chinese take out: i have 100 1/2 pint chinese take out containers and im wanting to fill them with jelly beans...but im needing to know how many pounds of jelly beans i will need?|||The only way you can tell this is to fill one takeout box with jelly beans and then calculate from there. Below is a candy calculator that has popular items like jelly bellies, but first you have to mock up your favor before you can use it. But. Those takeout boxes are huge containers if you're giving out candy. The tiny 2 x 2 favor boxes most people use actually hold quite a bit of candy, so your boxes are enormous. If you're really going this route, I would fill the bottom with a lot of shred and tie the jelly beans in a bag to sit on top ... either buy a lot of organza bags inexpensively or wrap them in tulle (super cheap by the yard) and tie off with ribbon or cord.|||63489 jelly beans. tell me if i win!!! what do i win i if i get it right??|||Get a package of jelly beans put 1 of the containers on a postal scale set it to zero, fill to desired capacity and see how much it weighs, multiply that weight by 100 and that should give you how many pounds you need. Hope those jelly beans are Jelly Belly. yummmmmmmmmmm|||tacky?!|||Shitzul's suggestion will work. You should also do that just to be sure the jelly beans aren't too heavy. Chinese take-out boxes aren't all that sturdy, and jelly beans are pretty heavy. You don't want the boxes breaking and the beans spilling out all over everywhere.|||The other person's suggestion will work, but that sounds like it will end up being a lot of jelly beans and the person is right who said the containers are not all that sturdy. I would suggest filling the clear (or printed) Cello bags with the jelly beans, tie with a ribbon and then put the bags in the boxes. The bags will not cost you much more (You can find packages of 25 at any Dollar Tree), and you may need less jelly beans. And, as a guest, I think I would like the idea of having the jelly beans contained a little better that just in a box, that could open on me.