Comments on: A Fair Trade Halloween? Not Completely.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:28:01 +0000

Hi Michaela, I still haven’t found the magic solution for heavy trick or treating. There seems to be be a fair number of organic lollypops, but the fair trade Halloween treats tend to be chocolate and today I priced 200 small bite size bars at $55. I don’t think that would even handle all the trick or treaters we get! Will def. post if I learn anything else!

By: michaela

michaela — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:22:03 +0000

I am on the same search this Halloween and wondering if since you wrote this post if there have been any other Halloween Fair trade products you can recommend?

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By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:21:13 +0000

Lynn,

Love, love your blog. Halloween was a huge stressor for us too (not sure why I am commenting on halloween). However, I found that there are just a few times when you have to let it go and just say ok, one day is fine. My greatest fear is that my kids will grow up to be the “weird” ones…I had a friend growing up that was 8 before she ever had a hot dog…I can remember specifically when we all heard her say “what’s a hot dog?” Snikers and Milkyways are good every once in awhile.

By: Karen Bannan

Karen Bannan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:52:31 +0000

We went with the same lollipops! Also, we bought organic gummy bears, too.
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By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:43:19 +0000

Green Bean, Erin, Condo Blues, Christine…thank you all for your comments…as you may have seen from my subsequent post, my family has been attacked by the creeping crud ever since Halloween – all four of us have been sick each day since, and we’re on day 8 now!!! So sorry for delay in getting back to you. Christine, so excited to have discovered your blog and book – have a feeling we’ll be getting to know each other! Green Bean, Erin, and Condo Blues – maybe we could find out when stores place their Halloween orders and do a carnival a month or two prior to raise awareness?

By: Christine MacDonald

Christine MacDonald — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:46:33 +0000

Lynn

Thanks for all the great information. I’ve known awhile about the human rights abuses involved in producing chocolate but didn’t know there were so many consciences people trying to purchase abuse-free goodies this Halloween. Too bad the Post didn’t pick up on this. Would have been a great local story.

I’ve added your site to my blogroll at http://greendistrict.wordpress.com. I look forward to reading your work in the future.
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By: Condo Blues

Condo Blues — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:37:31 +0000

I went with Ohio made Dum Dum suckers. They are probably full of HFCS but at least they are local and I can find them in the grocery store!
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By: Erin aka Conscious Shopper

Erin aka Conscious Shopper — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:04:51 +0000

We went with the Yummy Earth lollipops too. A couple days ago, I found an awesome list of alternative “treats,” including baseball cards, polished rocks, bandaids with cartoon characters, temporary tatoos, acorns, and knock knock jokes. I was thinking of doing something like that next year…Even though my oldest got an eraser at one place and said, “Wait! Where’s my candy?”
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By: Green Bean

Green Bean — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:45:54 +0000

I had a similar journey. We also get oodles of kids for trick or treating. Last year, we had over 300. This year, being Saturday, I’m sure it was more. I couldn’t find any fair trade chocolate to cover that many people that wouldn’t put us in the poor house. I ended up picking up a handful of bulk Yummy Earth lollipops at the locally owned Health Food Store, found some Halloween stickers from last year and then a box of new, small packaged crayons (all new) at the local thrift store. It would only be enough to last for 40 or so kids.

Ironically, though, we ended up going trick or treating early with friends and then headed over to their place for a potluck. It was a brief, three block trick or treat. We ended up not being home for passing out candy. Oh well! This was better though. Less candy for our kids and lots of homemade treats to share with friends.
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