Better Candy

We took our daughter trick-or-treating this year and had a candy eating experience I just had to share. Before venturing out to the streets in our neighborhood for "real" trick-or-treating, we met a friend and her son at our local mall for indoor trick-or-treating since our kids are so young. 

Our daughter had a blast running in and out of stores collecting candy, and as soon as she got a Kit Kat, she decided that was the candy she wanted to eat.  Before leaving the mall, we let her eat the Kit Kat, after which she asked for more candy.  Unfortunately, the rest of the candy she got at the mall was hard candy that was clearly a choking hazard for a two-year-old. 

I told her, "This is yucky candy and a choking hazard, sweetie. We have better candy at home," thinking I'd give her some See's Candy we happened to have at home (that was not a choking hazard). For the entire car ride home, our daughter said, "Better candy, better candy, I want better candy." I had visions of her eating an entire box of See's Candies. When we got home, she opened the fridge, pointed at a tupperware full of pomegranate seeds and said, "Better candy, better candy."

My husband and I shared a quiet chuckle and got out the "better candy." And that's what she ate for dinner before "real" trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.