stalking me in every aisle
at the grocery
Halloween candy
of every kind calls with a
loud, sweet siren song
Sure, it’s for the kids
but who can resist bags of
mini Reese’s cups?
I love dressing up for Halloween, but I think I love the candy even more. It’s so unfair that grocery stores put up an entire aisle of Halloween candy (and displays at the end of every other aisle) at the beginning of October.
If I want any chance of not gaining 5 pounds this month, and want to actually give the candy I buy away to neighborhood kids, I’ll have to hold off on buying the jumbo bags of pixie sticks, fun-size Snickers and Sweet Tarts until two hours before trick-or-treat.
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I know, right? We have to buy an extra bag for us to munch on so we won’t eat all the trick-or-treaters’ candy.
Mmm, yes, so very hard this time of year, and it seems to stay this way until about January. 🙂
How jealous am I? Halloween candy is the best! Eat some for me too will ya? (see this way you are doing a SERVICE in the name of all expatriates around the world who don’t get Halloween candy!!)
Halloween candies?! Wow! Sounds sweet…
Oh, I so hear you on the diet thing…curse the stupid mini candy makers!!!
The only way I can resist is getting one of the few kinds of candy I don’t like, LOL. Good luck!
It’s easier now that we can’t eat any of the chocolate kind… that’s always my weakness!
This is the time of year when diets are totally ruined. First Halloween, then Thanksgiving and after that Christmas and all those amazing cookies and treats!
I agree … there ought to be some limits on the displays of these ‘temptations’ so we could AVOID the Halloween candy displays when shopping for groceries. Good luck to you with maintaining your weight rather than gaining.
One Haiku is up at Sacred Ruminations already and I’m working on the other for Small Reflections, hoping it will be up soon.
Hugs and blessings,
Oh it always starts now… from now until after the 1st of the year, eat eat eat.
I really have to tell you that I now look forward to Haiku Fridays! Thanks….Autumn inspired today!
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I have not bought ANY Halloween candy yet… on purpose. If it’s in my house, then I’ll eat it!
I heard you on the candy. I bought 4 bags because I got a great deal and I think we’re down to 2 bags. Damn the luck 🙂
I so hear you–I always gain wait between Halloween and Thanksgiving!
My husband always buys the damn candy way too far in advance. I make him hide it from me.
CANDY CORN….it’s following me everywhere!
I love halloween candy!! I love that I can get Heath bars!
First time playing!
I have been sooo tempted to buy some, and my husband keeps reminding me that if we buy it now it will be gone by halloween, and then I kinda think to myself, so?! I’m really feeling you on this one, damn those great deal $10 bags of deliciousness….
Oh oh oh I’m SOOO gonna miss Reese’s this year.
Orange slices, the candie kind with sugar on it. — I love orange slices that you can get fresh at this time of year. So far so good and Halloween night we will be working at the carnival hosted by our church. It is a wonderful affair with games and prizes and costumes — fun.
We don’t many trick or treats so usually only 1 bag of candy will do. I use Halloween as an excuse to buy an extra bag of my favorite candy, tootsie rolls, just so I can eat it.
I’m late to the party, but I did post a haiku! 🙂
I think I’ve always loved the costumes way more than the candy. Not that I don’t like the candy, but there’s just something magical about becoming something/someone else for a night. Guess that’s one reason I’ve always enjoyed the theatre. One big game of dress-up. 🙂
This is so true! I have to hold off on buying the stuff I like until right before Halloween. Otherwise, I’ll eat it!
ah, candy. man, i miss it… 🙁
This week I definitely started hitting the candy corns at work. Hard.