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Oct 25 2010

Halloween Ideas For Adults

Growing up in a small town offered many opportunities for great Halloween memories. As a child, the month long costume making sessions with mom, the school Halloween parties and the eventual trick or treating around my neighborhood. Small towns offered a safe environment for accepting candy from strangers and we never had to worry about town bullies taking our candy.

As an adult, Halloween costume ideas revolved around sex or creating a funny costume. Times have changed, we’ve grown up and instead of candy, Halloween brings thoughts of eating that pumpkin and looking for recipes on how to cook with squash.

Halloween Roundup

Over the past few years, various writers have shared their thoughts on these various subjects here on the blog, so I thought I’d put together a little summary of Halloween ideas for recipes, costumes, workouts and even some environmental tips. The authors would love to hear from you, so please leave comments where applicable.

Halloween Recipe Ideas

Squash is a most excellent food. If you’ve got pumpkins laying around after the holiday, make use of it’s nutritional goodness by making one of these:

halloween recipe ideas

Pumpkin Butternut Squash Curry Soup – Butternut squash is one of my favorite’s. Here it’s combined with pumpkin and then spiced up with ginger and curry. Lots of Vitamin A and Beta Carotene!

Pumpkin Pancakes – great recipe for any fall morning. Spiced up for the cold months too.

Pumpkin Corn Chowder – If you like a chowder, this makes a great Halloween recipe, suitable for sharing. My wife and I are still trying to come to a conclusion about “what makes a chowder anyway?”, so please leave a comment with your thoughts and help us settle it once and for all.

Halloween Costume Ideas

halloween costume ideas
When I was a kid, I distinctly remember making a robot costume out of cardboard boxes. One for the head and a bigger one for the body. I also remember parading around our school gym for a costume competition where the teachers would vote on the best costume. The only other one I remember was a pirate costume.

Regardless, things are different now. With age comes a more mature theme.

Naughty Halloween Costume Ideas

Burn Off Those Calories

pumpkin workoutScott Tousignant, personal trainer and author of many great exercise products including Fat Loss Quickie put together a outdoor workout that makes use of any decorations you may have used.

Check out the Halloween Fat Loss Workout video and start pumping your pumpkins!

Environmentally Friendly Halloween

For years, Scott Bird wrote many excellent articles on conservation including his series on how to save water. He’s from Australia and suffice it to say, they’re way ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to water conservation.

Once the holiday is over, what do you do with all the leftover “stuff?” Here’s an idea:

Environmentally Friendly Halloween – Check out the 10 ways to make your Halloween environmentally friendly.

As far as I’m concerned, when it comes to Halloween, I’m just happy if there’s no snow. I like to think we can make it through the holiday with out the slush, snow and cold weather, but that’s not always the case.

I hope you have a great time trick-or-treating this year and every year, and encourage you to make use of one or all of the Halloween recipe ideas. They’re seriously good, and not just in October. Soup is a wonderful way to keep filled up and make use of your winter squash. Next year? I’ll be growing them myself.

Written by Rob · Categorized: Fun · Tagged: Exercise, Halloween, Recipes

Nov 03 2007

Recipe: Spiced Pumpkin Pancakes

This unusual spiced pumpkin pancake recipe is perfect for a weekend brunch, especially before or after Halloween when pumpkins are plentiful. Top with Apple Butter, Almond Butter, any other nut butter or pure Canadian maple syrup.

pumpkin pancake recipe

Spiced Pumpkin Pancakes

1/2 cup fresh cooked, mashed pumpkin
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup Kamut flour
1/2 tsp Stevia in place of brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon grated orange peel
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon olive oil
3/4 cup plain or vanilla almond milk

Combine the pumpkin with the dry ingredients. Mix water, oil, and almond milk and add to pumpkin mixture. Beat just until smooth. Heat griddle or frying pan and oil lightly. Use about 1/4-cup of batter for each pancake; cook until bubbles appear, then turn. Remove when pancakes are golden and slightly firm to the touch.


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Pumpkin pancake recipe photo credit: Her View Photography
Small dollop of apple butter shown on the the side

Written by Darlene · Categorized: Health, Recipes · Tagged: Halloween, Pumpkin, Recipe, Whole Foods

Oct 31 2007

Happy Halloween 2007

It’s Halloween night again here in North America. Naturally this holiday brings up thoughts of costumes and candy, but what about the environmental impact? The writers of this blog have been hard at work providing environmentally friendly tips, Halloween pumpkin recipes, Naughty costumes and a way to remove any fears that originated with your first scary experience many years ago.
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Scott Bird, from Australia is passionate about the environment and posts something environmental related each Sunday. His Halloween contribution is about 10 Environmentally Friendly Halloween Tips. Scott also writes about food and cooking and his newest project is on worm farms. He’s hard at work, writing a book about building a worm farm from start to finish. Expect that soon

With all the Halloween pumpkins available for carving, Darlene and I thought, “why not come up with some recipes and cook them?”. So we did just that.

Halloween Recipes

  • Pumpkin and Corn Chowder
  • Pumpkin Apple Curry

This is Darlene’s Pumpkin Apple Curry

halloween pumpkin recipe spiced pumpkin apple curry

Darlene and I release a new whole food recipe each Saturday and we’ve still got two more recipes yet to post, one of which we made just this morning, a pumpkin pancake recipe and the other a pumpkin and butternut squash soup. The soup is yummy.

I first asked Michele if it was possibly pets that she was passionate about, but she told me in no uncertain terms that it was in fact relationships.

Michele has been contributing some great articles on the subject including a Naughty Halloween Costume article to spice up your bedroom. Great any time of the year.

My buddy Scott Tousignant, author of The Fit Bastard and The Fit Chic e-books contributed a Halloween Workout video that makes use of the Halloween decorations you might have around your house. Proof that you can make use of anything handy to get in a workout.

Halloween Fear

Yes, it’s real. I remember as a kid seeing some pretty scary shit out there on the streets and at such a young age, can wreak havoc on our little, impressionable brains.

What if scary experiences from our childhood Halloween nights have now caused us fear of other things? And more importantly, how can we get rid of the fear?

Dawn Murray is a friend of mine who I turned to for help with my own emotional shit. Dawn is a Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner and does work by phone or in person. She recently contributed her Fear of Halloween Night article.

Emotional Freedom Technique is a major contributing factor in weight gain and weight retention as far as I’m concerned. That fear and negative emotion is also toxic and can be stored as acidic waste in our bodies. Any sort of work you can do to remove these fears will take your body to a new level of health and peace. I highly suggest you have a look at it. Talk to Dawn for more information.

Please be safe this Halloween everyone. Kids may have a hard time seeing you in your car through their Halloween masks. Their attention is elsewhere, so please be extra careful when driving. If you don’t have to drive tonight, don’t.

Written by Rob · Categorized: Environment, Fat Loss, Fun, Health, Relationships, Weight Loss · Tagged: Emotional Freedom Technique, Environment, Exercise, Fear, Halloween, Recipes, Relationships

Oct 31 2007

Fear Of Halloween Night

You remember the fun you had Halloween night? Lots of tricks and treats but many of us are still suffering from a scare they got. Oh, princesses and Jedi are warm and fuzzy, but witch costumes, Dracula and ghosts conjure up scarier things and can leave your traumatized when you are young and vulnerable. Fear of Halloween night is a real fear. When as a grown man or woman you freak out if you see a spider, a mouse, a bird or moth and it sends you screaming like a little kid and when it’s all over you feel so foolish but at the time it’s as real as if those little creatures are 10 feet tall and will truly do major harm to you.

Fear Of Spiders, Ghosts or Spirits

fear of halloween night
We call them Halloween Spooks. Were you ever afraid of them, is there still some lingering fear of spiders, ghosts, spirits or things that go bump in the night (or day)?

We find there are spiders and moths in many areas of our lives, some are just bigger and cause a greater disruption in our energy system than others.

Many people know how to get rid of fears and trauma’s with Emotional Freedom Technique but I encourage you to find out for yourself if there is some residue left from Halloween ghosts.

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Written by Dawn · Categorized: Health · Tagged: EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, Fear, Halloween

Oct 21 2007

10 Ways To Make Your Halloween Environmentally-Friendly

Halloween (aka All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve) can be a great occasion. Of course, as with any major event there’s a bit of cleaning up involved the following morning.

Here are just a few of the ways (10, to be exact) you can make your Halloween more environmentally friendly, and spend more of that clean-up time in bed. Perfect.
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Written by Scott Bird · Categorized: Environment · Tagged: Environment, Fun, Halloween, Kids, Pumpkin, Recipes, Save Money, Worm farm

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