Creepy lunch...

It's all Jayden's fault. You know those magazines at the grocery checkout, with pictures of fancy food and decorations? Well, I should know better by now than to let the Little Chef within 10 feet of them. He found some nifty Halloween stuff, including these recipes, which of course we had to make. Immediately. Good thing we had designated Wednesday as the family Halloween party day.
Lunch entree was Creepy Crawlers Pizza, with Zombie Potion (which Max claims turns him into a frog...oh my)and Monster Munchie Mix.
The pizzas, even though gruesome, are actually pretty good. Very filling, though - we usually use two whole ones for lunch, and barely made it through one. Brent didn't mind, he had the second one for dinner on his way to work.

If you want to tackle one of these goodies, here's the how-to: you can use a store-bought cheese pizza (or two); frozen curly fries; pimento stuffed green olives and black olives; hot dogs cut in half then sliced length-wise into quarters; ketchup.

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Put pizza (s) on low rack on baking sheet, put curly fries on higher rack on baking sheet. Bake both about 12 minutes. Pull pizzas out but leave on rack, load on fries, sliced hot dogs, and olives. Bake another 10 minutes (until hot dogs start to brown and curl - stange but true). Remove from oven, drizzle artistically with ketchup "blood", and serve. Yum yum. Yeah. Weird, but pretty tasty.

The Monster Munchies are the basic Chex mix, with added pretzels, Halloween candies, gummie spiders and bats and worms, M & Ms, etc. A mouse or two adds to the attractive mix.

Zombie Potion is simply Ginger Ale or lemonade or whatever, with green food coloring added. Plop in a scoop of rainbow sherbert, hang a gummy worm on the side, and you have a wicked potion. Watch out for frogs.

If you have a crew of punks like this lurking about, the goodies will disappear, pronto!

We had a great time constructing, eating and laughing over our creepy lunch. Halloween, here we come!
(No, they didn't eat the olives - except Than; he likes the black ones. I like the green ones. So it was all good, thank you very much.)