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[AnnMumsnet]

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?

Add your best Halloween meals, snacks and drinks to this thread and you will be entered into a prize draw where 5 MNers will each win a £50 Lidl voucher. Any photos are very, very welcome (and may be used by Lidl elsewhere, so please only post them if you're happy with this) – and of course, we’d love to hear what your little food critics think too!

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[Snog]

Where do you get a brain jelly mould?!!!
I want one!

[Carriecakes80]

We do love our cake at Halloween, and we always try to get one made for the big night! This was our favourite though, the chocolate mini spiders covered in coloured coconut were perfect with a ghoulish glass of green milk (just food colouring lol) The kids loved it! x

[Devilfish]

Witches brew soup. Cheap, quick, dead easy, delicious and healthy. Can be found on the BBC Good Food website. I've been making it for years now.

1 tbsp olive oil
onion, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
650g frozen petits pois
750ml vegetable stock
6 rashers streaky bacon
1 tbsp butter, optional

Gently cook the onion in oil for 5 mins to soften. Add the garlic and cook for another minute. Ad 75% of the peas and the stock and simmer for 10 mins. Meanwhile grill the bacon to your liking.

Blend the soup and then return to the pan (I just keep it in the pan and use a hand blender). Add the remaining peas and simmer for 2 mins. Season to taste, stir in butter if wished and top with bacon (cut up if wished) I usually stir a bit of mint through it as well and add some pepper. Can be made up to a day in advance.

Trust me and try it!

[beckyinman]

A bag of white marshmallows, use black icing to make a slit at the narrow end then two dollops of black icing for eyes and you have skull sweets

[JollyHockeyGits]

Can't beat the sausages as chopped off fingers, but after reading this I've discovered everyone does this! We love marshmallow ghosts here too. Also buy a ton of the halloween haribo stuff for guisers.

[FeelingSmurfy]

Carrie the jar behind the cakes looks worried

[AnneOfCleavage]

We always make a sweet potato mash body with green bean legs and cut up sausages for eyes for DD Halloween supper (spider). Her friends have all come to expect it if they are ever over for a hot meal on Halloween.

I always do a party for her too and do the normal stuff most people have already mentioned plus cheese and tomato pizza fingers with red pepper finger nails.

Love Halloween as was never allowed to celebrate it growing up and go a bit mad now.

[Pigeonpea]

Spooky banana's - designed as ghost
Pumpkin satsumas - designed as pumpkins
Goul -ish Goulasch with maggots - rice
dead fly cakes - raisin muffins

[Pagerty]

Eye balls and worms, aka meat balls and black dyed spaghetti. Looks vile, tastes yum.

[Maddaddam]

We go overboard with Halloween parties and food. Foodwise, I've given up on "vomit with blood in" (rice pudding with red food dye) cos noone can face eating it.

"Mud pie" with crawling maggots and worms emerging is always good (made from icing and coloured marzipan).

[LunaLoveg00d]

I love the idea of the pumpkin vomit dip - that would really appeal to my boys' sense of humour.

We generally don't go mad with Halloween food but it's always fun to let the kids loose with the cake making stuff, they love making Halloween cupcakes decorated with spooky looking sweets like liquorice laces which are perfect for making spider legs.

[CheeseEMouse]

I like making pumpkin soup but then also toasting the seeds with spices to make a delicious snack too

[FlukeSkyeRunner]

I think Halloween food is revolting! Sausages that look like fingers covered in blood? Yuk 😝

[FishTailPlait]

We do the hot dogs like a lot of other people & 'finger' biscuits with almond nails. DS likes putting spooky sweets/eyeballs on biscuits as he's not a fan of cake - just iced digestives with blood (red jam) in the middle!

[grannybiker]

We use our own apples for bobbing to save spending a fortune in the supermarket.
We also don't throw away the innards when we carve the pumpkin. It's great for padding out soups.

[NobodyKnows]

A favourite in our house is devilled eggs served with a drop or two of red or green food colouring on top to look like fresh or rotting brains. We also do the cooked hotdogs sliced to look like fingers.

The biggest request is always my slow cooker of mulled wine offered to the parents of trick or treaters.

[childmaintenanceserviceinquiry]

following, so many fab ideas!

[Pixie2015]

After " trick or treating " we always have a Halloween soup to warm us up - then a selection of spooky decorated cupcakes and biscuits that the children have made x

[missSonic]

I like to buy and carve smaller pumpkins from the farm shop, then use the insides for pumpkin soup - which has to be served with crunchy radish & olive eyeballs floating in it!

[Elliepurpleflower]

My mum makes pumpkin pie and with the kids I have Halloween cookie cutters and we make, decorate and eat Halloween themed biscuits.

[Elliepurpleflower]

Some of these ideas are very creative!

[iamsaranna]

I make baked apples and put a couple of jelly worms in each one, Also do spiders webs on pancakes with chocolate sauce.

[peanutmum111]

I normally find that gingerbread biscuits work out the best.
The children help make the biscuits which are stored and decorated before the day.
They enjoy making skeletons, black cats, witches, headstones ...............
just need some icing, marzipan and a few sweets. Have to watch the sugar overload !!!!!
They make nice presents for grandparents, neighbours ............... and the trick and treaters.

[AnnMumsnet]

Congrats to mouldycheesefan, CMOTDibbler, FishTailPlait, missSonic and OjosWorld who all win a £50 Lidl voucher