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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?

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[cocochips]

Pumpkin soup

[rocketriffs]

Use the pumpkin contents. This year I will be making Pumpkin fries as in chips. Also being Scottish we do neep (turnip) lanterns too, so roast neep is on the menu. Apples are inexpensive for playing ducking (bobbing) and making toffee apples, and Hot Dog sausages impaled with spaghetti strands boiled in a cauldron and served with blood red pasta sauce is a fav with the kids.

[Sarah250187]

Scary spider cupcakes with gummy worms all over them

[ftovey7]

I've seen some recipes for some lovely Halloween pumpkin cupcakes that I really want to try this year. One of my favourites to make at Halloween are monster toes, little frankfurter, half wrapped in pastry and the other end with a little dollop of mustard or mayo to look like the toe nail. And of course Candy apples always go down well with us adults. We also have fun with pastry and do some hands and fingers with tomato sauce as blood.

[piggypoo]

A great cheap way to get ghoulish food for parties, is to buy supermarket own-brand digestive biscuits, pick up some tubes of food colouring, and get the kids to draw spooky faces onto the biscuits, you can whip up some little cocktail sausages and just add a tomato ketchup or "blood" dip to go with them! :)

[Croker62]

Bloody Marys are always a good pre-halloween drink.
I like to make baked potatoes and dress them up to look like heads with olives for eyes, and I put cottage cheese and baked beans in the top so it looks like there brains have been smashed in, then we drizzle some tomato sauce over them.

[Doncald]

We love Halloween I love doing pulled pork buns in the slow cooker it very cost effective and feeds plenty .