The worst dinner ever....

So today was Halloween, and I guess for some of you it still is and you haven't gone trick-or-treating yet! But for us it is over and the kids are in bed. Since this is the first time the kids haven't gone trick-or-treating, I wanted to do something special this weekend for them. Yesterday they spent all day doing lots of fun stuff, and today we went to church and then we went to Burger King for lunch, and I wanted to make something fun for dinner for them, you know, a kid dinner!

So that is were my trouble started! I think I am a pretty good cook, my family eats what I make with little to no complaints, I'm not the best cook...my mom is, but I'm not the worst one either...one of my sisters is though! Anyway, I was so excited about dinner, we had pigs in a blanket with chips and junk and then we had caramel apples....none of that went as planned!

Here is the pigs in a blanket....


These look very similar to what I would have made in the States. I went and searched for what I thought looked like little weenie things, and I thought it was going to be great... But lurking inside that yummy puff pastry was a nasty sausage thing! Ray ate one and spit a little grisly thing out, and he said, no big deal and kept eating then it happened....he bit down on something so hard I heard from across the table. What happened next was so gross, Ray pretty much threw up on his plate. Dinner was over, well except for Parker who kept right on eating and never could figure out why we stopped!

So like I said before I wanted to make caramel apples, but I had a hard time finding caramel here, and I bought what I thought was caramel because it said caramel right there in the package...so not true! So here are the apples pre-dip, and yes those are spoons in my apples because I couldn't find little sticks either....


And here are my apples after I dipped them and put them in the fridge for maybe 30 minutes hopping they would harden up a bit...

ummm yep, that is the caramel, but really not caramel, all at the bottom of my apples! It was kinda like slime, it wouldn't stick to anything except the kids. Seriously, Ray gave Benjamin a shower after all this and he still had some of it stuck to his arm! So I ended up scraping it back into the pot and cutting the apples and just letting the kids dip them in. The kids loved it, Ray on the other hand didn't want to try it. I guess after the pigs in a blanket he just wasn't going to go there. Plus he thought it was strange that the caramel was black and not light brown....

It looked kinda like chocolate, but it didn't taste like chocolate, but then again it didn't really taste like caramel either...so I guess on the bright side only one person threw up my dinner, and at least that person threw up on his plate so I didn't have to clean the floor! And the kids thought the entire thing was so funny. I guess they had a good Halloween after all!