The Easter Candy Give Back is a seasonal outreach by Operation Gratitude, a Chatsworth, Calif., nonprofit. Its unique approach to post-Easter candy temptation may be useful to some Montgomery County homes still overrun with it.

Many locals — whether they spent Sunday morning searching their yards for candy or not (owing to kids being too old for the Easter Bunny — probably now have a glut of treats around the house.

And it’s a fair bet that by now, it’s time to be done with it.

Rather than toss it, Operation Gratitude suggests donating it.

The organization accepts donors annual sugar-laden overages and provides it to service people, veterans, and first responders, thanking them for their present or past service.

The arrangement calls for households to voluntarily ship their sweets to Operation Gratitude, which then sends it where needed.

In 2020, the program delivered more than 93,000 pounds of candy in care packages. It also raised more than $17,000 in donations to help defray the cost of sending those chocolate eggs, Peeps, jelly beans, and other basketed goods.

For those sweet-toothed fans who simply cannot part with the foil-wrapped bunnies (or Montgomery Countians who don’t celebrate Easter in that manner), Operation Gratitude accepts financial donations to support the effort.

Candy donors must register before shipping sweets.

Further details on participating in the 2023 Easter Candy Give Back are on the Operation Gratitude website.

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This video on Operation Gratitude centers on the collection of Halloween candy, but there’s no reason unwanted Easter candy can’t be shipped as well.