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My parents always checked our candy, I feel like a big part of it was so the rule stood that we couldn't eat it until we got home! I know at certain points we were cut off but I don't think there were any hard and fast rules about candy consumption. I loved to save mine though so it may not have mattered for me!

With the kids I have worked with I finally found the best tactic for us-- if everything else they eat goes bad eventually why doesn't candy? It stays for usually about 2 weeks and then I tell them to pick their last piece before it goes bad and we pitch it or their parents take it to work (in secret). They get so much though that it really is necessary. Every other way I have tried to reason with sweets obsessed kids has failed but this has never been questioned.

This post reminds me of the video where Jimmy Kimmel had parents pretend like they ate their kids' Halloween candy

We did look through it, but I never got anything unwrapped or inedible so I was always able to eat it all. My mom always let me keep it all in my room and eat it as I pleased..... but I would always ration it out and eat only a little bit at a time.

That being said.... I also know that my mom would steal some of my candy, so I didn't get to eat ALL of it :).

My parents looked through it and then we got to eat it until a certain time (in theory so we would go to bed).
After that, we could have one piece a day.

No candy sorting, but they did limit how many we could eat that night (usually quite a large number). We could keep all our candy and eat some other nights.

We had to dump all our candy out on the floor and they looked through it. We were then limited on how many pieces we could have that night and the days following. Not sure if they let us eat it all over time or they threw it out after a while.

My mom "checked" all my candy by eating all the good (chocolate) stuff out of it.

Yes, we were never regulated! I remember my sister and I would always sit together at the kitchen table and sort them, then trade our favorites with each other. It was fun!

I didn't get candy until I was 4, and that wasn't my mom's choice. I was sitting on the floor with a family friend who was several years older, and much to my mom's dismay, I tried chocolate for the first time! Sorry mom, you can't steal all the candy anymore!

Other than that, my parents never really regulated the candy. It was in a bowl on the counter/on top of the fridge, and we were always pretty good about not eating too much.

@highwire: pretty much. my mom watched too much news and was super paranoid about people poisoning candy. she'd separate candy from people we knew on the spot, and we got to eat those.

My parent's let me eat what I wanted!