Nutritious Halloween Sweet and Savory Party Treats

Halloween is often synonymous with eating so much candy that you don’t feel so good. But that doesn’t have to be the case! You can keep the spooky seasonal spirit alive without sacrificing nutrition with these simple, sweet, and savory party treats!

• Roast Pumpkin Seeds. When you’re carving your jack-o-lanterns, make sure not to toss the seeds after you scoop them out! Washing, drying, and roasting your pumpkin seeds with a little oil and spice can make a wonderful (and non-wasteful!) seasonal snack!
  
• Cookie Cutter Cantaloupe. A Halloween cookie cutter can do double duty as a fruit cutter! Cut a cantaloupe or any other melon into wide, thin slices and then go to town with any themed cookie cutter, turning your fruit into ghosts, ghouls, goblins and more!
• Slimy Eyeball Bowl. All it takes to turn a bunch of grapes into a bowl of slimy eyeballs is a couple minutes peeling them. This Halloween party classic is enhanced by a blindfold, putting the sensory feeling first.

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Stuffed Bell Pepper Jack-O-Lanterns!

This spooky meal combines the nutritional benefits of bell peppers, the wonderful flavors of ground beef and onion, and the Halloween theme of Jack-O-Lanterns to provide a spooky, savory meal your kids won’t soon forget!

Total time: 1.5 hours

Ingredients:

• 6 bell peppers (orange preferred)
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 egg
• 4 slices whole wheat bread, cubed
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 small tomato, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup chili sauce
• ¼ cup prepared yellow mustard
• 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon pepper

Instructions:

1. Clean bell peppers, remove top and scoop seeds, cut Jack-O-Lantern face into each
2. Mix all other ingredients well, stuff each pepper with mixture
3. Bake in oven preheated to 350 degrees for 1 hour

Delicious Support

Nutritional support doesn’t have to be scary! While your kids are busy trick-or-treating, you may want to consider Kids First® Multivitamin + Omega-3 Gummies, a tasty, convenient way to help their growing bodies get the nutritional support they need. Have a happy Halloween!†

† These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.