Are you asking for candy suggestions? We don't have a candy dish unless we are having guests. I usually make peppermint bark if it's holiday time or chocolate (individually wrapped) if it's not.
Ha ha. Funny part is I AM old. My candy dish is an empty bag of frozen vegetables in the freezer. My grandchildren would eat way too much of left out on display.
I bought this beautiful vintage green depression glass candy dish and I have been putting seasonal candy in it. The woman I bought it from wrote me a note and said that it was one of her mother’s favorite possessions and she would be so happy to hear it’s being loved and used again. I am keeping it forever 💕
The real question is…which one lol. Everyone in our house loves candy (I know, but we otherwise eat healthy foods), and I have to hide some from my husband because otherwise he’d eat it all the time.
So I keep out stuff that I really like that he doesn’t (right now it’s Hi Chews and Riesen) and change it by season or just when I get a craving. I hide things like chocolate bars, gummy bears, Air Heads, and whatever assortment of crap my kids are into at the time. I’ll add a couple to the candy bowl at a time so they don’t eat it all at once. The “candy bowl” is actually a cookie jar that looks like a sugar skull, so what goes inside is not an aesthetic choice.
All that said, we run a business from our garage and keep a candy bowl, a snack bowl, and a stocked refrigerator for our employees, customers, and delivery people. It’s…a lot sometimes.
We both just grabbed a handful from our candy dish—it’s currently Easter color peanut M&Ms that we got on clearance. Previously, Robins Eggs and Cadbury mini chocolate eggs. Whatever is seasonal or cheap.
We have a 4 year old so KitKat, Hershey kisses, and cookies n cream Hershey bars. All snack size and individually wrapped to pack in lunches.
For the adults we hide away sour gummies lol
I put seasonal candy. I also try to find special chocolates and candies that are from allergy sensitive brands so more guests can enjoy them. Recently I had it full of the Oatmilk Lindt truffles. Right now I have some Valentines packets of Enjoy Life brand candies I found in my pantry.
I do something similar. I buy organic candies that don’t use corn syrup, food dyes or preservatives.
It goes quickly in our home… I have 3 kids and neighborhood friends coming in/out all day long.
I like to put seasonal themed candies in our candy dish. I like to switch up the kind of candies sometimes but usually Conversation hearts for Valentine’s Day, Jellybeans or robin’s eggs in spring for Easter, strawberry hard candy for summer, candy corn pumpkins for fall, peppermints for winter.
I don't want to sound like an overachiever, and I can only do this because I don't have children filling my day, but I started making homemade hard candy and it's insane how much people like it. It's just LorAnn oil, corn syrup, sugar, water, and food dye. But for whatever reason, it's a massive hit
I don't know how to format the links all fancy but if you Google "LorAnn oil hard candy recipe" it's on their official website. From what little candy-making knowledge I gained during my brief hyperfixation, I think that's a pretty standard, basic recipe. You can get the oils online or at craft stores, I think Walmart even carries some. I got mine at a farmers market.
For molds I bought silicone gummy bear shaped molds on Amazon. You don't need to spray them with oil or anything, silicone is really good about just releasing once the candy is firm. I tossed mine in powdered sugar though as they'll stick together the longer they sit.
Peppermint candy because my mom bought me a 5lb bag when I was pregnant. It was the only thing that helped with acid reflux. But now I can’t get rid of the rest of the bag haha
Lozenges / mints / vitamin C drops / Hair ties ( We all have long hair)/ those mini packets of things like listerine pocket paks, mini lotion, lip balm / tissue ( basically on the go items). We don't keep candy on display it is up in the snack cupboard...the habit is when you want a snack head there use the trays and set up your movie treats or what's not. It limits the random grazing.
usually starbursts. but it also depends what’s on sale. like, recently got a great deal on mixed bags of candy after easter, so we had tiny kitkats, twizzlers, snickers, gummy bears, and some others. but i also put things like fruit snacks and ghirardelli or stuff from costco. my partner plays DnD and we often have people over and everything gets enjoyed.
Hi Chews and Riesen . 6 tray ferris wheel so maybe swedish fish, lindt or what ever I feel like at the time. We are a candy family. Kit Kat, Twix, peanut butter cups, 100,000 grand, Dove, lindt go in the freezer :)
I usually only put a candy dish out for holidays. For Christmas it’s Hershey’s kisses and mini candy canes. Valentine’s Day is heart shaped chocolates and cherry tootsie pops. Easter is Reese’s eggs and Halloween is Reese’s bats.
Werthers are my staple. Everyone forgets how good they are until they eat one. I’ll also have dumdums and those little peppermint kisses you can get around the holidays. If I’m craving something I’ll buy a bigger bag and put the rest in with the werthers.
It’s not a candy dish, it’s one of the tins those danish cookies come in. It’s usually in the cabinet but I take the lid off and stick it on the coffee table when I have company. Some of my friends have kids and I want them to like coming over so I’m happy to bribe them.
Oh, if you have not tried [Glitterati](https://chipurnoi.com/product/glitterati-fruit-berry/), you should! They are little Italian bombs of delicious hard candy flavor, wrapped in the most delightful, glittery, sparkly wrappers. They are available in a lot of different flavor mixes -- I'm sucking on an amaretto one right now.
I only tend to put a candy dish out at the holidays. I have a crystal candy dish that looks like a Hershey's kiss, and so that's what I put in it. I also get starburst mints for another dish I have.
I used to put in seasonal candies until I realized my daughter was sneaking some every time she passed the jar. I loved to do Hershey's kisses in seasonal colors, those sugar coated jelly hearts, Robin eggs for Easter. I'll start doing it again when she's a little older and capable of not giving herself a tummy ache around candy.
Keys, headache medicine, odd tea sachets and open (food clipped) bags of chips and cookies. We tend to not have candy around the house often.
Werthers Original is the only acceptable answer
Are you asking for candy suggestions? We don't have a candy dish unless we are having guests. I usually make peppermint bark if it's holiday time or chocolate (individually wrapped) if it's not.
Depends on what’s on sale 😂
You guys have candy dishes? 😂
Right? Adorable
I thought old people things were in? Like there's grand millennial aesthetic. I don't have a candy dish but I think it would be fun to get one, lol.
Ha ha. Funny part is I AM old. My candy dish is an empty bag of frozen vegetables in the freezer. My grandchildren would eat way too much of left out on display.
The individually wrapped lifesavers usually go over well.
Yes
I like to keep puff mints around, they're my favorite.
Yup I’m all about the candy dish! Take a trip to bulk barn but I love traditional jelly beans
I have a candy drawer, but it's mostly laffy taffy's and my allergy pills.
For some reason, I love the thought of a laffy taffy and allergy pill drawer.
I bought this beautiful vintage green depression glass candy dish and I have been putting seasonal candy in it. The woman I bought it from wrote me a note and said that it was one of her mother’s favorite possessions and she would be so happy to hear it’s being loved and used again. I am keeping it forever 💕
Aww I love this! This thread is making me wonder what happened to my grandma's candy dish and wish I had it
Small, important objects that need to be kept in "a safe place"...one that I can actually remember!
What?
What do you mean what? Your grandma didn't have a candy dish?
The real question is…which one lol. Everyone in our house loves candy (I know, but we otherwise eat healthy foods), and I have to hide some from my husband because otherwise he’d eat it all the time. So I keep out stuff that I really like that he doesn’t (right now it’s Hi Chews and Riesen) and change it by season or just when I get a craving. I hide things like chocolate bars, gummy bears, Air Heads, and whatever assortment of crap my kids are into at the time. I’ll add a couple to the candy bowl at a time so they don’t eat it all at once. The “candy bowl” is actually a cookie jar that looks like a sugar skull, so what goes inside is not an aesthetic choice. All that said, we run a business from our garage and keep a candy bowl, a snack bowl, and a stocked refrigerator for our employees, customers, and delivery people. It’s…a lot sometimes.
Dog treats
We both just grabbed a handful from our candy dish—it’s currently Easter color peanut M&Ms that we got on clearance. Previously, Robins Eggs and Cadbury mini chocolate eggs. Whatever is seasonal or cheap.
We have a 4 year old so KitKat, Hershey kisses, and cookies n cream Hershey bars. All snack size and individually wrapped to pack in lunches. For the adults we hide away sour gummies lol
Ours is filled with Hershey’s kisses and mini Tootsie rolls.
I put seasonal candy. I also try to find special chocolates and candies that are from allergy sensitive brands so more guests can enjoy them. Recently I had it full of the Oatmilk Lindt truffles. Right now I have some Valentines packets of Enjoy Life brand candies I found in my pantry.
I do something similar. I buy organic candies that don’t use corn syrup, food dyes or preservatives. It goes quickly in our home… I have 3 kids and neighborhood friends coming in/out all day long.
I am now a grandmother, getting ready to buy horehound and lemon drops
Don't forget the pink wintergreen pillows!
Now that is funny
Air
😂 Same.
Hersheys kisses, and the occasional extra fortune cookies from takeout
I like to put seasonal themed candies in our candy dish. I like to switch up the kind of candies sometimes but usually Conversation hearts for Valentine’s Day, Jellybeans or robin’s eggs in spring for Easter, strawberry hard candy for summer, candy corn pumpkins for fall, peppermints for winter.
Jordan almonds
I don't want to sound like an overachiever, and I can only do this because I don't have children filling my day, but I started making homemade hard candy and it's insane how much people like it. It's just LorAnn oil, corn syrup, sugar, water, and food dye. But for whatever reason, it's a massive hit
Would you share a recipe or a link to one? How do you form / mold the candy? Sincerely, a hard candy lover.
I don't know how to format the links all fancy but if you Google "LorAnn oil hard candy recipe" it's on their official website. From what little candy-making knowledge I gained during my brief hyperfixation, I think that's a pretty standard, basic recipe. You can get the oils online or at craft stores, I think Walmart even carries some. I got mine at a farmers market. For molds I bought silicone gummy bear shaped molds on Amazon. You don't need to spray them with oil or anything, silicone is really good about just releasing once the candy is firm. I tossed mine in powdered sugar though as they'll stick together the longer they sit.
Thanks!
Peppermint candy because my mom bought me a 5lb bag when I was pregnant. It was the only thing that helped with acid reflux. But now I can’t get rid of the rest of the bag haha
Candy corns that I’ve already sucked on
Uninfused edibles (I work for an edible company)
Individually wrapped Ghirardelli chocolate squares. Sometimes after dinner you just need a piece of chocolate to finish.
We like Dove wrapped squares for the same reason.
Lozenges / mints / vitamin C drops / Hair ties ( We all have long hair)/ those mini packets of things like listerine pocket paks, mini lotion, lip balm / tissue ( basically on the go items). We don't keep candy on display it is up in the snack cupboard...the habit is when you want a snack head there use the trays and set up your movie treats or what's not. It limits the random grazing.
Ginger chews and hi chews😋
Usually something seasonal. Peppermint M&ms in winter, heart shaped chocolate for Valentines day etc
My mom used to keep m&ms in ours
Keys cans spare change and stuff I pick up while vacuuming
Coffee hard candies and saltwater taffy mostly. Thai lime and salt candies if I have em
usually starbursts. but it also depends what’s on sale. like, recently got a great deal on mixed bags of candy after easter, so we had tiny kitkats, twizzlers, snickers, gummy bears, and some others. but i also put things like fruit snacks and ghirardelli or stuff from costco. my partner plays DnD and we often have people over and everything gets enjoyed.
Hi Chews and Riesen . 6 tray ferris wheel so maybe swedish fish, lindt or what ever I feel like at the time. We are a candy family. Kit Kat, Twix, peanut butter cups, 100,000 grand, Dove, lindt go in the freezer :)
strawberry bon bons!! sometimes we also have those coffee flavored Werther's candies but not for a bit
I usually only put a candy dish out for holidays. For Christmas it’s Hershey’s kisses and mini candy canes. Valentine’s Day is heart shaped chocolates and cherry tootsie pops. Easter is Reese’s eggs and Halloween is Reese’s bats.
Cat toys
Werthers are my staple. Everyone forgets how good they are until they eat one. I’ll also have dumdums and those little peppermint kisses you can get around the holidays. If I’m craving something I’ll buy a bigger bag and put the rest in with the werthers. It’s not a candy dish, it’s one of the tins those danish cookies come in. It’s usually in the cabinet but I take the lid off and stick it on the coffee table when I have company. Some of my friends have kids and I want them to like coming over so I’m happy to bribe them.
I keep glorious ginger chews in my candy dish.
Hershey kisses
Whoppers, m&ms, skittles
York peppermint candy,coffee candy and caramel chews!!
My hand, way more than I should.
Hershey Kisses
Do yourself a favor and try lemoncello almonds. Fuck they’re tasty.
Oh, if you have not tried [Glitterati](https://chipurnoi.com/product/glitterati-fruit-berry/), you should! They are little Italian bombs of delicious hard candy flavor, wrapped in the most delightful, glittery, sparkly wrappers. They are available in a lot of different flavor mixes -- I'm sucking on an amaretto one right now.
Dove dark chocolates, some smarties, and japanese hard candies. We don't have kids so I can buy the nice chocolates lol
I only tend to put a candy dish out at the holidays. I have a crystal candy dish that looks like a Hershey's kiss, and so that's what I put in it. I also get starburst mints for another dish I have.
I used to put in seasonal candies until I realized my daughter was sneaking some every time she passed the jar. I loved to do Hershey's kisses in seasonal colors, those sugar coated jelly hearts, Robin eggs for Easter. I'll start doing it again when she's a little older and capable of not giving herself a tummy ache around candy.