Looking for healthy Halloween treats for kids? From whole-wheat croutons to deviled eggs topped with olive spiders, here are our simplest, spookiest ways to celebrate! Jack-0-Lantern Fruit Cups Nothing but fruit (and smiles) here! Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Cookies with Whole Oats All the best flavors of fall packed into one little healthy treat for breakfast. …
How to Win at Halloween with Small Kids
We’d just moved to the U.S. from Rome. After four years in Italy, where three of our babies were born, my husband and I packed it up and moved to a small town outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From cobblestones to rolling hills. We loved it instantly. Our historic small town came complete with…
Candy Corn Breakfast Parfaits…Minus the Candy
These “candy corn” breakfast parfaits are such a hit but that’s not the best thing about them. They’re so easy! But that’s not it either. These candy corn breakfast parfaits are made out of fruit and Greek yogurt with a hit of whipped cream on top. They’re THE cutest way to start Halloween on a…
The Easiest Halloween Hack Ever: Spooky Smoothies
This is hands-down, the easiest Halloween “recipe” for kids you’ll ever see. Step 1: Make one of your favorite smoothies. Peach, blueberry or my favorite spinach and pineapple. Step 2: Rummage in your medicine cabinet for one of those syringes for giving kids medicine. Fill syringe with half & half, then make a circle near…
Mummy Fruit Pies for Halloween
It doesn’t get much sweeter than these mummy fruit pies for Halloween! With only a couple of ingredients, you can turn pie crust and fresh fruit into the breakfast, lunch or dessert of your kids’ dreams. Is it necessary to make special treats like this? Nope! But it’s fun. For me, for the kids, and…
Jack-o-Lantern Fruit Cups
You know those cute Halloween breakfast ideas you see on Pinterest? The ones that seem SO easy, then turn out to be as hard as convincing your three-year-old that it’ll be faster if you just buckle her carseat? This is not one of them. After testing out the idea, I have good news. These adorable…
Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Cookies with Whole Oats
What happens when you combine our favorite Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Zucchini Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies? The perfect fall breakfast: Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Cookies with Whole Oats. Just throw everything together in one big mixing bowl, bake and bam. A gluten-free, make-ahead breakfast that’s not too sweet but boy is it satisfying. My eight-year-old called…
Candy Bar Blondies
Got leftover candy? These Candy Bar Blondies are my favorite way to use Halloween Candy (and depending on how you celebrate, they’re also awesome for the day after Christmas and Valentine’s Day too.) We went trick-or-treating for the first time this year and there’s basically candy oozing out of our house right now. That’s because we’ve…
3 Simple Halloween Recipes Preschoolers Can Make
You know how I feel about cute food, right? If there’s a culinary — or worse, architecture — degree involved, I’ll pass. Toiling away in the kitchen is not my dream. But I want our kids to learn to love food, to be totally up for trying new things and generally aware of what they’re…
Frozen Yogurt-Banana “Boo!” Pops, a Healthy Halloween Treat Kids Can Make
The only thing I love more than an easy Halloween treat is a healthy Halloween treat! Bonus points for one the kids can make themselves. And with both of these in spades, these Frozen Yogurt-Banana Boo! Pops are the cutest way to celebrate Halloween so far. Here’s how you do it: Grab a couple containers…
how to make our “green goblin” soup
WISH YOUR KIDS WOULD TRY A BITE OF SOMETHING, ANYTHING, GREEN? Here’s a great tip I learned from another mom recently, change what you call it. Instead of my usual, “Ki-ids, I made you some healthy spinach soup!”, then listening for the sound of toys instantly hitting the floor followed by tiny feet pattering to the…
spider sandwiches
IN KEEPING WITH OUR EASY HALLOWEEN FOOD IDEAS theme, today’s spider sandwich is so simple and surprisingly sturdy that they make great snacks or lunches on the go. I know this because George, my two-year-old, reached up and grabbed the container ours were stored in no less than five times before we got out the…
how to make green grape caterpillars
THESE CREEPY CRAWLY CATERPILLARS aren’t just a healthy Halloween treat, they’re also great for parties or lunch boxes any time of the year. I think I know three little people who are going to squeal when they see these on the table at snack time today… WHAT YOU NEED: Extra long toothpicks (I got mine…
super simple tangerine pudding cups
THIS SUPER SIMPLE HALLOWEEN IDEA can be made in minutes. We did a step-by-step tutorial for these pumpkins on eHow (plus two of our other popular Halloween foods for kids: string cheese witches brooms and spooky spider eggs.) The main ingredients are simple: pudding (we used chocolate and here’s delicious looking homemade recipe but you could…
halloween party food for preschoolers
SHHH. SINCE WE’RE NEW TO THE U.S. this year, we’re skipping trick-or-treating…because our kids don’t really know what it is. But that doesn’t mean they don’t want to dress up! So we had four friends over on Friday–a ballerina princess, a super hero, a unicorn-pegasus and a fairy princess, plus Pooh and Piglet (Tigger was…
spooky spider eggs
THIS IS MY SECOND FAVORITE PINTEREST IDEA, from our Healthy-ish Halloween Ideas for Kids board. Like the string cheese witches’ brooms, they’re absolutely adorable but also…shockingly easy. My girls are egg people. They love eggs. Hard boiled eggs. Egg salad sandwiches. Scrambled eggs. So I knew this would be a hit. And it was. For…
mini pumpkin pies, a low-sugar halloween treat
I CAN’T LIE TO YOU. These aren’t exactly “healthy” Halloween treats for kids. But they’re not so bad for you–or the kiddies–either. Low in sugar, full of pumpkin and even chia seeds, the main culprit here is that deliciously buttery pie crust. But the serving size is so small that I think we can get…
String Cheese Witches’ Brooms, a Healthy Halloween Treat
TODAY’S HEALTHY HALLOWEEN FOOD POST WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY PINTEREST. You’ve seen them, haven’t you? These adorable witches’ brooms made from string cheese, pretzels and chives? On this particular day, with the pressure of supplying the preschool snack falling squarely on my shoulders, I bravely tried to recreate one of the zillion wow-I-can’t-believe-other-moms-are-doing-this ideas from…
tomato, basil & spinach soup with cheese tortellini (and bat croutons)
Dear Ina Garten, you know I love you and your amazing recipes, but I can no longer spend 45 minutes roasting tomatoes BEFORE the soup making process begins. That is because there are three small crazy people living in my house now. I can however, make a simpler (and healthier) version of your wonderful Roasted Tomato…