Can you believe Halloween is here already??? Well we can and for that special occasion we wanted to share some ghastly and ghoulish Halloween recipes from all around the web. Hope you enjoy these eerie treats with everyone!

Martha Stewart – I Scream Sandwitches

Pillsbury – Crescent Mummy Dogs

Chow – Tricked out Caramel Apples

Epicurious – Halloween Spiderweb Cookies

Elle’s New England Kitchen – Worm Covered Rotten Apple Bars

All Recipes – Bat cupcakes

Wanda’s Halloween Cookbook – Jack-O-Lantern Pizza

Delish – Disgustingly Delicious: 8 Gross-Looking Halloween Recipes

And don’t forget to enter our Mott’s Halloween Costume Photo Contest! – We are giving away a $500 target gift card to the member who uploads the Halloween kids costume photo that gets the most votes.

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween is right around the corner, do your kids have a costume yet? If they do or even if you have pictures from Halloween’s past come on over to our Facebook page to enter our Halloween giveaway!

Grand Prize: $500 Target gift card and $50 worth of Mott’s products!
2nd Prize: $200 Target gift card and $20 worth of Mott’s products!
3rd Prize: Mott’s coupons totaling $30

Contest ends November 6th so get busy entering!

Good luck!

The pumpkins are perched on porches everywhere. The impromtu graveyards dot suburban neighborshoods. And the costumes? They are waiting to be worn. This all can mean only one thing: Halloween is just a week away.

For this week’s Mott’s Minute, we scoured the web to find some fun Halloween giveaways. Click through to enter them all, but beware the dates — they are the deadlines for entering. Muwahahahahah!

Enter our very own Mott’s Halloween Costume Photo Contest! – We are giving away a $500 target gift card to the member who uploads the Halloween kids costume photo that gets the most votes.

The Plumber’s Wife – Beaded Skull Earrings giveaway (10/24)

The Mommy Files – Hershey’s Halloween Candy giveaway (10/25)

Manicure Mommas – OPI Halloween Nail Polish giveaway (10/26)

Mom Start – Make It Your Yourself Halloween Gift Pack giveaway (10/26)

Delightful Chaos – Wubbzy Goes Boo DVD giveaway (10/29)

Ms. Modern – Candy Corn Scented Skull Soy Tarts giveaway (10/30)

Linus’s Blanket – Spine Chilling Book Giveaway (11/1)

This year for Halloween, I decided I wasn’t going to add to the candy overload when making up little goody bags for my son’s classmates. After all, they’re already getting so many sugary sweets on their trick-or-treat treks, and there seems to be cupcakes with orange and lack sprinkles at every turn. I figured the other moms would appreciate a glucose break.

It’s been a challenge coming up with items beyond pumpkin pencils and little ghost and bat erasers, but if you look around, you can find some cute things. At supermarkets and drug stores in my area, I found mini Disney-themed markers and notepads, Halloween tattoos, spider rings, foam stickers, and small cans of Play-Doh. What’s cool is that these all came as multipacks and were really low cost — way cheaper than if I bought massive bags of candy.

Along those lines, I must say that I was very impressed with the variety of trick or treat goodies that my son received around my neighborhood last year. One couple gave out apple juice and small bottles of water to the kids thirsty from walking — what a great idea! Another woman kept unopened value meal toys from fast food restaurants all year long and gave those out as her treat. I also liked the fact that some people had pretzels, raisins, or mini granola bars that we used for school snacks for the couple of weeks following Halloween.

The point is that as a mom, I appreciate when people think outside the candy bag and add some variety to the giant pile of SweeTarts and Tootsie Rolls. This year, I’m going to try to do my part, too.

Moms, what type of treats are you giving out, and how do you feel about non-candy treats?