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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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Mainly we do pumpkin soup or pumpkin rissotto (we get a veg box so tend to get small pumpkins to use up this time of year) and biscuits shaped like bats

We love experimenting with food at Halloween, scary cupcakes and terrifying Toasties!

Definitely pumpkin soup. And pumpkin pie, and roasted pumpkin. We get the most out of our pumpkins!

Haven't done any of this so following for ideas! Most I've done before is buy some grapes and tell the kids they're eyeballs (and lychees work better anyway).

We make spaghetti and meatballs as we thought they'd look like brains hehe!

five breadsticks sticking out of a bowl of dip - look like a hand - pretty spooky (cut them the length of your fingers)

We don't normally have a Halloween party, the kids go out trick or treating with their friends. I just get some sweets from Poundland and stick them in a plastic cauldron for the kids that come to the door.

We do ghost cupcakes and spooky pizzas (mummy faces using strips of cheese as bandages and olives for the eyes - might try and be a bit more creative this year!

These are two we made last year. The skeleton has a tub of humous for its face and we bought a brain mould.

This is the cake we made last year. It's a standard choc sponge. The 'soil' is oreos whizzed in a food processor then sprinkled with green sugar (supermarket bought) The tombstones were Nice biscuits iirc. We also did the mummy sausages linked too previously, very easy.

I don't go too mad though, although I love making stuff like that it's quite fiddly and time consuming. I tend to just have one or two star dishes and the rest is bog standard with cheapo table decorations.

Is this a zombie thread?

Finger sandwiches - white bread with a halved red grape as a finger nail.

Cut the top off an orange, carefully hollow out the fruit using a knife. Fill with orange jelly. When jelly is set, cut eye, nose and mouth holes.

... Et voilà. Jelly-filled 'pumpkins'.

Make sure to save the contents of the orange for snacks.

We have blood soup (tomato), dead men's fingers (hotdogs) and monkey brains (baked potatoes) followed by murky pondwater with dead goldfish (green jelly with tangerine pieces).

Finger hotdogs are always fun - use frankfurters and take a bit off at the end to look like the nail then smother in ketchup!
We also made pumpkin shaped peppermint creams last year for trick or treaters and they weren't very exopensive and were easy for little fingers to make!

Last year me and ds made rice crispy bun spiders for Halloween

So basically normal chocolate and rice crispy buns in cases but lay strawberry laces (for legs) into the mixture about halfway and then cover with the rest of the crispy bun mixture . When there cool use a little tube of coloured icing to put some eyes on :)

I like to make spooky cup cakes, jellies because it is something to do with kids

Squashed fly biscuits!

Nice cheap and cheerful here is a recipe i do every year, the kids love it!

Slime bug cups

Ingredients

4 x 135g packs lime jelly
a selection of animal and bug sweets
2 x 154g packs Oreo biscuits

Method

Make up the jelly following pack instructions. Pour a third of the mixture into 12 small glasses or plastic pots. Add a couple of bugs to each pot, then leave to set in the fridge, keeping remaining jelly at room temperature.
Once set, add more bugs to each container (lean some against edges, so they stick out the top). Pour over a third of the jelly and leave to set in the fridge. Repeat with remaining bugs and jelly.
For the soil topping, place cookies in a plastic bag and, using a rolling pin, bash into crumbs, then tip onto a plate.
Just before serving, sprinkle a layer of soil over each set jelly, then top with a mushroom, a slug and some ants or your choice of creepy crawlies.

We always have a jug of squash with plastic eyeballs floating inside. You can even use a clean plastic glove to make a frozen hand to keep the jug of drink cold! Very effective!

I love to make a millionaires shortbread with a spider web design on top too using white chocolate to make a feathered cobweb.

My sons first Halloween last year, we made Peppers cut to look like pumpkins, stuffed with spaghetti.

Something very similar to this :)

I love to do eye balls with mozzarella balls, bit of parma ham around them and half an olive on top

The advantage is that they taste really nice too!

My children are quite young, so nothing too scary for us! We usually stick to bugs and creepy crawleys as a theme rather than anything too gruesome. Buns iced with cobwebs, lots of green and orange food dye and pumpkin soup with floating croutons in different colours. Hot dogs are also a huge favourite on halloween and are 'slugs in blankets'.

My kids favourite Halloween snack is simple dyed eggs (hardboiled eggs, crack the shells but don't peel, then sit on bowls of dye/water for a few hours before peeling). We also love worm jelly!

Main course (no photo of this one sadly) is usually green spaghetti (food dye again!) with green olives, peas and pesto stirred through. Yum!

Not scary but it wouldn't be Hallowe'en without pumpkin pie in my house. :)
None of this trick or treating here though, Scottish bairns go out guising.