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Quick, top five Halloween candies.
Fine, I'll go first.
5. Baby Ruth
4. Whatchamacallit
3. Twix
2. Kit-Kat
1. Reeses Peanut Butter Cup
And just stop it Cadbury or Mars Inc. or any other bogus chocolate maker trying to come out with your own peanut butter and chocolate treat. Stop it! You're embarrassing yourself. None of you come even remotely close to the brilliance of the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup formula. When the kids get such wannabe candy dropped in their Halloween bags, I instruct them to throw it back from whence it came, like a home run ball to center field from the opposing team.
I love Halloween. It's why I keep having children. I love how into Halloween my small town gets. They close off a road in the borough for a small Halloween fair. Little games where every kid wins candies and prizes. You could smell the sweetness of cotton candy from two blocks away - wafting near the haunted house on Richardson Street. A local favorite plays ragtime while his faithful old dog Boner rests on the top of the piano. Everything is free. Tonight was a gorgeous fall night. I love that Charlie has no interest in cotton candy despite the fact that the other kids we were with were salivating over it. I love that he's so toy hungry that he'll gladly trade in 90 percent of his candy for 10 smackers and a ride to Toys 'R Us.
Four years ago Charlie was 1. He was a cranky little guy and wanted no part of dressing up for Halloween. We did manage to get him out of the house in a makeshift mummy costume, but it was difficult. Twenty minutes in, he looked like nothing more than a pile of jockstraps. The only thing that kept him happy while we went house to house was sucking on lollipops. We just kept feeding him lollipops. Not knowing that he may have had a blood sugar of 400 or 500. Not knowing that in two weeks we'd find out that he had diabetes.
Today, however, I will howl at the moon in happiness as Charlie's numbers today have been spooktacular. See what I did there? I took the word spectacular and I ... eh, forget it. I must go now. I have some peanut butter cup theft to commit while the kids are sleeping.
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November 21st, 2008
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11-01-2007 12:39 AM EDT by Carey Potash
Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
Tags: halloween candy
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Carey is a full-time hater of diabetes. The benefits stink. His 6-year-old son, Charlie, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 22 months old. Carey's parenting humor has appeared in various websites and print magazines. He resides in the suburbs of Philadelphia with his wife and three children. (Read More)
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5. Twix
4. Milky Way
3. Snickers
2. 100 Grand Bar
1. Reeses Peanut Butter Cup
I said a silent thank you to God for Brendon picking the candy I didn't want and leaving the ones I did. The rest will be traded in for baseball cards.
Brendon was diagnosed about 3 weeks after Halloween. I don't want to think about how his blood sugars were bouncing around during his candy eating episodes.
And on a side note: A post containing a dog named Boner and a kid wrapped in jock straps....who edits these posts? ;)
1. twix
2. reeses
3. milky way
4. 3 muskateers
5. 100 grand
oh how i love and hate halloween all at the same time... i made my mom buy raisins to pass out to the trick or treaters. one little skunk said 'that's not candy! i want candy!' i think he told the other forest creatures to stay away because we only had 4 trick or treaters! haha
5. Whatchamacallit... I can't believe someone else has this on their list.
4. Heath Bar
3. Twizzler
2. PB Twix
1. Snickers
Anything made of popcorn, resembling a circus peanut, or based in actual fruit should be thrown back at its giver forthwith.
Halloween was our first "food holiday" post-diagnosis. Back in those days, I was forced to trade ALL of my candy with my brothers or to sell it to my parents. It sucked. But the costume part was awesome and I wouldn't have missed it for anything. Thankfully, for today's youth with diabetes, technology makes it a bit easier... Though I like Charlie's technique, as it resembles mine - take the candy, give me the toys!!!
5. Hershey's Bar with Almonds
4. Kit Kat
3. Snickers
2. Peanut Butter Twix
1. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
Riley's numbers were spooktacular too. It's nice when that happens every once in a while.
5.Butterfinger
4.Snickers
3.3 Musketeers
2.Twix
1.Mounds (or Almond Joy, if I feel like a nut)
Ok, I thought about this all the way home. Before today, I would have told you that peanuts/peanut butter is just ok!
5. Peanut butter taffy in the black and orange waxed paper
4. Reese's peanut butter cups
3. Snickers
2. Reese's Pieces
1. Baby Ruth
Ooh, forgot about 100 Grand! Forgot about Reese's Pieces. Tie for 5th place. Sorry Baby Ruth.