3 Genius Ways Illinois Parents Can Prepare For The Onslaught Of Halloween Candy

When you find yourself with too much Halloween candy, what do you do? Throw it away? NO! Here are three ways you could repurpose it.

Too Much Halloween Candy

Halloween is almost here and soon our pantries will be stuffed with all the candy and sugar our kids worked so hard to collect, and this creates a big problem for me.

Truth be told, my sweet tooth is off-the-charts bad. If I could eat candy all day, every day, and not gain any weight I would do it in a heartbeat, but that's never going to happen.

My family already has several trick-or-events on the books for this year, so I have no doubt my kids will collect a massive stash that someone (probably me) will have to get rid of.  I am confident we, (really I),  could eat every single sweet morsel of it, but I know we shouldn't... so... now what?

I could make some mashup candy dessert thing, but I would probably be the one to eat the entire thing and that's definitely not good. What's a candy-loving mom supposed to do?

One of these three things I found on abcnews.go.com might be good...

3 Creative Ways to Get Rid of Excess Halloween Candy

1. Do A Halloween Candy Buy Back

Dental offices all across the country are a part of this program that will give kids $1 for every pound of candy they bring to their office. A search on halloweencandybuyback.com lists several Illinois dental offices that participate in the program, so take your excess candy to one of them!

2. Support the Troops

Several organizations like soldiersangels.org collect unwanted, yet still delicious candy, and send it to our troops serving overseas.

3. Perform A Switch Witch

For this one think Tooth Fairy meets Halloween. Tell your kids to put all their unwanted Halloween candy in a bag and leave it somewhere in the room. You then switch it with a new toy, (or something else just as awesome), and everyone is happy.

I hope some of these options help save your post-Halloween sanity (and waistline)!