[GT] Trick or Treat 2013

[GirlySports]

You know how it goes.

How many kids come to your house? and in which area of the city?

What candies are you handing out?

What hot/cute costumes have you seen?

Who is the oldest kid you refused candy to?

etc....

[Wastedyouth]

I'm watching scary videos on the Internet and making sure I won't sleep tonight.

[Hack&Lube]

No kids can make it past the two glass main building doors, the glass inner door, the RFID floor coded elevator, and my deadbolt.

[GirlySports]

first kids 6:20

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Sydney River, Nova Scotia

Grand total = 1

[CMPunk]

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/3193874688/h46E8FE53/

[T@T]

Harvest hills, 2 kids on one doorbell.

So happy I spent $85.00 on new props and an hour to put them up :mad:

[dissentowner]

First kids 5:30pm
Last kids 8pm

Amount of total kids in my stew, 23.

[Maccalus]

So Far 15 kids in Auburn Bay. First ones at about 5:30

[WilsonFourTwo]

6:37 and no kids in Crescent Heights.

If its still this quiet at 700pm the lights are going out and I'm playing Battlefield 4.

[photon]

Just got home and have had 15 kids already.

Giving out small chocolate bars, licorice, and mini chewy granola bars. Have a few premium halloween candy packs for the neighbour kids.

Lots of cute costumes, but nothing stands out yet, no parents dressed up either (boo!).

If I wouldn't have been away the few weeks before, I was going to buy this (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f22f/) to carry around while escorting my kid.

http://i.imgur.com/hQ5K9mD.jpg

[Bean]

First round of kids at 5:45 in Panorama.

WRGMG is kids that don't say thank you for getting candy.

[WilsonFourTwo]

655pm and ZERO kids in Crescent Heights (which amazes me, I see kids in the neighborhood all the time).

Lights are going out. If anyone knocks on my door now, they meet 'Trevor the Twelve Gauge'.

[dsavillian]

We've had more kids in 10 minutes than we did in 5 years TOTAL at the old house.

I may not have enough candy.


I'm handing out the Darwin chocolates.... aka everything with peanuts.

[DeanOMac]

7 in Renfrew so far. Started around 6:55.

[dsavillian]

Best costume of the night:

Ninja that rang the bell and hid around the corner. Popped out as I was closing the door. He had the full costume too - no jacket!

[photon]

Glad it ended up so nice out.

[TurnedTheCorner]

NW, live in a condo that does not allow trick or treating. 0 kids, quite pleased.

#### Halloween.

[photon]

Dads: You might want to double check what your teenage daughter is wearing as a costume.

Teen Boys: You might want to stay home and give out candy to teenage girls rather than going out trick or treating. Unless you are escorting said girls.

[dissentowner]

Glad it ended up so nice out.
Not here, pouring rain.

[Bean]

Cutest costumes so far was two little girls in Mario and Luigi costumes.

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Little 3 year old "what are you dressed as?"

Mom tells her: "He's dressed as a goalie, baby...."

Girl says to me: "You're a goalie baby!"

[pgsieve]

Lots of cute girls dressed up as cowgirls where I am! Dixie Chicks!

[GirlySports]

busy busy, almost 100 kids! (in Strathcona/Aspen)

[Frank MetaMusil]

NW, live in a condo that does not allow trick or treating. 0 kids, quite pleased.

#### Halloween.

Are you a jehovas witness?

Up to about 80 kids in Silverado.

[Rhettzky]

37 in Sundance so far. Giving out mini-chocolate bars and rockets. Cutest costume was a little kid fully decked out in a Ninja Turtle costume. Hard shell, sai's, elbow pads, belt and mask. But besides him, there are some pretty weak costumes out there.

[Frank MetaMusil]

37 in Sundance so far. Giving out mini-chocolate bars and rockets. Cutest costume was a little kid fully decked out in a Ninja Turtle costume. Hard shell, sai's, elbow pads, belt and mask. But besides him, there are some pretty weak costumes out there.

One kid was decked out as Maverick, helmet and all. Best costume i've seen tonight by far.

[dsavillian]

35 kids so far in New Brighton. I've made a few rookie mistakes when it comes to handing out candy. I've reached code red, I think I will run out shortly.

Next year, two boxes.

[Daradon]

Helping out my mom in Millrise, probably about 30 kids so far, which is up from recent years.

I live in a building in Chap, so I never get kids, so can't tell you bout that.

Got two boys in their teens, nearly as tall as I, who just stood at the door mute. I made them give me a hearty 'Trick or Treat' before I gave em candy.

[photon]

Man, it's dried up totally, usually have way more kids, maybe the snow spooked people to plan to go to the mall. Gonna end up with 1.5 boxes left over!

[rohara66]

Cranston. Only 20 kids so far but wasn't home till 6:15 so might have missed some.

Couple lame costumes, kid wearing a Crosby jersey and another kid in a snowsuit with his dad holding his transformer mask, lame. One kid was dressed as Napoleon Dynamite and even had the speaking pattern down haahaha awesome, gave him a handful of chocolate bars.

[3thirty]

Cranston, 52 so far,

[Cuz]

I'm in a condo in the NW and it's our second year here and so far no knocks at the door. I don't believe there is officially a policy for no trick or treating, guess there's no kids in the building. The candy I picked up just in case will have to be consumed by the wife and I now. Oh well. :hehehe:

[I-Hate-Hulse]

45 customers here in Hillhurst as of 7:53. Full size candybars.

Not sure if I want to go into the 3rd box of 24's... doubt we'll get that many more. It'll be treat size bars that I don't like after that if it doesn't pick up.... (crispy crunch i'm looking at you)

[Hockey_Ninja]

0 kids due to living in condo.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Are you a jehovas witness?
No.

[Nehkara]

We live in Huntington Hills in a fairly "mature" area. We had 0 kids last year. There were none.

I was so psyched that we got 7 this year.

[MyFlamesFirst]

We have had an even 40 kids so far. West side Lethbridge. Best part is that my roommate is dressed up as Maverick and every time someone rings the door I make sure to blast danger zone. Parents laugh, kids leave confused.

[Deegee]

30 kids so far...

[Bigtime]

Up to 53 now here in Sunnyside. Best costume was a kid as Car2Go.

[Papa Gino]

8 here in Lake Bonavista. 8! And I'm in the best community of all time, we even have a lake!:D

[Ashartus]

Probably close to 80 in Springbank Hill but that's way below normal - perhaps partly because there were a lot of spoilsports on my cul-de-sac not giving out candy.

[ah123]

We just had 4 kids in our cul-de-sac (Royal Oak). Probably because we were out trick or treating with my daughter. There were a ton of kids out at that time

[KelVarnsen]

0, just the way I like it.

[edn88]

Pretty busy here in West Springs... almost out of Candy - our 2 year old was pretty generous with giving out candy - think we have had at least 100 kids

[Nufy]

About 40 here in Deer Ridge

[Francis's Hairpiece]

77 kids tonight, in Country Hills. Just shut it down.

[Regular_John]

7 tonight in our complex in Canyon Meadows, up by 1 from last year's total of 6. Probably doesn't help that 2-3 doors on either side of us are lights out.

Anyways I bought 8 full sized Kit Kats this year, so assuming no one else shows up, there's one left for me.

[chalms04]

144 in Erin Woods.

Record was 218 in 2010.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Dads I can confirm your daughters look sexy tonight.

[DeanOMac]

Final tally of 51. More than double the previous 9 years combined (albeit I split time between a condo and a house by the university in those 9 years).

[Bigtime]

I thought the Car2Go kid would be the best costume tonight, but I just got a kid as the dog from the "Da Funk" video. Awesome.

[The Goon]

We had about 11. Signature Parke.

I took my three-year-old son out and we got this at one house - a Focus on the Family anti-bullying CD.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BX8xBw6CAAAtrrP.jpg:large

[Aeneas]

90 in Discovery. Many parents dressed too. I dressed as an ugly old fat dude...took no time at all, some people just dont put in the effort.

Spent hours with my son making a sword, a shield and other "knight" stuff. Painted it all. Last minute he decided to be Captain America again. Oh well.

[Redliner]

59 kids in Sundance - not bad but down a little from last year. I just shut it down for the night. We were handing out tootsie pops, rockets, mini chocoloate bars, and bagged candy. (swedish berries, sour peaches, etc) Got about half a bag left for the Flames game tomorrow night. :)

No real standout costumes this year, although one kid dressed as a Knight Templar actually had real chain mail - that was pretty impressive. No teenagers at all this year either; I think the oldest kids we got were probably 11 or 12.

[KelVarnsen]

We had about 11. Signature Parke.

I took my three-year-old son out and we got this at one house - a Focus on the Family anti-bullying CD.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BX8xBw6CAAAtrrP.jpg:large

Better then a letter like this lady (http://globalnews.ca/news/934710/u-s-woman-to-give-obese-children-letter-over-candy-this-halloween/) is handing out.

[Maccalus]

Our Final is 42 in Auburn Bay. 75% of them were really young 3-6 yrs old. I think our count will increase yearly for the next while.

[T@T]

144 in Erin Woods.

Record was 218 in 2010.
That's like the good ol days.

Ended up with 11 in Harvest hills...booo

[bc-chris]

we had just over 30 kids come by - the oldest was maybe grade 5

i don't 'get' my wife. earlier this week she was complaining that she thinks she's putting on a little weight and we need to eat healthier. ok - i'm fine with that. 2 days later she goes and buys 2 boxes of mini chocolate bars (so 300 total!). i asked her what planet she's on since we only ever get 30-40 kids. she then went a took out all the ones that she likes the best and left the rest for us to give out. when i reminded her about eating healthier she just sorta got quiet and didn't want to talk about it - ha!

all i know is the last pack of kids just loved me. i told them to hold up becuz we were shutting down for the night... i loaded them up with a crap load of candy! yee ha!

[Yasa]

I'm at work. No kids, no calls. Perfect.

[Minnie]

We didn't hand out this year but in years past, we've only had below 200 kids once, because of crappy weather. The house on the corner does this kick ass haunted house that the kids have to navigate to get up to their front door for candy and it's very popular. Because of that, we end up with tons and tons of kids on our street. I think our highest count in the last 7 years has been almost 300. It was packed out there tonight so I would imagine we'd have been looking at over 250 kids this year.

Both my 'kids' went to friends' places to help hand out candy, so it is very quiet here right now, which works out fine, since I have a stress induced headache, LOL.

[MRCboicgy]

Only had 5 groups of kids in Bowness, less than last year, which is surprising given the weather. Totaled 20.

[GP_Matt]

Around 100 kids tonight in Grande Prairie.
Three high school kids showed up without costumes collecting food for the food bank as well which was pretty sweet. I gave them some food and they were happy to take some candy as well.

[Kerplunk]

Final total of 32 at my place in Temple.

[cavalera403]

94 in Cranston ended about 8:10. Best was a homemade dragon and worst was a microwave box on a "kid" that was pressing 17

[GP_Matt]

One kid had a pretty solid Wreck It Ralph costume tonight.

[Dion]

None zero nada! Not sure why but we don't get kids trick or treating anymore. Sadly I have bowl of Mars bars that hasn't been touched :(

[agulati]

I was heading out this evening, so had no decorations up and no lights on. Still had 20-25 kids from 5.45-6.15pm at Lake Chaparral. Handed out Rockets and suckers

[RyZ]

0 in Sundance here. We had 0 last year too. My street sucks.

[rohara66]

I thought the Car2Go kid would be the best costume tonight, but I just got a kid as the dog from the "Da Funk" video. Awesome.

Genius! Haha. That will be my costume next year. Did he have a boom box with him?

[Ironhorse]

52 kids tonight. We were handing out full size bars, looks like a few left overs!

[AMG_G]

25 in west springs we handed out full size bars.

[killer_carlson]

Last trick or treater was around 9:00. I think the kid had capacity issues. Older, kind of sad to see.

Otherwise a great night.

[M*A*S*H 4077]

I believe we only had 6 over in Varsity Estates. :(

Since there were no kids coming around I went to my neighbors' houses yelling trick or treat. Their kids who opened the door for me had no idea what to think :D

[Kjesse]

16 in Signal Hill.

One kid showed up at 9:15..... I'd guess he was 14. Kind of unusual.

[Vox]

73 in Douglasdale, which is a 10 year low for us. Took my daughter trick or treating with her friend in Auburn Bay, and was impressed by the number of kids and the great decorations on the houses. Some of the houses were running out after 250 kids. That community gets into the spirit. Also very impressed by the haunted house the RA put on in the community center.

[JonDuke]

Rocky Ridge - 50ish

[RedMileDJ]

- Martindale.
- 56 in total.
- Oldest was about 14.
- Didn't refuse any candy.
- Approximately 89% said "trick or treat." The other 11% just held a bag open and didn't say a thing. Those kids are little #######s and I surmise they have bad parents. ;)
- We handed out wagon wheels, baby ruths, kit kats, twixx, crunch bars and coffee crisp bars.
- FYI: We hand out the full size chocolate bars. Not the thumb sized BS.
- All kids were in really great costumes.

[Caged Great]

A grand total of 8 in Patterson. Lowest it's been since I've been here.

[Sylvanfan]

Around 100 kids tonight in Grande Prairie.
Three high school kids showed up without costumes collecting food for the food bank as well which was pretty sweet. I gave them some food and they were happy to take some candy as well.

I had that too, got a leaflet in the mail box about it that I noticed on Monday. They were pretty excited when I handed over a few cans of beans and soup.

25 kids this year. I love to judge the people accross the street who have like 6 vehicles, run their deisel trucks for hours, keep all kinds of crap out on their front yard, also have a Porsche Cayenne and pretend to not be home for Halloween. I won't be scolding my kid for chucking eggs at their house 10 years from now, I'll be making sure we have at least 3 dozen past due ones in the fridge, and remind him that we really should be throwing those out tonight.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

I had almost 50 at my house. I think that's a bit more than last year. But this year it was mostly older kids. Actually I had two full Filipino families come by, where the parents were also dressed up and asked for candy. I found that kinda odd... But then again what do I know? My gf is Filipino, and she didn't even flinch lol.

[pylon]

We had about 11. Signature Parke.

I took my three-year-old son out and we got this at one house - a Focus on the Family anti-bullying CD.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BX8xBw6CAAAtrrP.jpg:large

Did you tape the person that handed it out to a tree, pants them, then point and laugh at their groin?

Because you should have.

[Knut]

About 80 kids in Garrison Green. Just down to the scraps now. Which is good.

Everyone got a small bag of chips, a small chocolate bar, Maynard's gummies, rockets and a small tin of playdoH. Did up loot bags beforehand to make it easier.


Best part was taking my 2.5yr old out for his first time trick or treating. He had a blast all night and confirmed my awesome parenting by saying thank you to everyone without me asking.

[Ahuch]

I had that too, got a leaflet in the mail box about it that I noticed on Monday. They were pretty excited when I handed over a few cans of beans and soup.

25 kids this year. I love to judge the people accross the street who have like 6 vehicles, run their deisel trucks for hours, keep all kinds of crap out on their front yard, also have a Porsche Cayenne and pretend to not be home for Halloween. I won't be scolding my kid for chucking eggs at their house 10 years from now, I'll be making sure we have at least 3 dozen past due ones in the fridge, and remind him that we really should be throwing those out tonight.

We just give extra candy to our neighbors to hand out on our behalf because our dog goes nuts from the doorbell otherwise. Not everyone who doesn't give out candy is horrible!

[MyFlamesFirst]

16 in Signal Hill.

One kid showed up at 9:15..... I'd guess he was 14. Kind of unusual.

I had people show up at 9:20ish. It was the hero dad driving the neighborhood in his Subaru looking for houses with their lights still on. I guess I was one of the suckers. But seriously....

[The Goon]

16 in Signal Hill.

One kid showed up at 9:15..... I'd guess he was 14. Kind of unusual.

You should have given that kid a beer.

[WhiteTiger]

I was at my buddies place in Woodbine. We ended up having around 40 kids there. My fave was the young Harry Potter with two older brothers dressed as knights. As an avid RPG player, I like seeing a wizard remembering his meat shields. ;)

[Bigtime]

Genius! Haha. That will be my costume next year. Did he have a boom box with him?

He had a smaller version of it, and yes it was playing Da Funk. :D

Final count was 60 for us, had a few early teens come through around 8:45 or so.

[MRCboicgy]

Did you tape the person that handed it out to a tree, pants them, then point and laugh at their groin?

Because you should have.

A DVD from Focus on the Family? The Goon should have called up a friend, and taken his kid back to that house later in the night as having two daddies. :w00t:

[Rubicant]

We had probably 150 or so I stopped counting. It was very windy and wet out there last night so a bit surprised it was so many.

[Raekwon]

4 kids in Airdrie, I didn't expect many but that was lower than expected. I heard other areas in Airdrie were really busy though.

[Tiger]

When I was out with my daughter I saw a kid in a commander Hadfield costume with a acoustic guitar for space oddity. He never did come by my house, but if he did I would have given him tons of candy and $20.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

I had almost 50 at my house. I think that's a bit more than last year. But this year it was mostly older kids. Actually I had two full Filipino families come by, where the parents were also dressed up and asked for candy. I found that kinda odd... But then again what do I know? My gf is Filipino, and she didn't even flinch lol.

I had that happen too and it was totally odd! 5 yr old kid got the full size Oh Henry. 42 yr old Philipino mom/nanny got a couple of treat size Crispy Crunches. Should have just given one.

[Superflyer]

We had about 150 at our place in Airdrie.

Best costume was a family one all dressed up as different Duck Dynasty people. Very cool.

[username]

125 in Garrision Woods - roughly half what we had last year.

Best costume was a kid who dressed up as computer code from the matrix. Really cool - even had green Chrismas lights to go with it!

[undercoverbrother]

120 in sylvan and it was a lovely night

[Kybosh]

0 in Country Hills. WTF kids? Next year I'm going to drive around hucking candy at people.

[Puppet Guy]

Mrs Puppet said we had about 20 kids in Riverbend. I saw more kids out than that.

[Boblobla]

We had 94 in Chaparral. Wasn't really a costume that stood out. I suppose the best costume would have gone to my 6 month old dressed as Yoda...

[itcrossedtheline]

10 kids in highland park

Wasn't expecting it to be that quiet

[GP_Matt]

0 in Country Hills. WTF kids? Next year I'm going to drive around hucking candy at people.
Have you considered entering your car in a small town parade? They never have any rules about who or what can enter and it is acceptable to throw candy onto the street for the children to scavenge between floats.

[Bigtime]

Here is the Car2Go kid:

http://i.imgur.com/ooMj2oo.jpg

[greyshep]

Around 100 again in Langdon. Lots of kids out here as usual.

[tete]

Car2Go kid is great!!!

None at our place since we're in a condo (though I do know that there are a handful of kids in our condo, including our daughter). We didn't go out since our daughter is only 22 months, but next year we'll hit the streets likely and trick or treat. I'm carving a pumpkin next year too, dammit, I haven't had done that in about 10 years.

[Bertuzzied]

Some guy in Edgemont was giving out Wii games to everyone.

[Regulator75]

^^^ Hopefully it wasn't his Wee Wee? :blink:

[bigtmac19]

I had 15 kids here in Southern Ontario, the weather was bad, really windy, lots of rain.

[dubc80]

Had just under 50 here in Glamorgan.

More than the past few years. Was handing out full-sized chocolate bars. Love seeing the excitement on kids faces when they realize it's a "big bar". Might try handing out cans of pop next year. Those were always a hit.

Rejected two 12 year old-ish girls with no costume on.

Left my pumpkins out on purpose to see if they would get smashed, but they made it through the night unscathed. Guess kids don't like terrorizing neighborhoods like we used to do... ;)

[FireFly]

Kids started arriving at 5:30 and I was out of candy by 7. Looking outside, there were still kids out until 9-9:30. Same house last year had basically no one, this year, hundreds. Up in Taradale.

[Stay Golden]

last year about 85 kids this year we ran out of candy at about 8:00 140 kids.
Halloween is a favorite for us, we like to dress up and scare the 10-14 year old kids.
Many of the older ones run away and don't even leave with candy. It's a good system lol.
Little kids we don't scare just hand out candy wave, pose for photos.

[SeeBass]

Thorncliffe

Again less than 20 for the 15th straight year.

half the kids looked old enough to be mowing/shoveling my place but you think I can find a teenager then, not a chance

[WinnipegFan]

Helping out my sister in Rainbow Falls Chestermere. Her haunted house, with full size chocolate bars had just under 200 kids. She thinks it was 198 but I ate a bar and didn't say anything, so 197 unless some other people dug in to her stash.

[Slacker]

Zero kids in the area I live in Woodbine.

[CRXguy]

Helping out my sister in Rainbow Falls Chestermere. Her haunted house, with full size chocolate bars had just under 200 kids. She thinks it was 198 but I ate a bar and didn't say anything, so 197 unless some other people dug in to her stash.

Was it the house on the corner of Westchester drive/blvd?

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Best costume goes to my neighbor's kid's friend. He had an inflated Stay Puft costume. He tripped and fell a la that Raptor's inflatable mascot gif while running from my house to the neighbor's. My neighbor's kid then collapsed on the floor laughing. It was awesome.

[Galakanokis]

Really quiet last night in our neighborhood in Burnaby. Wife and I took the kids around so we didn't hand out candy (supply our neighbor with extra) but there were not a lot of kids out. Some places said they didn't even see there first kid until after 7. I grew up in Marlborough and it always felt like there were 100's of kids out there.

We go to one house every year to see this one fellow dressed up as a gnome or troll like thing, a very good costume. He sits out front of his house completely motionless for 10, 20 minutes at a time waiting for someone to approach and ask if this thing is real or not. I've seen him scare the beejeesus out of people. Pretty sure a women he got this year pee'd herself. She literally punched her husband/boyfriend in the mouth because he was laughing so hard.

[Ironhorse]

I like it.

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1451375_653978477976362_2743549_n.jpg

[TurnedTheCorner]

0 in Country Hills. WTF kids? Next year I'm going to drive around hucking candy at people.
I will one-up you:

http://i.imgur.com/RS3N2cS.gif

[4X4]

I like it.

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1451375_653978477976362_2743549_n.jpg

Later that night, the rock was back through the window with a note that said "Next time, tell me to my face".

[Acey]

RK-oQfFToVg

[photon]

What do you guys do with your Halloween candy? Do you let the kids gorge themselves stupid and get it overwith? We let him have a few pieces for desert after supper until it is gone or he loses interest.

[Cowboy89]

What do you guys do with your Halloween candy? Do you let the kids gorge themselves stupid and get it overwith? We let him have a few pieces for desert after supper until it is gone or he loses interest.

A guy at work asks his kids Halloween night if they would prefer a new toy of their choosing in exchange for all of their candy. Then he shows up to work with the candy and gives it out to co-workers.

[photon]

That's brilliant.

[Daradon]

Can't say what I let my kids do as I don't have them, but we had rules on how much we could eat at a time when I was little. You get a little leeway Halloween night and maybe a night or two after, but back to the regular rules after that.

The thing was, if I remember, we never ate all of ours. There were years our bags lasted til the next year. We did lose interest. But a big part of it was our mom was pretty strict about junk food, and very encouraging towards eating healthy and trying different things. So we never even really had a palate for a lot of the rock candies or sugar candies. I mean, we loved our pop, and chocolate. Chips, cookies and ice cream. What kid doesn't? But those were controlled and used in moderation or for special occasions or as rewards. But we never really wanted to go to 7-11 and stock up on gummi worms, or suckers or anything like that. I mean we did try them, and we had them every once in a while, but it was like we couldn't eat them in large amounts, it turned our stomachs, the way it would a lot of adults now. After a while it wasn't about not being allowed to have them, but that we didn't really want them.

If you can get kids excited about healthy treats, they'll actually turn down the really nasty ones. A bowl of rasperries with fresh cream would get us more excited that a giant swirled lollipop. Course there is a level of work involved in all that. We had our own raspberry plants and strawberry plants. But now that I think of it, after we got to a certain age, we ended up picking them more than our mom. Just one of our responsibilities. Plus we got excited when they came into bloom. Fresh garden strawberries! Yum. Even our dog would gently pull raspberries of the low branches. Haha, what dog likes raspberries? She'd dig up carrots too, she loved those. If she got away from you (she wasn't supposed to be in the garden, obviously) you'd find her looking guilty as sin with a dirty muzzle and a carrot dangling from her mouth.

But yeah, there is work in getting your kids to make their own healthy decisions, and it starts with giving them a lot of healthy options, which do require a certain amount of work and thought. My mom made plum perogies for instance. Once you have that homemade treat all the candy in the world isn't going to be more attractive. It's not to say those were really healthy either. Definitely not a balanced meal, and no real vegetables or anything. Just that it's a way better treat alternative than a bag of sour candys, or even a bowl of ice cream.

I know I'm not telling you anything you don't know, and I'm definitely not trying to sound smart, as I said, I don't have kids, and don't have to deal with the challenges and day to day grind. Just relating my own experience, perhaps there'll be a tidbit that helps you. While I started responding to your post, I will admit, it's become more about me taking a nice trip down memory lane.

MMMmmm, plum perogies! Drool...