Trick-Or-Treating with #Galactosemia

Are you ready for Trick-or-Treating?  I know both of my girlies are - they have been the entire month of October.  They are so, so excited.  This is a topic that was so - for lack of better terms - confusing to me when Alena was first diagnosed.  How will it be if candy is in the bucket that is unsafe? Is it better to just say "no" to non-safe candy? Or take it, and then give it up to the parental units?

Trick-or-Treat...yes....

Well, now having had some experience from previous trick-or treating this is what happens in our house.  And yes - before you ask - both girls are perfectly content with this :)  The girls take any candy they are given.  Often times, they like the chocolate just for the pretty wrapper.  By now both of them know that a lot of the candy is "unsafe" {for lack of better term} for them.  They still love, love, love collecting as much as possible.  And you know, there still are a lot of options available.  Generally, if there are dairyfree choices both girls will choose the "safe" candy :)   When we return back home, each girls unloads her "loot" onto our dinning room table.  Together we go through all of the candy and we then exchange the "unsafe" candy for "safe" candy.  And no,  not every single piece gets replaced because nobody would want their child to eat that much candy, right?!

Skittles, Twizzlers, Smarties, Sweet Tarts....

Now, I am prepared {no, they will not get all of that - just some it is also for the kids coming to our house we also offer some chocolate for those as well :)}