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" Bethenny Frankel is busier than a wicked witch on Halloween. When this celebrated natural food chef, creator of the phenomenal new Skinnygirl Margarita, and The New York Times bestselling author of Naturally Thin and The Skinnygirl Dish isn&amp;#039;t cooking or advocating good food, she stars in the Bravo docudrama The Real Housewives of New York City. Is there any room in her cook-right, eat-well world for the indulgences of Halloween? &amp;quot;Of course there is!&amp;quot; Frankel says. &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s start with the kids.&amp;quot; \u2022 Let kids get as silly and creepy and crawly as possible. It&amp;#039;s okay to put out bowls of gummy worms, gummy spiders, and the most disgusting edible creepy crawlers you can imagine. While you&amp;#039;re at it, float large plastic eyeballs in the punch bowl. (This is generally safe for children over 5.) Kids will be so intrigued by the eyeballs, you just might get away with serving plain iced water instead of sugary punch.  \u2022 To strengthen the case for drinking plain water, make these special Icky Ice Cubes: Buy black gummy spiders, candy eyeballs, or the scariest-looking candies you can find. Place the candies in ice trays, add water \u2014 or part water and part colored, clear juice like cranberry or apple, or lime Gatorade \u2014 and freeze. Voil\u00E0! Icky Ice Cubes. \u2022 Go faux! Adapt the recipe for Rice Krispies Treats by substituting crisp brown-rice breakfast cereal for the usual Krispies \u2014 or use half crisp brown rice cereal and half Rice Krispies. Go one step beyond, if you dare: Add black food coloring to the Krispies mixture so the finished treats will look like something that only bats would eat.  \u2022 Use tortillas or puff pastry (whole-wheat preferred) to wrap cocktail franks to look like sawed-off toes. For toes with bloody woes, decorate with a few squiggles of ketchup.  \u2022 Transform common PB&amp;amp;amp;J sandwiches into boo-tiful Halloween finger sammys. Prepare sandwiches with whole-grain bread, then create whimsical holiday shapes with pumpkin-, bat-, and ghost-shaped cookie cutters.  \u2022 Bake up some SuperBoy and SuperGirl Cupcakes and Muffins from your favorite recipes for carrot cake and zucchini bread. To make frosted carrot-cake baked goods even more fun, turn up the hue: Mix orange food coloring and some fresh carrot juice into the cream-cheese icing. For a nutritional boost, leave the skin on the zucchini when you shred it. Explain any scary green slivers of unpeeled zucchini skin that peek through as &amp;quot;toad hair.&amp;quot; The kids will take it all in Halloween stride and lap it right up!  \u2022 Make rainbow fruit skewers by layering chunks of fresh or thawed fruit in the colors of the rainbow (only for children old enough to handle skewers safely). For added fun and nutrition: \u2022 Melt dark chocolate (it is filled with antioxidants) and allow the children to get all messy by dipping their fruit skewers into the chocolate. \u2022 Likewise, dip frozen bananas into the melted dark chocolate and serve in place of processed sweets that are made with artificial colors, flavors, and other additives. For more ideas for Halloween check out these 7 Halloween Cookie Recipes. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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