With Halloween coming up, I'm looking in my pantry. We have bags and bags of leftover candy that my son has received from various birthday party pinatas and favor bags over the last few months. I'm wondering, how old does candy have to be before I can no longer in good conscience hand it out to trick-or-treaters? (Obviously, I'm talking about the stuff that is in wrappers.) Seriously, I think I have candy leftover from Easter. We just get so much, and we can't eat it all ourselves.
open a representative sample. If you'd eat it, pass it out.
Good luck to you and yours.
some candy like skittles and m&ms have a 'best by' date on the package. I usually go by the 'hardness' test. and/or appearance. If chocolate has a white film to it its too old.
Our Halloween candy from 2010 was thrown out in March...
if the gum is too hard - I wouldn't hand it out.
If the chocolate has a "film" over it - I wouldn't hand it out.
I will admit that my boys did a great job eating their candy last year!! We had braces on one so he couldn't eat some of the caramel....so the other didn't want it...it sat...M&Ms, Kit Kats, Butterfingers? Gone in the first week!! :)
GOOD LUCK!!
meh...it's all so full of preservatives...lol
If it isn't in an easter wrapper, give it away!
LOL... I'm with 8kidsDad... that's exactly what I do
