Halloween Meal Ideas

Monday:

1. hot dog mummies: wrap hot dogs in biscuit dough, add 2 eyes and bake
2. Kraft Halloween shaped macaroni and cheese
3. apple bites: cut apple into 4 wedges, remove a slice from the middle (peeling side), leaving an area that looks like an open mouth, stick almond slivers into the top and bottom sections of the wedge to look like teeth



Tuesday:
1. chili
2. spider biscuits: use breadstick dough (package of 12), cut 4 breadsticks lengthwise and coil for body, cut remaining sticks lengthwise into 3 strips. Cut each into 1/3. Put 4 under each side of body and tuck end into coil to secure. Brush the point of attachment with beaten egg white. Add 2 eyes and bake 12 minutes at 375. (You have extra dough, but the original recipe calls for cutting strips in 1/2 and then each spider only has 6 legs?)
3. Shapely Shakers: Stir 2 cups boiling water into 4 (3 ounce) packages of jello until jello is dissolved. Beat 1 1/2 cup milk with an instant vanilla pudding mix for 1 minute. Gradually add jello to pudding. Pour into a 9 by 13 pan. Chill until firm. Dip pan into hot water for 20 seconds. Turn out of pan. Use Halloween cookie cutters to cut into shapes.


Wednesday:
1. rat meatballs: Set 2 meatballs onto a pile of mashed potatoes. Stick one spaghetti noodle on end for tail. Stand up 2 carrot chips for ears. Break an uncooked piece of spaghetti into several pictures and stick into front meatball for whiskers. Add 2 black eyes and a red nose.
2. mashed potatoes
3. witches brew: Put 1-2 scoops of mint chocoate chip ice cream ina glass. Fill with 7-Up. Let sit until colors mix. Top with chocolate syrup.


Thursday:
1. pizza: For a mummy place 2 black olive slices for eyes, top pizza with mozzarella cheese strips to look like bandages; Pumpkin: cover pizza with chedder cheese, cut pieces of pepperoni into shapes for eyes, nose, mouth
2. breadsticks: can form into halloween shapes
3. Fill a small pumpkin with dipping sauce: Scoop out seeds replace lid and bake 20 minues at 350. Combine 2 1/2 cup pizza sauce, 4 oz shredded mazzarella cheese, 1/2 cup finely chopped pepperoni, 1/2 cup parmesian cheese, add 1 tsp Italian seasoning.
4. Boo-tiful Jello cups; Mix 3/4 cup boiling water and 1 3 ounce package of orange jello. Stir in 2 cups ice cubes for 5 minutes. Remove remaining ice. Whisk in 1/3 cup cool whip. Pour into 4 clear serving dishes and refridgerate for 30 minutes. Spoon cool whip on top in center of cup to resemble a ghost. Add 2 chocolate chips for eyes.

Friday:

1. Scary Skillet Shepherds Pie

Brown 1 pound hamburger. Drain grease and add 1 cup beef gravy. Heat thru. Heat a 16 ounce package of frozen vegetables and add to meat, keeping out 12 peas. Make mashed potatoes and form into 6 mounds on top of meat mixture to resemble ghosts. Add 2 peas to each for eyes.

2. Make green jello and fill 1/2 of clear glasses. Refridgerate until set. Add some gummy worms on top of jello and hanging over edge of glass. Make blue jello and pour on top of green. Refridgerate again until blue jello has set.

Snacks and Other Ideas:

1. spiders: peanut butter between 2 ritz crackers, use stick pretzels as legs, use pb to stick 2 raisin eyes on top

2. candy corn: use prepared pizza crust and cut into wedge slices, use 3 different color cheeses to look like a piece of candy corn, bake until cheese melts

3. Leave top bun off a hamburger. Cut yellow American cheese into a pumpkin shape using a cookie cutter and place on hamburger. Face pieces can be made using different colored bell pepper. OR cut a ghost shape out of Swiss cheese and put on hamburger. Use 2 black olive slices as eyes. A cookie cutter sprayed with oil can be used to cut the cheese.

4. Monster Claws: Coat chicken tenders with shake and bake extra crispy seasoned coating mix. Bake on a greased cookie sheet at 400 for 15 minutes or until chicken is done. Cut a horizontal slit in the end of each tender. Add a triangle shaped red paper slice for a finger nail. Serve with BBQ dipping sauce.

I will publish this before Halloween in case you want to try any of these. I will update blog with pictures after we make them.