HALLOWEEN: Ghost Cookies

What’s QVC’s David Venable making for Halloween? These ghost shortbread cookies, iced with white chocolate! He shared the recipe with us: If you need ghost cookie cutters, here’s a “ghost family” (four sizes, for mom, dad and kids) If you prefer, you can make gingerbread ghosts. Here’s a gluten-free gingerbread cookie recipe.   RECIPE: GHOST…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Orange Milk Or Cream For Halloween

Orange you excited by orange milk? Photo courtesy TruMoo.   TruMoo encourages kids to drink more milk by making lowfat flavored milks in chocolate, coffee, strawberry and vanilla. They’re made with 35% less sugar than the leading chocolate/vanilla milk competitor. For Halloween, TruMoo has tinted the vanilla milk orange. Inspired by their Halloween milk, our…
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HALLOWEEN: Chocolate Covered Orange Peel

For a sophisticated Halloween treat, consider dark chocolate covered orange peels from Lake Champlain Chocolates of Vermont. Chocolate-covered orange peel is one of our favorite chocolate treats. You bite into the refreshing taste of citrus, covered in rich dark chocolate. Fresh Valencia orange peels are sliced and candied before they are dipped into the chocolate,…
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FOOD FUN: Healthy Halloween Snacks

Boo! Chocolate-covered bananas on a stick (photo © Nature Box).   Here are two fun Halloween snacks from NaturesBox.com, an online subscription service that delivers nutritionist-approved snacks to consumers’ doors each month. These are healthful snacks. If you want to be a wee bit wicked, substitute white chocolate (melted) for the vanilla yogurt. Beyond Halloween:…
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RECIPE: Roasted Beets & Carrots

Roasted beets and carrots: colorful, healthful, tasty. Photo courtesy Love Beets.   We love this dish for the harvest season. It evokes the Halloween and the harvest moon. And root vegetables are good for you as well as pretty. They’re filled with antioxidants, fiber and vitamins. While we love all of the beautiful varieties of…
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