Spooky skeleton

5 ratings

Prep Time:10 mins

Serves:4 Adults

Cost:Low

This tasty Halloween treat is as fun to eat as it is to make and it's a great way of getting your kids to eat fruit and vegetables!

Ingredients

1 small cucumber - around 8 inches
3 sticks of celery
1 medium carrot
1 medium orange
2 grapes
1 olive
1 tablespoon of raisins

Method

Wash all the veg and fruit to make sure that it's really clean!
Slice the cucumber thinly and lay it out on the plate in a straight line - this is the spine!
Cut each stick of celery in half. Use 2 pieces for each leg putting them at an angle so you've made a knee joint, and place these at the bottom of the "spine"
Next put the 2 remaining celery sticks at the top of the cucumber lying straight out, these are the skeleton's arms
Next for the ribs, thinly slice your carrot into 12 medium size sticks and lie these across the top part of your spine, 6 on each side
Now for the head, use the grapes for the eyes, the olive for the nose and a segment of the orange for the mouth and two more for each ear
If desired use the raisins for the brain!!
Everyone can then dig in and enjoy devouring the skeleton. Why not use some salsa as a dip!

What you will need

Chopping board
Chopping knife

Serving suggestions

Chop up lots of different types of fruit and vegetables and have the kids make their own Halloween monsters!

Nutritional Information:

All our recipes are nutritionally analysed by our team of experts.

1/4 of the recipe contains

Energy

232kj

55kcal

Fat

0.7g

Saturates

Sugars

9.3g

10%

Salt

0.09g

1.5 of your 5 a day

FOOD SAFETY

Kitchen hygiene and food safety

To prevent bacteria growing and spreading in your kitchen, it is important to clean any chopping boards and other surfaces that come into contact with food. Proper cleaning requires hot soapy water and a good scrub.

HEALTHY EATING

5-day lunchbox planner

Always packing the same old lunch? We often end up putting the same things in the lunchbox everyday. Keeping lunchbox contents varied makes lunch more enjoyable.

"Fresh, local fruit and vegetables in season are best and can be very good value. Eat a variety of coloured fruit and vegetables – green, yellow, orange, red and purple in order to benefit from the variety of vitamins and minerals provided by each colour group."

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