Well, we really messed up Halloween. We started out reasoning that if we bought candy to give out to trick-or-treaters, there would be leftovers, that we really shouldn’t be eating, so the easiest and healthiest thing to do would be to not buy any candy, to “hide out” on Halloween and simply not answer the door. No expense of candy, no bother of answering the door, and no leftovers.
But then we were in Target and saw a big bag of candy and said, “What the heck! Let’s not be anti-social, let’s participate in Halloween! If there’s leftover candy, we’ll eat it slowly, like one piece a day.”
So this morning when I got up, I opened the huge bag of candy and separated it out into different bowls—the plan being to give the kids the candy bars we like the least, building up to the ones we like the most, so that whatever is left over would be candy we like the most. (If we’re going to end up eating candy, it should at least be the candy we enjoy the most, right?)
But then tonight we went shopping at Publix and as we’re buying something for dinner, it occurred to me that the whole time we’re cooking and eating, the doorbell is going to be ringing. The thought of having to jump up and down, up and down through our whole dinner was not at all appealing. Yes, I was hungry, but I would just as soon not eat than to have to jump up and down, up and down. Not very good for the digestion.
So again we made the decision to not be present for Halloween. After dropping off the groceries at the house, we went out to eat. By the time we got back home, it was late enough that there were no more trick-or-treaters. But now there is also a WHOLE BUNCH of candy in the house. The idea from the start was to avoid having candy in the house, and now we’ve got even more than we originally thought we might end up with.
Like I said, we really messed up Halloween.
But here’s a thought: pretty soon we will start getting requests to donate food for Thanksgiving. Maybe we could donate some of this candy for that.
If we don’t end up eating all of it before Thanksgiving, that is.
