This will be short and sweet – it’s just candy. There are so many ideas on what to do with all the Halloween candy. A little candy is ok, but Halloween can so easily put us over the sugar edge.

There are several ideas out there, send it to the military, sell it to your dentist or buy it from your children yourself.

I had a different idea. Decorate gingerbread houses!

A few years back, to help our children monitor their sugar intake, I started giving them a sandwich bag. Any and all candy that could fit in that bag they could keep. They could eat it all at once or savor it one piece at a time. Either way, I didn’t have to worry about sugar over-exposure.

When we make ginger-bread houses, sometimes we buy a small amount of Christmas candy, but usually we just use the Halloween stuff. These examples are pretty un-glamorous, but it is what it is, this is the reality of our gingerbread houses 😂.

 

Ok in our defense, we’ve had better ones, but I can’t find the pictures.

You’ll just have to take my word.

What do you do with your kids’ extra candy? Share below.