FROM THE SCRAMBLE LIBRARY
HEALTHIER HALLOWEEN SNACKS FOR OUR LITTLE GOBLINS
While we wouldn’t miss trick-or-treating and the ensuing candy binge, the spooky snacks below can help you celebrate the holiday—whether it’s for school Halloween parties or after-school snacks—with a dose of good nutrition, too:
Edible Spiders: Let the kids spread peanut butter or cream cheese on a round cracker. Put another round cracker on top, leaving a little space between them. Insert eight thin pretzel sticks between the crackers for spider legs. Using a dab of the peanut butter or cream cheese, attach raisins or chocolate chips to the top of the crackers to make the spiders’ eyes.
Pumpkin Faces: Use a few drops of food coloring to turn cream cheese orange. Spread the cream cheese on toasted English muffins or rice cakes. Make silly jack-o-lantern faces using raisins or chocolate chips. Kids can also make funny faces with orange Cheddar cheese on slices of toast or whole wheat, and then you can melt them in the oven.
Ghost & Ghoul Sandwiches and Snacks: Kids can use Halloween-shaped cookie cutters (or even cut out their own spooky designs with a plastic knife) to turn sandwiches (on wheat bread, of course), pancakes, or orange cheese slices into a scary lunchtime treat or snack.
I’m choosing to believe the hype about the powers of dark chocolate. So, in addition to dark chocolate treats this year, my family is going to give an alternative to candy-hunters, with inexpensive plastic stretchy frogs. I’ll be curious to see how many visitors select the toys instead of the sweets!