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Get creative and use up that Halloween candy!

If you bought enough mini chocolate bars and bags of chips to feed the entire neighbourhood but had a lackluster turn out on Halloween, never fear. Here are 15 creative ideas for utilizing your leftover treats when you can no longer pawn off them off on your co-workers.

1. Make Movember tootsie roll ‘stache pops!

2. Melt Peppermint patties or caramels into coffee for a quick mint / caramel mocha.

3. Chop up mini chocolate bars for an ice cream topper, addition to trail mix, or a decadent pancake filler.

4. Press peanut butter cups into sugar cookies or brownies or mix into Rice Krispie squares

5. Donate it to community centers in your area.

6. Make a mosaic. The bright colours and shapes of candy corn, nibs, and smarties make them great art supplies.  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. What happens when you don’t force kids to share? They work things out on their own.

2. Chris Nuttall-Smith in the Globe and Mail says he’s more afraid of hydrogenated palm kernel oil than the possibility of someone slipping a razor blade into his kid’s candy. He’s making his own candy this year.

3. How do you prepare kids with sensory issues for all the lights and sounds of Halloween?

4. The evolution of child-proofing.

5. Meet the world’s strongest baby:

Photo by Thien Gretchen via Flickr