Halloween Can be Healthy!

Halloween can be a balancing act for parents who are in the business of raising healthy kids. 

With intentional good choices Halloween does not need to be a free fall of junk food extravaganza for your children. 

 On the other hand, what is Halloween without the collection of sweet delights!  So how do you balance it all?

Healthy Party Foods:

Be sure your kiddos eat a healthy, well-balanced meal before heading out the door to trick-or-treat.  This should help to curb their desire to go full on with the sweets while trick-or-treating and when they get back home!

Warm them up with a hearty bowl of chili.  Top it off with cheese slices cut out with cookie cutters in the shape of ghosts, pumpkins, spiders or bats.

Don't toss out those pumpkin seeds! 

Those seeds trapped in orange goo are loaded with healthy minerals that aid in cell and organ functions. 

 9 Healthful Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds.



Is there a Halloween party on your schedule?  Encourage parents to make it a healthy get-together with  veggie, fruit and cheese trays.
There are all sorts of create and festive ways to dress up veggies and fruits for Halloween!  Get inspired on Pinterest! 
I recently saw one creative idea I would like to try; a pie pumpkin was hallowed out and hummus dip was put in the pumpkin shell.

Stay environmentally conscious:

Some of the best costumes are those pieced together from what is already in your house!  Pinterest, again can give you some great costume ideas, or do a costume swap with friends and neighbors. 

Remember the landfills and use re-usable tableware for your Halloween party.  Have recycle bins for items that can be recycled.

Clean up with 100% all natural, sustainable cleaners.  Brightly Green's eco-friendly cleaners can cleanup any sized party!

Get those little sticky party hands clean with Baby Harmony Hand Soap.  Baby Harmony Hand Soap is 100% all natural hand soap which means it is a safe way to be germ free! 

Control the Candy Consumption:

Although there is a small percentage of children who could on their own, handle a healthy pace of consumption of their Halloween trove; the greater percentage of kids lack that kind of self-control!

Moms and dads need to step in at this point and be the distributor of the goodies!  Your child's teacher will thank you, for sure!

Have a FUN and HEALTHY HALLOWEEN!

-from the family of HG Labs' Brightly Green Cleaners!

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