Salsa-Bean Dip

4 green onions -- cut in 1-1/2" pieces
2 cloves garlic
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 cans (15-1/2 oz each) cannellini beans -- rinsed and drained
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup salsa
fresh cilantro sprigs -- garnish

Process first 4 ingred. in a food processor until coarsely chopped. Add beans, mayo and lemon juice, and process until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides. Spoon into a shallow 9" round baking dish.
Process salsa in food processor until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides. Spoon into center of bean mixture. Pull the point of a wooden pick through salsa toward edge of dish to create a starburst design. Serve chilled or at room temp. with tortilla chips. Yield: 3-1/4 cups

Spider Pretzels

What you will need for each one:

2 round crackers
2 tsp. Peanut butter
8 small stick pretzels
2 raisins

Directions:

1. Make a "cracker sandwich" with the peanut butter

2. Stick the pretzel "legs" in the middle of the sandwich.

3. Stick the raisin "eyes" on top with just a dab of peanut
butter.

4. There you have it! A perfectly creepy snack.

ANTS on a LOG

What you will need:

celery sticks
peanut butter
raisins

Directions:

1.Wash the celery and cut it into pieces (about 5 inches long).
2.Spread peanut butter in u-shaped part of celery, from one end to
the other.
3.Press raisins into peanut butter.
4.There you have it�? Now you can enjoy your Ants!

CHILI CHEESE DIP

1 can rotel tomatoes
1 can prepared chili
1 lb Velveeta, cubed

melt ingredients together in double boiler over low heat.

Serve with chips when cheese is thoroughly melted. Keep warm in a
fondue or crock pot.

CARAMEL CORN

1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 t vanilla
1 t soda
12 cups popped corn
1 cup dry roasted peanuts

bring to boil butter, sugar, and syrup; cook for 5 minutes.

Remove from heat; add vanilla and soda. Pour over popcorn and
nuts in a large pan (a roaster pan works well); stir well. Bake at
250 degrees for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes.

Frozen Banana On A Stick

1 banana
2 craft sticks
vanilla yogurt
cookie crumbs or graham cracker crumbs, crushed

Break the banana in half. Insert a craft stick into the flat end. Roll banana halves in yogurt. Then
roll them in crumbs. Put into freezer for about 1 hour. Enjoy!

Pizza bagels

3 bagels, sliced in half
spaghetti or pizza sauce
mozzarella cheese
pepperoni (optional)
ham chunks (optional)
pineapple chunks (optional)

Heat oven to 350. Spread sauce over bagel; top with remaining ingredients. Bake 8-10 minutes. These are fun for kids to make, too! Help them create faces or their own designs.

Variation: Combine 3 T butter and 1 t garlic salt. Spread over bagel first, then top with remaining ingredients.

Tacos in a Bag

Here is a great idea. I spend a lot of time at hockey rinks and one weekend there were kids and parents there fund raising. They were selling Taco's in a Bag. What they did was they took bags of regular tacos(the small ones- even better the ones that they sell for Halloween treats or if your fundraising you can get the small bags in cases from the retailer for cheap)with the foil on the inside. Before you open the bags slightly crush them into bite size pieces. Make sloppy joes and spoon into the bag over the chips while hot. Then offer an assortment of Cheese(put first so it can melt) tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream, salsa sauce. They can put it any way they like right in the bag! Throw in a spoon and there you have it.....Tacos in a bag! I make this for my kids birthday parties and it really goes over good..no mess tacos! As a fundraiser....fantastic!!

Oreo Pops

A great idea for kids of any age.

Assemble an equal number of DOUBLE STUFF OREO COOKIES and POPSICLE or CARAMEL APPLE TYPE OF STICKS. Leaving the cookie whole - insert the stick into the side (into the white stuff).

Then melt your favorite chocolate coating (I use white chocolate). Holding onto the stick, dip each cookie into the chocolate until coated. Allow to set for a few seconds and then place upright into something that will hold it upright. (such as sytrofoam etc.)

When they have set up - melt a contrasting chocolate coating (for valentines day you could melt white and add red food coloring to it) Then place the chocolate into a baggie and snip one end off. Using a quick back and forth motion drizzle the red chocolate over the cookie. Once again allow to set up. You could add a second drizzle of different color if you like. These could be decorated any number of ways for the different holidays.

These are really fun and the kids love them.

Snicker Salad

8-10 Granny Smith Apples
1 bag snack size Snickers candy bars
12 oz. Cool Whip

Chop/Grate Snickers in the blender until fine, 3 or 4 at a time (don't worry if there are still a few chunks). Cut apples into bite size chunks (peeled or not, your choice). Fold apples and chopped Snickers into the Cool Whip. You can use a few more apples and 16 oz. of Cool Whip if you like to make a bit more. Serve the same day you make it so the apples stay crisp. They'll soften by the next day and seem rubbery. This can legally be called a salad since it has fruit in it, right? Anyway, the kids will love it... tastes like caramel apples.

 

Mini-Crescent Sausage Links

2 packages refrigerated crescent rolls

1 package fully cooked small sausage links

Preheat oven to 375° F. Separate dough into 8 triangles; cut each triangle lengthwise into thirds. Place sausages on short end of each triangle and roll up to the opposite point. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until brown.

Makes 48.

 

Fruit Kabobs

1 tangerine

1 apple

1 banana

small cluster of grapes

Divide tangerine in sections. Slice apple and banana. Remove grapes from stem. Arrange fruit on 4 wooden sticks.

Makes 4 kabobs.

 

Monkey Mix

1 cup banana chips

1 cup flaked coconut

1 cup chocolate chips

3 cup Cheerios

Mix all ingredients in a gallon sized plastic bag. Shake well.

 

Fish in a Pond

1/2 cup lowfat cream cheese or cheese spread

Fish-shaped crackers

4 celery ribs, stems removed

Scoop the cream cheese into a bowl. (You can tint the cream cheese with blue food coloring to make it look like a pond.)

Place the goldfish crackers in a separate bowl.

Let the kids dip the celery sticks into the cheese, then into the bowl of crackers to "catch" a fish.

Serves 2

 

Peanut Butter Dip

1/4 cup peanut butter

1/4 cup plain or flavored yogurt

2 Tbsp fruit juice concentrate, thawed

Mix all of the ingredients in a lunch box container and refrigerate overnight.

This dip goes will with fruit as well as with vegetables.