Place to donate Halloween candy to SNAP folks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP means they won't be able to afford to buy halloween candy to hand out. Understandable concern, given how expensive candy is these days.

That's not at all what OP said. OP said that she is worried that people are going to be starving in the streets, and she wants to pawn off her cheap, nasty Halloween candy on them. She is asking how to do that.

You didn't read her post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a really nice instinct. But I used to volunteer at a food bank sorting donations, and immediately after all the "candy" holidays (Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas to a lesser extent), we got a HUGE glut of candy. People want it out of their house for dietary reasons, and donate it up the wazoo. There's WAY more than people want. So this isn't actually really valuable.

Same with treats for troops and Girl Scout cookies donations. They were always stale by the time they got distributed.

A service member told me they accept it because it makes people feel good to donate but much of it gets thrown away.

[Anonymous]

An organization near me is collecting candy for kids who are too worried about ICE to go trick or treating. If I had extra candy, I'd donate it there. Kids on SNAP can mostly trick or treat for themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An organization near me is collecting candy for kids who are too worried about ICE to go trick or treating. If I had extra candy, I'd donate it there. Kids on SNAP can mostly trick or treat for themselves.

Too worried about ICE? Then they should self deport asap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am poor. We don't want your Halloween candy. We want beans, vegetables, fruit, pasta, peanut butter. Most families want meat. You know, the same things you feed your own family.

OP is asking about where to give her LEFTOVER candy. She’s not buying it for you. She’s thoughtfully not wanting to waste it and to instead give it to someone who has less. Geez.

If she was thoughtful she'd just ask her local food pantry what they need and provide that. Not give her picked over unwanted candy. It's like donating the cans in the pantry with a month left until expiration and patting yourself on the back for doing a good deed.

[Anonymous]

Do Snap recipients want last year's tot candy? Still have plenty of it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think OP means they won't be able to afford to buy halloween candy to hand out. Understandable concern, given how expensive candy is these days.

How could you possibly get that from the OP?

😂 I’d love to watch these people answer SAT questions about a reading passage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am poor. We don't want your Halloween candy. We want beans, vegetables, fruit, pasta, peanut butter. Most families want meat. You know, the same things you feed your own family.

What’s going on that you can’t buy that stuff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know you mean well but really you want to feed people who were hungry candy? That’s not the answer. The answer is to call your send it to a congressman and tell them to reopen the government. I don’t care if you’re in Maryland or Virginia.

Don’t bother calling your congressman; the House passed a CR a month ago.

Definitely call your MD/VA senators! They are the ones filibustering the funding, and withholding SNAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a really nice instinct. But I used to volunteer at a food bank sorting donations, and immediately after all the "candy" holidays (Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas to a lesser extent), we got a HUGE glut of candy. People want it out of their house for dietary reasons, and donate it up the wazoo. There's WAY more than people want. So this isn't actually really valuable.

Same with treats for troops and Girl Scout cookies donations. They were always stale by the time they got distributed.

A service member told me they accept it because it makes people feel good to donate but much of it gets thrown away.

When I was bored on deployment (Navy) I would sometimes dig into the boxes of letters that were periodically written to “any service member overseas.” We were in a location where internet access was not possible.

I would read these random letters for hours; some were funny, most were just nice, and many were heartbreaking. You would not believe the problems that some people struggled with for years, so when they wanted to write to “a troop” about hanging in there and staying safe (I was perfectly safe) they simply related their own accounts of perseverance.

It was like a window into Americana I’d never known.

And then the next letter in the box would be from an eight year old Cub Scout like “I hope you KILL the bad guys in the wor” with a picture of me shooting someone in the face and copious amounts of red Crayola illustrating the effects.

I loved them.

No candy, though. That was the last thing we needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An organization near me is collecting candy for kids who are too worried about ICE to go trick or treating. If I had extra candy, I'd donate it there. Kids on SNAP can mostly trick or treat for themselves.

This organization imagines up problems that don’t exist, and then congratulates themselves for addressing them.

I can totally picture the women in charge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am poor. We don't want your Halloween candy. We want beans, vegetables, fruit, pasta, peanut butter. Most families want meat. You know, the same things you feed your own family.

OP is asking about where to give her LEFTOVER candy. She’s not buying it for you. She’s thoughtfully not wanting to waste it and to instead give it to someone who has less. Geez.

If she was thoughtful she'd just ask her local food pantry what they need and provide that. Not give her picked over unwanted candy. It's like donating the cans in the pantry with a month left until expiration and patting yourself on the back for doing a good deed.

Expiration dates are arbitrary. It’s fine we’ll past them.

[Anonymous]

I’m on SNAP. My kids will be trick or treating on Fri night and will get plenty of candy of their own.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Donate some cans of real food. You can't be so cruel as to think poor people should eat garbage.

This. Why even hand out candy anyway? I always do mini bags of pretzels/gluten free puffs.

I'm sure kids are thrilled to receive these.

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

No where did OP say they weren’t helping with other food donation.

Seems OP anticipates extra treats and wants those without SNAP to have those extra treats.