Halloween Treats - HM or shop bought???

shell2001

Have been wondering whether to make decorated biscuits/cookies to give out to the hoardes of trick or treaters we will get come Halloween, or should I do the norm and buy the multi-packs of sweets/chocolates???

What does everyone else do? Am worried If I go the HM route I will get them thrown back at me:eek: (not that my cooking is bad or anything but you know how the younger generation can be - god its official I AM old after a comment like that:rotfl: )

Anastacia

well i would applaud the introduction of HM treats but I can also say it might worry me a bit as there are some funny people around. I know you never really know where the sweets have been a mini mars bars might be less worrying for parents. (sealed in packaging I mean )

shell2001

Good point, never thought about that.

emg

mind you, just as easy for a crazy person to contaminate a mars bar too (remember that guy who was going round injecting things into baby food?) I'm always suprised that parents let their children take sweets from strangers at halloween when the rest of the year they are told not to. I think they would be better just knocking on doors of people they know.

Bambam

We don't get too many callers, it has to be said, sometimes none at all and the few sweets I have bought usually end up being binned. However, one year, after halloween, I bought up the little halloween bits - balloons, masks etc. which were being sold off cheaply and stored them away until the next halloween. I gave these to the children rather than sweets.

purpleimp

Anastacia wrote:

well i would applaud the introduction of HM treats but I can also say it might worry me a bit as there are some funny people around. I know you never really know where the sweets have been a mini mars bars might be less worrying for parents. (sealed in packaging I mean )

LOL, I totally understand that, my father won't eat anything that's been produced for a charity market or a jumble sale or any form of fundraiser type event unless he knows the person whose kitchen it's come out of, and unless it's a slab of tablet (what can go wrong with boiled sugar!?!) I don't tend to either.

Give them apples or tangerines or pumkin seeds ( all bought in value packs mind) that way it's not shop bought stuff full of additives and neither is it contaminable from your kitchen (I hope you know what I mean there, I am by no means making aspersions about your home or kitchen just peoples perceptions of people I guess!)xxx

chiefpossession

In the past we used to have lots of children coming to the door and I made chocolate rice krispie cakes. they went down a treat and are more easy to manage than giving kids sweets (some kids are happy with a few, some aren't!)

mirry

my daughters going to a halloween party and I found out they are going trick or treating , which i really do not agree with !
How on earth do I say to the parent of the other child that I do not want my daughter to do that without sounding like a spoil sport ?

It really does amaze me that children are allowed to knock at old peoples doors when its dark, dressed in scarey outfits and threaten people with TRICK OR TREAT !
What morals are we teaching our children ???

troll35

We always make homemade treats, usually biscuits or buns that all the children I look after decorate. In our area there are loads of trick or treaters around of all ages. The homemade goodies seem to put off the teenagers, who roam in packs.....a bun that looks like a squashed spider obviously isn't cool enough. The main thing is the little kids like them:)

full-time-mum

I make fairy cakes decorated with white icing and silver balls (ghosts), orange icing and black features (pumpkins) and black butter icing piped to look like spiders which I keep for the favoured few locals.
Everyone else gets sweets that I've hoarded from party bags. My kids don't eat sweets, (chocolate yes) so I have amassed haribo, boiled sweets, chews etc over the year. This year I'm thinking of dying some cooked value spaghetti black and making them fish for the goodies (not the cakes obviously) yuk!

Miss_Cinnabon

Think i will do hm, my kids are not going out this year as hubby is working and lo is too young to go out, so we will all be having a little party in the house, dont get many kids round anyway:D

Will get a huge pumpkin from costco and do something with that.
Kyle