Looking for a Healthy Halloween Snack? Or a way to get kids to eat more veggies? Check out my Salad Stuffed Cyclops, they’re deviously delicious!
Salad Stuffed Cyclops are a Healthy Halloween Snack
Do you struggle with getting kids to eat their veggies? If the answer is yes, struggle no longer! I’ve got a salad stuffed cyclops recipe that makes the perfect healthy snack for Halloween. These Salad Stuffed Cyclops will capture the imagination of even the pickiest of eaters.
If the answer was no, then that’s seriously ‘awesome sauce’, but still follow along because this recipe is SUPER delicious and RIDICULOUSLY easy. Your veggie eaters will love these yummy bites.
Salad stuffed cyclops are the perfecto combo of a healthy snack mixed with Halloween and it proves that festive food fun can be amazingly exciting without the sugar. Salad Stuffed Cyclops are like combing craft time with snack time, which makes them a double winner.
In the video below, Marielle helped me to build this adorably devious salad with me. I don’t think salad will ever be the same again with these fun veggie bites.
I’ve included this recipe in a printable format so that you can print it, make it and archive it for future food fun!
Salad Stuffed Cyclops
Ingredients
- 5 Sunset Grown Mini Bell Peppers (approximately 5” in length)
- 1 1/2 cups chopped salad*
- 2 tablespoons light ranch dressing
- Black olives, sliced (1 per Cyclops)
- 1 fresh beet
- Whipped cream cheese
- Alpha alpha bean sprouts (optional)
Instructions
Wash the beet. Removed the ends; as if you were cutting an onion. Peel the beet with a potato peeler. Shred approximately 1 tablespoon of beet per Cyclops using a fine cheese grater.
Wash the peppers. Cut of the end of the pepper with the stem to create a flat edge so that the finished Cyclops can stand. Remove the seeds from the inside of the pepper.
Place the salad and the dressing into a mini chopper and pulsate until the salad is finely chopped almost like a Cole slaw. Stuff the peppers with the chopped salad & pack it in with a spoon. Stand the peppers on a serving dish. Optional: Add alpha alpha bean sprouts onto the plate for the Cyclops to sit on as if they are rising from the green lagoon for an added affect.
Pinch approximately a tablespoon of grated beets together & add it as hair to the top of the standing pepper.
Pat the olive rounds dry with a paper towel. Spread cream cheese onto one side (approximately ¼ – ½ teaspoon) to use as edible glue and stick the olive to the pepper for the Cyclops eye affect. It will not slide if the pepper and olive are each fully dry.
*Salad: We often used romaine lettuce, carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers in our combination, but you can use all of your kid’s favorites when making your salad to stuff your Cyclops. You can even purchase a pre-made bag of salad at your local Price Chopper Supermarket to keep it easy and chop it up in the recipe process.
Notes
More on making this Healthy Halloween Snack:
Salad: Make your own favorite combination before chopping it or purchase a pre-made bag of salad to keep it even easier; it’s a time saver and every parent needs time savers.
Extra, extra, read all about it! We love to add sunflower seeds in our chop for a little extra, flavorful crunch.
Lessons from the Salad Stuffed Cyclops for the kids in the kitchen!
There are always lessons in making any recipe to share the children in your life. Depending on your child(s) age, you can focus on some of the following lessons when making this healthy snack recipe for Halloween;
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- washing veggies
- cutting and knife safety
- chopping
- kitchen safety
- grating
- following directions
Want more veggie fun for Halloween? Check out my Spider Bite Pizzas = more easy delish!
This year I’ve paired my Salad Stuffed Cyclops with my Spider Pizzas for a fun Halloween dinner menu. These spider pizzas are made on whole grain pitas with veggies and pesto. They are delish! Grab this healthy Halloween snack by clicking here.
And, to finish off the dinner menu, I’m rounding off the Halloween table yum with a little Beetle Juice; it’s a sip the whole family will love. You can make this recipe with or without icy brains. We couldn’t resist adding the frozen brain affect with these glasses. To learn how to make beetle juice click here.
All three of these recipes make excellent family fun as well as fabulous party foods.
Cheers to Better Bites and eating a healthy snack for Halloween ~ Jodie
17 Comments on “Salad Stuffed Cyclops are a Healthy Halloween Snack”
They look cool. Have to remember this for our halloween day 🙂
Thank you – I love these guys; they crack me up :)!
Such fun food ideas Jodie!
Thank you!
so nice to see you linking up Jodie. These are so cute. Hugs and thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things Blog hop xo
Thank you for hosting & for swinging by to say hell-o 🙂 xo
Hello cute lady! This looks so cool. Pinned. We couldn’t think of anyone better to party with. We hope to see you tomorrow at 7 pm.
Happy Sunday! Lou Lou Girls
THANK YOU so ugh for pinning these 🙂 Always look forward to stopping by…thank you for hosting! Have a great week…
What a fun project and very tasty. Hope you are having a great day and thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with Full Plate Thursday!
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Thank you! We love serving fun salads & veggies :)….have a great week & thank you for hosting!
Your salad looks like fun! I do appreciate you sharing with Home and Garden Thursday,
Kathy
Thank you :)!
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Haha! It took me a while to work out that they were peppers- I only know one shop where they sell these! I’m going to try these soon! Thanks for sharing at Fiesta Friday.
Ha Ha! I hope you enjoy them when you make them. Our local supermarket (Market 32) has them – they are great for ‘food fun’. Have a great week….
Jodie, this is so fun! I love peppers but my kids are not big fans. Perhaps if they are this cute though they may try them again! Thanks for sharing and linking with me!
Shelbee
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THANK YOU!
Let me know if this does the trick with your non pepper eating kiddos = haha. My kids didn’t used to like them either, but became fans (taste bud changes I guess = haha), but whatever works – right?
Not only are they cute, they can pick them up, turn them upside down and chomp into their salad; no fork required! LOL