Cute, but gross.

So I had a very rare Cute Mom Moment on Halloween and decided to make a fun meal. I looked online and found a website that had cute ideas for Halloweeney food that kids would like, so I gave a few things a shot.

Scary mouths, made with sliced apples and slivered almonds:

These are supposed to look like scary eyeballs - sliced carrots, cream cheese, and olive slices:

Hot dog mummies (hot dogs wrapped in breadsticks and cooked):

And monster fingers (string cheese with green pepper fingernails):

The kids just loved it, but the whole meal made me want to yak. String cheese and green peppers - not the best combination. Same with apples and slivered almonds. And carrots and cream cheese. And I really, really hate store-bought breadsticks. They taste like chemicals to me. So I had like one bite of each thing and then later had a normal apple, sans slivered almonds. I'm discovering that I'm a bit of a food snob.

I saw an idea in People magazine that I might try next year. It's Shepherd's Pie, right? But then you put the mashed potatoes into an icing bag and squeeze them out in tall swirls (like they do with soft-serve ice cream on ice cream cones), and those swirls are supposed to look like ghosts. I think you put fennel seeds on each swirl to make ghost eyes. I really should find the picture.