One Hundred Dollars a Month {longtime} reader Jen, recently shared photos of her alien autopsy Halloween dinner with me and we just knew we needed to share them with you too. Mrs. HB loved the idea so much that she’s going to make this totally creepy alien autopsy dinner for her kiddos as a surprise this Halloween. Maybe you’ll want to make it for your family too. 😉
Hi Mavis! With Halloween only a few days away I thought I would share a few pictures of my Halloween dinner I made a few years ago. I always try do something cool and creative for the kids and that year I decided to build and entire edible alien for dinner.
I picked up the mask at a local costume shop but constructed the rest of the body out of aluminum foil. The body was packed with smoked ribs. I also colored some home made mac and cheese to give the appearance of guts.
I made the arms and legs with corn on the cob and baked potatoes and filled the hands with dinner rolls and found a few glow in the dark bones to fill in the gaps. I colored some hard boiled eggs with neon green food coloring. The picture does not do them much justice but they turned out really cool.
I used a simple store bought green punch for drinks and dropped in a pew pellets of dry ice to make them bubble and smoke. For desert I simply filled the head with all the kiddo’s favorite Halloween candy. It was a total hit- gross and yummy at the same time!
I would love too see what kind of cool things your readers also do for Halloween. (I’m running out of ideas! LOL!)
Have a Happy Halloween!
~ Jen
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Judybee says
This is hysterical! Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Randi says
um, no. i could not eat that. kids would think it was cool though. So creative.
Deborah says
Creative.
But, ick, no thanks…
It’s the ribs that are too
Disgusting…too real…
Kimmy says
This is super cool! I admire anyone so creative and ambitious.
Mel says
We don’t have kids, but my husband and I do mummy dogs for Halloween, or hot dogs wrapped in soft pretzel dough and baked. Pretzel dough is very quick for yeast dough, so it’s easy even on a weeknight.
Candy C. says
Not cool. Think about it. What if we were the alien?
Crystal says
Seriously?
Yvette says
Only the coolest thing EVER! She should get featured in Martha Stewart magazine, with a generous check, for sharing her awesomeness! Best idea EVER!
Jen Maldonado says
Thanks for sharing Mavis. Can’t wait to see Mrs. HB’s Alien creation 🙂
Anne in VA says
We have an annual Halloween party. More of a dinner party than anything else (8-10 adults and their kids). I always fix themed food. This year I served a skeleton torso. Plastic skull head, rack of ribs and coiled polish sausage. I will be happy to forward a photo.
Graveyard potatoes = twice baked potatoes with little paths of onion tops and bacon bits and a cracker tombstone. I did another incarnation of graveyard potatoes years ago with a big casserole dish of mashed potatoes and sliced baked potatoes as the tombstones.
The kids have mummy dogs and won’t let me change their menu option at all.
In previous years I’ve made shrunken heads (stuffed peppers), meatloaf molded in a hand and foot with onion slices for the nails. I have a plastic brain mold that I’ve used for tomato aspic or cheese ball.
I’m not into aliens so the alien head doesn’t appeal to me, but the corn and potatoes in the arms is quite clever. I’ll have to add “autopsy” to my future menu options.
Patti says
That is icky awesome and so creative. My kids would have loved it!
Lace Faerie says
Oh man! Give this mom a blue ribbon! This is awesome! I’m filing this one away for future reference!!
Heidi says
Super Cool! I have a similar thing I bring to adult Halloween parties. I buy a cheap baby doll and take it apart. I replace the torso with baby shrimp in cocktail sauce over a mound of cream cheese so it looks like guts. Super creepy and yummy at the same time and a little easier than a full blown alien.
Leslie says
Impressive! Really impressive. Totally freaks me out, which is the point, right? Way to go, Jen.
VickiBee says
We had “toxic waste” macaroni and cheese for dinner. I used a boxed mac and cheese with white powder instead of nuclear orange, made just like the box instructions. I colored it with green food coloring gel and then added some cooked chopped spinach, a can of diced tomatoes (drained). I cut some hotdogs in half, carved some thumbnails and knuckle lines into them, boiled them in water to swell them up a little and added them to the mix. The kids were horrified and fascinated at the same time. My 6-year old grandson said they looked more like big toes than thumbs, but he was creeped out just the same. I submitted a photo to the contest Zaycon had on Facebook, and won $25 in credits!