How to Throw a Spooky Eco-Fab Halloween Party
Halloween: it's an excuse to be someone else for an evening, and who doesn't want to do that once in a while. Hiding behind that ever impressive costume allows people to really cut loose, so it's a great reason to throw a party. This year make your Halloween get together a greener shindig by serving your guests only the best.
- Serve high quality sweets. Try and serve a variety of organic chocolates http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/supper-club-chocolate.html. Skip the wasteful bags and mini candies. Those bags produce more waste than you can even imagine. Instead, fill bowls with organic and homemade sweet treats.
- Skip on the processed junk food http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/10/healthy_halloween.php. Make cookies with high quality ingredients like local eggs, raw sugar, nuts, and organic chocolate rather than picking up highly processed cookies made of refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup.
- Make it spooky with soy candles. Skip on the petroleum based candles and add glow with high quality, eco-friendly soy candles.
- Skip the plastic decorations and go natural. Use tons of local gourds and pumpkins to spruce your place up rather than tacky plastic pumpkins and orange streamers. Reuse old sheets and stuff with old newspaper to make ghosts. Make it rustic rather than cheesy. (Yes, it's okay to use decorations that you have stored over the years...just don't buy new ones.)
- Skip the paper invite and send a ghostly Evite.
- Serve seasonal treats like apple pies, pumpkin risotto, and pumpkin ravioli. Make a side with tons of seasonal roasted root veggies like turnips, parsnips, and sweet potatoes.
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