Halloween Is Just Around The Corner

It's the beginning of the month of October... there are a lot of us around that are wheat intolerant or have children that are and we're all looking for great ways to entertain the little ones or even that little on inside of you that goes candy crazy when it's Halloween time!

I've searched the web today for great ideas to indulge the adults since I try to cater to the adults here on my blog but also some ideas to indulge the kids as well... I hope you'll find these links and recipes helpful. And remember mom, dads, sisters and any other adults out there, you usually get the left overs from your kids ;)

For The Adults

A couple great ideas to either try to reduce the intake of candy by the kids or something to do with the left over candies that you bought to hand out. These were so good!

#1 - 'The Great Pumpkin'
The idea behind this seems to be that with all the left over candies from Halloween give out of candies (which almost always ends with something left over) is that with all of it, your kids can 'exchange' a certain amount of candies for a toy (that of course you have on stock... nothing expensive, nothing huge... but stuff like you'd find at the walgreen's kids toy section and so forth). By the time that you kids have all the toys, all of the extra candies that you had will be long gone from their wanting minds. Remember, you as adults don't have to eat this candy but instead give it away to food panties or if you have to, throw it away as you also don't need all that sugar/fat!

#2 - 'Toy Vender'
Also a version of 'The Great Pumpkin' but making it so the kids have to use the candies they have collected in their 'trick or treat' run instead of what you have left over. So they buy the toys from you like they would with money at a store but instead a set price of candies instead. This one works well seeing as most kids will keep their favorite candies and instead of just randomly eating the other stuff they really don't care all that much about except 'it's their's' it will go to a better cause.

Pumpkin-Apple Sauce Bundt Cake

Hot Spiced Cider

Harvest Popcorn Mix (great for the football game watchers too)

Caramel Fondue

For The Kids

Nestle Gluten Free Products
Baby Ruth
bit-o-honey
butter finger
butter finger bb's
chunky
goobers
milk chocolate
nips
treasuers
turtles
Oh-Henry
Rasinets
Sno-Caps

Wonka (also nestle)
Bottlecaps
gobstoppers
laffy tafft
lik-m-aid fun dip
mix-ups
nerds
pixy stix
runts
shockers
sweetarts
tart 'n tiny
Nerds rope

Gluten Free M&M Products
All M&M except for M&M crispy
All skittles bite size candy
All Starburst Products
All Milky Way producs except milky way bar
All Dove Chocolate produces except dove milk and dark chocolate covered almonds
munch bar

All Jelly-Belly Beans are gluten free as well.

Recipes

Witches' Fingers

Bug Salad

Witches' Cauldron

Dracula's Bones