000160243

(Wendy) #10

Yeah too expensive and an allergy risk, not to mention they would most likely throw them away. Some years I have 200 kids stop by. I don’t mind I just know what a scurge sugar is.

(Bunny) #11

Maybe some-day in the future when the dietary guidelines folks and big food manufacture peeps world-wide get their heads screwed on straight; this will be the standard for candy with very very low low sugar content! Even lower than 5 grams like that in the link below? 2 grams? 1 gram or less? Per serving?

Maybe even natural un-stripped (non-bleached) brown sugar cane? Stripped of around 100 minerals (a contributer of obesity and diabetes)?

(Troy) #12

Potatoes :rofl:
…what the bleep
Just spit out my ACV!
Rofl
Now that’s a TRUE haunted House😀

Go home separate candy?
Remove
Then what w the Idaho potato?
I know, let’s Have a Mr. Potato head carving contest ? :joy:

Oh boy
Back in day as a kid, those trick or treat potatoes
Well, let’s just say they would have been launched at something or some ?..use ur imagination

I’m just saying. Don’t judge
Blame the SUGAR not the sinner

I’m sure theres plenty of mashed potatoes around THAT house or neighborhood or streets
And NO butter :rage:

Sigh
Fun fun

(Laurie) #13

@Tmdlkwd

Ha ha, Troy–that’s the spirit!

Speaking of launching potatoes, if someone doesn’t want to give candy, how about giving water pistols?

Or other non-sugary stuff:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dtoys-and-games-intl-ship&field-keywords=halloween+toys&rh=i%3Atoys-and-games-intl-ship%2Ck%3Ahalloween+toys

(Troy) #14

Great alternatives @islandlight
Thinking outside the candy box
Nice
Hummm…Then again, armed w a water pistol and a potato🤔
Mission accomplished- Game over now😄
Bring it on

(Wendy) #15

Nice ideas. Unfortunately still twice as expensive as candy. If only 50 kids came I’d do it!

(Chris) #16

Hand out bacon instead. I cut the pound in half and throw the whole lot in a big skillet. What comes out is nice bite-sized portions perfect for Halloween activities.

(Wendy) #17

Nobody will take unsealed food around here. And seriously I have 200 kids. :laughing:

(Chris) #18

Business cards with a keto food pyramid on it then?

(how to piss off every kid and parent in the neighborhood)

(Michelle) #19

Our neighborhood consists of 11 homes. My son, 6, is the only kid (everyone else’s children are graduated or nearly graduated). We typically make one round of the neighborhood and his pumpkin is full and we have had at least two offers of bourbon.

#20

I refuse to pass out Halloween poison - I mean candy - to children. Years ago, pre-keto, my young children would hoard their candy. They ended up eating Halloween candy for weeks afterward. I look back in horror at what I allowed in the name of “just” an annual celebration.

Now, on Halloween, I keep the lights off to signal to the children that no one is home. I have a sign on my door saying the same. I don’t want to bring the candy into my house because having it and touching it might trigger me to eat it - which I definitely don’t want to do.