You know me, I like to keep AIP simple, especially during the holidays! I prefer to spend less time in the kitchen, and more time with family and friends, relaxing and having a good time. This doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy going the extra yard to prepare a little something special to mark the occasion. I guess it’s all about balance. I have compiled in this post some tips for a simple AIP Halloween: a few suggestions for a nourishing Halloween dinner, followed by my top picks for AIP-friendly Halloween treats!
Halloween dinner
Whenever you know you are going to indulge in sweets after dinner, make sure you start with a well-balanced meal to counteract the unavoidable blood sugar spike and the resulting sugar crash. Here are a few kid-friendly suggestions for your Halloween menu!
Appetizer: Lemon-Garlic Hummus with cut vegetables to dip in or Bacon-Wrapped Butternut Squash Bites
Main course: Apple and Sage Elk Meatloaf (you can use beef instead) with Rainbow Roasted Vegetables
Dessert: Pumpkin-Pear Gummies or “Chocolate” Carob Fudge (both recipes are fun and easy to make with kids!).
Halloween AIP treats
You can purchase a few AIP-friendly treats in advance to make Halloween extra special this year. By far, my personal favorites for after-dinner delights come from Sweet Apricity. Sweet Apricity has a great selection of AIP-compliant marshmallows, sea salted caramels and caramel sauce!
Special deal: follow this link and enter code “SpookySquirrel” to get 10% your entire order! This offer is valid until November 5th, 2018.
Check out in this video the Halloween package I got from Sweet Apricity!
This giveaway is over.
The good folks over at Sweet Apricity have graciously agreed to giveaway one full AIP gift pack to one lucky winner! Wohooo! This gift pack includes 1 (2 oz) bag of Vanilla Marshmallows, 1 (2 oz) bag of Boo Bites or Activated Charcoal Marshmallows, 1 (4 oz) bag of Sea Salted Caramels, and 1 (8 oz) pouch of Sea Salt Caramel Sauce!
How to enter? Visit Sweet Apricity and then let me know in the comments which product you prefer!
The winner will be randomly chosen on Monday, October 15 at 8 pm MDT. The winner has 48 hours to claim his prize after being notified. If I don’t hear back from you within 48 hours, another winner will be chosen.
Good luck everyone!
Great tips for a simple AIP Halloween and hanks for the giveaway! I would love the Sea Salted Caramels.
Well if I can only choose one. I choose the sea salt caramels.
This is great! I would love to try the caramels!!
The Boo-Bites sound wonderful! I love products with charcoal.
OMG! All of their products look so delicious, but I would definitely love to try the Sea Salted Caramel Sauce.. It’s been way too long since I’ve enjoyed caramel sauce! Thanks for the chance to win!
I would enjoy the Sea Salted Caramels. Thank you for all the good recipes. I will definitely be trying a fewof these.
Ooohhh, they all look so good-it’s hard to choose! I love the many options that the caramel sauce could offer.
Thanks for a great giveaway!
Caramel sauce! That sounds amazing, and something I haven’t had since starting AIP almost 2 years ago.
I love the sea salted caramels!
But I would love to try the marshmallows and caramel sauce as well.
Definitely Sea Salted Caramels!
Everything looks delicious. I am intrigued by the vanilla marshmallows but the sea salted caramels would be the first thing I would want to try. I can’t wait to try their products.
Thanks for the great tips!! The sea salted caramel sauce would be perfect for a drizzle over apples!
This may be cheating but I would choose the combo pack with sea salt caramels and vanilla marshmallows because it’s hard to choose just one! Thank you for the Halloween ideas. They look great!
Would love to try the caramels!
I love the caramels and the marshmallows! Thanks for all the great ideas.
Congratulations, Debbie, you are the winner of the giveaway.- Sophie
I am obsessed with their sea salted caramel!! Love these Halloween meal ideas!
Oh, I absolutely love the salted caramels but haven’t tried the caramel sauce. That could easily be my new favorite, I’m sure!
I’ve had their salted caramels and they are wonderful. The next one I’d love to try or the boo bites since those are unique. Grateful for the opportunity to win!
The marshmallows! (And your discount code is so cute! Hehe)
It all looks delicious but I would love to try the vanilla marshmallows. I love marshmallows.
Oh to have a special treat! The Salted Carmel’s look amazing! The sauce would be a chance to have Carmel apples. All of it like I is good!!
I’ve just successfully reintroduced cacao and would LOVE to be add those delicious looking vanilla marshmallows to a mug of hot “chocolate”!
Boo bites look fun to try but also need to restock my marshmallows for the winter!
The original caramels!
Oh my heavens these look good!! I also love supporting local companies and they aren’t far from me. I’m excited at a chance to try these! The vanilla marshmallow ones sound delicious, so does the salted Carmel and Carmel sauce!
Your Halloween menu looks amazing! I would like to try the sea salt caramels.
I had no idea these products existed. Your post made my day. I miss marshmallows very much! I would love to try the Vanilla ones.
The Boo marshmallows sound delightful!!! Thanks for hosting this ❤️
I LOVE the sea salt caramels!
Mmmmm…caramel, I’d live to try the caramels! Since I’ve had my fair share of marshmallow mishaps though, I’d welcome a taste of food ol’ Vanilla marshmallows too!
I would like the salted caramels.
I’m AIP with some reintros so definitely Pumpkin Spice Marshmallows!
What an awesome giveaway! I think the sea salted caramels sound amazing!
The pumpkin spice marshmallows would be a welcome addition to any cupboard this time of year, not just to eat plain, but also for some pumpkin spice marshmallow treats.
Thanks for the post. The caramel sauce looks yummy. 🙂
I miss having marshmellows.
Products look yummy. I’d like to try the sea salt caramels and vanilla marshmallows.
The vanilla AND pumpkin spice marshmallows sound amazing!
Caramels!! I miss them.
Would love to try the vanilla marshmallows or boo bites.. thank you
Definitely the sea salt caramels!! Thanks for the great recipes! There is light in this tunnel;)!
Definitely the sea salted caramels! Thanks for making AIP feel less restricted with such great recipes and ideas!
So Hard to choose! I’ve enjoyed the caramels in the past, it’s so hard to get past something you love, isn’t it? But I’d really like to try the marshmallows, too. Thank you, Sophie, for your generosity!
Caramels!
Oh my goodness! Look at all this goodness! I have to choose ONE? Well if I have to choose one, I would say — the caramels! Can’t wait to feel one melt in my mouth! thanks for the opportunity to win some of this goodness!
I want to try the Carmel sauce, but I don’t really know what I would put it on.
I’d like to try the pumpkin spice marshmallows. The caramel sauce is a close second.
Tough choice! I wish the pumpkin spice marshmallows were AIP compliant. Suggestion: replace the nutmeg with mace. I think that would do it. So that leaves me between the vanilla marshmallows and the caramel sauce. They might be totally decadent together, on carob coconut ice cream for a sundae? If I have to choose one, it’d be the caramel sauce, which would inspire me to actually try making my own AIP ice cream. Besides, I like making marshmallows…
Caramels!!!!
I’d like to try the caramels but even more than that, I’d love my teenage daughter who is on the AIP diet to have a treat. It has been a BIG STRUGGLE!
Great Halloween tips! I can’t wait to try Sweet Apricity’s Sea Salt Caramels!
I’d love to try the caramel sauce! Yum!
Anything caramel is my favorite!
Without a doubt, sea salted caramels!! Thanks!
Oh Gosh!!! I think I would have to choose the caramel sauce. That looks sooo amazing!! Yum!!!
SO cool!! Glad stuff like his exists! I would like to try the Boo Bites Marshmallows 🙂
Since I am currently obsessed with all things pumpkin, those pumpkin spice marshmallows would be amazing in a homemade pumpkin spice latte!
I would love the sea salt caramels. Thanks .
I am so excited about the caramels and caramel sauce!! Thank you for all your work on this blog—it has been a lifesaver for me on my AIP journey!!
CARAMEL SAUCE sounds wonderful and could be used on so many things.
The product I would love to try is the “Caramel Sauce.” I am a lover of caramel sauce and the fact that it’s AIP friendly makes me very happy. I definitely must try! (and just so you know, my second choice is the Sea Salted Caramels) Their site looks awesome and I’ve bookmarked it.
I would love to try the caramel sauce!
All the products look amazing but I most want to try the sea salt caramels!!
Oh my!! How generous, thank you! The sea salted caramels would definitely be my choice.
I’ve been wanting to try the vanilla marshmallows now that the weather is cool enough to ship without them melting into a giant marshmallow blob!
Sea salt caramels sound delish!!!!
WELL…. If I can only choose 1, I would like the sea salted caramels.
Tough choice, but I will say Pumpkin Spice Marshmallows!
Well, I visited and signed up for their newsletter so I don’t forget them. All three look great! Today marshmallows would be my choice. 🙂 Thank you for the giveaway.