Happy Halloween!!!

These healthy lanterns sport their own spoon stems for scooping up the refreshing fruit salad filling.

Ingredients
Navel orange
Canned or fresh fruit salad

Instructions
To make one lantern, use a small knife to slice the top off a navel orange and cut around its interior to hollow it out. Scoop out the orange segments, chop them, and mix them with canned or fresh fruit salad.

Carve small facial features in one side of the orange, then cut a slit in the lid to accommodate the handle of a green plastic spoon. Fill the lantern with fruit salad. Insert the spoon and set the lid in place.


Carrot Finger Food

Ingredients
vegetable dip
4 long carrots
1 medium carrot
softened cream cheese
sliced-almond
baby carrots

Instructions
To prepare them, just fill a serving bowl with your favorite vegetable dip. Wash and peel 4 long carrots for fingers and 1 medium carrot for a thumb.

With a paring knife (a parent's job), cut a flat, shallow notch in the tip of each carrot. Then use a dab of dip or softened cream cheese to glue a sliced-almond fingernail atop each notch.

Stick the fingers in the dip, as shown, and serve with plenty of peeled baby carrots for dipping