I used to love Halloween as a kid, though it conflicted with my Sunday School upbringing. (I will never forgive mother for buying me a plastic costume in grade one from Bargain Harold's. I was the devil. And the mask was plastic and stunk of chemicals, with the tiniest holes for sight and breathing).
Nevertheless I just adored the candy, (still do).
My brother would go trick or treating all hours of the night going to countless neighbourhoods, and coming back home with trash bags full of candy.
My sisters and I were much to young and were only allowed to go to the houses around our block. Our candy would last a week or two at best.
Brother Sam's would last for months. But he always hid the garbage bags in the basement where his room was. We would take shifts uprooting the basement and his room, but could never find it.
Our only luck came one year when he carelessly left the bag under the stairs in the open. But by then it was full of reject candy. You know the kind, Kerr's toffee in the black and orange wrapper, Rockets, or the cheap people who gave home made candy apples...Why?
...Beware of house number 1437!
Halloween of Today
I went to the grocery store to see what I would give the kiddies and I saw a bag of assorted candies cost $11.99!
Oh hell to the naw.
I refused to pay that much for people's children to rot their teeth. Plus it goes against my code of good eating lately, why should I be the only one chewing on a carrot stick.
So I decided to buy a bag of assorted vegetables, i.e brussel sprouts, yellow zucchini and red potatoes. Much more nutritious and the whole batch cost less than $1.99/pound.
So when the goblins and ghost show up at my door talking about "Trick or Treat", Ill gladly do both, and trick them with treats chalked full of vitamins and antioxidants!
How 1,500 plus inmates in the Philippines prepare for Fright Night
Happy Tricks and Treats!
Perdita
