Transform Your Everyday Menu into Halloween Delights: Cute Ideas for Halloween Meal Inspirations!

What to Make for Halloween Home Meals??

Once again, Halloween on October 31st is approaching ♩ Many people enjoy home meals with family and friends on Halloween night.

Halloween originally comes from a Celtic tradition of the Irish region. It is meant to pray for the harvest of autumn crops and to drive away demons.

Traditional dishes eaten during this time include colcannon, which is mashed potatoes mixed with kale and onions, and boxty, a type of potato pancake.

Even if we can't prepare unfamiliar or time-consuming complicated recipes, we still want to prepare cute dishes that will make the dining table more lively ♡

Here, we introduce "Halloween meals" that are cute variations of regular dishes＊

Halloween Meal Idea ① Curry or Stew Rice Shaped Like Ghosts ♡

A staple home meal, curry or stew ♡ Just by being creative with the presentation while keeping the recipe the same, it instantly becomes Halloween-themed.

Shape the rice into the form of a ghost and place it on the plate, pour the curry around it, add star-shaped cut carrots on top, and use seaweed to create facial features—voilà!

Arranging lots of small rice ghosts on the plate is also super cute ♡

Around the plate, write a "HAPPY HALLOWEEN" message with cheese.

Here we have a Halloween version of hayashi rice with curry placed first, then ghost-shaped rice in the form of a jack-o'-lantern on top ♡

There are molds for jack-o'-lantern shapes, so just pack rice colored with ketchup tightly into the mold, and you're all set ♩

This one features a Mickey ghost ♡ Two mini rice balls wrapped in seaweed are added as ghost heads.

The surprised expression is just too cute!

Halloween Meal Idea ② Omelette Rice with Jack's Face ♡

An idea to easily turn fluffy omelette rice into a Halloween meal.

Mold the omelette rice into a round shape in the center, and use seaweed to create a Jack Skellington style face from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" ♩

Draw red cheeks with ketchup, and you've got a cute Halloween omelette rice!

Halloween Meal Idea ③ Oden Ingredients Shaped Like Ghosts ♡

A classic dish for cold autumn nights is oden ♡ Let's make this Japanese dish cute in Halloween style.

☑ Shape the hanpen (fish cake) into ghosts

☑ Shape carrots into jack-o'-lanterns

☑ Wrap sausages with noodles to resemble mummies

☑ Draw faces on eggs to look like cyclops

A stunning array of adorable ghostly oden that may be too cute to eat ♡

If shaping all the ingredients seems too difficult, just shaping the hanpen into ghosts can significantly heighten the Halloween atmosphere ♡

Instead of seaweed, use black sesame for the eyes.

Halloween Meal Idea ④ Halloween Temari Sushi ♡

Cute, bite-sized Halloween temari sushi. Use salmon to resemble jack-o'-lanterns, or place bat shapes cut from cheese on top.

Even if not all pieces are Halloween themed, mixing a few into regular temari sushi can still be adorable ♡

Colorful and cute Halloween temari sushi are perfect for home parties.

It's a fun challenge to decide what characters to create.

Halloween Meal Idea ⑤ Pizza with Ghost-Shaped Cheese ♡

Pizza is loved by both adults and children. Place ghost-shaped cheese on margherita pizza, and create a face with seaweed for a ghost pizza masterpiece＊

You can easily make it at home using store-bought pizza dough and pizza sauce ♡

You can also cut slice cheese into ghost shapes and place it on top ◎

If making pizza dough seems too difficult, how about making pizza toast instead? ♡

Using two different colored cheeses will allow you to create ghosts and jack-o'-lanterns.

Halloween Meal Idea ⑥ Draw Faces on Fried Eggs ♡

On toast, place a runny fried egg and create a face with seaweed to resemble Jack from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" ♡

Just adding that little extra touch to breakfast lets you enjoy the Halloween spirit.

On a muffin, place a fried egg and create a ghostly face ♡ It’s soothing to see that relaxed expression.

It's adorable to have faces on both the yolk and the white!

What Halloween Meals Should We Create? ♡

We introduced ideas for Halloween meals by rearranging regular home menus into Halloween styles.

Did any of them spark your interest?

Whether you are a cooking beginner or an advanced chef, let’s enjoy Halloween meals at home on October 31st this year ♡