Halloween calls for some extra-ghoulish food choices, but what if you don’t have time to spend hours in the kitchen? Don’t worry – just follow these easy tips and you can add some Halloween spirit to your table by making just a few small changes to your regular meals.
Ghostly Sandwiches
Make your sandwiches as normal, but cut the bread into ghost shapes – great for kids!
Scary Eyeballs
Hard boiled eggs make great eyeballs – just add a bit more mustard into the centers, topped with a black olive to form the pupil.
Spider Snack
Take two round crackers, and spread peanut butter in the middle. Take 8 small pretzels and stick all around the cracker, placing four on each side to make the legs. Add raisins for eyes
Ghostly Toast
Toast your bread, and cut into a ghost shaped body using a Halloween cookie cutter or sharp knife. Top with yoghurt or whipped cream cheese, using raisins or dates for the eyes.
Mini Orange Jack O’Lantern
Take an orange and gently carve a scary face into the skin using a toothpick. Be careful not to pierce the flesh of the fruit.
Wormy Hot Dogs
Thinly slice your hot dogs and heat in the microwave. This will cause them to curl up and resemble worms. Place on a hamburger bun and create a slimy swamp underneath by dressing with mustard, catsup and pickles.
Graveyard Snack
Take a cup of plain or buttered popped popcorn; add a half cup each of chocolate chips, raisins, mini marshmallows, mini pretzels and goldfish crackers.
Salty Bones
Making breadsticks for your spaghetti tonight? Here’s a Halloween twist. Unroll a tube of refrigerated breadstick roll and separate the triangle pieces. Stretch each individual piece out to create a long bone-like figure. Cut about a 1.5 inch slit in each end. Roll the remaining 4 flaps to create the end of a ‘dog bone’. Sprinkle with coarse salt and bake as directed.
Goblin Tongues
Spread mayonnaise or cream cheese onto mini bagels. Cut slices out of circular pieces of bologna lunch meat or vegetarian alternative to look like tongues. Place these into the top center of the bagels, leaving them to hang out like tongues.
These ideas take little effort, but will be a hit with your kids or grandkids, as well as your party guests!
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