Thread: popcorn for Tots

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Hi I've never given popcorn as a treat before. I usually spend around £100 on sweets (candy) but this year my budget it a lot less. I've seen a place that sells 3kg bags for £12. I was thinking I'd buy two as it'd save me a lot of cash. Do any of you give popcorn and how well does it go down with the Tots?

They also sell it in a variety of flavours

Salt
Sweet
Light Toffee
Flavoured (Strawberry, Blueberry, Pink Vanilla)

Would I be better off buying sweet or should I go for flavoured?

you know, back in the day (yeah I'm old ) you used to get a couple of popcorn balls that were homemade, but that went away with all the creepy stuff that happened to kids candy. I have seen them prepackaged here, but I don't know about the regular popcorn you are talking about. I bet the flavored would go over good!

i think as long as it is prepackaged it would be ok. most parents (myself included) wouldnt let their kids eat homemade stuff from people they dont know.

if i were to buy it, id probably go for the toffee or sweet, but the kids might like the different flavors too LOL

It sounds like the OP is planning to buy large quantities and dividie them. That wouldn't work in the states. Parents would just throw it out. Everyone goes through their bags when they get home and throws out anything that isn't perfectly sealed.

I live in the States. Act II makes prepackaged popcorn balls and when I give them out, they go fast.

my children LOVE popcorn and the first thing my sons eat each year are the ACT II popcorn balls that they get.... even before the candy...... having said that if they are individual packaged packs of popcorn then I think kids will like basically any flavor and you might want to change it up from the sweet to a cheesy kind just because of the fact that they get so much sweet who doesn't like something a little different in the bags. I agree that parents will not keep candy or anything else homemade and packaged........ heck I even throw out candies that aren't wrapped correctly via the manufacturers..... I'm paranoid as there was a huge nerds candy incident here in TN a few years back.

Yep, I'm afraid anything not in the original sealed wrapper will go into the trash - at least it would around here. People just don't know who they can trust.

Originally Posted by Madame Leota

Yep, I'm afraid anything not in the original sealed wrapper will go into the trash - at least it would around here. People just don't know who they can trust.

Same here, unless the parents know who it came from. Sad how a few nutjobs can ruin things. I would LOVE to spend the week of Halloween baking pumpkin cookies and making popcorn balls and the like, it'd be like the Christmas cookie baking days, only for Halloween which would be great!

I've always made my own treat bags and wear gloves when I make them. I have very hight standards when it comes to hygiene. The parents here don't have a problem with the bags I've made in the past. Probaby due to me being a parent myself of 3 boys. Plus they know I'm not some sicko freak who'd tamper with childrens sweets.

We make around 60 "Unhappy Meals" for ouor Trick or Treaters, albeit everything in them are sealed - you say a £100!!! Good Gods, your TOT are proper spoilt! We tend to go to wholesalers and the pound shops and prob spend around £45 in total.

But, we do have a small coffin filled with loose Jelly Babies though, and they happily munch away at those -