What do you prepare for halloween?

The Halloween with trick or treat has been imported to our culture like fast food and other so called improvements. I obligue, but not happilly. If I don´t buy sweets to give, I might find a couple of not so small goblins who will put toothpaste inside my doorbell or throw eggs to the front of my house. No comments! Halloween started with different witches than the ones we have here. Besides, we never made fuss over them: they belong to our legends. But there is a real religious holiday here the next day where we go to the cemetary and put flowers in our loved one´s tombs. It has nothing to do with food or sweets and even less with costumes. Now my grandchildren go about with big plastic carved pumpkins (which we never have because we don´t grow those gourds here) and because it´s Spring and there wouldn´t be any pumpkins anyway.

Hi starlight... I think it is very interesting how your culture observes Halloween. So very different than ours. Here, it is more of a mischief night for the young. Costumes and trick or treating door to door has always been the tradition but today, in these times of lots of crime both against children and adults, the home party has become more and more popular. No particular food is prepared, other than sweets and I for one enjoy baking cakes and cupcakes, depicting black cats, witches and ghosts to name a few. The traditional halloween pumpkin is carved, lit and placed in a window or doorstep for passers by to enjoy. For me, Halloween marks the beginning of a long string of holidays, followed by Thansgiving, Christmas and New Years when cooking and eating and sharing time with loved ones lasts for 2 months. I gain enough weight during those holidays and so am glad that Halloween isn't really a eating holiday...and so are my jeans! Happy Halloween!

Halloween is a wonderful time of year to celebrate the harvest season. But, it is a way for us to celebrate our loved ones who have passed this world to the next. For this celebration, we prepare in a lot of ways, first off by purchasing treats for the children that will venture to our home. We typically don't decorate until the day of Halloween, thus to give more affect for our "scary" decorations. Our children (who are now quite older) prepare their costumes. They then choose whether or not they will stay at home and help us scare the neighborhood children or they will go out and be the children to be scared. We cook a special meals for our family to also celebrate the harvest. I try to choose fresh vegetables that we have grown, make cider as our drink to share and then fresh baked sweets from fresh fruits that have been harvested and gathered from a near by orchard. Yes, it is true that here in the United States, most people simply celebrate the children's portion of the holiday by giving a way treats and enjoying the children's visits.

That's interesting! Thanks for sharing your culture. Halloween here in the US is more of just treats for the kids. Last year I made some brownies and I think I will do the same again this year... or maybe rice crispy treats, inspired by the comment above mine.

In my country there are many traditional things for hallowen, For me these tradition is for those people who beleive that there is a spirit. But my self It's hard to beleive that there is a spirit.

For Halloween I chaperon my younger siblings that really enjoy dressing up as usual. I have to say it gets tiring,but it is alright. My aunt sometimes baked rice crispy treats that were orange in color. They were very enjoyable, but very gross to eat a highlighter color.

What country are you from? I love learning about different holiday traditions. For us we just go trick or treating for about 2-3 hours with the kids and we buy a pumpkin shaped pizza from Papa Murphy. The kids have lil parties and parades at school.There are things like bobbing for apples, carving pumpkins with strange / funny faces, caramel corn, or caramel apples many people do more or other things than I have listed.

Hi Starlight We just pass out candy to the kids and I usually fix whatever we want for dinner, this Halloween I'll pass out some candy to the kids then my husband and I are going to the Fall Festival in our neighborhood community I like going to those I hope the weather is good this year and not to cold or raining

Not particularly for Hallowe'en but for the week or so after when there are lots of pumpkins reduced we then have a lot of pumpkin recipes!

Halloween is a time to enjoy the sweet taste of decadent candy. Sometimes, it doesn't taste so sweet. :) The pleasures of Halloween, to dress up costumes, stay out late and roam the streets in search of candy. Unfortunately not everything that gets put into a trick or treat bag is tasty and delicious.

Just want to share with you, did you know that Celtic people believed that if they wore costumes that it would scare off the spirits that supposedly came out on all hallows eve also known as Halloween today. Jack o Lanterns were used to ward off ghosts in the old days. But now it's more common that they used to decorate as a Halloween tradition in this day. Trick or treat was also brought by the Irish people as a way to gather food for the Halloween feasts that they had every year as well.

oh, thanks for the post. i haven't thought of it yet. maybe because i will have my birthday celebrated next week so i am more focus on it. =)

We do the Sticky rice. Like what you are doing, but my mum prepare most of the time, the food we call "pancit". That is a traditional food in the Philippines. We prepare pancit and the sticky rice because my mother believe it would be easy to cook and can recognize by the spirit of our loved ones. And after the all soul's day, my father bring grilled chicken and we enjoy eating together after a scary day. Some people in our neighborhood do not believe in cooking something special for halloween. I dont know why..