In short
- Forthe groceries follow
- Per person≈ $6.39$38 total
- The big day2 hr 12 minand 1 hr 5 min the day before
The menu
Appetizers
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This menu, in a nutshell
With kids, the best Halloween dinner is the one they make with you. Here, every dish has a step for little hands: wrapping the mummies, adding the stems to the mini pumpkin pizzas, sticking on the ghosts' eyes.
At the table, spaghetti bolognese served in a nest, with big mozzarella and olive eyes staring at everyone. Nothing spicy, nothing complicated, and a plate that gets finished.
For dessert, pumpkin clementines and ghost bananas, ready in ten minutes with no cooking, and pumpkin muffins baked the day before for the next day's snack.
The grocery list
For 6: about$38that's $6.39 per person, at average supermarket prices.
Right now
Pantry stuff, cans, things that keep · 17 to grab
The day before, the fresh stuff
Meat, dough to roll out, crunchy veggies · 9 to grab
The game plan
Timed for dinner at 7:00 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 6?
About $38 total, so $6.39 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 6.
What can you make ahead?
The day before: make and bake the muffins at 180 °C, keep them in a tin and steam the pumpkin, blend it with the chickpeas, keep the hummus in the fridge. That leaves 2 hr 12 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 and spaghetti bolognese, the worm nest with mozzarella eyes 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, pumpkin hummus with veggie fingers, mini pumpkin pizzas with cheddar, spaghetti bolognese, the worm nest with mozzarella eyes, pumpkin clementines and ghost bananas and pumpkin cinnamon muffins all have a step they can handle: rolling, placing the eyes, decorating.