Spooky Lunch for Halloween

After having today off due to Super Storm Sandy, we're ready for a fun and spooky lunch for Halloween tomorrow.  I had this great idea to do a lunch that was all body parts.  Sometimes things sound better on paper.  Still, I'm pleased with the result.

Our main entree is brains.  Well, at least that was the original thought.  I mixed up some Heart Healthy Bisquick with milk, added a decent amount of shredded cheese and shaped the brains.  Then, I put them in the oven with great excitement about my creation.  The timer went off, I opened the oven door and BLAH!  These look nothing like brains.  Even using a red food safe marker to try and recreate the brain didn't work.  Oh well, that's what fun picks and rings are for.

Our vegetable side is baby carrot fingers.  We used whipped cream cheese to put the sliced almond finger nails on them.

Our fruit side is eyeballs.  We used canned pear halves (in pear juice) and cut them into a more circular shape.  Then, we added a maraschino cherry with a chocolate chip in the middle for the pupil.

Our dairy is green slime.  We added a few drops of green food coloring to vanilla yogurt.

Finally, our dessert for Halloween is a homemade chocolate chip cookie with some fall sprinkles in it.  Our Trick or Treat is postponed until Saturday so we figured that a mid-week treat would be fun.

*We found a great idea on Pinterest for a healthy Halloween treat to give out at school.  C.J. is handing this out to his friends at preschool tomorrow.  Just clementines and a Sharpie marker for a great treat.

Happy Halloween Lunch!

It's HERE!!!!!!  Halloween is finally here and WE ARE READY!!  We have three kids all geared up for three school parties and trick or treat tomorrow.  Daddy even took the day off to participate in the festivities.  We just love Halloween at our house and we think that it deserves an extra special spooky lunch!

Our main entree is Pumpkin Pizza.  We used our pumpkin cookie cutter to cut out the crust, Trader Joe's Middle Easter Flat Bread, covered it in cheddar cheese and then put fun faces on it with hard salami.  We realized after they were in the oven that we had forgotten the pizza sauce.  Oops!  Guess we'll call it a Halloween surprise.  ☺

Our vegetable side is a Witchy Salad.  We made a witch's face out of a green pepper, gave her a green pepper nose, orange pepper mouth, olive eyes, cucumber and red pepper hair and a black olive hat.  We placed this on a bed of green salad and are serving it with our Witch's Brew dressing.  (aka: light Italian dressing)

Our fruit side is Frankenkiwi!!!!  We found this idea at another blog that is just fantastic.  We shaved the fuzz off of most of the kiwi but left enough for some hair for Frank, it's cold here in Western PA.  We then added pumpkin bolts (pumpkin sprinkles) to the side of his head, which kind of got squished when we placed him in the container.  Then we used brown sprinkles for the mouth and green marshmallows with mini chocolate chips for the eyes.  Super cool looking!  FYI, we cut the kiwi in half length-wise so that it will be easier for Molly to eat.

Finally, our Spooky Dessert is Eyeballs and Bones!!!!  Mmmwwahhhahahaha!!!  (did I scare you?)  We added powdered sugar to light cream cheese just to sweeten it up a little bit, then rolled it into eyeballs.  After refrigerating them for a little while, we added small slivers of strawberry for the "blood shot" look and a mini M&M for the pupil.  These are served with Scooby Snack bones for dipping.  YUM!

Fun Halloween Friday!

It's almost here!  Halloween!!!!  We are having so much fun getting everything all finished.  The girls and I will be filling the treat bags for school and a few other goodies for home and Molly's lunch box for Monday.

Our main entree is a salami and cheese sandwich.  We purchased these super delicious little asiago rolls at Sam's Club today to go with our homemade chicken noodle soup.  There weren't many left but we used one for Molly's lunch.  We added hard salami, provolone and mustard...plus a little friend to keep it company.

Our vegetable side is sweet peas.  These were from a frozen packet and taste just as good cold as they do warm.  We added a jack o'lantern pick to these for fun.

Our fruit side is a sliced orange.  We re-arranged half of the orange to create a rounded circle.  Then, we used a food safe marker to make a jack o'lantern face on it.

Our dairy side is peach yogurt.  Molly really enjoyed this variety today so we were happy to give it to her again for tomorrow.

Finally, our Fun Friday treat is a mini Hershey bar.  Something about Hershey bars just screams Halloween fun!  Molly will be so excited to have one of her favorite things in the whole world!