Limiting the Sweets

If I have too many sweets in the house, I bring the sugar into the workplace. This way the temptation is far from me, and too much sugar makes my tummy hurt anyway (I'm just like a kid). I always keep an emergency stash of chocolate nearby for when I need to pair some with a nice glass of red wine, though. My mother never had rules around the sugar, and I remember clearly dumping my pillow case over into the middle of my bedroom floor just too bask in all of its sweet glory.

These are all great tips! My son is almost 14 months old, so I don't yet have to struggle with him over candy (it's just a forbidden mystery at this point). But I think I'll definitely try to limit his intake once he's old enough to realize he should be allowed to eat it.

Oh, crumb (cookie crumb that is). You caught me at the sweets just as I'm trying to curb them. Sigh. But yes, I've just been thinking about this very question and this year, I'm planning on getting non-edible goodies that I can put in the kid's Trick or Treat bags. I'm going to the novelty shops to get dime-store style trinkets (super balls, jacks, cards, stickers, etc.). Also sugar free gum and other non-junk-food-bingy things.

I think my mom tried to control us when we were kids, but I'm pretty sure we snuck about 30 extra pieces per day until it was gone. Probably explains why I still love Halloween, and why I'm sitting here eating a cookie in the middle of the afternoon. God help any children I ever have. Love the idea about the dentist having kids bring in their candy! And to think we were just worried about razor blades in our apples back when I was a kid...

I don't have kids and only sometimes try to regulate my own sweet consumption, but I did recently see a dentists office offer to pay kids four dollars for every pound of Halloween candy they brought in. I thought that was a clever way to get them to hand it over.