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Is It Wrong To Eat Your Kids Easter Candy? [POLL]

Jackie — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:41:26 +0000

My kids collected five Ziploc bags full of candy for Easter plus four chocolate bunnies so I have been helping them eat it. My husband insists that it is wrong of me to eat their candy because it is theirs. I know there is no way they will be able to eat all of the [...]

Do You Put Money or Candy In Plastic Easter Eggs?

Jackie — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:44:04 +0000

Every year we buy a mass amount of chocolate malt balls and jelly beans to fill plastic eggs for Easter. This year my husband suggested putting money in all of the eggs so that the kids wouldn’t have as much candy after Easter. If the kids only get money I think they will be disappointed. [...]

Kids Eating Warheads Is Easily the Most Painful Supercut Ever

TheFW Staff — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:00:46 +0000

We’ve previously shared with you videos of poor kids making adorably sour faces while tasting the deceptively delicious candy Warheads. These kids are expecting something sweet, and what they get is punch of sour right in the face. Now comes a cute supercut of kids reacting to their first taste of Warheads. It’s sure to [...]

Is It OK To Give Out Your Kid's Candy? [POLL]

Jackie — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:05:03 +0000

We had a lot more trick or treaters at our home than we where expected which lead to a major candy shortage. I couldn’t turn off my porch light and turn the cute kiddos away so I “borrowed” some candy that my child had collected while trick or treating. My husband told me I was [...]

How Much Candy Would It Take To Fill Up a Pillowcase?

Jackie — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:42:46 +0000

If your kid is SO optimistic about his trick-or-treating haul tonight that he goes out with a PILLOWCASE, don't worry. He's not going to be able to fill it up.

According to the website MyScienceProject.org and Deseret News, it would take approximately 1,690 pieces of candy to fill up a pillowcase.

10 Easy Ways to Make Candy Corn Awesome

Cameron Simcik — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:05:14 +0000

There’s one single treat in the history of all candy deliciousness that makes us feel so torn. Candy corn — we hate to love it and love to hate it. How is it possible it can taste so bad, yet be so irresistible? It’s a Halloween trick AND treat. (See what we did there?) We [...]

Three Ways to Avoid Eating Too Much Easter Candy

Jackie — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:29:09 +0000

SELF Magazine has a list of easy ways to keep yourself from pigging out on Easter candy this weekend. Here are the top three.

1.) Only Eat Candy You LOVE. Reward yourself with your favorites, and skip the filler. So if you just KIND OF like jelly beans, don't eat any. They're empty calories, and there's not much payoff.

Scientists Have Proven That Eating Chocolate Makes You Skinny. Seriously

Jackie — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:46:54 +0000

This has to fall under the “life changing studies” category. A new study from USA Today has found that eating chocolate makes you SKINNY. People who ate a moderate portion of chocolate five times a week had a lower Body Mass Index than people who had chocolate less frequently. The scientists say eating chocolate has [...]

Christmas Goodies From Your Neighbors [Poll]

Jackie — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:49:09 +0000

Every Halloween we discuss how it may not be a good idea to accept homemade Halloween candy, but on Christmas my neighbors are sweet enough to bring me all kinds of homemade goodies. I have been living on popcorn balls, Christmas cookies, Christmas candy, chex mix, fudge, etc. While my family and I are enjoying [...]

9 Things You Didn't Know About Candy Corn

Danny Gallagher — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:25:01 +0000

Every year, it hides in some dark, dank corner of even the most raucous Halloween party, waiting for some unknowing fool to stick their hand in its clutches of doom. It entices its prey with colorful designs and the promise of sweet joy, only to fill its victims with a familiar sense of bland, flavorless dread. T