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Here’s something I have done for several years now, and I thought I would pass it along. I do some pantry cleaning every year on Halloween — right into the Halloween treat bowl!
Okay, don’t get the wrong idea, I am not putting in cans of pinto beans or packets of dry spaghetti mix. I look through the pantry and see anything that is (1) Still Good, (2) Something we just aren’t going to eat, (3) Is appropriate for the treat bowl. If it meets all that criteria, it goes into the bowl.
For instance, this year from the pantry, I put in: a few packets of mini bags of microwave popcorn that will expire next month and we aren’t going to use in time (we have an over abundance right now), a small box’s worth of Cherry Kool-Aid single packets — I picked them up once, but nobody was interested, an individual size of Coco Krispies from a time not too long ago when I splurged on a package of the single boxes of fun cereals (nobody will eat that one), some individually wrapped fortune cookies, some gummy snacks that were not of a preferred brand…I think that might be it for this year.
And, of course, I have regular candy in the bowl that I picked up for trick or treaters as well. But, as I said, I have been doing this for a few years now, and I have found out something interesting — the trick or treaters always choose those crazy things from my pantry first. Sure, I get the kid here or there that will pick regular candy instead, but mostly it is those things from my pantry that are the first to go, and then the regular candy is left for later trick or treaters.
It works for us!
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