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Does your family like to put a spin on family meals around Halloween? What spooky meals / snacks do you like to serve up the week of Halloween to help get everyone in the mood?

Please share all your budget busting Halloween themed food recipes tips and tricks - do you put plastic spiders in jelly, make pancakes in the shapes of witches hats or roast a pumpkin to create a delicious soup that feeds everyone? Maybe you have a ghoulish green smoothie you bring out or a spooky way of serving up fruit and veg?

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I have really got into Halloween the last couple of years.... We each do a pumpkin and make a big thing of going to pick: we sit in the garden and carve them.
I decorate the house and everyone has an outfit. We have lots of 'finger' food mwah ha ha and I even do ice cubes with eyes in them for the adults. Our whole street gets involved so it's a real chance to have some fun. I think I like it and Christmas as my mother was/ is a 'Christian' and hated Halloween so we were banned as children.

I do Halloween biscuits!

I am TOTALLY loving this. you are all so creative!

I am TOTALLY loving this. you are all so creative!

Using hotdogs (with nail shaped piece of ham attached) to look like severed fingers, meringues made with a "peak" which looks like a ghost's head with two chocolate dots for eyes, cupcakes with spider's webs on top. The easiest way to keep to a budget is to stick to the sort of food you normally use but add spooky cutouts of vegetables or fruit. "Vampire's teeth" are fun - cut a red apple in four and then for each quarter cut a slice out on the red side so that it looks like a slightly open mouth. Put in a little peanut butter and then flaked almonds to look like the teeth.

My children are very young but DS1 got really into it last year at nursery so I'm thinking I'll get him to help me make and decorate some iced biscuits using hallowe'en cutters. I've got a witches hat to wear and I'm sure he'll come up with a suitably ghoulish costume for himself

We make pumpkin/butternut squash soup, but nothing else particularly Halloween themed for family meals. We've made biscuits that look like dismembered fingers and Halloween cupcakes with spiders/cobwebs or spooky decorations for trick or treaters in the past.

Halloween type biscuits here. I need to be more creative! Spider cupcakes too.

Marzipan severed 'fingers' with red food dye at the ends. I wasn't able to eat them though they looked so disgusting!!

I do sandwiches cut with Halloween shaped cutters-my son loves these!
Peel an orange and put something green on top and it looks like a pumpkin. Also cut of part of a banana and use chocolate chips on it to make eyes. Put on a lollipop stick and you have a ghost.

My son gets some treats at Halloween which is fine, but I do also like to look at the healthier things you can do as well in the days leading up to it. He really enjoys it.

Two of our favourites: Blood 'n' Guts Pie and Wormy Cakes.

Really just jam pudding made with a lot of continental-style jam (ie which has lumps of fruit), and grey cupcakes iced with chocolate glace icing which has also been tinted grey, and, while the icing is still soft, had green Royal Icing roughly piped onto them. Bought 'writing icing' tubes work well, too.

Tinned lychees in jelly with jelly beans pushed in - floating eyeballs

Cobweb buns, and (I'm kicking myself that I don't have a photo of these because they look really good), Hallowe'en top hats. You make them like normal - melted chocolate, marshmallow, smartie on top - but pipe a line of chocolate on the smartie so it looks like a slit eye, and use a cocktail stick dipped in red food colouring to make 'veins' on the marshmallow.

I bought Halloween cookie cutters last year and made biscuits with ds for us to ice.

I am a terrible baker. Ds is no better (surprisingly, he is 2).

The cats came out looking as though they had been squashed in a mangle and the spiders were so chunky they looked like octopus.

Hopefully they will turn out better this year.

We tried to make green bread last year - not terribly successful. It needed loads more colouring than we expected.

We are going to make a huge batch of gingerbread cookie dough and make pumpkins, ghosts and anything else scary and hang them around the house.
I plan to get the children to do some research on moer home made ideas.

Hairy hotdogs (push bits of spaghetti through, then boil).

Ghost-shaped meringues - flat, in the traditional/Ghostbusters shape, surprisingly easy to do.

Snack o'lantern - cut the top off aan orange, scoop out the insides, carve a face on the front, fill with fruit salad.

Loving the creative ideas on here
I'm still using tried and tested wormy spaghetti, green jelly and pumpkin soup ...but will deffo try the frankfurter fingers this year!

Spider cupcakes!

I use white chocolate fingers and paint blood and nails on them to make them look like severed human fingers. You can then use them on anything to make it scarey, like cupcakes or make a big cake and put them around the sides

Spider cakes, pumpkin soup, brain jelly & witch cookies :)

We make jelly worms by pouring (thicker than normal) jelly into straws stood up in a glass. Once they are set you can run a bit of warm water over the straws and out slide worms.

Fill cheap disposable gloves with water coloured with green food colouring & freeze them. They make great scary hands

Love making these for my two daughters and their friends.
I use a basic Chocolate Cupcake mix and use Smarties for the eyes with a dab of Chocolate icing for the eyeballs. The legs and fangs are Strawberry Laces

I usually just make things like hot dogs !