Need tried&true easy prep savory Halloween party snack ideas

HoneyNut

HoneyNut

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Our building is having a Halloween night next week and we're each supposed to bring snacks.

I don't want to do anything sweet. I'd rather not need to use the oven or stove (have not yet used either since moving in last year, I just microwave stuff).

I'm hoping for ideas that don't require any effort, I'm thinking maybe some sort of store bought bread or cracker, with some sort of store bought spread, and cute easy ideas for decorating for halloween.

I've googled but seems like everything has to be baked in the oven or requires too much steady and artistic hand decorating.
 

This is a salsa that a cook at a local bar shared with me many years ago. It requires chopping, mixing & then letting it sit to blend.

1 16-ounce diced tomatoes, drained
1 yellow bell pepper, seeded & 1/4" diced
1 green bell pepper, seeded & 1/4" diced
1 red bell pepper, seeded & 1/4" diced
1 red onion, 1/4" diced

Mix together. Dice is just around that size.

For each 1 cup of the above mix, add:

3 tsp. chopped fresh parsley
3 tsp. chopped fresh cilantro

Add to taste:

salt
black pepper
chopped jalapenos (fresh or pickled)

Add a splash of:

lemon juice
olive oil

Mix everything together & allow flavors to blend several hours or overnight in fridge. Serve with tortilla chips.
 

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Make some little creatures using snacky type items. Cubes of cheese, stick an olive on the end and use stick pretzels for arms and legs. Just get some stuff you can put together different ways. You could use cherry tomatoes, small pickles, carrots. Just look in the fridge and pantry and see what you can come up with. Put a bowl of ranch in the middle and call it ghost sauce.

Yes, I am just making this up! My MIL was famous for making something out of so called nothing. If you have to buy things try to stick with items you like and will use with the leftovers.
 
Texas trash is very good! Does require microwave and oven but very easy!

Recipe:In a roasting pan or 2 baking sheets mix:
3 cups Wheat Chex cereal 3 cups Rice Chex 3 cups Corn Chex
1 cup mixed nuts
1 cup pretzels
1 cup Cheeze-its or bagel chips
In a microwave safe bowl melt 1 stick unsalted butter for a minute.
Add:2 Tbs Worcestershire Sauce
2 tsp season salt
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp onion powder optional spices:
1 tsp Tabasco hot sauce
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/4 tsp celery salt
Pour butter over the chex mixture. Stir gently for 3 minutes to get the butter distributed on the pieces. Bake in 250° for an hour, stirring every 15 minutes.


They have videos of this on you tube if you want to watch too!

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The easiest thing I every did for a Halloween event:

Make a 7 Layer Dip (without the sour cream layer) (truth is sometimes it is a lot less than 7 layers)

Take a pastry bag, put sour cream in it and draw a spider web across the top.
( If you don't have a pastry bag, I don't, I use a zip lock baggie and cut the tip off a bottom corner .)

If you get black olives, you can put them in as bugs. If creative you can make a spider out of the olives. If not it looks fine without those.
 

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