I have to admit, I am SCARED about Halloween (always) since I found out about my kids’ food sensitivities.
Trick-or-Treating when you can’t have food dyes is a nightmare!
School parties are horrific- people send red or orange punch, colored cupcakes, bags and bags of nasty red and black candy. Not fun. Having three little sugar fiends who try and hide whatever “bad” candy that they manage to get without mom’s knowledge is not fun either. (Well, the insane reactions and rashes afterwards aren’t anyway.) If you didn’t know it already, Red 40, Yellow 5, and many others aren’t even allowed in some countries in Europe as they are not as safe as the FDA wishes us to believe. We just found out that most marshmallows have suddenly started putting Blue 1 in them, which is a big problem for kid #2. Great, now I have to make marshmallows too?
Trick-or-Treating when you can’t have food dyes is a nightmare!
School parties are horrific- people send red or orange punch, colored cupcakes, bags and bags of nasty red and black candy. Not fun. Having three little sugar fiends who try and hide whatever “bad” candy that they manage to get without mom’s knowledge is not fun either. (Well, the insane reactions and rashes afterwards aren’t anyway.) If you didn’t know it already, Red 40, Yellow 5, and many others aren’t even allowed in some countries in Europe as they are not as safe as the FDA wishes us to believe. We just found out that most marshmallows have suddenly started putting Blue 1 in them, which is a big problem for kid #2. Great, now I have to make marshmallows too?
My oldest son (AKA kid#2) went to a birthday party a few weeks ago and had gotten a “goodie” bag filled with candy that he can’t have without my knowledge. He hid it under his bed and was steadily sneaking it. I couldn’t figure out why he was acting absolutely INSANE, not listening, jumping all around, screaming… Well, needless to say daddy found it and solved the mystery.
I’m taking a preemptive approach this year,
I’m pre-ordering candy (AWESOME & INTERESTING CANDY) from The Natural Candy Store.
(And, NO, I don’t get freebees or even acknowledgment for mentioning this.)
They even have sprinkles for sugar cookies and cupcakes!
Maybe the monsters will only be the ones in costume this year!
I'll have to check out that candy store. Candy is scary. When I eat it I go bonkers. I think it's all the high fructose corn syrup. If it does that to a full grown adult it can't be good for a child.
I don't like all the scary outfits…and I don't like how the stores half such scary decorations set up. They freak my kids out…but I do love the candy. 🙂
Halloween & food scares me, too. I basically dread it. My kids have life threatening food allergies to eggs, all nuts and all dairy!
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My girls have food sensitivities as well; it was fun to create this list of treat and treasure alternatives, in part because so many of these items were things that my kids could have safely but that ALL kids could enjoy: http://greenhalloween.org/content.php?page=treats
Also, in our house, the Halloween Fairy comes to swap candy my girls can't have with goodies they can:
http://greenhalloween.org/blog/?p=55
Thanks for a great post!