Healthy Halloween Recipes Kids Will Love!

Elizabeth MacDonald

September 4, 2021

Healthy Halloween Recipes Kids Will Love!

Halloween is the gateway to all things sugar-filled and sweet. Somehow this holiday brings with it permission to indulge in candy come mid-October, snowballing through the comfort foods of November, and crashing into Christmas cookies and New Year's desserts. The whirlwind of sugar we are all about to be faced with can be hard to avoid, but having a consistent meal plan and fun, healthy, holiday-themed recipes on hand can help.

Kids get a kick out of everything Halloween. Even toddlers love getting dressed up and saying, "BOO!" You can start the fun early by including a 'spooky' main course once a week and a few fun lunches or snacks here and there leading up to Halloween. You may not be able to avoid the candy all together, but you can at least make sure everyone's belly is frightfully full before the sweets are consumed. All the families at My Baby's Heartbeat Bear loved tasting and testing these treats! Have your little goblins help out with these recipes and enjoy the mess, laughter, and memories.

Healthy Halloween Recipes

Sweet Potato Pumpkins

A little coconut oil, salt, and cinnamon will have your kids eating more sweet potatoes than ever before. You can skip the faces and stick with a basic pumpkin shape, or you can get creative with your knife and make bats, witch hats, or cat faces!

Monster Wraps

You can have fun using your kids' favorites with these wraps. Breakfast versions can include eggs with bacon and sausage (and bloody salsa!). Lunch can be stuffed with turkey and hummus, BLT, or ham and cheese. A great dinner version can include taco meat or a salad wrap.

Witchy Guac

The best part of this recipe is that you don't need to be Betty Crocker to pull it off! Store bought guacamole works just as well as homemade.

Eyeball Pasta

Sure, you can absolutely slave over these meatballs from scratch... or you can take this parenting hack: buy frozen meatballs and skip that step! (Your toddler won't know the difference.)

Witches' Brooms

These cheese sticks will be an instant (and quick) hit in your house. You can use pretzel sticks along with the veggies for the broom handles.

Pumpkin Chili

This quinoa chili recipe is SO GOOD. The best part of chili is that you can make it anyway that you like it. However, this recipe includes baking the chili in a hollowed out pumpkin. The flavors all merge and you are left with the perfect Halloween party main course.

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