Cheryl wrote:
> On Sun 31 Oct 2010 12:03:01p, Nancy Young wrote in rec.food.cooking
> >:
>
>> How much candy I bought:
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/r/16h5ctg/7
>>
>> How much I'll probably give away:
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/r/34j6rl2/7
>>
>> Hey, I can hope, can't I? And nothing wrong with leftover
>> Snickers Bars, I say.
>>
>
> Same here. I hate buying halloween candy because I know most of it
> will not be eaten by trick or treaters. I just buy a little bit
> "just in case" but kids just don't seem to trick or treat like we did
> when I was a kid, and even when my son was a kid.

I know that's how it is anymore, and I shouldn't bother.

> I used to buy what
> I didn't like, but now I buy what I like and just freeze whatever's
> left, most of it, and have a candy bar every now and then.

Exactly. I started buying the big boxes because the supermarkets
don't even sell packs of big candy bars anymore. So I have
increasingly stale candy bars over the next few months, that's
okay. A handful will go into the freezer today.

nancy