...  and guests can look back over the years together. Choose your menu, whether it be a sit down dinner for adults or finger food for the kiddies. Keep the holiday in mind with pumpkin soup or pie, and serve “gross” food like eyeballs, bloody fingers, etc. You’ll find plenty of recipes on-line. The main thing to remember about food is to have plenty of it! Serve drinks with yucky names like nuclear waste (green kool-aid with dry ice) or sewer water (with gummy worms) and add food coloring to alcoholic beverages. Try to have a flow to the party so that you can keep control. Plan games for kids that involve action but don’t last very long. Try tossing a little pumpkin for musical chairs or pin the broom on the witch, for example. Kids like to dunk for apples too and love treasure hunts.  For adults, pin or tape the name of someone famous on the back of their costume when they arrive. Throughout the night they are allowed to ask yes or no questions of the other guest until the ...

...  cookies you’ll be faced with. Once you do decide to grab a plateful from the buffet table, load it with the leaner meats, vegetables, and whole wheat crackers. If you still need a sweet fix after that, limit yourself to just one then position yourself further away from that table. Drink Smart Alcoholic drinks can be loaded with hidden calories so be aware that what you’re drinking could be sabotaging you. Choose a lower calorie beer or mix spirits with a sugar free type of mix. Alternating alcoholic beverages with a glass of water or low calorie juice can greatly reduce the amount of extra calories you’re consuming. If having eggnog and hot chocolate is a tradition you just can’t give up, limit yourself to just one of those types of drinks. These beverages are loaded with fat and sugar, so drinking too much of them too many nights in a row can destroy the benefits of all the other healthy eating habits you’ve been practicing. Another option could be watering these beverages ...