Trick or Treat for Healthy Halloween Treats

Submitted by Active Member Powers Strickland

It's hard to believe Halloween is this Thursday! As many people prepare for trick or treaters with bags of candy, we thought we would bring you some healthy Halloween treats for your ghosts and goblins. Did you know that 20 pieces of candy corn equals 33 grams of sugar? That's a whole lot of sugar! What better way to steer clear of all the sugar than with some fun, tasty treats you can make with your kids?

Here are a few quick and easy treats I tackled in my kitchen! 
(Disclaimer: Yours will be a lot cuter than mine!)

Mummy Dogs

Package of hotdogs or cocktail sausages
Refrigerated crescent roll dough
Yellow mustard

Wrap the hotdogs or sausages in thin strips of the crescent roll dough, creating a "mummy" effect. Bake in oven as directed on the crescent roll dough container. Once golden brown, remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes. Squeeze two dots of yellow mustard for the mummy dog eyes. Serve with mustard or ketchup and enjoy!


Banana Ghosts

One banana
Peanut butter
Chocolate Chips

Cut the banana in half. Attach two chocolate chip eyes and a mouth to the top of the banana using peanut butter. Enjoy!

For those with peanut allergies, I think a frozen whipped cream or some sort of icing would work just as well.



Spider Crackers

Round crackers (I chose whole wheat for an added healthy kick!)
Peanut butter (or icing or frozen whipped cream, for those with peanut allergies)
Thin stick pretzels
Chocolate chips

Put a table spoon of peanut butter on one side of a cracker. Place eight pretzels in the peanut butter sticking out of the sides for the spider's legs. Place a second cracker on top. Attach the chocolate chips using peanut butter as the spider's eyes. Enjoy!