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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 use jelly moulds of skeletons and stuff like that and also make some cakes and get rice paper halloween decorations :)

We make a big tray bake cake and divide it into small squares and then decorate each piece with horror insired candy

lots of jelly sweets and imagination.

Halloween is a great time to make smores - toasted marshmallows with chocolate biscuits - if you want to make them scary and halloween theme add strawberry sauce as blood.....!

I usually stick to themed cupcakes -a little boring I know - but they always disappear!

Every year we decorate rich tea biscuits with icing. The children do it themselves and some are pretty awful but they love it. It's cheap too :)

No photos, but last year we did Hot Dog Spiders. They are so simple, cut a hot dog in half and feed through 4 pieces of uncooked spaghetti so that they are the same length on both sides. You then boil them until the spaghetti is cooked and serve with ketchup to dip.

I make a graveyard cske using rich tea biscuits as tombstones and a brownie base.
Pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie.
Non food related I also hollow out pumpkins and use them to make Halloween flower arrangements I put oasis in then and I find lidl flowers actually are great for being good value and last a long time so they always feature.

We have these on Halloween-scary stuff!

We had a Halloween party and put liquorice laces in green jelly (worms in slime), cut out dinosaur sandwiches, made little truffles into the shape of rats and made faces out of fruit.

We make scary looking cookies and cakes, we also have red food colouring to make things look bloody!

Make simple fairy cakes and dot some chocolate drops/buttons on the top. Using a fine nozzle on your piping bag, pipe 8 little brown icing strands out of each choc drop/button, to give the spiders legs. Simple but effective.

We usually have either red or green soup on Halloween, complete with 'cheese on ghost' made by cutting toast into ghost shapes... The kids also like 'ghost and jam' for breakfast.

Witches fingers (sausages with some veggie nail shapes), mozzarella eyeballs (with olives and a little tomato or food colouring), gooey green sticky rice (yep good ol' food colouring is your friend), and a chopped tomato base sauce (er, the blood?!). It's pretty basic, but my daughter was happy! She even ate the olives (just that once).

My daughter always likes the worm slime jelly I make (lime jelly with sweetie worms in) and the bloody finger hotdogs where I cut out a nail shape at the end of the hot dogs and make the ketchup look like blood!

marzipan fingers with red lines drawn as creases and a almond for a nail. Witches fingers!

I put a drop of green food coloring (HAS TO BE GEL) into the water while i boil spaghetti and then serve with meatballs in marinara sauce.

we have fun making scary biscuits and jelly is always easy to fiddle with and create into something ghoulish too

Ghost cupcakes - so easy

We do hot dogs and veggie dogs to give out to trick or treaters. They get enough sweets as it is and if it's a chilly night then it's a good treat!

Try an all pumpkin meal - pumpkin soup to start, pumpkin pie followed by pumpkin tart. Not great cuisine but lots of material for halloween lights!

Decorated cupcakes always go down well with children helping to decorate, with spiders, webs, & other creepy things. Lidl have a good range of Halloween food too for busy mums. Strawberry cordial doubles as blood to drink.

Last year I melted lots of chocolate and poured it in to a clean latex glove. When it set, I had a spooky hand of chocolate for my buffet table centrepiece!

Sausage fingers, spider cakes, blood juice and whatever else we can make out of what's in the cupboard/ fridge!

Bone Scones filled with blood & bone marrow (strawberry jam & cream).

Roll scone dough into rectangle and cut slices about an inch wide. Slicing lengthwise make a short cut at each end and pull out the corners to make bone shapes.

Must do a practice batch tomorrow...