Healthy Halloween Roundup

Halloween is almost here, and there are bountiful stories around the net showing you how to make this holiday safe and healthy.

Here's a roundup:

• A neat trick: fun treats for Halloween party: "When it comes to trick-or-treating, there's no avoiding the gobs of candy your kids will haul in. But if you're throwing a Halloween party, there are plenty of options for both children and adults."
  
  
• Offer trick-or-treaters some healthier alternatives this Halloween: "With a little planning, it's not difficult to take a healthier approach to trick-or-treating."
  
  
• Treat your kids and their friends to a creepy cooking party on Halloween: "Set your little goblins up in stations around the kitchen, preparing either dinner or dessert. The kids will have so much fun, they won't even realize you're teaching them how to cook and be mindful about nutrition in the process."
  
  
• Ask the Expert: H in Halloween means healthful: "With increased childhood obesity cases and the related increase of children with diabetes, high cholesterol and other blood fats (diseases that used to only occur in adults), it is important that parents follow a few guidelines when looking through their child's Halloween haul."
  
  
• Sneaking health into Halloween candy bag: "...one of the most important things before sending kids out to trick or treat is to feed them well throughout the Halloween day."