In short
- Forthe groceries follow
- Per person≈ $6.95$69 total
- The big day2 hr 7 minand 1 hr 40 min the day before
The menu
Appetizers
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This menu, in a nutshell
For a Halloween party with friends or family, nothing beats a buffet: everyone helps themselves, mingles, and nobody's stuck behind the stove. Five savory bites make the meal: mummies, spider eggs, bat toasts, pumpkin hummus with its veggie fingers, and mini pumpkin pizzas.
On the sweet side, three treats that are almost all made the day before: pumpkin muffins, graveyard chocolate puddings in little glasses, and fruit in costume put together at the last minute.
The game plan splits everything between the day before and the big day, so you're ready when the first witch rings the doorbell.
The grocery list
For 10: about$69that's $6.95 per person, at average supermarket prices.
Right now
Pantry stuff, cans, things that keep · 22 to grab
The day before, the fresh stuff
Meat, dough to roll out, crunchy veggies · 8 to grab
The game plan
Timed for dinner at 7:45 PM on Halloween night. Tap a line when it's done.
D-3Wednesday, October 28
D-1Friday, October 30
D-DaySaturday, October 31
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How much does this Halloween menu cost for 10?
About $69 total, so $6.95 per person, at average supermarket prices. The total depends on your brands and your store: the grocery list on this page has the exact quantities for 10.
What can you make ahead?
The day before: make and bake the muffins at 180 °C, keep them in a tin, hard-boil the eggs, peel them and keep them in the fridge, steam the pumpkin, blend it with the chickpeas, keep the hummus in the fridge and cook the chocolate pudding, pour it into little glasses and keep it in the fridge. That leaves 2 hr 7 min of cooking on the big day, spread out in the game plan.
Do you need an oven?
Yes, for sausage mummies in puff pastry, mini pumpkin pizzas with cheddar and pumpkin cinnamon muffins. The game plan tells you when each one goes in, so the bakes don't step on each other.
Is this menu vegetarian?
No: sausage mummies in puff pastry have some. Our vegetarian Halloween menu swaps those dishes out.
Can the kids help?
Yes, and it's the best part of the night. Sausage mummies in puff pastry, deviled eggs with olive spiders, pumpkin hummus with veggie fingers, mini pumpkin pizzas with cheddar, pumpkin cinnamon muffins, graveyard chocolate pudding with gummy worms and pumpkin clementines and ghost bananas all have a step they can handle: rolling, placing the eyes, decorating.