Monster Mouths
I like Halloween more than Christmas. My husband and I used to have huge celebrations on Halloween. We’d throw a costume party and would invite friends over for food and drinks. Obviously, this year we will not be doing that, but Halloween is still my favorite holiday.
Apparently, we’re not the only adults who get excited about Halloween. Even with COVID-19, statistics show 148 million consumers are going to celebrate Halloween in 2020. This year, 46 percent still plan to dress up, and 62 percent (in communities that are not experiencing a high number of COVID-19 cases) plan to hand out candy. That’s the part that makes me queasy…all that candy.
Did you know people buy twice as much chocolate for Halloween than they do for Valentine’s Day? Last year, parents purchased more than 90 million dollars worth of chocolate to give out on Halloween. Yikes! To make matters worse, 90 million dollars was just for the chocolate. That doesn’t even count the other stuff like the little gummies, the pop rocks and the mini tootsie rolls. And we wonder why so many of our children suffer from obesity....
Monster Mouths
A fun and delicious snack for Halloween!
Ingredients:
For the Lips: Granny Smith apples (these will make ghoulish green lips) or Red Delicious apples (these will make red lips)
a lemon
For the Gums:
peanut butter
For the Teeth: white chocolate covered raisins
a few dark chocolate covered raisins for black teeth (optional) peanuts
Instructions:
Remove the core from the apples and slice them. Squeeze fresh lemon on the slices to keep them from turning brown. Then, to make your mouths, smear a nice helping of peanut butter on one side of an apple slice. Nestle four or five peanuts (or chocolate covered raisins) into the peanut butter. Finish the mouth by adding another smear of peanut butter to another apple slice and softly press them together. Don’t press too hard or your mouth will explode!
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Zola
