Celebrating Halloween with The Body Ecology Diet 🎃
Tara Carpenter, NC.
Nutrition Consultant for people regaining microbiome after yeast, bacterial, viral infections and healing with The Body Ecology Diet.
Originally published on October 30th, 2019.
Here I sit the day before Halloween ready to write this post …. though, I have practiced Body Ecology Diet (B.E.D) since 2010 with my husband and children, I took until now to find the time to sit with enough quiet around me to write with ease. Not easy this time of year when outside is abuzz with harvesting and preparing our home for cold weather to come. The kids are mostly grown; our oldest has left home and more then ever I find myself full with ideas to help others on this diet who are celebrating the “B.E.D. path” while having a wonderful, memorable Halloween.
The foods listed below are free of artificial color, gluten, yeast, pasteurized dairy, and refined sugar making them perfect for kids of all ages on B.E.D. healing a gut flora imbalance related condition (Candida, autism, etc.).
I deeply believe no child should be put in the position of feeling left out during a holiday because they can’t eat this or can’t eat that. As a parent of children with food allergies and sensitivities, I have done all I can to assure my children (+ friends) feel included during Halloween; even when high fructose corn syrup and artificial candy are bountiful on the table.
For 17 years I navigated this path as both a parent and someone who healed with B.E.D. to turnaround a systemic yeast infection I acquired after my youngest was born. I hope my enthusiasm rubs off and you find something here to enjoy!
Halloween Treats & Ideas for Kids on The Body Ecology Diet
- Be a Switch Witch or Candy Fairy and replace candy kids get trick-or-treating with a toy (my oldest happily traded money for candy).
- Almond hearts or cinnamon Kisses wrapped in cellophane bags and tied with an orange/black bow.
- Toasty coconut truffles or sunny cocoa truffles* packaged in Halloween decorated boxes from a party store.
- A coloring book full of Halloween pictures and box of crayons.
- Make breakfast spookier by cutting pancakes into ghosts and witches with cookie cutters.
- Shape stevia chocolates in fun Halloween silicone molds.
- Dime store toys are wonderful for small rubber animals or a tiny bottle of bubbles or Oriental Trading Company has tiny trinkets.
- Cut cookies into small bats and pumpkins with B.E.D.-friendly almond roll out dough or coconut roll out dough.
- Wrap a ball of play dough in wax paper and tie up in a bow with a Halloween cookie cutter.
- Join Teal Pumpkin Project; offer trick-or-treaters non-food items.
- Make tiny, bite-sized oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
- Carrot cupcakes with flax frosting (add pureed pumpkin into frosting to turn orange!) made in Halloween baking cups.
- If your kids get into sugary treats, here are ideas by Donna Gates, founder of B.E.D. to help come down from the sugar high.
- Keep a bottle of CocoBiotic on hand during holidays.
- Put the above treats and trinkets inside orange ‘n black plastic eggs.
- Make artsy apple pumpkin stamps!
✨✨Time to get on your broom you creative witch and make this Halloween a B.E.D-friendly one!!
Note: During the initial stage of B.E.D., best to limit or avoid foods marked with an (*) if your child has bloating, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc. These foods can be woven back in after 6+ weeks as they progress and feel better.
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May all bellies be happy!
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Tara Carpenter, NC.
