Healthy Halloween Treats

With Halloween just around the corner, I am sure that many parents are not looking forward to all of the sugar their kids will be acquiring while Trick-or-Treating. I decided to look around and see what healthy, spooky alternatives I could find so that parents had more options than just candy this season. Below are some of my favorites that I found. Not only are they healthier, but they are so easy and fun too!

Carrot Finger Food

Ingredients 

• vegetable dip
• 4 long carrots
• 1 medium carrot
• softened cream cheese
• sliced-almond
• baby carrots

 Instructions

1. To prepare them, just fill a serving bowl with your favorite vegetable dip. Wash and peel 4 long carrots for fingers and 1 medium carrot for a thumb.
   
2. With a paring knife (a parent's job), cut a flat, shallow notch in the tip of each carrot. Then use a dab of dip or softened cream cheese to glue a sliced-almond fingernail atop each notch.
   
3. Stick the fingers in the dip, as shown, and serve with plenty of peeled baby carrots for dipping.
   
   
   
    Melon Brain
   Ingredients: 1 small seedless watermelon
      

   Instructions

1. Use a vegetable peeler to remove the entire green rind, exposing the inner white rind.
   
2. Slice off the bottom of the melon to create a flat base that will keep it from rolling. With a toothpick, outline squiggly furrows that resemble the folded surface of a brain.
   
3. Finally, carve narrow channels along the tracings with a sharp paring knife (a parent's job) to expose the pink fruit beneath the rind.
   

Recipes taken from here and here.