What’s a parent to do when faced with a child’s overflowing bucket of chemical laden Halloween candy and cheap plastic spiders? Do you deprive your tot of the joy of tick or treating? Do you allow him to eat his fill and then suffer from a high-fructose corn syrup crash? Do you allow her moderate doses after each meal, while you fret about potential lead contamination or possible carcinogens in ingredients like: “Artificial colors,” Red #40, Yellow #5 or carnauba wax—an ingredient also used in car waxing and shoe polish? Finally, I discovered an imaginative solution that will make both parents and kids happy: The Switch Witch!
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While I can appreciate your concern about tossing anything, I’ve never tossed anything in the trash. I generally redistribute the unhealthy candy to adults who actually eat it and don’t mind (it’s a free country) and I recycle the plastic. I never put anything into the landfill unless there is absolutely no choice, as in the case with candy which might have lead in it, and even in this case I’d probably be more inclined to compost it than landfill but that’s kind of a no win situation.
Thanks for this great post. There are plenty of candy buy back programs all over the country as well, and you can also send candy directly to the US troops to give them a sweet treat. We used to have the “Halloween Fairy” come to our house and pick up all of our kids’ candy and leave a special toy. Now that our daughter is older and sees her peers eating candy here’s what we are doing this year and she’s totally game. She’s using her candy as “money” to buy the green toy of her choice. Then we will donate her candy per above. She gladly hands over her “money” candy and can’t wait to get a toy instead. It also helps that she gets to eat a yummy organic cupcake before we head out Trick or Treating so she won’t feel like she’s missing out. There are so many clever ways to avoid the sugar rush and chemical cocktail in mainstream candy.
LOVE this post Pamela! Great suggestions which I will try next year.