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Olivia is planning on going trick-or-treating tonight. She's 13, so a bit old to be doing it, but she's using her little sister as an excuse. Who am I to knock that? I did the same thing all the way thru high school - hey, someone had to take my sister out. My parents were more than happy to let me do it.

Olivia is a candy freak. I have to take her bag away from her or she'll just eat and eat and eat and SWAG bolus , which either sends her skyrocketing high or plummeting low. Last year I didn't take the bag away until the next morning and by then, she'd put a pretty good dent in her stash.

So this year, I'm going to take it right away. I'll do the carb counts on it and dole it out a few pieces at a time. I hate to have to crack down on her like that, but really, who needs to eat all that candy? Not anyone, whether they have diabetes or not.

Thank goodness Calorie King has such a vast database. Did you know that candy corn has 36g of carbs per serving? A serving is 22 pieces. I don't quite know how anyone could eat 22 pieces of candy corn, but there you go, now you have the carb count. For a candy that real people actually eat, a snack-size Kit Kat (yummmm) has a mere 9g of carbs. I'd rather eat one Kit Kat than even one piece of candy corn, lemme tell you.

That's our plan for Halloween this year. How are you going to handle it with your kids? Do you take away the candy and give something else? Do you dole it out over the next few weeks? Or do you bother with trick-or-treating at all?