Comments on: Thursday Thirteen: Candy Loot!

By: aliceaudrey

aliceaudrey — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:27:35 +0000

I don’t think I want to know this much about what my kids are eating, but maybe I should send my dh here. He thinks candy is a food group.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:52:32 +0000

I bet there are a lot of parents who would thank you for this kind of cheat sheet. You could always use some of those leftover candy bars in baked goods. Our local paper printed a bunch of recipes and ideas yesterday, including recipes for “candy bar cookies” and “peppermint patty brownies.”

By: Kaige

Kaige — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:59:59 +0000

Kelly, I’m glad your dog’s ok! My mom used to make chocolate candies in those little plastic depression molds. This meant she kept a supply of 2-5 bricks of chocolate around: milk, dark, white, various colors.

There’s nothing to compare to cleaning up after two large dogs who probably ate a couple pounds each. *shudder* Luckily, they liked the colored white chocolate better than the milk or dark. That would have been really bad.

By: Kelly McCrady

Kelly McCrady — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:59:21 +0000

Diabetics aren’t the only ones who need to watch the candy–our dog decided he couldn’t resist the bowl of give-aways last night when Dh wasn’t looking and Kidlet and I were out “begging for sugar” elsewhere (great term). Dh panicked and called us home. Turns out the dumb dog ate maybe 3 or 4 peanut butter cups. I researched on the net (love the avalability of info) and found he’d have to eat 3 pounds of milk chocolate to damage himself–think one baggie of Hershey’s miniatures. He’s a big dog. I’ll be a tad nervous until all the wrappers he ate work their way through, but the chocolate didn’t hurt him, thank goodness!

Any candy that survives here beyond November gets used as decoration for our Christmas gingerbread house.

By: vixensden

vixensden — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:49:50 +0000

That should say “us diabetics”. I must have snuck a candy bar and it affected my typing skills.

By: vixensden

vixensden — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:45:25 +0000

Us diabetes should form some kind of Halloween Candy Support group.

By: Robin L. Rotham

Robin L. Rotham — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:34:20 +0000

Way to suck all the fun out of Halloween!

By: Shelley Munro

Shelley Munro — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:16:45 +0000

Ooh, M & Ms – my favorite. I like to feed my muse

By: Gina Ardito

Gina Ardito — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:07:36 +0000

Oh, how cruel to post those numbers! Now I can’t feign ignorance when I reach for a bag of M & Ms.

By: Tempest Knight

Tempest Knight — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:16:39 +0000

Oh yeah… M&M, Hershey, and Milky Way… My muses feed on those all the time. hehehe!