Healthy Halloween

Get your kids in the kitchen (and away from the candy bowl) this month with some spooky new ways to make some of your favorite recipes. Most of what you need to recreate these Halloween treats is in our webstore. From ghostly pizza dough to mummy dogs and all the crudité to build a veggie skeleton, we have you covered*. 

​Check out our Pinterest holidays board for even more inspiration.  
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• Creepy Mini Halloween Pizzas
• Butternut Squash and Walnut Soup
• Eyeball Pasta
• Mummy Dogs
• Skeleton and Brain Dip

​*Items available in the FreshFix webstore are in bold text.

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Creepy Mini Halloween Pizzas

Make pizza night even more fun with creative and scary toppings. Use kitchen scissors to cut jack-o-lantern shapes out of pepperoni and bell peppers. Transform black olives into spiders or vampire hair. Cut mozzarella into strips and lay them out to look like mummy bandages. 
Ingredients​

• ​Salvatore's Pizza Dough Mix
• Salvatore's Pizza Sauce
• Golden Age Fresh Mozzarella
• Other pizza toppings: pepperoni, olives, bell peppers, onion

Directions

1. Prepare dough according to package instructions. Divide dough into 4 portions.
2. Roll or pat each portion into an 8-inch circle and place on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 5-6 minutes -- dough will be just set and only lightly browned on the bottom.
3. Spread each crust with pizza sauce.
4. Top with desired toppings to make fun Halloween designs!
5. Bake for an additional 5-8 minutes, until cheese is melted and bubbly.

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​Butternut Squash and Walnut Soup

​Incorporate one of our favorite fall flavors - Butternut Squash - into this festive, kid-pleasing weeknight meal. You can make your own stock too with our Chicken Stock Bags from Erba Verde Farms and your vegetable scraps!

​Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 1/2 onion diced
• 1 butternut squash peeled and cubed
• 32 ounces chicken or vegetable broth 
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup toasted walnuts
• 1/2 cup sour cream

Directions

1. In a large pot, sauté garlic and onion in olive oil until onions are translucent (about 5 minutes). 
2. Add butternut squash, broth, and cream. Bring to a boil. Lower heat, cover, and allow to simmer for 15-20 minutes until squash is soft.
3. Pour contents of pot into blender. Add walnuts and salt. Blend until pureed. 
4. Pour into bowls. Fill a plastic bag with sour cream, carefully cut the corner off, and pipe three circles in each soup bowl. Use a wooden skewer (or knife) to pull and drag out from the center to create the spider web from the sour cream. Top with a walnut half. 

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Eyeball Pasta

You'll need straws in various sizes to create the creepy eye balls for this super simple pasta dish from Spend with Pennies. Check out her edible eyeball how-to here.
Ingredients

• Spinach Linguini from The Pasta Peddler​
• Roasted Red Pepper Pasta Sauce from The Pasta Peddler​
• Shtayburne Farms Mozzarella Cheese Sticks
• Olives or dark skinned veggies like zucchini, eggplant or cucumber

Directions

1. Slice string cheese about ¼″ thick. Cut the olives in half lengthwise.
2. Using the straws cut circles out of the cheese discs, using the same straw, cut pieces out of the olives. Place the olive pieces in the cheese pieces to make eyeballs.
3. Cook pasta according to directions. Top with a serving of pasta sauce and add eyeballs on top.

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Mummy Dogs

This fun Halloween spin on the classic pigs in a blanket turns regular hot dogs into mummy hot dogs by wrapping them in pizza dough.
Ingredients

• ​Salvatore's Pizza Dough Mix
• ​The Piggery Pig Dogs

Directions

1. Prepare dough according to package instructions. 
2. Cut the dough into 1/4 inch strips. Wrap the pieces of dough around each hot dog creating bandages by stretching the dough slightly and letting it overlap and criss-cross. You don’t completely cover the hot dog, leave gaps so it looks like a mummy peeking out from its bandages.
3. Place each wrapped hot dog on a baking sheet and then bake for 10-12 minutes or until the dough is golden brown and hot dogs are warmed through.

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​Skeleton and Brain Dip

​Skip the sweet this Halloween and go for the savory with our Skeleton and Brain Dip. Our Skeleton and Brain Dip recipe includes hummus for the skeleton's brains and fresh veggies for the skeleton's limbs!

Ingredients

• 1/2 leaf lettuce leaf
• Ithaca Hummus
• 4 cups assorted cut-up fresh vegetables (red and yellow bell pepper strips, cucumber slices, snow peas, mushroom slices, celery sticks, carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, broccoli florets, cauliflower florets)

Directions

1. Line half of small bowl with lettuce for the skeleton's hair; fill with hummus. Place at one end of large tray or baking sheet for the skeleton's head.
2. Arrange vegetables on tray to resemble skeleton's body.

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