It’s October and that means Halloween is on it’s way. In just a few weeks the ghosts, ghouls, zombies, witches and all sorts of tiny terrifying creatures will come knocking at thousands of doors across the UK.
People need be prepared for that bang bang of the door and those 3 famous words! “Trick or Treat”
I find it essential to stock up on sweets for Halloween as I have a lot of children on my street as well as 3 of my own of course.
Swizzels -Matlow have bought out a selection of Halloween themed variety bags which are just perfect for when the ghouls come calling.
The bags all contain assorted selections of Swizzels favourites plus a few new and rarer sweets.
I was delighted to find drumstick lollies and sweets in each of these bags which is a firm favourite sweet of mine and also a very popular Swizzles classic. I also love the love hearts. As you can see there are many childhood retro favourites to be found. The ones that are new to me are the Toff-eee & Fudg-eee which are found in the Chew Crew variety bag.
Loads of lollies in these bags too and always go down well with the trick r treaters.
I found an large empty 3L plastic jar in my cupboards and emptied all the packets of sweets into it. All 5 bags seemed to fill the jar perfectly.
This is just great for Halloween night, but with 3 children and 4 weeks until the big night, I can’t see it still being full like this. Looks like I will have to go buy some more Swizzles packets.
You don’t need to venture far to find Swizzels sweet bags. All supermarkets sell them and probably a few smaller shops too. They can be found in the supermarket sweet aisles or the seasonal themed aisles which most supermarkets have. Prices vary tho usually £1-£3 per bag.
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Halloween was never a huge thing when I was a kid, my memorys of Halloween are with my own children, we always get dressed up and go trick or treating
Playing Halloween games like bobbing apples x
Getting dressed up with my brother to go trick or treating
Fav memory is spraying silly string when someone said “trick” instead of treat 😀 So colourful!
I love Halloween! My mum always used to carve us each a turnip lantern and she would use the leftover turnip to make broth and we would have a bowl to warm us up before we went trick or treating! I now do the same for my kids – carve turnips and make soup!
Being a kid and getting loads of yummy sweets!!!
We didn’t really do Halloween when I was little – so I am making up for it now with my children and they love dressing up 🙂
We used to go trick or treating in the pubs and made a fortune haha 🙂
i never really had halloween when we were kids, but i love seeing the kisd today all dressed up
carving turnip lamps with aunty Doreen at grandma’s house with my cousins
When I was a kid and going trick or treating. I remember collecting like 3-4 bags of candy. I love Halloween!
Getting a pumpkin cutting a face out and putting a lighted candle in it at night time.
We always had Halloween parties as my sister’s birthday is 4 days before, cool for dressing up and fun games
my best memory is of going trick or teating as a child, and going to houses known for all the best sweeties, , then getting to the end of the street, swapping masks and going back along the row….. wont be letting my little one do that lol 🙂
playing apple bobbin was always a favorite for me as a kid.
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I had trouble with following @swizzlesmatlow on twitter as you have the L and the E round the wrong way on swizzels on the link to follow them on twitter hun
Trick or treating locally , at friends houses and instead of sweets one of the moms invited us in and made us home made doughnuts , OMG they were hot and delicious , just what we needed on a cold October night x
My fav memory of Halloween was when I was about 10 years old, I had a Halloween bday party! I still remember the bday party being so much fun…..I was a ghost!
No halloween when i was little, but love it with my kids and grandkids now. making up for lost time xx
When I was a kid it was just Guy Fawkes so I don’t have any Halloween memories but I do have great memories of my kids in their costumes
My very first Halloween my uncle took me dressed as a pirate around my gran’s block of flats. I had 3 huge bags filled with fruit and sweets and people who hadn’t expected anyone handed over money and I ended up making £10 😮 I was 5/6yrs old! Everyone also thought I was a little boy 😀
getting exicted about dressing up
every halloween getting dressed up and going trick or treating with my children
When my young son had a bowl full of sweets for the ‘trick n treaters’, but no one came so we had the lot to ourselves.
Not wanting to share my sweets with my friends!
My favourite memory of Halloween is the first time I took my daughter trick or treating, it was so much fun and she really loved it. plus Im a huge horror fan so Halloween is my favourite time of year 🙂
i remember lots of kids coming to the door
Halloween sleepovers at my friend’s spooky old house! We’d play hide & seek in the dark, watch horror films & do seances!
dressing up as a Spanish Senorita is my favourite memory!
I had a friend over every Halloween and we used to watch scary movies.
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Taking my son to buy a mask, he was trying one on and he turned around and a lady walked in the shop and screamed, we looked at each other and said thats the one 🙂
Halloween party and doing apple bobbing.
The community being one- I met my best friend whilst trick or treating 😀
Dressing up was my favourite part
giving birth to my beautiful soon to be 21(on halloween!)year old daughter-double the fun and celebration 🙂
just the thing for all the little ‘Horrors’ who come knocking !!
Trick or treating at the university – my friend used to live on campus as her dad was a lecturer
We used to go Trick or Treating with some friends – there was always one woman who wouldn’t give us anything and was very rude about it, so we cut her washing line. Not very exciting, but at the age of 8, we did get a certain satisfaction!
only went trick or treating a few times when i was younger, it more now making memories with my little girl, decorating the house and the other half trying to calve out pumpkins lol.
My favourite memory as a child was trick or treating, hopefully going forward with my son it will be more about pumpkins and fun
going out trick or treating with my brother
seeing my grandaughter in her fancy dress the first time , so cute x
We never done anything when we was little
I love halloween and and have a massive party every year, lots of great memories
Best memories are of learning our party piece and then going guising. You would get a fruit as a thank you from the neighbours. None of this trick or treat nonsense, we take our kids guising.
My favourite memory of Halloween is from last year when the kids and I made our own halloween tree and decked the whole house in fake spiders web and spiders.
I wasn’t allowed to do Halloween as a child so I loved it when I went away to college and got to dress up as vampishly as I liked, especially as I discovered that a black wig really does suit me!!!
Definitely recent years having fun with friends and staying in to bake 🙂
my best memory is going trick or treating as a child with my family
My son knocking on a door and then opening it to walk in hahaha thankfully the woman was coming to the door at the time and was laughing
getting dressed up with my sister and going trick or treating to get some goodies
the treats
the excitment of getting dressed up and going out x
Dressing up and getting my face painted
When we were little and went out halloweening we used to go as a group – we lived in a small village that had no street lights (still doesn’t actually!) it was dusk and there were bats starting to come out, one of the bigger boys who was about 15 told us a story as we walked through the dark about them being vampire bats and they were hunting anyone who didnt have their heads covered – we were all petrified and fighting over my witches hat! We didnt stay out long that year!!!
When i was little we would decorate bin bags with glitter and make hats from card. So much fun and great memories of doing it with my sister. Such a shame there is so much to buy now. Most children will never have those memories
We didn’t have a lot of money to spend on Halloween outfits when we were growing up but I do remember one year I was allowed a plastic mask to wear. It was a duck face and I’m sure I looked so stupid wearing it but I wore it for hours on end. I was so pleased to have it.
partying with the kids
Fav memory is my Brother and I apple bobbing ~~
My best memory is last year, me and my children baked and decorated a graveyard cake and had a party and watched Hocus Pocus at home in the warmth.
Winning fancy dress competition with my homemade bin bag witch costume
going to Thurstaston country park Halloween walk and party
making gunge for our lucky dip trick or treat cauldrons. usually involved spaghetti and jelly.
getting lots of sweets from trick or treating
Apple bobbing when I was little
Going to a Halloween party and playing a game that ended up with me getting covered with flour
going trick or treating and having the biggest pile of sweets ever
seeing the kids all dressed up and excited at going ‘Trick or Treating’
spending time with my son
My friend and I going trick or treating in our Red Devil costumes that we’d worn in our dancing show, they were such good costumes everyone said how good we looked and called their kids to the door to look at us!
Dressing up as meals on wheels when I was about 10. Mum had stuck some paper cups & plates to a tray and I went out on my rollerskates – I kept falling over & my tray was all bashed but it was a fun night trick or treating 🙂
Going to school with a hairy monster hand to scare the teachers.
Dressing my son as a spider when he was 8 months old and taking him trick or treating
i must have been about 8/9 years old. it was raining really hard, but me and my friend still went out trick or treating, we got soaked.
loved cutting out the pumpkins as a child with my sisters happy memories now my children cut out the pumpkin
Bonfires in every lane with the smell of jacket potato.
Vampires haloed by streetlight their bloody jowls issuing foggy clouds of freezing breath.
GOing trick or treating with my siblings 🙂
dressing up to go trickor treating
dressing up as a vampire for my Guides Halloween party, complete with home made bin bag cape!
We used to start trick or treating in September 🙂
I always love the dressing up
my favourite memories of halloween are my children dressing up and taking them trickle treating 🙂 x
Handing out sweets to the Trick or Treaters – my favourite part!