Your calorie count doesn't have to be frightening -- here is a great selection of Healthy Halloween Treats!
Healthy Recipes
Goblin Peas
Ingredients:
Instructions:
For each one, use the tip of a paring knife to cut a slit centered in one side of an edible pea pod (a parent's job). Cut out a tongue shape from red bell pepper and insert the top of it through the opening in the pea pod (it looks best if the inside of the pepper faces up).
Ingredients:
- 1 pea pod
- 1 red bell pepper
- few slivered almonds
Instructions:
For each one, use the tip of a paring knife to cut a slit centered in one side of an edible pea pod (a parent's job). Cut out a tongue shape from red bell pepper and insert the top of it through the opening in the pea pod (it looks best if the inside of the pepper faces up).
Cheese Fingers
Ingredients:
Wearing plastic gloves or sandwich bags over your hands to keep the cheese as smudge-free as possible, use a paring knife (parents only) to cut each string in half and then carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half.
Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured. For the fingernails, slice a green bell pepper into 3/8-inch-wide strips. Set the strips skin side down on your work surface and trim the pulp so that it's about half as thick. Then cut the strips into ragged-topped nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.
Ingredients:
- Mozzarella string cheese
- Green bell pepper
- Cream cheese
Wearing plastic gloves or sandwich bags over your hands to keep the cheese as smudge-free as possible, use a paring knife (parents only) to cut each string in half and then carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half.
Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured. For the fingernails, slice a green bell pepper into 3/8-inch-wide strips. Set the strips skin side down on your work surface and trim the pulp so that it's about half as thick. Then cut the strips into ragged-topped nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.
Jelly Worms
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Mix the Jell-o and unflavored geletin with the boiling water. Stir until well dissolved. Let cool to room temperature. Stir in the whipping cream.
Bind the straws together with a rubber band. Find a tall container that is similar in width to the size of your straw bundle. Place the straws in the container.
Using a small funnel and pouring slowing, fill the straws up about 1" with Jell-o mixture. Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to partially firm this mixture. (This prevents the Jell-o mixture from continuing to seep through the end of the straws.)
After 30 minutes, fill the straws with the rest of the Jello mixture. Place in the refrigerator until firm. To release the worms, run the straws under warm water until they slide out, use a rolling pin to roll them out or use a pliers to hold the top of the straw and pinch the worms out with your fingers.
Ingredients:
- 2 - three ounce boxes of raspberry Jell-o
- 3 cups boiling water
- 1 package unflavored geletin
- 100 flexible straws
Instructions:
Mix the Jell-o and unflavored geletin with the boiling water. Stir until well dissolved. Let cool to room temperature. Stir in the whipping cream.
Bind the straws together with a rubber band. Find a tall container that is similar in width to the size of your straw bundle. Place the straws in the container.
Using a small funnel and pouring slowing, fill the straws up about 1" with Jell-o mixture. Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to partially firm this mixture. (This prevents the Jell-o mixture from continuing to seep through the end of the straws.)
After 30 minutes, fill the straws with the rest of the Jello mixture. Place in the refrigerator until firm. To release the worms, run the straws under warm water until they slide out, use a rolling pin to roll them out or use a pliers to hold the top of the straw and pinch the worms out with your fingers.
Strawberry Ghosts
Ingredients:
Wash strawberries and gently pat with paper towels until completely dry. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt white chocolate and shortening at 50% power; stir until smooth. Stir in extract.
Dip strawberries in chocolate mixture; place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet, allowing excess chocolate to form the ghosts' tails. Immediately press chocolate chips into coating for eyes. Freeze 5 minutes. In microwave, melt remaining chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Dip a toothpick into melted chocolate and draw a mouth on each ghost. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 2-1/2 dozen.
Ingredients:
- 30 fresh strawberries
- 8 ounces white baking chocolate, chopped
- 1 teaspoon shortening
- 1/8 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Wash strawberries and gently pat with paper towels until completely dry. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt white chocolate and shortening at 50% power; stir until smooth. Stir in extract.
Dip strawberries in chocolate mixture; place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet, allowing excess chocolate to form the ghosts' tails. Immediately press chocolate chips into coating for eyes. Freeze 5 minutes. In microwave, melt remaining chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Dip a toothpick into melted chocolate and draw a mouth on each ghost. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 2-1/2 dozen.
Frightening Veggie Delight
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- Broccoli Bunch
- Large bag baby carrots
- 1 cucumber
- 1/4 cup vegetable dip
Mummy Burger
Grill up your hamburger or veggie patties. Use mozzarella cheese sliced into strips and placed it diagonally across the hamburger patty. Finish with ketchup or sliced stuffed pimento olives for the eyes.
Grill up your hamburger or veggie patties. Use mozzarella cheese sliced into strips and placed it diagonally across the hamburger patty. Finish with ketchup or sliced stuffed pimento olives for the eyes.
Brain Melon
Use a peeler and remove the dark green outer skin from a water melon and them carve into to reveal the red lines.
Use a peeler and remove the dark green outer skin from a water melon and them carve into to reveal the red lines.
Finger Food
Made a bowl of your favorite veggie dip. Then carve fingers from carrots and top them off with almonds for finger nails applied with a little dip.
Made a bowl of your favorite veggie dip. Then carve fingers from carrots and top them off with almonds for finger nails applied with a little dip.
Veggie Skeleton
Let your worst fears loose in the vegetable garden and create something fun and imaginative all your own. Share it with friends and family but don't forget to take pictures first and send the recipe here!
Let your worst fears loose in the vegetable garden and create something fun and imaginative all your own. Share it with friends and family but don't forget to take pictures first and send the recipe here!
Traditional Recipes
Pumpkin recipe:
Apple recipes:
Other recipes:
- How to prepare cooked pumpkin from a fresh pumpkin
- Illustrated instructions to make a pumpkin pie from a fresh pumpkin
- How to home-can pumpkin
- Traditional Pumpkin Pie
- Pumpkin Bread
- Pumpkin Butter!
- Pumpkin cheesecake
- Pumpkin soup
- Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
- No Sugar Pumpkin Pie
- Apple Cider Doughnut Recipe
Apple recipes:
- World's best apple pie.
- How to make applesauce
- How to make apple butter
- Apple crunch - best of all! Moist, low sugar and using oats!
- Apple crisp - ever-popular, low sugar and using oats!
- Apple, blackberry, cherry, and/or peach cobbler
- English Apple-blackberry, crumble
- How to make homemade apple pie filling
Other recipes:
Pumpkin Nutrition
Pumpkin Nutritional Facts The pumpkin, a bright, orange-colored squash, is a powerhouse of nutrients. Pumpkins are a great source of vitamin A, in the form of beta carotene. They are also high in calcium, potassium, phosphorous and vitamin C. Pumpkins are a good source of dietary fiber and contain only a trace of fat and no cholesterol.
Nutritional Analysis
Serving size 1/2 cup (122 g) (4.3 oz.) cooked
Calories 25
Protein 1 g
Carbohydrate 6 g
Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1 mg
Sodium 1 mg
Dietary fiber 2 g
Pumpkins are grown in most of the United States and many other countries, except in tropical and semi-tropical climates. They don't do well in Florida, for example. The most popular carving varieties include Big Mac, Mammoth Gold, Baby Moon, Jack-o-Lantern and Connecticut Field. Other varieties include types intended to be eaten such as Small Sugar, Green Cushaw and Golden Cushaw. Thin skinned varieties include Connecticut Field, Baby Moon and Jack-o-Lantern.
Nutritional Analysis
Serving size 1/2 cup (122 g) (4.3 oz.) cooked
Calories 25
Protein 1 g
Carbohydrate 6 g
Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1 mg
Sodium 1 mg
Dietary fiber 2 g
Pumpkins are grown in most of the United States and many other countries, except in tropical and semi-tropical climates. They don't do well in Florida, for example. The most popular carving varieties include Big Mac, Mammoth Gold, Baby Moon, Jack-o-Lantern and Connecticut Field. Other varieties include types intended to be eaten such as Small Sugar, Green Cushaw and Golden Cushaw. Thin skinned varieties include Connecticut Field, Baby Moon and Jack-o-Lantern.
Other Spooky Recipe Sources
