Halloween Recipes That the Kids will Love!

Rather you're throwing a big Halloween party with tons of guests or just doing a small family gathering of treats & goodies, I have some wonderful recipes in store from you.

I have made each and every one of these recipes at my house at a Halloween party (within the last couple of years) and they are all always a hit! I hope that you all enjoy them as much as we all have!

GOULISH PUNCH

WHAT YOU NEED:

2cups  boiling water

1pkg.  (8-serving size) JELL-O Lime Flavor Gelatin

2cups  cold orange juice

1bottle  (1 liter) seltzer, chilled

 Ice cubes

1pt.  (2 cups) orange sherbet, slightly softened

1  orange, thinly sliced

1  lime, thinly sliced

MAKE IT:

STIR boiling water into dry gelatin in large bowl at least 2 minutes until completely dissolved. Stir in juice. Cool to room temperature.

POUR into punch bowl just before serving. Add seltzer and ice; stir.

ADD scoops of sherbet and fruit slices.

TIPS: Substitute 2 pkg. (4-serving size each) JELL-O Lime Flavor Gelatin for the 1 pkg. (8-serving size) gelatin.

Substitute club soda for the seltzer.

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MEATY MUMMY

Wrap a legion of scary mummies for a Halloween dinner or party appetizer. To make, skewer a purchased meatball and a 4-inch piece of summer sausage stick with a 6-inch wooden skewer. Combine 8 ounces of cream cheese and 1 teaspoon of purchased pesto. Spread some of the mixture over the meat skewer and wrap with cooked fettuccine noodles. For a more bulky body, spread with additional cream cheese mixture and wrap with another layer of cooked fettuccine. Add capers for eyes. Serve with pasta sauce for dipping.

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TOMBSTONE SANDWICHES

For a quick Halloween appetizer so good it comes from the graves, serve guests tombstone sandwiches. To make, cut chicken salad sandwiches into tombstone shapes, roll the edges in chopped pecans for a pebbly look, and serve from a graveyard covered in creepy cabbage. Then use mustard/ketchup to write 'BOO', 'RIP', or other halloween phrases on the bread.

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FROZEN GHOSTS

WHAT YOU NEED:

Bananas

White chocolate chips

Cool Whip (1 tub)

Milk chocolate chips (mini’s would be great)

Popsicle sticks 

MAKE IT:

Melt the white chocolate chips.

Whip in the Cool Whip.

Cut the bananas in half and peel them.

Gently place popsicle stick in banana and dip in mixture. (Be careful! If you move too quickly, the banana will break!)

Place on wax paper.

Add chocolate chip eyes.

Freeze and enjoy! 

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GHASTLY GOBLIN GRINS:

WHAT YOU NEED:

1pkg.  (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

1/2cup  packed brown sugar

1/2tsp.  vanilla

2large  apples, cut into quarters

1/4 cup  PLANTERS Slivered Almonds

MAKE IT:

BEAT cream cheese with mixer until creamy. Add sugar and vanilla; mix well.

CUT thin wedge in peel side of each apple piece; fill with 1 tsp. cream cheese mixture. Insert 4 to 6 nuts in cream cheese mixture in each apple to resemble teeth.

SPOON remaining cream cheese mixture into serving bowl. Serve with apples for dipping.

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EYEBALLS ON A PLATE

WHAT YOU NEED:

Eyeballs on a Plate    

Small, round powdered donuts

Gummy Life-Savers

Brown M & M’s OR chocolate chips

Red gel icing

BUILD IT:

Place the donuts on a plate.

Add several stripes of gel icing for bloodshot eyes.

Put a gummy Life Saver in the center and a chocolate chip in the center of the Life Saver. 

Each recipe has been made by me at some point, however they are not my own ideas. Also, the pictures came from Google (as I did not think to take my own pictures when I made the treats).

Please VOTE for my little girl in the contest!!

Van's Natural Foods is having a contest BREAKFAST BEDHEADS for a coupon and $5,000! I entered Aliya's photo in it and am hoping *fingers crossed* that she wins this!

I would greatly appreciate it if you would take a moment to vote for Aliya.

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Just in case the link doesn't work, the picture is titled "This is Bacon?!" and my name is Jerrica P. The photo is shown below (but in order to get to the voting page, please click the link provided HERE or above.

Where Has My Mind Gone To?

So, I'm not quite sure how I managed to skip this one REALLY important detail in my last post update, BUT.. here it is! The man that I am with and I are now expecting a precious bundle of joy. We are just a little further than 3 months along!

In some ways, I was extremely nervous that he would not be completely okay with us having a baby and whatnot yet but I was pleasantly surprised when he turned out just as excited (if not more!!) than I. We are crossing our fingers for a boy, but the good Lord knows that we will be perfectly satisfied with whatever we are blessed with. 

Anyways, I just wanted to share this will all of you since it is such exciting news! And by the way, this time, I do plan to (hopefully) still keep up the blogging all the while - I figure that if every other mama on here can do it, I can at least give it a rough try..! 

Time to shut it down?

Long time, no see, huh? I do apologize. I have certainly had a jumbled year so far. I'm sure that Blogger is expecting that it's time to shut poor, forgotten my page down.

Wrong!

Although my year has been jumbled and I have a million things to catch you all up on, I am going to get back to blogging - I miss it - and all of you. I came into blogging full force and it became an important role in my life, but once Aliya was born, I could feel blogging slip out of the picture.

I was a new mom, new to the world of babies and children. And then, the divorce. So, I became a single mom with a billion things to do and accomplish - one of which, I had no idea would happen so abruptly - I met a new special someone. He adores Aliya, just as much as I do. He is a magnificent man and an all around genuine person.

Back on point, my blogging is going to continue. And for those of you who have waited and been loyal followers, I greatly appreciate your patience and commitment to Something To Talk About. 

Thank you!

And The NEW Winner Is..

It's time to announce the winner of The Juppy Giveaway. In order to pick a winner, I use Random.org.

Here are your random numbers:

2

Timestamp: 2012-03-29 07:013:43 UTC

NancyFeb 27, 2012 09:24 PM

#1
GFC: allibrary

Nancy
allibrary (at) aol (dot) com

Congratulations, Nancy! I have already contacted you. You will have 48 hours to respond within the 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen.

The Juppy: Review & Giveaway

Alright, I know that I haven’t been able to keep up with my blogging very much here lately, but in case you didn’t know, Aliya is 7 months old, as of today! She’s scooting around backwards and trying to learn to crawl. She’s growing up so quickly – it is absolutely amazing how fast time seems to be going. Aliya loves to stand, it’s so cute, but she’s a little wiggle-worm. Although I assumed it would be really hard, now as a single mother, to help Aliya learn to balance and everything, but it’s much easier than I had expected now that I have The Juppy.

Now, many of you have children, from newborns to adults, and so I hope that you’re all paying close attention when I tell you this – THE JUPPY REALLY DOES HELP! The Juppy is walking aid that helps your baby learn their balance and how to walk, without hurting the parents’ back by bending over.

Needless to say, most parents are very willing to bend down to help their babies learn to walk – it’s just another sacrifice that we make for our children – I figured it was something that was inevitable… Until I receive The Juppy in the mail!

The Juppy does the following:

• Teaches baby balance and confidence.
• Reduces the chance of accident and injuries.
• The only baby walker that fits in a purse!

And I have been able to see each of these things, in real life. I carry The Juppy around in my diaper bag, but sometimes when I don't take my diaper bag places, I really do just put it right into my purse! Aliya is in it all of the time, and she has yet to fall down - it makes catching her so much easier than if I am just holding her hands. And she doesn't run into things like when I had her in a regular walker.


No kidding, I am so thankful that I was able to receive The Juppy. It's helpful to, both, Aliya and me. Teaches her and relieves me from spending so much time crouched over to help her.


The Juppy is available in black, pink or blue. I chose the pink. Also, with The Juppy, you have the option of getting a name monogrammed on it.


Also, on Aliya's Juppy, we were able to have her name (or nickname, in our case) put on it. Although you can not see it in the pictures that I have posted, it is there. I will try to get some pictures of it on here as soon as I am able.


I believe that my favorite thing about The Juppy is that Aliya enjoys it. Aliya and I get 'mommy and daughter' time, she gets to learn things, and she is happy while she's in it. So it's a win, win, win!

WHAT YOU WIN: The winner can choose a Juppy in the color of his/her choice (pink or blue) and have a name monogrammed on it as well. That's almost a $37 value!

• If you do not do the mandatory entry FIRST, your other entries will NOT count.
• If it says +1, leave one comment. If it says +2, +3, so on and so forth, leave that many comments. If you leave one long comment, it will only count as ONE comment, with no extra entries.
• You must leave your email address in EACH comment, unless it is public on your blog.
• You must be 18+ to enter this giveaway (or whatever the legal age is in your state).
• Open to U.S Residents ONLY.

TO ENTER: (Mandatory!)
+1 Go to The Juppy's website and tell me one thing that you learned while on their site.




EXTRA ENTRIES:

• +2 Follow my blog publicly on Google Friend Connect.
• +2 Subscribe via email to my blog.
• +2 Post my NEW botton to your blog.
• +1 Follow Something To Talk About on Networked Blogs.
• +1 Follow Something To Talk About on Facebook.
• +1 Follow The Juppy on Facebook. 
• +1 (Daily) Share this giveaway on Facebook. It MUST link to this giveaway and you must leave a comment with the link to your post.
• +1 Follow me on Twitter.
• +1 Follow The Juppy on Twitter. Leave your twitter handle for verification.
• +1 (Daily) Tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment with the link to your post.
• +1 Check out The Juppy Blog and tell me one thing that you found out while there.

This giveaway will end on Monday, March 12th at 11:59 p.m (EST). I will contact the winner within 24 hours through email. I will also write a post listing the winner. The winner will have 48 hours to claim their prize, after those 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen.. So, be sure to keep your eyes open - even with your spam!


I received The Juppy free of cost in order to write my review. All opinions here are 100% my own.

Short and Sweet

Well, Josh and I are getting divorced. Things had been going downhill for a while, and we've decided that there is nothing left to save.
He and I are both okay with it.

Sorry this post is so short, but I have a lot of things to get done. I will do my best to update later..