Healthy Treats for Your Kids this Halloween!
Spooky, Scrumptious, and Nutritious: A Halloween Treat Revolution for Kids
As the leaves turn vibrant shades of orange and crimson and a chill creeps into the autumn air, the most anticipated night of the year for little ghouls and goblins draws near – Halloween. While the holiday is synonymous with costumes and sweets, it’s also a fantastic opportunity to introduce healthier and equally delicious alternatives to the sugar-laden bounty that typically fills trick-or-treat bags.
In this article, we’ll unveil a selection of enchanting treats that will not only delight the taste buds of kids but also make parents rejoice in their nutritional value. Get ready to embrace a Halloween where spooky and scrumptious go hand in hand, as we present you with a lineup of wholesome, yet irresistibly tasty, trick-or-treat ideas for the little monsters in your life.
Tortilla ‘Ghosts’ Crackers & Black Bean ‘Plasma’
This is a great recipe to whip up for a halloween party. You can cut your homemade tortilla chips into any shapes! We made little ghosts to accompany our black bean ‘plasma’ dip! The dramatic colour of the dip is achieved using black sesame tahini and black turtle beans!
These vegan-friendly eyeballs may look gruesome, but they taste delicious! We used agar agar to make the jelly bases and blue berries for the pupil. We used food colouring to make the blood vessels. They also float, meaning you can add them to your halloween punch for an extra gory kick!
Get spooky in the kitchen with our Witches’ Finger Cookies recipe! These wickedly spooky finger cookies are vegan friendly and don’t worry no witches were harmed in the making of these cookies.
It’s healthy snacking made spooky! These little apple monsters are super easy to make and are a great way to get into the halloween spirit!
To look at these chunky, lip-smacking delights, you’d think they were chock-full of huge amounts of unhealthy fat and sugar – but the reality tells a different story! The sweetness comes mainly from lovely organic maple syrup and soft, wonderful organic Medjool dates, which also provide an excellent amount of fibre, to keep the kids’ digestive systems ticking over very happily. The organic roasted hazelnuts and cashew butter provide plenty of heart-healthy minerals and good fats, while the oats are packed with more fibre, antioxidants, and lots of splendid vitamins. They’re also pretty easy to make – no kitchen nightmares here!
Another great dip that is perfect for halloween parties. All the flavour of cookie dough but with none of the nasties! Don’t be put off by the inclusion of chickpeas, they provide a great fibre-filled based for this dish as well as being infused with the sweet flavours of cookies.
Home Made Gluten-Free Jaffa Cakes
These are gone in a flash whenever we make them! We use a natural vegetarian setting agent called VegeSet to make the delicious orange jelly filling – it’s a simple powder that you sprinkle into your liquid and bring to the boil. It sets really quickly too. This recipe does require a little patience, and a delicate hand, but it’s well worth the effort. You can even change the jelly filling and choose a different flavour of jam such as raspberry, apricot or strawberry.
White Vanilla Mallows 75g (Freedom Mallows)
Freedom Mallows is a family-run business making delicious, melt-in-the-mouth vegan marshmallows that are made to be enjoyed by everyone. These lovely vanilla-flavoured soft treats are perfect for Halloween, and are free from gelatine, gluten, dairy, egg, fat, nuts and soy.
There’s also absolutely no genetically-modified nasties in these awesome sweeties, and no artificial colours or flavours. They have a truly luscious, deep vanilla creaminess, a texture to die for, and are suitable for vegans, vegetarians and anyone following Halal and Kosher requirements. Handing these out to trick & treaters won’t cause problems for those with allergies or intolerances – the only problem is that having tasted them, you may want to just snaffle them all yourself!
Dark chocolate + almonds, can you name a better pairing? There is something so delicious moorish about these two flavours, making it a perfect healthy halloween treat!
Bear’s fruit Yoyos are marvellous. Not only are they brilliant for everyone who loves to play with their food (unravel them and twirl them around before munching, go on) but they’re made from pure fruit and absolutely nothing else – no cane sugar, no preservatives, no nasty chemicals and absolutely nothing unnatural whatsoever. Best of all, they’re available in a little colourful packet which is just the right size to hand out to any local ghouls who come knocking at your door! Choose from six lip-smacking fruity flavours, and try to keep your hands off them before the kids arrive!
Sunflower Seed, Nuts, Cacao & Fruit Energy Balls
These easy to make, versatile snack balls are packed with protein meaning your little ghouls have more energy to party! You can mix up the flavours and make them truly halloween themed. What about orange and cacao? Or pumpkin spice flavour?
Jelly Dinos, Organic 75g (Biona)
Biona do a great range of sweeties that are made from 100% natural ingredients, making them a better alternative to the candies we see gracing the shelves this time of year.
Pumpkin Pie-Spiced Pumpkin Seeds
Toasted pumpkin seeds in sweet pumpkin spice seasoning? Yes please! These make a great addition to your halloween spread!
We are obsessed with the range of peanut butter buttons by Superfoodio. They are made from only four natural ingredients and taste incredible. They are suitable for vegans and those on a plant-based diet. As with all nut products, be careful to only offer these in situations when you know your guests don’t have nut allergies!
These moist and soft brownies with a caramelised halva-like swirl are simply divine! Make them extra spooky by drizzling the tahini on in cobweb shapes!
Stock up for Halloween well in advance – we offer an Aladdin’s cave of wonderful treats which beat the vast majority of supermarket snacks in terms of health and taste, so there’s no excuse not to have a happy, healthy coven of little ogres and genies this October 31st!