Halloween: What are you giving Trick or Treaters?

z1a

About to carve the pumpkin now. Hate the job because of the smell, can't abide it.
Heard that some people eat it, but don't believe that for one minute!

Money_maker

z1a wrote: »

About to carve the pumpkin now. Hate the job because of the smell, can't abide it.
Heard that some people eat it, but don't believe that for one minute!

We've already carved ours. Chickens will be getting the insides to munch on. One year I was brave a made Pumpkin marmalade. Then broke my whisk trying to mix it. It was 'orrible.

Mela322

We don't participate in any part of trick or treating. We constantly teach our children about stranger danger and don't take anything from stranger or don't talk to strangers and then on halloween, the children are sent door to door asking for treats from strangers. Doesn't matter if you are with them or not. For me, it teaches opposite of what I teach them so we stay out of it.

Also to add, I'm American who grew up trick or treating and our entire family would meet up at my grandparents house because they always had the best treats. However, so many times, we had to be careful of people who would put needles and other dangerous things in the candy. It got to the point that there were stations where you could go have your treats scanned!

z1a

money_maker wrote: »

we've already carved ours. Chickens will be getting the insides to munch on. One year i was brave a made pumpkin marmalade. Then broke my whisk trying to mix it. It was 'orrible.

yuk !

Bluebell1000

I don't really like the idea of trick or treat. My eldest, who is 6, is not allowed sweets as they make him hyperactive. He desperately wants to go out knocking on doors though (only to neighbours with decorations by the way). So we'll do what we've done for the past couple of years - visit a few neighbours and give them sweets! We end up with loads of sweets over the year from party bags and it's a great way to rehome them :rotfl:

Hopefully we'll get quite a few children calling at our house too, so we can get rid of more of the sweets...

happyandcontented

Nothing, sometimes I do, but I have never really approved of it and certainly never let mine do it when they were younger. It is akin to begging. And as another poster said it is encouraging stranger interaction which went against everything I taught my kids.

We have always got on with our neighbours but a couple of years ago an anti-social couple with 2 children moved in a couple of doors away and for the rest of the year they don't even look the way of any of our very friendly neighbours, except on Halloween, when, Lo And Behold, they knock on every door in the street with their two children. I am not encouraging their insincerity!!

Pixie5740

pogofish wrote: »

Nothing to American trick or treaters - Traditional Guizers however, that's a different matter. They have to actually do something to entertain.

And if anyone waves their pumpkin at me, it will meet a neep - and lose..!

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

I just had to look "guizers" up! There's not much explanation for it but I get the idea!

"The sky is blue the grass is green may we have our Hallowe'en," and the guisers need to tell a joke, sing a song, something to earn their Hallowe'en. Carving out neeps ain't easy.

Gloomendoom

z1a wrote: »

About to carve the pumpkin now. Hate the job because of the smell, can't abide it.
Heard that some people eat it, but don't believe that for one minute!

I carved ours on Sunday. Then my wife stuffed it and we had it for dinner.



Pumpkin biryani. Absolutely delicious.

Gloomendoom

Pixie5740 wrote: »

"The sky is blue the grass is green may we have our Hallowe'en," and the guisers need to tell a joke, sing a song, something to earn their Hallowe'en. Carving out neeps ain't easy.

My ex-wife used to drag trick or treaters inside and demand they do a turn in return for their sweets.

It was hilarious.

Ergates

Mela322 wrote: »

We constantly teach our children about stranger danger

And as we can see from looking around us there are absolutely no negative side effects about teaching our children that everyone they don't know is a threat to them.