I don’t know about your Halloween, but mine turned out to be pretty scary – scary delicious that is!

Well, okay, a little of the normal scary too. I helped to co-host my first Halloween party in my new apartment, and I have to say, decorating was half the fun! We decorated our apartment with eerie red light bulbs, garlands of spooky spider webs, sinister blood spatters (i.e., red rubber), and best of all – our punch was fogging all over the place like real swamp juice – woo hoo dry ice!

In addition to the spooooooky decorations, my roommate Erin and I concocted some equally scary Halloween treats.   Of course in true dietitian fashion, we had to make at least one count towards our guests’ daily intake of whole grains. But not to fear, these spooktastic treats were so delicious, it was frightening…

Mini Mummy Pizzas

Ingredients

1 jar of pizza sauce

½ package of low-fat mozzarella string cheese

12 pitted black olives

1/4 green pepper

1 package of whole grain English muffins

Directions

1. Cut English muffin in half, and lay on a flat surface
2. Spread a spoonful of pizza sauce on top of the English muffin half; enough to cover
3. Pull string cheese into shreds, covering the lower half of the muffin, then covering the top quarter; this leaves a little space between the cheese for the eyes.
4. Slice the ends off of an olive, discard ends. Cut the olive in half, and place each half on the muffin, to make eyes.
5. Slice off two small bits of green pepper and place in the middle of each olive half, for pupils.
6. Voila! Repeat process for a total of 12 mini mummy pizzas.

Nutrition Information

½ muffin: 120 Calories, 6 grams of protein, 3.8 grams of fat, 3 grams of fiber, 16 grams of carbohydrate

Next on the list was dessert:  Krispies of the Corn

Now that we had our whole grains out of the way, we could focus on the good stuff. We crafted up our very own Krispies of the Corn treats using the Original Rice Krispie Treats recipe, a few drops of orange food coloring, and 1 bag of Indian corn – best idea of the night!

Nutrition Information

1 treat: 100 calories, 1 gram of protein, 3 grams of fat, 44 grams of carbohydrate

Last of all came the punch. With a little dry ice and a red, hand-shaped ice-cube, this Swamp Juice came to life! I have to admit, we had a bit of trouble with the original recipe (which wasn’t very tasty), so I’m not going to bother sharing it here. However, there are tons of Swamp Juice recipes online. I particularly like this kid-friendly version – it even comes with swamp creatures!

I know I had promised pumpkins and pumpkin seeds, but by the time we headed to the store for our pumpkins, they were all sold out. Shame on us for waiting until the last minute, but there is always next year! Plus, I think these tasty and terrifying treats make up for it – don’t you???
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Happy Spooky Snacking,

Lindsey

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