Place to donate Halloween candy to SNAP folks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, OP wrote about donating leftover candy to hungry people, but I had also assumed when reading the thread title that she meant donating candy for low income families to hand out. My kids didn’t just love trick-or-treating; they always wanted to take turns handing out candy too.

Well that was a stupid assumption bc it was to donate to hungry people. Not people looking to have something for trick or treaters. It's not like you had to read much further to get the full meaning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+10000

Hate to break it to you OP but this is all a scam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+10000

Hate to break it to you OP but this is all a scam.

And then they pat themselves in the back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, OP wrote about donating leftover candy to hungry people, but I had also assumed when reading the thread title that she meant donating candy for low income families to hand out. My kids didn’t just love trick-or-treating; they always wanted to take turns handing out candy too.

Well we know what they say about making assumptions.

[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.

Because ICE is snatching kids off the streets? 🙄

[Anonymous]

A sports club that my kid participates in does an annual trunk or treat in a very low income neighborhood every year. We work with a charity that is very involved with the residents.

I have to say that it feels like a bit much to be who we are - let’s face it, a group of Asian/white rich kids - and handing out buckets of Halloween candy to families who utilize the charity. But, the little kids love it, our kids dress up and decorate, and it’s a festive atmosphere.

[Anonymous]

Why not set up a basket with ramen, Mac cheese, pasta, cereal boxes…. Saying “help yourself”
Put it a little further away from door where parents usually stand.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1. People just want to feel like they did "something" for another. Freeze your candy, folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Do share your "expertise" of who is in charge!

[Anonymous]

Most food banks have giant needs for cash donations and for healthy foods....protein, canned vegetables etc

A lot of our clients have diabetes and/or heart disease and can't eat candy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please be mindful that a larger proportion of people who use SNAP and food banks are in poor dental health. I agree that candy is not the big help you think it is. Just take it into your office.

You should be “mindful” that carbohydrates promote tooth decay, not specifically sugar. Therefore, if this is your concern, you should go rid the food banks of pasta and flour and crackers and cereals and oatmeal…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Do share your "expertise" of who is in charge!

Sure, she’s 55, divorced (maybe twice), short haircut, no makeup, frumpy clothes, a perpetual scowl, and at least seven bumper stickers on her Subaru Forrester that’s covered in dog hair from her “rescue.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not set up a basket with ramen, Mac cheese, pasta, cereal boxes…. Saying “help yourself”
Put it a little further away from door where parents usually stand.

This won't necessarily go to the people you want it to go to. It's not that hard to find organizations who already efficiently do this if you actually want to help. Take your Mac and cheese to them to distribute.