Halloween Treats That Are Scary And Healthy
Treats belong to Halloween as turkey belongs to Thanksgiving. it does not matter if you are throwing a party, have created a haunted house or if you are expecting a lot of trick or treaters at your door step, you need Halloween treats. In this article we will show you how to make some of the most tasty but easy Halloween treats you can imagine.
Healthy Halloween Treats?
We need to think about healthy snacks because there are already so many youngsters who are struggling with weight problems. Halloween is a holiday in particular where treats, snacks and food is important but there really are ways to reduce the amount of sugar and fats we give our children as a treat.
Here are a few great ideas for reasonably healthy Halloween treats
#1 Healthy Halloween treats: Caramel Apples
Although caramel apples contain a lot of sugar we can also create a ‘light’ variation. And because it is one of those Halloween treats most children love you are still giving something they want. Caramel apples are easy to make, just place a Popsicle stick in the center of the apple and melt some squares of caramel in a sauce pan and dip the apple half in the caramels and let the caramel drip around the other half. To get a bit of a chunky feeling you can roll the apple in some nuts or raisins. because you only dip half of the apple you use less sugar and create a scary looking apple in the same time.
#2 Healthy Halloween Treats: Halloween Goo
Most children love Jell-O and you create a scary Halloween Goo if you add some small pieces of fruit in the shape of body parts. Just cut some fruits in to shape and make the Jell-O according the package. Refrigerate the Jell-O with the fruit for at least two hours. The kids will love to pull the body parts out of the Jell-O.
#3 Healthy Halloween Treats: Cut off fingers
Something simple and very spooky are cut off finger treats, you can use some cans of small hot-dogs and create, with ketchup, a nail on the end of the finger. You also need to tear the end of the hot-dog as if the finger was torn off. To make it a bit more scary to pick out the finger, you can place the finger in a small box or on top of a bowl spaghetti.
As you can see there are many different ideas for Halloween treats, that are easy, fun, tasty and healthy. If you stop and think about it you will probably come up with many more. You need to look at healthy foods like cheese, nuts, fruits and vegetables and think about the great scary treats you can create with them. Halloween is not about collecting as much junk food as you can, it is about the fun and the scare. Ask your children and they will think the same as they see and taste what kind of scary Halloween treats you have created.
The author of this article, Kristin King, is a real Halloween lover, at here website www.AheadOfHalloween.com she likes to write about Halloween recipe ideas but also about, Slipknot Halloween masks and much more.
