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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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Gummy Eye Ball Topped Cupcakes. Make funky labels for cherryade and drinks giving them gross names. Poundland usually have a wide range of great spooky foods. We use halloween cookie cutters for sandwiches aswell.

I am (in)famous for my sharpie decorated tangerine pumpkins, which do go down surprisingly well with teenagers. One year we ran out an had to do a spooky banana

Mangobiscuit - that pumpkin vomit dip is amazing!! Haha :)
We fill a rubber glove with water & then freeze for a hand shaped ice block to throw in the punch bowl :)
I also like witches fingers with a snotty dip - almost as delicious as it sounds! Witches fingers are mini gherkins (dill pickles) with a guacamole dip - that's the snot!
Picking up some fab ideas from this thread :)

Spider cupcakes surrounded by candy floss for the web. Jelly with sweets inside. Hotdog sausage fingers.
I'm not very creative at all. Got some great ideas off this thread!

We do the graveyard. Chocolate angel delight, with sour worms. Then sprinkle broken up bourbon biscuits as mud & stand up whole ones as gravestones. You can add spiders and eyeballs, anything you want really

We make pumpkin and bacon soup. Think I'll follow the suggestion here of butternut squash though!
My Mum used to make pumpkin and tuna pasties which sound weird but tasted lovely.

My 4 year old is 'hosting' a Halloween party for the first time, we've planned mummy fingers which are skinny sausages wrapped with puff pastry strips, raisin & oat bat cookies and marshmallow ghost pops. Need to take other tips from the posts here.

We do "finger" hotdogs! Cut the end of one of the sausages off to make it look like a finger nail, add a generous amount of ketchup and some onions at one end ot make it look like the skin of the hand... its great fun!

We love pumpkin and coconut soup, eyeballs made with fondant icing, zombie gingerbread and we use sweetcorn to make teeth and olives for eyes for 'scary pizzas'.

Some wonderful ideas on this thread already! We'll definitely try the hot dog fingers this year.

Spider web cupcakes. They're really easy to do!

Cup cakes with normal buttercream on top. Make rings of black icing and run a cocktail stick through to make the spider web :)

My parents never bothered with Halloween (mainly because of my extreme fear of masks!) So now I go a little OTT with the kids. We have Halloween biscuit cutters and silicone cake moulds so we do cat, bat, ghost and pumpkin shaped biscuits and cakes. We also carve two pumpkins which we turn into pumpkin soup the following day. We also do eyeball jelly and finger hot dogs! The pumpkin soup we just fry off some onions and garlic then add the pumpkin and some vegetable stock plus a little curry powder then blend once the pumpkin is soft. For the eyeball jelly we use honeydew melon balls and poke raisins into them before covering with Strawberry jelly, they look great! The finger hot dogs are regular hot dogs with "knuckles" sliced into them and onion finger nails! Plus you've got to add "blood" in the form of ketchup! We always use lidl, they're just down the road from us and such good value for money!!

Sometimes we'll do a casserole or chilli with jacket potatoes and/or bread. Something warm and filling that can be made in advance.

I've made spooky jelly, spooky biscuits, scary face cakes, witches fingers sausages, sugar paper ghouls and candy lace cobwebs. I let my youngest decorate cakes and I'll do redcurrant muffins . We've had food colouring overkill in the past from him!

Change the names if usual food so cauliflower is ghost broccoli, carrots are snow mans noses, grapes are fish eyes etc.

cereal box spiders are always a hit in our house, cutting the basic outline of the spider out and let them decorate them!

We bought all our party stuff on offer last november!

Add red food colouring to sparking water for whitches brew.
Put sweet eyeballs into jelly.
Make up bread mix into bone shapes cover ends with ketchup or dip in salsa.
Any sandwiches can be cut into spooky shapes like fingers or ghosts.
Small jam sandwiches (need thick cut bread) can be placed standing up surrounded by dark biscuit crumbs or savoury sandwiches surrounded by parsley or shredded lettuce can make a graveyard.
Sponge fingers can be dipped into yogurt or fromage frais coloured red or green.
Tubes of edible icing in the right colours can be used to make cakes spooky.

I make a meat head with lidl Italian meats.

Take a skull (plastic obviously) and cover with thin layers of e.g. Parma ham
Mozzarella balls for eyes with cloves in

Peel off the skin and serve with crackers round the edge

We always make squeamish squares, just your usual chocolate puffed rice cereal and marshmallow squares but with added jelly snakes and spiders thrown in the mix and topped with a few mini marshmallows or extra spiders if you're brave

I'm loving all of these ideas!

My sons birthday is on Halloween so I'm definitely going to nick some of these ideas for his upcoming party! This year I'm attempting to make a chilli chocolate birthday cake.

MangoBiscuit that is genius.

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My mum already hosts a yearly Halloween party, so it's sort of her department but I will let my kids eat gross stuff like cat food (corner beef,) or owl eggs, (just eggs).
I feed my children lies for Halloween.

Cold spaghetti in tomato sauce makes a great lucky dip game, especially if it's covered do can't be seen. You wouldn't want to eat it like but kids love it

I'm not great at baking, so usually just buy halloween decorated cakes (at Lidl of course)

Witches broomstick made from twiglets with the brush bit wrapped with strawberry laces instead of twine.

Wow, there's so much inventiveness here. We just do spiced pumpkin soup, grilled sausages (not hot dogs - hate them!) or bowls of chilli and toffee apples. We hollow out pumpkins and put bowls of mini chocolates out for passing witches and ghouls too.