I'm just curious. With peanut allergies being so prevelant these days, I have heard a lot of people changing over to handing out all peanut safe candy. Last year a very rude person asked me multiple times if I had anything peanut free for her (I didn't, I hadn't even thought about it) and it rubbed me quite the wrong way. Not the fact that she asked, but her attitude when I said sorry, no I don't. I have family members with peanut allergies, and a neighbor as well, and they all have their own plans of how to trick or treat and still keep their children safe. I have organic lollipops for them (and I will happily hand them out if an allergy is mentioned to me) which I will keep separate, but the majority of my candy is not necessarily peanut safe. How about you?
I'd hand out Halloween pencils, but I'd be afraid somebody would yell at me because their child has a latex allergy. If I had a child with a peanut allergy, and I saw that the person behind the door was offering chocolate, etc... I would kindly ask: "Would you happen to have any candies without peanuts?" If no, I wouldn't yell at the person, but kindly thank them and then move along. I'd have plenty of safe candy back at home to make sure my child was "treat"ed well Halloween. It's not my neighbors' responsibility to make sure my child eats safe candy. But to answer your question...do what you feel is right. Having pencils, toothbrushes, Skittles, etc...would be a kind gesture on your part. But certainly don't feel obligated.
No, I don't. Because even if I did manage to buy something peanut free, and to keep it absolutely apart from the peanut stuff so as not to risk contamination, any parent in their right mind would be crazy to trust my word on it. If I had a neighbor or relative with allergies, then sure. But from a random house trick or treating?? Nope.
We keep something peanut free aside in another bowl. Usually kids will look in the bowl and look sad if they don't see anything they can have. I ask if they are allergic and they've all said yes so I gave them our peanut free stuff. A lot of kids can't even have candy that is processed in a facility with peanuts. I've had some older kids say I have a peanut allergy as soon as they came to the door but I've never had a parent ask or get angry if we ran out.
Ours is all peanut free because my son is allergic. We trick or treat for the fun of it and give his to his sister/eat it ourselves and give him candy from our bowl.
No peanut free stuff here. I buy lots of non-peanut candy but I've never thought about a separate bowl. I know lots of younger kids who don't even like candy with nuts so I just have the stuff that comes in the mixed candy bag.
Not something I check for trick or treaters. Families should be responsible for checking all treats, regardless of whether kds have allergies...not me.
Nope! The chocolate bars with peanuts are my favourite, and I'm the one eating the leftovers. Parents are in charge of ensuring their child's safety on Halloween - I am not going to accommodate all the children with allergies who could potentially come to my door.
Nope, no peanut free candy here. We buy the giant bag of hershey's chocolate from costco. All of that is produced in factories with nuts. If it was a really little kid who wanted some candy, though, I'd probably feel bad and try to find a pencil or something to give them.
I am so relieved to hear so many people saying they are not worrying about peanut free candy. I have heard a lot of people saying that they were changing their candy and acting like it was a terrible thing to give out Reese's cups and Snickers! Meanwhile, I have a huge bowl f leftover candy and thank goodness it's stuff I like to eat LoL. I did have one child who announced, instead of "trick or treat," "no peanuts for him, he's allergic!" As soon as I opened the door. Iassume it was said childs brother. Since i had lollipops leftover from giving to neighbors, I did give the boy one-and I can appreciate the boy looking out for his brother-but the way he went about it was irritating. As a side note, I trick or treated with those neighbors- they let their children get whatever candy was given out, and when we got back to the house they dumped it in their bowl outside the front door and then gave the children their own safe candy that they had purchased themselves. In my opinion, they did it well.
Nope. When I was a child my siblings and I would just have to sort out the things we were allergic to. It was a fact of life. If we were at a home and they were giving full size candy that we couldn't have we would just say no thank you and we were happy that we could come visit in our costumes.
