Day 26 Halloween Hop Menu for Halloween Feast

How about some ideas for a Halloween Party with some healthy options? 

First thing is to make a menu of your Halloween Feast.  Feel free to use our night ideas.  

Appetizers 

Bugs on a log (celery with almond butter and raisins)

Frankenstein Fingers (cheese sticks with slivered almonds at tip)

Veggies and a Mummy Shaped Dip

Spider Bean Dip and Chips

Spooky Spider 

Main

We will be having Monster Eye Balls over worms (Spaghetti and Meatballs)

Dessert

Owl Cupcakes!

We will be playing a few games to really rock the night out.  

See my Python Printables that I will be using! 

Here are a few ideas for lunches and more.

Little Pumpkins

 Spooky Spiders ( Whole grain crackers with peanut butter inside and pretzel sticks for legs)

 Mummies (cut Hot dogs in half and wrap with crescent dough.  Bake and use ketchup for eyes)

 Pumpkin Crisp

 

Pizza Mummies

Spider Bean Dip 

 Monster Mouths and Edible Eyes (Apple cut in half with Almond slices for teeth, cut carrots and grapes)

For more ideas check out my Pinterest Board

Check out the last 18 days of ideas and post!

Disclaimer:  These are my personal opions, I am not paid for my post.  I wish to bring you fun creative ways to eat Health and live Green. 

Sasha Dementor and a Howling Pet Photo Contest

This year we are going all out for the Halloween Trick or Treating.  We love to take Sasha with us while we tour the neighborhood.  This year she is going as a Dementor, from Harry Potter.  We are huge Harry Potter fans.  This is actually a costume that my son used 3 years ago, we never let anything of to waste here.  She makes a perfect fit, and will be completely spooky.  I really recommend trying to reuse and give another life to items.  I got this idea from National Costume Swap Day.  I asked MJ if he would mind passing on a costume to Sasha.  Since Sasha is all dressed up, I decided to participating in the Dog Halloween contest 2012 edition hosted by the Dog Fence Experts.  Now you can get a little creative and enter your lovely pooch in to this years contest too!  I am going to be giving away a $25 Target Gift Card to one lucky reader!  If you don't have a pet, that's OK.  

Be sure to stop by ans check out all the lovely pups dressed for a Howling Night on the Town! 

 How to Participate

1.  Chose a picture of your dog in costume, it can be from any year!  

2. Email me your pets Halloween picture to Kelleynutrition@gmail.com with ”Halloween Dog Photo Contest” in the email subject.  I will upload your picture to the gallery photos, and your entered!

3. OR....if you have a blog you can post the picture of your dog in their Halloween costume, then come here and write a blog comment that includes your name and your blog direct link to the picture post.

How it Works
A panel of judges will select the winner. That winner and their prize winning entry will be announced on here, November 2 for all to see.

All participants in this, and other blog hosted photo contests will advance to The Big Event Halloween Dog Photo Contest hosted by www.dogfencediy.com where one lucky winner and their pooch will win a $500 Target Gift Card.

All participating photos will be featured in a special Halloween Gallery where viewers may comment and vote for their favorite howling hound. Participants may promote their own dog or their favorite dog by sharing links on their Facebook, Twitter or wherever they need to do to get people to vote for their hound. The participant with the most votes by 8pm EST on November 12th, 2012 will be declared the winner!! 
Remember, you can share this with your family and friends too!

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Thank you to all the wonderful pets that entered!  All these precious pups are just adorable.  The winner was #4 Bonnie dressed as Bonnie Boo-Bo!!  

Disclaimer: Kelley's Passion for Nutrition is one of many host blogs in the Dog Fence DIY 2012 Halloween Dog Photo Contest. I received a $25 Target card as a hostess gift this participation.

Day 19 Halloween Hop Spooky Foods for Lunch or Snacks

I love to make lunches, dinners, and snacks spooky during the Halloween Season. 

Here are a few ideas.

Ghostly Bananas

Cut a medium banana in half.

Use nuts, dried fruit, chocolate chips, ext to make the faces.

Adding nuts to your child's snack will add fiber and protein. 

Octopus Hotdogs

 Today the kids are having Vegan Dog cut as an Octopus in there lunch.  I added the Halloween toothpicks I ordered last week, and added the new lunch Halloween Jokes to each lunch.  

The trick for cutting your octopus is to cut is sideways half way up the hotdog.  Then you cut three thin cuts that make up your four legs on both side.  

National Costume Swap Day

October 13th was National Costume Swap day!  If you have not bought your costumes for the kids yet, think about getting together with friends to swap costumes.  Read more about this idea here.  Veronica Swap Costumes this year and is going as Frankenstein bride, we just need to brush out the wig a little.

A Cheep Festive Centerpiece
During our visit to the Corn Maze at Apple Annie's we picked up some of the dried corn and make a fall center piece for the table.  I love it.

Movie and Show links

13 Night of Halloween

Disney Monstober

Redbox 

Kids love to look forward to something different and new.  A little bit of prep work and organizing can help make the season festive and still very healthy.

Check out the last 18 days of ideas and post!

Disclaimer:  These are my personal opions, I am not paid for my post.  I wish to bring you fun creative ways to eat Health and live Green. 

Day 12 Halloween Hop Festive Lunch Notes and Ideas

 

We have been on Fall Break so I have not been making the kids Festive School lunches.  School Starts back on Monday so I wanted to share a few ideas I do during October to make the kids lunches fun.

Free Lunch Box Notes, download
Free Lunch Box Notes, download
Free Lunch Note, download- but you have to signup for the newsletter.  It's a great signup because they send you festive ideas throughout the year. 

 These are easy to cut out and place in there lunch boxes, that is what I did last year.  Today I am cutting them out and putting them on nice card stock with some ribbons and extras.  I will post a after picture.  I am hoping the kids will bring them home to reuse next year, we'll see how that goes.  I am going to try my hand at laminating these so I can reuse again each year. 

Along with the lunch notes I picked up some festive toothpicks.  Last year I used some that I purchased at Target that included baking paper cups.  While this was very cute and festive it was wasteful.  This year I just ordered some cute reusable toothpicks and cups!

This is one set I ordered!  72 Plastic Halloween Picks Cute right?  There is enough to have for parties and the kids lunches.  Cost: $3.99




Kids love to look forward to something different and new.  A little bit of prep work and organizing can help make the season festive and still very healthy.

Check out the last 12 days of ideas and post!


Disclaimer:  These are my personal opions, I am not paid for my post.  I wish to bring you fun creative ways to eat Health and live Green. 

Day 5, Counting Down to Halloween Hop

 

Making Spooky foods for the kids.

We love to have fun with the kids and make items fun and festive, but don't let it affect your health.

Remember, through the next 3 months there is going to be a ton of parties, events, and tons of sweets.  One of the items we all love to decorate, and are all through the seasons, is desserts! Let's be honest about the traditional foods consumed during the holidays, there is a a lot of junk and poor ingredients.  Be proactive in talking about moderation with the family.  Teach your kids to think ahead at what items they would like to enjoy and how to pick and chose responsibly.  When we go to church events, like Coffee Sunday, there is always a ton of coffee cakes, donuts, and sugary items.  I tell the kids look around and pick 1 to 2 items.  This way they can enjoy the event without going crazy.  It is easy to get wrapped up in things and not realized the amount of junk we put into our bodies.  You can easy get wrapped up in school parties, friends festive treats, snacks, Halloween after candy, festivals, and more.  When we eat non-foods, foods that have no nutrient quality,we can lower our immune system and cause illnesses.  This is one of the major reasons for the cold and flu season, because we lower our immune system with all the junk foods, AKA Festive foods.  

The Solution

Make festive foods healthy.  This is easy, just use your creativity to make fun items in your healthful foods. 

 Here is Monster Pear.  You can use a normal pare, and push down 3 cheerios for eyes and a nose.  Then we use raw pumpkin seeds for the teeth/mouth.  The kids loved this one.  They would ask for it over and over, I would change up the location of the eyes, and the teeth.  

Monster Eyes lunch this week.  2 meatballs for eyes.  A boiled egg that I wrote a web on.  Carrots for the hair.  I sliced and cut a plum for the mouth.  Lettuce and grapes loose in box. 





Bats and Bugs, have some fun with cookie cutters to make festive sandwiches.  These are Bat Peanut Butter Sandwiches, celery monster fingers, pumpkin oranges,bug fruit.






All you have to do is take normal foods and cut them to make festive.  Enjoy and be sure to check out my Facebook for Halloween lunch ideas, and my Pinterest Halloween board! 

Day 3, Counting Down to Halloween Hop

 

I am exited to bring you a great hop that is going to have something new added everyday.  Anything from recipes, crafts, DIY, and many more ideas.  

Each day a new post will be added to the linky.

Stop by daily to check out some fantastic Halloween recipes, crafts, and decorating ideas! 

Today is Hosted by Mom's Living Thrifty!  She is dishing out great ideas for last minute costumes!

Fabulous Fall & Happy Halloween Hop – Three Last Minute Costumes on a Budget

•  The Mummy
•  The Ghastly Ghost
•  The Walking Dead ......all three ideas are perfect for someone wanting to be festive and on a budget!  You will look like you spent way more than you did!

Yesterday, day 2, was by DeDa Studios and her idea of fall in a bottle!  I have to order one of these, it sounds so delicious!  Check out the link and let her know what you think! 

Looking for something to Spook up your kids lunch?

 Halloween Bento Skull Sandwich.

Kelley's Pinterest Board

Something Spooky to watch?  Check out Disney  Monstober Schedule of movies and shows. 

Day 1 counting down to Halloween Hop

 

Happy Fall Ya'll!   I am exited to bring you a great hop that is going to have something new added everyday.  Anything from recipes, crafts, DIY, and many more ideas.  

Each day a new post will be added to the linky.

Stop bye daily to check out some fantastic Halloween recipes, crafts, and decorating ideas! 

Today's post is a recipe from Tara at Semmes Savers!

Candy Corn Cupcakes