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  • Question of the Week: How Much Candy Should Your Child Eat?

    Halloween may be over, but that candy is here to stay for at least… a few months…weeks…days? For many parents, Halloween is a double-edged sword – it’s bags of fun, but you’re left with those bags of candy that if you don’t have a plan to manage, can be a real point of contention between you and your child. Some parents take the liberal approach during this time and let their kids enjoy a little more candy than usual, but kids tend to not be so great at self-moderation, so many parents find themselves setting some firm limits – one treat in the lunch bag for example, and one or two treats after dinner. Still, especially if you have multiple children who can plot and scheme to seize the loot from that moderated cupboard, the sugar craze post Halloween can be hard to control. How do you keep your kids from overdosing on sugar? Do you find yourself rationing out Halloween treats at your house, and does it work?

  • Question of the Week: What’s Your Favourite Halloween Candy?

    Photo credit: Oriental Trading Company I don’t know what I remember liking more – getting the candy, or taking inventory of my loot at the end of the night. Dumping the bag out onto the floor I used to sort everything in order of least to most favourite, with mini chocolate bars at the top and those generic Halloween Kisses at the bottom. Now that I can no longer trick or treat unless accompanied by my 18-month-old daughter, I find my old preference for those mini chocolate bars surfaces when I’m buying candy to give out. I just love how they’re all a perfect mini-me of the regular size, and when I eat the whole thing (as I’m wont to do), I’m happy to think that in actuality, I’m only ingesting a third of the normal size. I also have a special place in my heart for those chewy fangs. What has your sweet tooth aching this Halloween? Related: Halloween Tasting Lab: Kiss vs. Kiss

  • Question of the Week: What Do You Give Out To Trick-Or-Treaters?

    Over the years, Halloween treats have definitely changed. My generation will remember a time when naked gumballs, homemade toffee squares and weird unidentifiable sugar blobs lined the bottom of the plastic (possibly from BiWay) trick-or-treat bag, with maybe two, three at the most of those coveted mini chocolate bars. Now, at least in my neighbourhood, people are giving out mini EVERYTHING, from Toblerone to Turtles, to organic gourmet chocolate bars, to every type of brand name junk you can imagine. The kiddies seem perfectly entitled to stuff their designer pumpkin-shaped candy carriers with all that choice booty, but I kind of feel a little bad for them. Although my eyes still light up when I see all those dwarfed treats that got me so excited back in the 80s, there’s something to be said for the element of surprise when you dump the loot out onto the floor for sorting. No, you would probably never touch any of those now deemed lethal homemade treats, but finding and examining them as fun! Wasn’t it? What will you be giving out to trick-or-treaters this Halloween? p.s. Has anyone actually ever gotten or give out toothpaste?

  • Question of the Week: How Much do you Spend on Halloween?

    OK, so I know it’s fun and all to get into the spirit of a holiday with all its accompanying paraphernalia, but Halloween happens to have an excess amount of accoutrements; there’s costumes and candy and decorations – that’s if you’re a stage one Halloweener, but then there’s the stage two folks (and I don’t blame them) who invest in Halloween housewares like spider-web candy bowls, evil goblets, goulish candles and a hardy selection of all things orange. And let’s not forget about grown-up Halloween, the Halloween party, (which if you’re lucky, takes place after the sugared-up kids have crashed), usually involving more costumes and decorations, bring-your-own something, and perhaps even a costly babysitter. All these things add up! And if you think you’re seeing an exponential growth of available Halloween merchandise on retail shelves every year, you’re not crazy. The market has definitely caught on. Having said that, I know not all of it goes to waste, and if you’re careful and organized, many of the decorations and housewares can be saved for next year, but what about the candy? We know that crazed candy bug will bite us every year, so let's talk: How much do you spend on Halloween and how much is too much?