October 2nd...Bring on the Hauntingly Good Lunches!

Is your house in full mail watch?  Everyday a new catalog with fabulous costumes to pick from, the endless discussions of what to be, the bargaining that comes with sisters; should we match, should we have a theme...  Halloween is officially in full swing at Chez Peterson.    Not to worry, I celebrate only one holiday at a time.  There will be no Christmas lunches until December 1st! 

I will however, spend all of this month focusing mostly on ghoulishly good lunches.  It will probably be frightening, the amount of different Halloween cutters I have.  These lunches could possibly haunt your every waking hour with their cuteness.  I'll stop, I know your probably all groaning anyway.  Yes, I am that corny; candy corny that is!

This little lunch is just a kick off.  I've experimented with making my own "jello jigglers", LiLi has already informed me they are "bisgusting" and she will only allow me to pack her one because her friends will think it's cool.  GiGi is not as picky with the "shivering" food and is enthusiastic about them.

Lunch includes; Brains and Blood (spaghetti and sauce), Monster Finger chicken strips, Jacks and Bats pretzels, Jack-O-Lantern bell peppers and some Goblin Eye grapes...grape juice jigglers and ghostly marshmallows round out lunch.  They'll each have Blood red 100% juice fruit punch.    The beauty of Halloween lunches is that they tell their own story, your kiddos will have as much fun eating them as they do deciding what each item is!

For snack they took Pirates Booty and Cliff Kids fruit snacks.

The. Best. Halloween. Treats. EVER!

So, if your in the Portland area your totally out of luck, because by the time this is posted I will have bought every single one of these packages...at least if everything goes as planned and that plan relies heavily on my Hubby, who doesn't always think my plans are ideal.

I have found the best Halloween treats, school snacks, perfect peanut free (and tree nut free), little bags of goodness.  I am sharing with you because a) a lot of you have nut allergy kiddos too and b) it's just nice.

First, Pirate Booty has Trick or Treat size bags (24 of them in a box) and kids love this stuff, and Moms can love it too because it's a pretty okay snack.   Grocery stores carry individual serving bags of this stuff (you get 6 for about $7), but the bags are huge and far to big for my 8 year old to eat in one sitting.  These Halloween ones are smaller, you get 24 for $7!  That's just awesome.  I mean, really, just awesome!

Second, Angies Classic Kettle Corn.  Again 24 little, perfect, snack size bags.  Totally peanut and nut free...just the right size for snack or trick or treating and made with 4 ingredients!  Four ingredients folks, that's incredible.   Again, these were about $6 for 24 bags.

Here's some pictures so you know exactly what to look for.  Oh, and a big THANK YOU to Target for carrying these fabulous treats for you to hand out to your kids, or the kids that will be knocking on your door in a few short weeks!  (Save the chocolate for yourselves...we need it more and we always remember to brush our teeth.)

 

 

 

Kid tested today, totally approved!

I think you're probably all familiar with Pirate's Booty, but if you want I'll post a picture of it too!