Today I have the pleasure of sharing with you my Halloween Smoothie Bowl! Whether your kids are young or old we all want them to eat a healthy diet and anything that can tempt them to eat fruit and vegetables they might otherwise turn their noses up has to be a good idea. So with Halloween on the horizon I thought a two tone orange and green smoothie in the shape of a pumpkin (yes it’s a pumpkin, humour me) would be a fun way to to get kids (and adults) eating more of their 5-a-day!
I know if I gave my daughter a bowl of the ingredients of this smoothie then she would leave the kiwi, orange and pineapple but presented as this fun Halloween Smoothie Bowl she polished off the bowl in no time. Hubby also really enjoyed it but my 17 year old son turned his nose up as he just doesn’t like the texture of smoothies. The thing I really like about smoothies is that unlike putting your fruit and veg in a juicer all the fibre is retained which is vital for digestive health and you will also feel fuller.
This Halloween Smoothie Bowl contains mainly fruit but there is carrot and cucumber in there too as well as pumpkin seeds and dried apricot (garnish) which are great sources of iron. The pineapple I used was from those handy prepared packed lunch packs which I buy if I find reduced and freeze and the dried apricots and pumpkin seeds were from a bag of mixed fruits and seeds.
For those of you who are more artistically gifted than me you could try making your own Halloween picture, spider webs or a giant green spider spring to mind as ideas!
Why not get your kids to make and decorate their own Halloween scene in a bowl?
We love Halloween here and every year I am amazed by my daughter’s creative make-up and outfits, here brother has of course grown out of Halloween but Coco our black cat likes to join in and follows us as we go Trick or Treating!
But just one word of warning for when you go out Trick or Treating with your kids, make sure they stay well away from tea lights in people’s pumpkins on their door steps. We had a near miss one year at one of our neighbours and as so many Halloween outfits are flammable you really do have to be ultra careful!
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Halloween Smoothie Bowl - fun pumpkin design!
Ingredients
- For the orange layer:
- 8 chunks of fresh or frozen pineapple the size you find in a tin
- 1 small carrot sliced finely
- 1 small orange juiced
- ½ banana
- For the green layer:
- 2 kiwi fruits peeled and quartered
- 1 kiwi sized chunk of cucumber quartered
- ½ banana
- 1 green apple cored and quartered (peel if red)
- ½ lime juiced
- Garnish
- pumpkin seeds
- dried apricot
Instructions
- Place all the orange layer ingredients (pineapple, carrot, orange juice and banana) into a blender or smoothie maker and blend until smooth.
- Rinse out the blender and then add the green layer ingredients (kiwis, cucumber, banana, apple and lime juice) and blend until smooth.
- Place the green smoothie into 2 bowls keeping to one side and then add the orange layer to the other side.
- Use a chop stick or knife to drag lines into the orange side from the green and vice versa to make a pumpkin pattern.
- Decorate the pumpkin with pumpkin seeds and apricot pieces.
Amy Fidler
love the look of this,for this Halloween x
Camilla
Thanks Amy:-)
Heather Haigh
What a wonderful healthy, fun idea
glenn hutton
What a great idea, looks tasty too! 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Glenn:-)
Laura Tovey
This sounds lovely, must give it a go.
Camilla
Thank you Laura:-)
Richard Eldred Hawes
Not only does this look interesting it contains a lot of lovely fruit
clair dukes
I’m going to try this on Monday, my sons will love it!
Camilla
Fabulous Clair:-)
William Gould
It is amazing what you can get children to eat purely on the way it’s presented!
Camilla
So true William, I once put my daughter’s name on a pie that she’d said she wouldn’t eat and lo and behold she was so happy with it she ate it all up!
Paul Wilson
Pumpkin is quite underused, need more of this kind of thing.
Camilla
There’s no pumpkin in this recipe LOL:-)
Sarah Cooper
This looks a spectacular design for Halloween!
Camilla
Thank you Sarah-)
Suji
What a fun recipe! I’m going to suggest this to my sister who has 2 toddlers in need of some Halloween inspiration in their food. Thank you! Suji x
Camilla
Thanks Suji, I’m sure they’d love it;-)
DANIELLE VEDMORE
Love the idea! So creative! Have shared with a vegan friend – she loves smoothie bowls.
Camilla
Thank you Danielle:-)
Kat Glynn
I’m going to try this recipe with my son, he’s a fussy eater but likes smoothies 🙂
Camilla
Fab Kat:-)
Elizabeth
Such a great themed breakfast idea! I have to try this out on my children 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Elizabeth, not being a morning person ever though I am more likely to make this as an afternoon snack or dessert LOL;-)
Katie Bryson
What a fabulously fun idea Camilla – love it! My kids have really got into smoothie bowls lately so I’m going to give your recipe a whirl.
Camilla
Thank you Katie, hope they have fun with it:-)
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche
I love this! You’re so creative, I never think of doing things like this. Sounds delicious too 🙂
Camilla
Thank you so much Becca, I think you are very creative too:-)
Corina
I think this is fantastic! SUch a creative idea and I do intend to try it on my kids. They both happily drink shop-bought smoothies but normally refuse to drink the ones I make for them at home!
Camilla
Great Corina, get them helping with the design too:-)
Diana
Such a wonderful idea Camilla! Very creative I love the design, can’t wait for halloween 🙂
Camilla
Thank you so much Diana, we love Halloween too:-)
Kavey
That is so artistic, love the lines that define the pumpkin ridges!
Camilla
Thank you so much Kavey:-)
Nayna Kanabar
This looks amazing and I love the way you have created the pumpkin design.
Camilla
Thank you Nayna:-)
Kate - gluten free alchemist
That’s so clever! I’m very impressed…… I am sure if I tried this, it would just end up as a brown mess! x
Camilla
Thank you Kate, I’m sure you would be fine, as the smoothies are quite thick compared to the ones you drink the layers keep themselves to themselves I did think about doing a two layered drink but worried that that would end up as a brown sludge LOL:-)
Jacqueline Meldrum
I think you made a great job of it and it sounds delicious, although I’d prefer it in a glass with a straw lol! Nice recipe.
Camilla
Thank you Jacs:-)
Dom
love this! So clever and so tasty! Cant wait for Halloween!
Camilla
Thanks Dom, I do love Halloween-)
Janice
Looks very pumpkin like!
Camilla
Thank you Janice!
Grace @ Eats Amazing
This is fab Camilla, I love the design! Genius idea to buy reduced fruit and freeze it too, definitely going to look out for them with that in mind in future!
Camilla
Thanks Grace, yes lots of the pre-packed mini fruit packs lend themselves well to freezing:-)