Never chips here but it is easy to do as they market them in large boxes for tricksertreating. And as far as one per bag. Yep yep yep my students at school lunches often experience the same thing.

In my homestate of Kansas, I never received chips. Of course, this was back in the day when homemade popcorn balls or caramel apples was acceptable.

I bought some Halloween chips, but they didn't make it to Halloween. ;( I've seen them given out at other houses.

I Did give out the small bags of chips along with a lot of mixed candy. They could choose either one. Chips went quickly. I wanted to give the small snack size popcorn packages but the store was out.

Hubby and I made a point of buying chips because if there were any left over, we'd eat them. I didn't see/know that about the Old Dutch chips.

I didn’t go out to buy candy till Halloween, so of course there wasn’t any, so I got the big box o’ chip bags. A mix of potato chips, Doritos, Cheetos, Fritos, Funyuns. The kids love Doritos! DH and I have had a couple leftover bags of Cheetos and Fritos. The rest is going to the local organization.

My kids used to come home from TorT with chips, they’d go into their school lunch bags. A house down the street used to give out little cans of Coke varieties, and water! The kids actually like that, they get thirsty!

My SIL and her husband have offered savory snacks, from this Costco variety pack for the last few years. No children have complained that I've been told. I will usually check her leftovers and take any remaining Cheetos, but haven't done that yet this year ;)

We are also in Alberta. When I went the only chipe were the plain ones. we only like them with dip, so I skipped them and got chocolate bars. The mini ones. What a joke! They are so small this year, they are a one bite snack. Ok, now I know but did not know then. So I bought enough for 20 treat bags, thinking about 6 per bag. That ended up pretty chintsy looking, but we are on acreage and didn’t know how many kids to expect so I left them as is. Then we only had 11 kids.

I would never do that because I can imagine them getting crushed by the heavier candy.

I just asked on my local food group and some had chips in them, one person said her kids' bags were sealed and empty.

I gave out full size chocolate bars and when they ran out i gave bags of ppopcorn twist then bags of cheezies

I would think kids would like getting some chips to interrupt all that sugar.

I do not have trick or treaters of the traditional variety. I provide treats to my truck drivers at work all October long though. And I do include non-candy snacks, both sweet and savory, whatever I can find in fun trick or treat packs. This year said treats included rice krispy treats, animal crackers, chocolate covered pretzels, regular pretzels, cheese balls, the CUTEST little bags of doritos, fruit leather,fruit snacks and takis. I mix all the snacks in with the candy and put a giant tub out in the locations where my drivers will be. The chocolate is always first to go, followed by the regular non-chocolate candy. The snacky stuff is last to go, but always goes.

I think for the most part kids like both sweet and savory treats. But what a TRICK to get an empty potato chip bag in your haul!!!!!!

I remember Old Dutch potato chips from when I grew up in Minnesota. I didn't realize that they were still around.

I don't recall ever getting chips in my TorT bag back in the late 60s and early 70s.

I used packaged snacks such as chips to help fill a pinata this past summer. One thing that the kids reallly went for was packaged Twinkies! Sure they are still sweet, but not like candy.

Trick or treat has all but ceased here in our suburban neighborhood. I havnt put on the lights for a few years now because all we were getting was maybe just a couple of kids.

ONe of the neighbors used to put his telescope out in the front yard and show the kids something. He quit that. Almost no decorations in our neighborhood either.

Where my grandson lives, on the other hand, has at least one part of town where halloween is alive and thriving.

Maybe those tiny little abbreviated lunch sized packages are really too small to dump the likes of chips into. A tiny package would be better filled with something small. Even small packs of MandMs often have only a small bite.

Getting small bags of chips is not uncommon for Halloween. They sell them in large boxes. True they do hold very little amounts of chips. I always have the small bags of the mixed variety on hand in the summer. They are easy to grab when you hit the lake, travel or go on picnics.

No I don't remember receiving them for Halloween when I was young. I don't think they even made the small size bags. Chips came in cans or in a waxy type bag. It was only later when they started using the foil type bags that the small bags became common.

I always bought Sun Chips or Smart Pop or Cheesies to offer for Halloween as some kids can't have sugar, so it's nice for them to have a choice.