Have a Healthy Meal Before Trick-or-Treating!

This Halloween, fill the kids up with healthy Halloween food before trick-or-treating. Impress your family, or maybe some friends, with a spooktacular dinner.

Halloween can be a hectic holiday. It’s pretty much celebrated on the 31st, no matter what day of the week it falls on. On school nights, it can be tough getting a good meal before trick-or-treating. Follow these steps for this quick, easy, spooktacular dinner.

Halloween Spooktacular Dinner Menu

Monster Meatloaf

Ghostly Mashed Potatoes

Creepy Crawly Tossed Salad with Slime Dressing

Bloody Fingers Garlic Breadsticks

 

Step 1. (The Night Before Halloween)

The night before, get kids involved in preparing the spooktacular dinner. Have them tint almond slivers with red food dye and sliced mushrooms with black. Refrigerate the mushrooms and store the almonds in an airtight container.

Next, have them create tomato flies with plum tomato heads, baby gherkin tails, and cucumber slice wings. Attach parts using toothpicks. Refrigerate overnight.

Step 2:

On Halloween night, make the monster meatloaf. Use your favorite recipe for the meatloaf. Meanwhile, boil 2-3 eggs. Crack lightly and soak in beet juice or red food dye.

 

Step 3

While the meatloaf cooks, make the ghostly mashed potatoes. Peel and boil 4-5 potatoes. Drain and add butter, salt, pepper, and a little milk.

Mash with a hand mixer or food processor. Put the mixture in a pastry bag, or even a plastic Ziploc bag with the corner cut out.

Pipe the potatoes onto a cookie sheet in mounds to resemble ghosts.

Add a black olive slice for the mouth and bits of black olives for the eyes. Toast lightly under the broiler for 2-3 minutes, watching carefully.

 

Step 4.

The meatloaf is done now. While it cools, it is time to do the breadsticks. Use sheets of refrigerator crescent roll dough. Roll them up into finger shapes. Stick on an almond sliver fingernail. Brush with melted garlic butter

Beat an egg in a small bowl and add a few drops of red food color. Brush the “fake blood” over the top of the fingers. Bake according to package directions.

Bloody fingers garlic breadsticks

Step 5

While the breadsticks bake (11- 13 min.), put together the creepy-crawly tossed salad with slime dressing. Wash and toss mixed greens in a bowl. Add the tomato flies and black mushrooms. The slime dressing? It’s just Green Goddess renamed. How simple is that!

 

Step 6.

Back to the Monster Meatloaf. It has cooled on a bed of greens. Now it’s time to add some spooky bloodshot eyes and other gross stuff. Secure pieces of roasted red peppers on top with toothpicks.

Peel the eggs and slice in half. Slice a bit off of each tip and secure a green olive slice for the iris and pupil. The breadsticks are done. Now it is time to eat a fast, healthy meal of Halloween food before trick-or-treating.

 

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