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I need some healthy snack food ideas with a Halloween theme for kids!! I have the treats/desserts covered!! Thank you in advance from all of you!!
Pumpkin shaped cheddar cheese. Buy a mini cookie cutter in the shape of a pumpkin (Hobby Lobby or Michaels) and use it on a block of cheddar cheese. I served a preschool snack which was baby carrots surrounding a small dish of veggie dip with a celery stalk and it's leaves coming down from the center of the carrots (it looks like a sunflower). Then I put raisins along the bottom of the white serving tray to act as the dirt and the little pumpkin cheeses above the dirt. It turned out really cute. You could also make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and turn them into ghosts with a ghost shaped cookie cutter. Good luck!
Roasted salted pumpkin seeds, mini sandwhiches with peanut butter and orange jelly, anything black or orange such as cantalope, or you could do red grapes. Pumpkin bread, is delicous. My kids like pumpkin cranberry bread, which is low on sugar, because my 5yo is on a sugar free diet for now.
Oranges are good. Peaches too. Chocolate covered pretzels,you can try to find chocolate that is low on sugar if you don't want sugary food. Another idea is cheese puffs, which are orange, perfect for Halloween. Raisins too. Good luck!
One of my daughter's friends has a Halloween party each year. They always serve "dead people's fingers" - string cheese with a little piece of green pepper cut and stuck on there for a finger nail. Not sure how they get it to stick. Maybe you can google it. It's really cute!
We like breadstick "witches fingers". I dye the dough green (or, if you use premade biscuits (pillsbury or whatever), brush them with dyed water). Roll them into "finger-sized" strips and make indents for the knuckles. Then stick an almond in the end for a fingertip and bake them. We serve them with pizza sauce for dipping. This is one of my kids' favorites.
I just saw this recently and thought it was really cute and might work for you. Take hot dogs and cut into smaller pieces, maybe 1-2" pieces. Take raw spaghetti - about 6 strands - and stick it through the spaghetti all the way. Then cook it til down. It looks pretty creepy. I'll add a link to a pic - but can't promise link will work:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2479982844225&...
Roasted pumpkin seeds, plain or very lightly salted.
Mini pumpkin muffins with low sugar.
You could do a healthy dip, such as a Mexican 7-layer dip (refried beans, tomatoes, guacamole, etc.) but put the orange cheddar or Mexican-blend cheese on the top. Do it in a circular pie plate or a tart/quiche pan, then do jack-o-lantern features using olives for the eyes or a dark purple pepper for the mouth. Cut the pepper in long slices to make the top and bottom halves of the smile, use smaller chunks for the teeth, etc. You could use more pepper (green or other) for the stem on the top. Serve with cheesy corn chips.
Go to Rachael Ray's website or other reliable sites: cooks.com, recipes.com etc. I'll be there are a million things - fake "spiders" and fake "ghosts" with healthy ingredients.
I also saw something on Facebook - a skeleton created out of different veggies and fruits. Different items formed the leg bones, the ribs, etc. Sure wish I could remember where it came from!
