Cheapest 200 wrapped chocolates or sweets?

vene

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!

And how many Children are going to have severe reactions to sweets? If your Child is allergic to sugar then why would you let them trick or treat, a past time which now basically compromises of begging strangers for sweeties?

Why should the fact that your precious darlings are delicate deter the OP from handing out sweets?

jellyhead

nearlyrich wrote: »

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:

Most people don't knock on strangers doors, and an adult goes out with the children. Of course there are always groups of strangers knocking on my door with no adult in sight, but I can't imagine any of my friends or relatives not supervising their children.

zaxdog

nearlyrich wrote: »

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:

I find the term "begging" really offensive when referring to a tradition that has been part of my country's culture for years. In addition to which there is in my experience ALWAYS at least one parent supervising the children.

Mado

vene wrote: »

And how many Children are going to have severe reactions to sweets? If your Child is allergic to sugar then why would you let them trick or treat, a past time which now basically compromises of begging strangers for sweeties?

Thank you.:T
I really couldn't see the logic of asking folks who haven't asked for anything to make sure the sweets they generously provide and the little scaring pretense for the entertainement of other poeple's children are free of particular E numbers.
If the sweets are normally sold, then surely, some children eat them and it is entirely their parents responsibility to make sure their children eat things that are appropriate for them.

barbiedoll

Lidl do really nice sweets and chocs and they are very cheap.

I did try giving out the small boxes of raisins one year, I don't think that any were taken, we were still eating them at Christmas!

I've always got odd choc bars hanging around indoors, they all go into the big bowl and last year I finally got rid of the last of the Celebrations tin that had been hanging around since Christmas (yes, it was still in date!) My DS is too old to go out now but I love seeing the little kids dressed up as witches and ghosts, luckily they tend to be accompanied by parents and we rarely get any bother from the "big" kids.

gingin_2

nearlyrich wrote: »

or go out begging in the dark.:eek:

It's a nice little event where we are. I moved into my street one week before halloween, had never let my children trick-or-treat, or imagined they would. After about 20 children had passed by and I had emptied my cupboard of everything I had, I let mine go out. We got to meet so many neighbours and their children, everyone happy, everyone having a laugh, it's my fondest memory of being here.

It's an unwritten rule here that you only knock if you see a decorated house, that way no one gets disturbed that doesn't want to be.

OP, poundland have lots of bags of wrapped sweets, some specifically for halloween.

meritaten

I am not a killjoy and actually love halloween and the trick or treaters! I even learn some bad halloween kids jokes to share with the kids!

I just will not buy sweets which I know will cause problems even for kids who are not sugar intolerant - If I wouldnt give them to my own grandkids it would be hypocritical of me to hand them out to other peoples kids!
I buy loads of sweets, I also find that I am buying more and more fruit each year! I had to go raid the family fruit bowl last year as one little lad (who was used to recieving grapes from me, got really upset when there were none left - so he got a banana instead!).

gibson123

zaxdog wrote: »

I find the term "begging" really offensive when referring to a tradition that has been part of my country's culture for years. In addition to which there is in my experience ALWAYS at least one parent supervising the children.

Yes me too. The tradition is a pagan festival celebrating Samain or Old Hallows Eve. The tradition says that on that night, the spirits of the dead walk the earth, people dress up to "disguise" themselves from the spirits. In Scotland this became "guisers". It was common to dress up and visit your neighbours (safety in numbers) and like most gatherings people took advantage of the audience to perform a song, poem or tale (do a turn). Adults and children joined in, It more or less died out in England, where there are less Celts, until it was re-invented as trick and treating by the American cousins.

The poster who gives out fruit is more traditionalist that the sweetie givers, it was traditional to give children apples (from the autumn harvest, and a game where they had to "dook" for apples was common in Scotland, the apples were put in a barrel and the child had to fish out an apple without using his/her hands. Later on the apples became toffee apples.

I think it is very important to maintain these traditions.

Counting_Pennies_2

Thanks all.

I checked the internet links. Then went to Tesco tonight and found buckets of 80 sweets for £4 so bought two of them so the children can each stand at the door for the visitors to choose.

I will take the children trick and treating first, then we will come home and those sweets that they don't like they can put them in the buckets to make up the remaining sweets I am likely to need.

I have spiders webs and lanterns to go outside the house, so when we have run out I will put a sign on my door saying sweets have run out and bring in all the decorations.

The majority of my childrens school live in the three streets we are in the middle of, so they all visit one anothers houses and parents are dressed up too, it really is a festive atmosphere.

I have also lived in other areas where it feels much more threatening, that at 7:30pm when everything in my new area finishes off, we used to start the nightmare of teenagers knocking with eggs and flour. We used to tape up our letter box.

I like the fact there is a tradition locally here that if a lantern goes up outside the house that people are welcome to call, but all others are to be left alone. It makes some of the older generation feel safer as their doorbells are not ringing in the dark.

I feel for all who dislike it, and feel threatened and wish everyone who can embrace it an enjoyable Halloween.

Spendless

zaxdog wrote: »

I find the term "begging" really offensive when referring to a tradition that has been part of my country's culture for years. In addition to which there is in my experience ALWAYS at least one parent supervising the children.

I totally agree. If children are trick and treating they should be with a adult or responsible older person. Knocking on doors where they are reasonably aware they will be welcome, eg you know the people or the house has halloween decs up, you use your common sense as in if there's an estate full of old peoples bungalows they are unlikely to want to answer the door if it's dark, you stop at a reasonable hour and don't continue very late into the night, you don;t rattle the door down with your knock, though the phrase is 'trick or treat' you don't actually carry the trick part out and say thank you if they don't have any goodies or they've run out.

I've been doing the above with my kids for the past 8ish years and NEVER had an issue. Someone also stays at home so we can welcome trick or treaters and I decorate the house so they know they can call. Again I've NEVER had a problem with callers.

I find this 'it's begging' attitude for Halloween bizarre. I don't notice it in abundance for Carol singers who knock on the door and ask for money in return (mostly) for singing a couple of lines 'I wish you a merry christmas and not for penny for the guy which again was begging for money in public places.