Easy Halloween dinners

October 28, 8:39 PMEarly Childhood Parenting ExaminerAngele Sionna

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In my family, Halloween wouldn't be complete without a nice big spook-etti dinner. So today, here are some ideas for fun and easy Halloween-themed dinners.

Spook-etti

This is really just spaghetti with a fancy name. But it makes it dinner on Halloween oh so fun plus it's warm and filling so you can tackle trick or treating with ease. My mom used to serve our spook-etti with a spooky voice while telling fun but scary stories. For older kids, you can go into detail about the sauce being blood and guts and the noodles being muscles. You could always throw in some olives and call them eyeballs while you're at it.

Jack-o-lantern Pizzas

This is easy too... you can use frozen pizza or make these on tortillas or english muffins. All you do is use different color cheese slices, olives and peppers to make jack-o-lantern faces on your pizza. If you use tortillas or english muffins, just spread some sauce, shredded cheese, then decorate. You can get the kiddos to help make these too.

Barbeque Bat Wings

For this quickie meal, snack or appetizer, all you do is cook up some chicken wings and toss in barbeque sauce. I recommend using frozen Kettle Cooked Wings (I get these from Sam's Club) with Rudy's Texas BBQ "Sause" (I order this online! It's THE best barbeque sauce around!)

Witch's Brain Mashed Potatoes

To make these yummy but gross mashed potatoes, simply whip up a batch of taters as you normally would and add a drop of green food color when you're done. For little sci-fi fans, you can also call these Mashed Alien Guts.

Grilled Cheese Pumpkins

Make a grilled cheese as normal. Then when it's done, get out a pumpkin shaped cookie cutter and instant presto-chango - a grilled pumpkin!