Sugar Free Halloween Treats for (Diabetic) Children of All Ages

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Have you thought about making your own Halloween treats for the kids this year, but you're reluctant to even start because you think no sugar means it will taste awful?
It's so far from the truth, besides they taste so darn good.
There is nothing hard about it, nothing difficult, you probably already have all the ingredients in your pantry, or most of them anyway, and it will be so much fun knowing your family and friends are enjoying the delicious sugar-free treats you put together.
There's no denying that making your own treats takes time, but if you follow recipes carefully, you needn't worry about making "sugar-free" for your kids.
Information about diabetes abounds, probably because there are over 23 million American children and adults who have a diabetic disorder. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that diabetes is now an epidemic in America and nearly eight million people don't even know they have it.
Over 1.6 million new diabetics are diagnosed every year, and in 2005, $60 billion was spent treating diabetes, the money coming from Medicare. A frightening one child in 400 to 600 will become diabetic, and the cases are becoming more serious - diabetes is the seventh-leading cause of death in the U.S.
We are reminded daily that diabetes can be controlled when caught early with diet, exercise, and medication. A personal friend of mine spends over $100 per month on medications over and above what his health care provider pays. Manage early. A sensible diet will include sugar-free treats, and there are a lot to choose from. Improvise your recipes to make them what you need them to be.
Pumpkin Bread
Preheat oven to 350 F. Coat a 9" x 5" nonstick loaf pan with cooking spray. Or use cup-cake liners in a muffin pan instead.
1 egg, 1 egg white, 3 drops stevia, 1/4 cup artificial brown sugar, 1 cup canned pumpkin,
6T buttermilk, 1 T canola oil, tsp vanilla extract, 1 cup all-purpose flour, 2T cornstarch,
3/4 tsp baking powder, cup baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg, 1/8 tsp ground allspice, 1/8 tsp ground cloves
In a food processor or blender, combine the egg, egg white, stevia, and brown sugar substitute, until smooth. Add pumpkin, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla extract. Blend until smooth.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, the pumpkin mixture. Stir just until lumpy batter forms.
Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared pan, or divide batter equally among the cupcake cups. Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean. The tops should be golden brown. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, cupcakes for 5 minutes. Remove from the pan or muffin tin and cool on a wire rack.
Makes 1 loaf or 12 cupcakes 87 calories per serving.
Ice with the following sugar-free frosting
1 (1.4 oz) package sugar-free instant pudding mix, 1 3/4 cups milk, 1 8 oz. package cream cheese, 1 8 oz. lite frozen whipped topping, thawed.
In a medium bowl, combine pudding mix and milk, mix well and let stand until thickened.
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth, add pudding and mix well, try a dash of orange food coloring. Fold in whipped topping. Ice your cake or the cupcakes.
Recipe #2:
Chocolate Chip/Raisin Cookies
cup margarine, cup brown sugar substitute, lightly packed, 1 egg, 2 tsp vanilla extract,
1 cup all-purpose flour, tsp baking soda, tsp salt, cup quick-cooking rolled oats, cup raisins, cup sugar-free semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375 F
In a mixing bowl, cream together the margarine, and sugar substitute until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat until smooth.
In another bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stir in the creamed mixture, along with the oats and chocolate chips.
Using 2 teaspoons (one to scoop, the other to push off ) onto ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten with a wet fork. Bake until cookies begin to brown around the edges, about 10 minutes. Cool on rack. Makes about 24 Serving size: 2 cookies 89 calories per cookie
Happy Halloween!

What Face Are You Wearing for Halloween?

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Are you wearing the same old, tired, scary, witchy face this year in celebration of Halloween or would you rather your face to be younger looking and prettier not only for Halloween but for the entire holiday season and the rest of your life?
Remember how Lucy and Ethel would tell Rickie and Fred that they were going to the ladies room to fix their faces and then the two men would proceed to make certain remarks about their faces? They were less than kind sometimes about noses that longed for powder and lips that needed fresh color. We women seem to feel better about our appearance when we look polished and back then powder and lipstick were the two easy makeup staples that women relied on for on-the-spot beauty.
Wow, time has changed that.
Beauty has become a multi-billion dollar business that encompasses more than lotions and potions or just lipstick and powder; add the medical aspect of injections, lasers and surgery and the amount of money spent each year to hopefully wear a younger looking face is staggering.
What is your beauty regimen? Do you look in the mirror and wish sometimes that indeed there was a Halloween mask that could easily double as your face? Would that mask portray your face without lines, wrinkles, sags and bags?
Wearing an aging face can sap your confidence. What makes an aging face even more unpalatable is the fact that you have continuously spent money on topical products, maybe a few injections here and there and you've even considered a surgical procedure, but all to no avail because your face continues to age no matter what you try.
Spending thousands of dollars using injections will not stop facial aging. Surgery will not stop an aging face and topical products certainly soften the skin making lines and wrinkles less apparent, but the real cause of aging is not addressed using these modalities.
Most aging in the face is a result of sagging, atrophied muscles that are hidden but attached to the skin. When the muscles begin their elongation, the skin elongates and moves, too. They both go one direction - south. This means that features like your nose and your cheeks fall; your jaw line becomes loose and pouches can develop below the mouth. Then the dreaded wattle is in evidence while eye lids become lined and your eyes can look tired. Voila! The recipe for an aging face is not your fault but a result of gravity.
The cause of aging is a result of muscle atrophy and there is only one way to stop it - facial exercise.
Not any facial exercise will do, after all, they are not equally effective. Contortions, funny faces, twists and puckers will not stop the downward slide of muscles. The most effective exercise program teaches you to first isolate, anchor and then contract the muscles so that the action begins to tighten and lift the areas affected by atrophy.
Preserving your natural beauty using resistance training effectively works. Just like your arms, tummy, hips and thighs tighten and lift with resistance exercises; your face can receive the very same type of benefit. Those tiny muscles will awaken and respond to these exercises. Your skin will look and feel youthful as your muscles reposition.
Your forehead will smooth, your cheeks will lift, the lower mouth will tighten, your brows will stop dropping and your neck will look years younger in just weeks. Sound too good to be true?
Well, it's a fact that exercise will change the shape and contour of your body and facial exercise will help you look years younger without any danger. All you have to do is follow the program to receive visible results in just hardly any time at all.
A facial exercise program is basically a one-time purchase because once you learn the routine, the knowledge is yours forever. Exercise is reliable, inexpensive and best of all, it works.
Most users will happily share their experience because they've laid down the Halloween mask and instead, they have armed themselves with exercise gloves, using their "age erasers", to lift, tone and tighten their faces. Without surgery, injections, or anything harmful, your face can look younger than it has in years.
Just like Lucy and Ethel, you can create on the spot natural beauty using facial exercise.
Cynthia Rowland is widely recognized as an expert in all natural facial fitness. She has appeared on The View, The Today Show, Rachael Ray, The Doctors and other popular shows. Cynthia is co-host of The Ageless Sisters on blogtalkradio.com and author of The Magic of Facial Exercise. This author, speaker and television personality is leading the crusade to keep men and women looking vibrantly younger through natural techniques without spending their children's inheritance.

Adult Halloween Games

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You can feel it in the air, that time of year. The cool crisp air, the carved and decorated pumpkins that adorn the porches of every house on your street, the stores are over flowing with clothing items that are less then every day wear. Yes, it is Halloween. You can almost hear the children charging down the street and screaming "Trick or Treat!" So what are you to do?
My darling little bat, Halloween is not just for children. This is the time of year when you, as an adult, get to play dress up and join in on the all the little tricks there are to get a treat. Throw a Halloween party and play some spooky adult Halloween games. Need ideas, ask nice and I will give you a treat!
First adult Halloween game idea is Tangled in the Spider's Web. I know you are already enticed by the title, but hear what you will need and how you are to play... it is similar to Twister but a little creepier.
o a long piece (about 20 feet) of yarn or string per guest
o a kitchen chair
o a white or black helium filled balloon for each guest
o a small prize for each guest
1. Attach one helium filled balloon to the end of each piece of yarn or string.
2. Place a kitchen chair in the center of the room.
3. Weave the loose end of the yarn around, under and through the legs, back and seat of the kitchen chair as well as around other pieces of furniture in the room like sofa's, tables, etc. Make sure the yarn is good and tangled!
4. Once the yarn is looped and twisted around various pieces of furniture, affix the special prize to the end of the yarn and hide it under or behind the sofa or table so it is hidden from view. A fun alternative to using prizes, is to write silly or embarrassing tasks that the guests must perform onto a card and attach the card to the end of the yarn.
5. To begin the game, have each guest select a balloon.
6. Guests must race to free their balloon from the yarn and then untangle all of the yarn to reach their prize.
Perhaps your Halloween festivities involve some devilish brew and you need a simpler adult Halloween game to keep the laughs going. Try Pumpkin Bowling! This is really quite simple.
Fill up ten 2 liter bottles about half way with water so that they are weighted down, and decorate them to fit the theme of your party. Yes, decorate them, it makes it even more fun. Set them up in a standard 10 pin layout. Have your guests bowl with pumpkins, I would recommend the smaller gourds as that they work best and create less mess. But it's your party, feel free to use small pumpkins for your adult Halloween game.
These are two fun little games to play with your adult friends at your Halloween bash. Don't let the children be the only ones enjoying Halloween, try one of those adult Halloween games above, they are a wicked good time.
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Finding The Best And Original Adult Halloween Costumes

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Halloween is a favorite day for many people. It is a day on which we can allow ourselves to be silly, to be scared and to eat lots of candy. It is becoming increasingly popular to throw big Halloween parties, and adult Halloween costumes have become big business. If you were to have a quick look at the different adult costumes that are out there, you would probably be tempted to throw a party yourself. The joy of being able to wear one of those silly costumes is more than worth it. After all, a costume party is all about finding the person that has the coolest or most unusual costume.
Where To Find An Adult Halloween Costume
Most towns have masquerade stores or costume stores, where costumes can either be purchased or rented. However, you can also go online and find a far bigger range of adult Halloween costumes, as well as other costumes. Here, you will be able to find original costumes that nobody else has, meaning you will have a bigger chance of winning that costume of the night award. Halloween costumes for adults come in so many different versions, including plus sized, that there really is a costume for anybody. Plus, there is nothing more fun than looking through all the costumes and imagining how others will react seeing you like that.
Different Types Of Adult Costumes
There are many Halloween costumes on the market today. Adult Halloween costumes can be anything from the seriously scary and ghoulish, to the cute and innocent. There are generally some fashion trends when it comes to Halloween costumes for adults, mainly relating to the latest scary movie that is out in the pictures. Some firm favorites include witches costumes, mummies and Frankenstein. Also, the Scream mask is ever popular. You can try to be more original as well, of course. You don't necessarily have to be an existing character from movies or old stories. You could cover yourself in fake blood, opt for an authentic looking Dracula costume, or you could even go as Cruella Deville. What matters is that it is scary and that it looks good. After all, you want to have the best possible costume that is out there.
It is also possible that you want to move away from the whole scary thing and simply want to wear something fun. The Bananas in Pajamas costume, for instance, is very popular. Or, you could go for the history of Halloween and find adult Halloween costumes as a druid or an old preacher (who were responsible for the burning and hanging of witches in the days where this was commonplace). The sky really is the limit, particularly if you try to find costumes online. You can also mix and match parts of different costumes, to be truly original. The best thing is that costumes come in all sorts of sizes, so if you are particularly tall or short, or particularly fat or thin, you should still be able to find a costume.
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Kitty Cat Halloween Costume - Sexy Adult and Kids Kitty Cat Costumes

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Used by children or even adults, the cat Kitty Cat Halloween costume is the "cat's meow." Halloween would not be complete without a kid knocking at your door in a kitty costume. This costume is probably one of the oldest available and should be worn at least once in your Halloween lifetime. Whether it's a little girl or a grown woman, they will look cute dressed in a kitty cat Halloween costume.
Kitty Cat Halloween Costume
The little girl's version of the costume comes in a variety of styles and sizes. Some of the outfits are pink with black skirts with a tail attached in the back. Others include a black skirt with black tights, a clip-on tail and a headband with little furry ears on top. Some of these costumes have included a shirt with a cats face on the front, and others may come with a kitty mask. The most common accessory that you can buy if it isn't included in the costume is a black kitty nose with whiskers you can put over your nose.
The women's kitty cat Halloween costume may be a little more revealing than you would think. Something about being sexy in a cat costume has been the reason for the high sales of this costume. Many will include a cat tail to pin on the back of your miniskirt, and some will look like a cat suit mixed with a barmaid costume.
Catwoman Costume
A lot of the recent kitty cat Halloween costumes are made to mimic the outfits in movies such as Catwoman, a film starring Halle Berry. They are a one-piece, leather (or pleather) suite that is zipped from the back. They have a clip on tail, a mask you wear over your eyes, and a headband with cat ears. This costume is made even sexier with added accessories like a whip (cat o' nine tails), black heels, black-painted finger nails and red or black lipstick.
Halloween is made for dressing up, having fun, and spending time getting as much attention as you can. The kitty cat Halloween costume is a must have, and is something adorable you can dress up your little girl in. Because there are many different styles of this costume, you will probably never run into another person wearing something similar. If you choose a black cat costume, be sure to cross the path of the next guy you meet. Let him know just how bad you can really be.
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