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Healthy Halloween

31 Oct 2024
Healthy Halloween

Here’s five ghoulishly fun and healthy ways you can celebrate this spooky holiday with your family.

1. Get into the spirit

Get into the spirit of Halloween by decorating the outside of your home together, planning your costumes and face painting.

2. Treat your tastebuds

Trick or treat, trick or treat, creep into the kitchen and make something spooky to eat! Instagram and Pinterest offer a host of scarily fun and easy Halloween snacks you can make. Our favourites are:

  • Veggie ghosts: Half a carrot and cucumber, round the top, carve the letter “M” at the bottom and use a metal straw to punch out holes for the eyes and nose.
  • Ghostie toastie: Toast a slice of bread, smear it two cream cheese ‘ghosts’ and decorate with mini choc chip eyes
  • Boo-nana ghosts: Half a banana decorated with choc chip eyes and nose
  • Clementine pumpkins: A peeled mandarin with a mini cucumber wedge as a stalk
  • Jack-o’-lantern capsicums: Carved capsicums filled with hummus to dip into with grainy crackers and veggie sticks. Try our Hummus with capsicum and pepitas recipe.

These are also perfect for lunch boxes or after school snacks.

3. Stock up on ghoulish novelty treats

Don’t be afraid to stock up on stickers, glow sticks, fake spiders and temporary tattoos instead of chocolate and lollies. Why not impress your trick or treat pals with handmade haunted joke cards?

4. Go creeping together

Creeping together for an evening stroll to trick or treat is the perfect way to clock up extra steps with your family and fosters a sense of community. Happy haunting!

5. Savour the spooky

Easier than carving a decorative pumpkin, embrace the spooky charm of this occasion by treating your family to a bubbling cauldron of homemade pumpkin soup for dinner served with pumpkin scones or damper.

Eating nutritious foods every day and participating in more movement through physical activity can help reduce your cancer risk. Learn more about the link between lifestyle factors and cancer.

This blog was written by Karissa Deutrom, the Nutrition Lead at Cancer Council SA. She is a Dietitian-Nutritionist and Health Journalist.