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Hey Everyone,

I thought I'd share how we dealt with our first Gluten-Free Halloween 
last year...

Last year was our first gluten-free Halloween and my older son, James 
(now in 5th grade) got really upset when he realized that he wouldn't be 
able to eat alot of the candy from trick or treat night.  He was saying 
he didn't want to trick or treat and for awhile wouldn't pick out a 
costume.   (prior to this, he LOVED dressing up and trick-or-treating)

We solved this by having an unsafe candy auction at the end of the 
evening.  I went out and bought individual candies that I knew they 
liked (as opposed to bags of it) and non-food treats (small toys, 
sillybanz - stuff you might put in their stocking at Christmas).  When 
they came home from trick-or-treating, we emptied their bags and divided 
the candy up: safe pile and unsafe or questionable pile.

Then I had my bag of surprise treats - I don't know if you are a 
Survivor fan, but I did it kind of like the food auction - I held up 
something, like 2 containers of cotton candy I found at CVS and asked 
how many unsafe candies they would pay for it - except unlike Survivor - 
both boys bought it, not just one.  Maybe they would shout out 5 candies 
- we had a separate bag for the "payment."  They "paid" for all the fun, 
safe candies and treats this way.  (my husband took the bag of unsafe 
candies to his car and brought it into work - he was VERY popular)  At 
the end of the auction, I had something a little bigger, I can't 
remember what it was - a ds game?  (I REALLY was working hard so noone 
would cry).  The "payment" for the last, big treat was the rest of their 
unsafe candy.

I hope this helps you as Halloween approaches.  My kids loved it and 
noone cried.

- Kate
Cols, OH

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