Your Only Child

Hi Gina

I bought some chocolate to hand out in case anyone came to our door - but I ate it all before Hallowe'en!  No-one has come round for the last 2-3 years anyway.

Victoria doesn't go out trick or treating or "guising" as it is traditionally called in Scotland although  everyone just uses the American word now!  She was a bit jealous of 2 of her friends who went out and got candy but don't live very near us.  She would have been too scared to go out anyway! 

    

                

We never buy that much; we know we don't get that many kids.  And M@ hasn't TorT'd for many years, and when he did we had candy for months.  Note I have bowls of candy out all the time - that way none of us have 'cravings' or anything; we eat far less than others - I see kids come over and just take bowls and sit and eat all evening.  For us, a piece on occasion is fine.  I grew up that way, so I continued it - it seems to work...  So it'll just be in the bowl for months.

Sue

I need to go through it and throw out all the stuff I know no one will eat. Then we just eat the rest as we want it. Travis loses interest in it pretty quickly, after eating a LOT the first night. Like you, Sue, we usually have some kind of candy available in the house so it's not like he goes crazy for it.

If we have a lot still sitting around in a few weeks I'll probably take some of it with me to our trivia night.