Cheapest 200 wrapped chocolates or sweets?

zaxdog

meritaten wrote: »

I wont buy Harible or Moaom - I am too well aware of their effect on some kids. loaded with horrible chemicals and colourings etc! their ingredients list looks like the recipe for a nuclear bomb - and thats how some kids react!!!
I buy multibags of Dreemy etc from Aldi, I also buy a couple of punnets of grapes. put 5 or 6 grapes into little bags. add apples bananas, and some tangerines to the 'goody tray - and watch the fruit disappear first!

Don't think one night a year makes that much of a difference tbh!

balletshoes

zaxdog wrote: »

Guisers are the original "trick or treaters" it is a tradition in Scotland to go to neighbours etc in costume and perform a song, tell a joke. do a dance etc and be rewarded with sweets. apple dooking etc. Folk who emigrated to the new world took the tradition with them :j

we went guising (North East Scotland) when I was little, it was instead of "penny for the guy", as above, costume on, did a little party piece, and be rewarded with sweets and occasionally some coin money.

meritaten

zaxdog wrote: »

Don't think one night a year makes that much of a difference tbh!

to a sugar or colouring intolerant child it means 'having a sugar high (comparable to taking 'acid'), it means being unable to sleep all night and keeping the family awake, it means twenty minutes after eating this carp they can hallucinate, it means misery for those having to deal with a child who is totally out of control! I wont inflict that on other people.
that is why my grandkids 'stash' on halloween is carefully inspected by thier parents - and fruit is gratefully recieved!
and some kids fall upon the fruit as if they have never seen any before - I live in a deprived area and the kids always choose grapes, apples and tangerines before the sweets! prob because its such a treat to them!

cheekyweegit

What about these?

or

Both have a lot of choice and are on offer in many places just now for £1 per bag.

There may even be a Halloween version and cheaper than the tubs of sweets unless you want to put a handful of say Celebrations, Quality Street, Hero's in a little bag.

Oh and second fruit, I have an old copper jelly pan and put apples in it (and freezing cold water for fun, but jelly is another good option and cover the top of the bucket and let the kids have a route around in the jelly for their "treat". There in a black / orange bucket from Tesco / B & Q for around £1.50.

Like these from B & Q £1.38 / £1.50 respectively:-

or

hitatotatus

2 x £1 for six tubes of Fruitella from Asda, each containing about 10 individually wrapped sweets. Empty them out into a big bowl and get some mini asda choc bars - thats my plan.

Molly41

I love Halloween and we have lots of kids visiting too.
I buy lots of penny sweets and hand them out.
The key is not to let kids help themselves as they take fistfuls :rotfl:

BlondeHeadOn

After several years of being bombarded by local kids during Halloween, we now turn off all the lights and lock the doors and pretend to be out!

Sorry, but it's all got out of hand IMO.

jellyhead

meritaten wrote: »

to a sugar or colouring intolerant child it means 'having a sugar high (comparable to taking 'acid'), it means being unable to sleep all night and keeping the family awake, it means twenty minutes after eating this carp they can hallucinate, it means misery for those having to deal with a child who is totally out of control! I wont inflict that on other people.
that is why my grandkids 'stash' on halloween is carefully inspected by thier parents - and fruit is gratefully recieved!
and some kids fall upon the fruit as if they have never seen any before - I live in a deprived area and the kids always choose grapes, apples and tangerines before the sweets! prob because its such a treat to them!

If a child is sensitive to sugar highs then the parent should limit their trick-or-treating, imo. Both of my children are lactose intolerant (so I limit their chocolate) and sensitive to colourings, as is my husband. I am not affected in any way, luckily, so I always get the creme eggs at easter

Mine can never go and collect dozens of sweets and then just eat them - they have to be checked and rationed by me. Fruitella and haribo are okay nowadays because they don't use the bad colours but anything that isn't branded I am suspicious of. Poundland's unbranded stuff usually contains tartrazine and sunset yellow, both of which make my children really unhappy on the 'comedown'.

We only go to people we know, so that limits the amount

I agree that children would usually choose fruit but if OP wants to buy sweets then there are lots of multipacks of Swizzels lollies etc. on offer at the moment for £1 and they contain more than 10 items each. Wilkinsons, poundland etc. have cheap branded sweets and lollies. Lidl do their own version of little haribo bags called 'sugarland' and they are really nice - much nicer than Haribo. I always get to eat them because my children don't like sweets :T

minimoneysaver

For people thinking about passing on sweets etc that are not wrapped. Most responsible parents will not allow their children to eat sweets that are not in the manufactured wrappings.

nearlyrich

minimoneysaver wrote: »

For people thinking about passing on sweets etc that are not wrapped. Most responsible parents will not allow their children to eat sweets that are not in the manufactured wrappings.

Most responsible parents wouldn't let their children accept any sweet from any stranger to be fair or go out begging in the dark.:eek: