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Trick-or-Treat Candy Cheat Sheet

A one-page candy planning sheet: estimate your trick-or-treaters, work out pieces and bags with a fill-in table, compare pieces per bag and cost per piece, plan a teal bowl, and tally the kids at the door.

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One-page candy cheat sheet in gold on black with a trick-or-treat pail header, fill-in lines for the trick-or-treater count and candy math, a table of eight candy bags with piece counts and cost per piece, a teal bowl box and a half-hour tally strip

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What You'll Need To Use This

The math from our guide to how much Halloween candy to buy, on paper. Fill it in with a pencil, then check your numbers in the candy calculator, which also finds the lowest-cost mix of bags.

What’s on the Sheet

  • Your Trick-or-Treaters: last year’s count, or porch light hours times kids an hour, with the Mars Wrigley and Shipt rain rule and a note on the Saturday Halloween
  • The Math: trick-or-treaters times pieces each, plus a safety margin and household snacking, then divided by the pieces in your bag
  • Read the Bag: the eight bags from the guide and calculator, with piece counts and cost per piece at Amazon prices checked September 26, 2026
  • The Teal Bowl: FARE’s separate bowls rule, its non-food treat ideas, and its warning about fun size recipes
  • Count at the Door: a half hour tally strip, so next year you start from a real number

The sheet leaves pieces per kid to you. No survey counts it, and the calculator’s default of 3 is ours.

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