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Halloween-how'd It Go?

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We came home from work, had a Halloween themed dinner (full of protein and fiber to fill them up ;) ) and left to trick-or-treat at about 645. They lasted about an hour and a half. We came home and dumped all the candy out on the table to separate. They ended up getting to "keep" about 3/4ths of it, which surprised me. The candy of the year in our neighborhood was the KitKat, but they did get a LOT of M&M's, snickers and butterfingers though. They sat with all of the gluten-free candy at the table and dug in. My 7y/o dd ate 4 pieces before getting full and quitting. My 3y/o son, however, ate 15(!!!!) pieces of candy. I'm actualy surprised he didn't vomit :huh: . They put the rest back into their Halloween bags, placed them by the front door and when they got up this morning, they found the little toys the "Great Pumpkin" left for them and they couldn't be happier! The candy is all going to my husband's poker party tonight, so I won't be getting into it for the next month either :D

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I sat on a doorstep with my celiac friend, eating almost as many snicker's and m&ms as we handed out! :huh:

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Amyleigh0007
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My kids lasted about an hour. We dumped all the candy out and put the gluten stuff in our bowl to "regift" to the neighborhood kids. My son kept the M&M's and Hershey bars and that was it. In exchange for the gluten candy we had to "regift", I took him to a book store today and I bought him some books. He was very happy with that idea so we will do it again next year!

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I managed to pick my son up a little early and we picked up some gluten free Bellagios pizza. We took it to his grandma's house for dinner and so that she could see him in his costume. We went trick-or-treating in her neighborhood and then we drove to the Reed College neighborhood for more. There were lots of kids and many of the houses were giving out candy. It was great and he got tons of candy. :rolleyes: Most of his candy was also gluten free. I was surprised. Although he did end up getting some crackers and he was sure they were not his because he does not eat gluten. Then he wanted to know how they got into his basket. ;)

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They ended up getting to "keep" about 3/4ths of it, which surprised me. The candy of the year in our neighborhood was the KitKat, but they did get a LOT of M&M's, snickers and butterfingers though.

I was very surprised at how little I had to take away from my dd's stash. It was about 3/4 for us too. She didn't even ask me to add back in candy we had purchased that was fine (thank goodness since I had promised her I would and she has plenty of candy!). She and her sister have been eating way too much and now it's time for it to start disappearing. I was happy that she had a fun, first gluten-free halloween. We were out for about 1 1/2 hrs which was plenty of time too.

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Our Halloween was really wonderful. We started the festivities with a parade and party at DD's pre-school. She was very proud to march in the parade (my little Cinderella!)...she was one of 4 Cinderellas in her class, plus 2 Tinkerbells, and 1 Sleeping Beauty. I made gluten-free sugar cookies and decorated the pumpkins, bats, cats, and ghosts with cute frosting and designs, plus I made pumpkin cholcolate chips cookies--all were a hit with the kids...that made me happy since I rarely did from scratch baking, much less creative decorating, prior to DDs diagnosis. Then we had a costume preview party in our neighborhood--I took along a gluten-free sandwich, which DD happily ate...plus for the group, another plate of cookies...which quickly disappeared again :) DH then took DD out trick-or-treating to a few houses while I gave out candy with DS...but then DH and I switched and the real fun began...taking DD trick-or-treating made me feel like a kid again...I loved seeing the excitement in her eyes. She lasted a lot longer than I expected, and was so excited to go to each house. DD picked her candy by how the wrapper looked (she doesn't each much candy, so really only recognizes M&Ms and lollipops) and was excited to have a full bag. She didn't mind that we sorted her candy and gave the gluten-free candy to our neighbor's kids. She just loved the whole experience of Halloween. I can't wait until next year!!

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Tootsie rolls were the big thing here with assorted chocolate coming in 2nd. Alas, none of the chocolate was safe for her because of nut allergies. And she can only have Tootsie Rolls twice a week because they have milk in them.

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CeliacMom2008 Enthusiast
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I too was shocked by how little had to be removed. Despite that that means a lot of candy around the house, it was fantastic!

A nice story...our neighbor went online and looked up gluten free candy. She bought her candy to hand out based on what my son could eat. How sweet was that?!?!?

Now it's time to start thinking about turkey day!

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missy'smom
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Alot of parents sent in "healthy snacks" for the Fall party at school so kiddo had ham and cheese and pudding cups etc. plenty of gluten-free choices. I got him to give up his gluten containing candy and take it to share at church. He actually enjoyed checking the list of gluten-free candy and sorting it. Today was day off from school so we made gluten-free "choc. chip" cookies with a mixture of choc. chips and various choc. candies from his Halloween stash. He said he'd like to make that a tradition. He's 10 and were taking it one event at a time and encouraging him to make the right choices because we're not always around to be the gluten police. So this was a victory for us.

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