What are you doing with your Christmas candy?

So everyone in my family loves to make Christmas candy (fudge, caramel, turtles, divinity, etc.).

They all realize I'm dieting this year so they cut the amount they gave me in half, but my God it's still a lot of candy. 

I'm assuming there are other people out there with a similar issue, and I'm curious what everyone has done or will do with the candy.

I divided it up into little gift boxes and gave it to the homeless folks who hang out during the day at the Library where I work. 

Everytime I get something I know is bad for me, or a binge trigger, I simply throw it away. Now my parents do not know and are starting to wonder why food is mysteriously disappearing, so I tell them I ate it and they move on.

I suggest finding a way to work it into your daily calories. Holidays are a time of happiness and you should be able to enjoy the same things everyone else does. Just be concious about your caloric intake.

Most candy can be stored in the freezer indefinitely... and a healthy well-balanced diet has plenty of wiggle room in it for a piece of two of candy every now and then! Saying 'no, evil' and turfing it out won't help you to learn how to manage in the real, sugar-filled world. I know DH has bought me treats of some kind - I'll put them in the freezer and take them out when I can afford the calories and want a treat. Just because it's there that doesn't mean I have to pig out on it!

Right now it's strewn across my bed where I'm picking through it to eat the good stuff.  I'll probably end up eating most of the stuff I like, but I've already put a lot of the gross stuff (raspberry- and cherry-filled, non-chocolate candy, etc.) in my apartment's communal candy bowl for someone else to get fat off of.

i give it all to my mate.  except for the one piece of chocolate and candy cane he gave me in my stocking.  that i will probably eat someday.  i still have lifesavers from last years stocking...

deven, I like your idea, of giving it away to homeless folks; I wonder how often they get special treats such as one might get at Christmas.

I'm eating mine. I bought most of it, dang it, and made sure I got the good stuff! :-D

this year ive had a few candy canes, and a piece of mint chocolate.. an 8th of a fairy tale brownie.. and i think that's it.

i'm so glad my family doesn't bake.

but a sugar cookie sounds so yummy. i'll try to find a good one and squeeze it into my calories.

tip: if you receive candy, cakes, cookies, etc. that aren't screaming (and i mean SCREAMING) your name, then let em go and pass em on. The ones that you must try and take part in, eat them slow and savor every second. :) tis the season. 

I'm afraid my obese father ate all mine before I could even decide probably for the best I was getting obese myself,

Whenever I get gifts like that, my wonderful DH is gracious enough to either eat it for me, or take it into his office so others eat it for me!

=^..^= MOLLY

I'll probably bring the excess to work, because there's always food here and I'm sure people will eat it. Giving it to the homeless is such a nice idea!

i always have a few pieces of what i really want, then i bring the rest into work and let eveyrone else enjoy it. I don't feel like i'm missing out on anything. if i leave it at home, i eat it even if i don't want it so i have to get it out of the house.

I don't celebrate Christmas. :D And I don't get candies this time of year because growing up, my family knew I detested candy and to an extent still do.  Sugar makes me not happy.

I did bake a lot this year, though, and have a few left-over cookies in the fridge for when my nephew comes to visit me.  They're shoved in a box, in the back of the fridge, behind the yucky stuff (a honkin' huge hunk of smoked venison) that I'm afraid to touch, so I'm pretty sure those cookies will stay there for quite a while..

Luckily, I didn't get very much candy or treats this year, since everybody knows I'm eating healthy.  But I did get a little.  I'm keeping the little chocolate Santa to eat (1.75 ounces).  I got a box of Moose Munch - sweetened popcorn with milk chocolate stuff - that went directly into the compost as not worth it.  The bag of dark chocolate espresso beans I just now put in a bowl and offered up in the lunch room. 

I take it to work, or freeze it and let my kids have it on a limited basis.

But taking it to work is the fastest way to get rid of it.  Last year I put out a plate of cookies I received - they were gone in less than 30 minutes.