Cute Name; Mad Trick or Treaters

[iHaunt]

The marketer of baby carrots would like you to "treat" your trick or treaters this year to Scarrots instead of candy. Scarrots are bags of baby carrots in a sealed pouch. Although this is a super cute name and a nice concept. I must stand up for the kids and say boooooo to the concept of giving out carrots instead of candy. I know we have an obesite problem in the U.S., and I know carrots, I mean Scarrots, are better for kids than candy. But must we ruin all the fun of Halloween? I'm all for moderating the intake of the candy your kids score while trick or treating, but it really takes the joy out of trick or treating when the treat turns out to be carrots.

[MacPhantom]

I love carrots. But not in place of candy.

[SpookyBlackKat]

Yeeaaaahhhh.....

Props to their marketing team but that will not fly over too well with me or my neighborhood kids.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I agree with that, iHaunt. There is definately a place for good nutrition in a childs life, and obeasity is a problem, but it seems that every fun tradition is under attackt these days. It's like giving out tooth brushes and samples of tooth paste. It spoils the fun. Besides that, Halloween comes once a year, and yes I will grant you that people eat abusively during Thanksgiving and Christmas, too, but I seriously doubt that going Trick or Treating once a year is going to make anyone more or less obeas then they already are.

Mike

[Spookymufu]

if people started handing out tooth brushes, apples, and other healthy foods and hygiene goods kids would stop TOT'ing and Halloween would die.....

[Midnite Shadow]

Now that would be true horror...Eeeeeeeeeeeeek.

No way...

[myteemouth]

The marketer of baby carrots would like you to "treat" your trick or treaters this year to Scarrots instead of candy. Scarrots are bags of baby carrots in a sealed pouch. Although this is a super cute name and a nice concept. I must stand up for the kids and say boooooo to the concept of giving out carrots instead of candy. I know we have an obesite problem in the U.S., and I know carrots, I mean Scarrots, are better for kids than candy. But must we ruin all the fun of Halloween? I'm all for moderating the intake of the candy your kids score while trick or treating, but it really takes the joy out of trick or treating when the treat turns out to be carrots.

I totally agree Moniter the candy the rest of the year but let them have Halloween candy and Easter candy for goodness sakes

[writerpatrick]

This might be a fun thing to give to adults but Halloween candy isn't a major contributor to obesity in kids. It's parents who don't know how to cook and substitute high-fat foods for nutritional ones.

[iHaunt]

Hey, how about sugar-free candies?

[myteemouth]

Hey, how about sugar-free candies?

Jeez just give them a tooothbrush or raisins I dont know which is worse

[Pumpkin_Man]

Well, actualy I kind of liked Raisens. I did get a few boxes of Sun Maid raisens in my TOT bag, and I liked them. My mom also use to pack them in my school lunghes. (The school I went to didn't have hot lunches. We had to bring out own, except for two days out of each month when we had hot dogs.)

Mike

[iHaunt]

Fruits such apple, orange, banana are good!

[iHaunt]

Some TOTers will beg for a sweet treat. Unless, someone put them in a carrot cake then hand them out and they should forget about it.

[myteemouth]

Well I give out real candy-Sour Punch Straws this year-kids seem to like that nasty sour stuff-it'll curl your face off