Healthier Halloween
Halloween can be a time where you feel bombarded with pressure to buy sugary snacks and sweets. Today I am sharing x2 two really fun but healthier Halloween recipe ideas. So you can celebrate at home without all the extra additives and sugar. These are simple recipes - which can be thrown together quickly and they would be a fun activity, to make with bigger kids too. Given this year is a little different and we are all at home.
First up, make your own tortilla chips, in fun Halloween shapes, using wholemeal wraps and cutters. You can serve alongside any dips of your choice, but I’m sharing the easiest smashed avocado dip, which is full of good fats. Or, why not try messy but delicious Frozen Monster Bites? A yummy combo of frozen banana, nut butter, and coconut: sweet frozen treats, without all the added sugars.
mimi’s top tip ~
The best tool in your kitchen for Halloween are some spooky cutters, as you can cut out shapes from normal foods and make them fun. Vegetables cut into shapes, or little sandwiches are easy and mean you can celebrate without the sugar hit.
Halloween Guacamole & Tortilla Chips
for the homemade tortilla chips ~
6 wholemeal wraps
1-2 tablespoons olive oil
Halloween shape cutters
baking tray
for the quick guacamole ~
1 avocado
½ lime, juice only
1 tablespoon Greek yogurt (optional)
Black pepper
how to make ~
Preheat the oven to 170C (fan oven).
Take the wraps and cut out Halloween shapes, using shape cutters. Place in a bowl, toss with olive oil, until evenly coated. Then place on a lined baking tray in lines, don’t overlap the shapes. Place in a preheated oven for 3-4 minutes, watch them as they can easily catch. Remove and drain on kitchen towel. The tortilla chips should be golden and crisp.
To make the spooky green guacamole. Mash the avocado, with the juice ½ lime and season with a pinch of black pepper. To make the dip extra creamy you can add a tablespoon of Greek yogurt, then combine. Serve the tortilla chips, alongside the spooky green dip.
allergens
wheat/ gluten (in wraps) and dairy (in greek yogurt)
Frozen Monster Bites
2 large bananas
1 small post Greek Yogurt (90ml)
2 tablespoons desiccated coconut
2 tablespoons organic nut butter*
chocolate drops/ or raisins to decorate
*not suitable for nut allergies
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Take ripe bananas, and cut into rounds, then sandwich them together in pairs, using a nut butter of your choice*. Then roll each “mini banana sandwich” in Greek yogurt. The roll in desiccated coconut and finally place on a lined baking tray.
Repeat until you have used all the banana, this makes between 6-8 banana bites (using 2 bananas). Dip some choc drops, or raisins in yogurt and press onto the banana bites to make faces. Then cover with clingfilm and freeze, for at least 4 hours.
Defrost for 5-10 mins before eating, when they are soft enough to push a kid’s fork into them, then they are ready to eat! And your little one can grip onto the fork as a handle.
