Halloween Candy Buy Back Program Troop Tested, Mother Approved.

You did your part, you bought the costumes, handed out candy, took the little ones to all the festivities and around the neighborhood. Everyone had a great Halloween, the house is loaded with enough candy to feed an army....literally, and at this point you're thinking the day after Halloween could appropriately be termed Crash Day, after all the sugar rushing that has gone on in the past 96 hours.

You know you don't want your kids eating much more of the heap of multicolored sugar piled on your table, and you know you shouldn't be eating it, but you just can't bring yourself to throw it away because that would be wasting. So what do you do?

For a few years, or ever since my little monsters have been old enough to recognize the tricking and treating and candy binging event known as Halloween, some local communities have collected candy donations or even offered to buy unwanted candy and send it to the troops overseas.

Operation Gratitude, however, makes the initiative national with www.halloweencandybuyback.com