No Tricks Just Healthy Halloween Fruit Treats

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Halloween may be rooted in ghosts and ghouls but the first thing that comes to our mind? Sweets!

Taking your children out to receive buckets upon buckets of chocolate or, as we prefer, eating the remainder of the sweets not picked up by costume wearing kids.

But, at Fruit For The Office HQ, we have a very different kind of sweet tooth - one that can only be curbed by nature's candy.

So, enjoy a tasty treat this halloween - without the tricks of sickness, hyperactive kids and bloaty belly - with these amazing healthy Halloween party foods.



Banana Ghosts

Serves 12

- 6 small bananas
- 36 chocolate chips

Cut the bananas in half and place flat side down.

Push chocolate chips into the bananas to create a ghoulish guise!



Pumpkin Oranges

Serves 12

- 12 small satsumas/clementines
- 1 stalk celery

Peel the satsumas/clementines. Wash and cut the celery into small pieces. Push into the tops of the satsumas/clementines to create pumpkin stalks.




Melon Brain

- 1 large watermelon
- Sharp knife

You need to peel the watermelon to expose the green flesh then carve a brain like pattern deep enough into the melon that the red flesh is on show in the carvings.

For more detailed information and photos try this great tutorial: http://www.instructables.com/id/Halloween-Melon-Brain/step1/Supplies/



Tweet us @office_fruit with photos of your Halloween fruit treats and we'll retweet our favourites!

Get Your Fashion 5 a Day with Fruity Prints

Trying to get your 5-a-day? Necklace, earrings, shoes, shirt and skirt?

Fruit prints are a huge hit this Summer so you can show off your love for sweet, healthy treats - no matter what the occasion.

Look chic in fruit print blouses at the office whilst you treat yourself to your fruit delivery, feel hot at happy hour with stunning fruit jewellery and when you take your week off work, you can look as tropical as the beach you're tanning on in a fruit print bikini.

And we know that everyone has different tastes so, just like our tailor made fruit deliveries, we have something for everyone.

Pineapple Print Scarf - Missguided - £5.99

Fruit Print Bodycon Midi Dress - Topshop - £20

Pineapple Print Sundress - Topshop - £20

Pineapple Motif Jumper - Topshop - £38

Lemon Print Bandeau Top - Topshop - £30

Lemon Print Skort - Topshop - £34

Gold Look Cherry Bunch Necklace - Topshop - £8.50

Fruit Print Tee - Topshop - £38

Fruit Print Trousers - Topshop - £45

Fruit Print Cut Out Swimsuit - Topshop - £40

Fruit Print Bikini Top - Topshop - £30

Fruit Print High Waisted Bikini Bottoms - Topshop - £25

Fruit Print Bodycon Sweetheart Dress - Topshop - £12

Lemon Print Unitard Jumpsuit - Topshop - £48

Lemon Print Leggings - Topshop - £22

Fruit Print Bralet Scuba Playsuit - Topshop - £12

Lemon Print Crop Tee - Topshop - £28

Lemon Print Bodycon Dress - Topshop - £32

Navy Pineapple Print Jumper - River Island - £15

Lemon Print Oversized Tee - Topshop - £38

Pineapple Print Purse - River Island - £15

Cherry Print Wire Hair Wrap - River Island - £6

Pineapple Playsuit - Missguided - £19.99

Lemon Print Bodycon High 
Waisted Skirt - Topshop - £22

Pineapple Kimono - Missguided - £19.99

Pineapple Kimono - Missguided - £19.99

Strawberry Crop Top - Missguided - £9.99

Pineapple Bodysuit - Missguided - £11.99

                                      

Pineapple Runner Shorts - Missguided - £7.99

Pineapple Boyfriend Tee - Missguided - £9.99

Pineapple Crop and Shorts Co-ordinate -
Missguided - £12.99/£14.99

Strawberry Print Playsuit - Missguided - £14.99

 

Any amazing fruit fashion we've missed on the high street? Fancy a designer version? Tweet us @office_fruit or leave a comment below to let us know!

#FitFruitFriday - Healthy Paleo Protein Pancakes Recipes

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At Fruit for the Office HQ, it's unanimous that pancakes are the best of the best when it comes to breakfast food.

And we're not talking about those thin, flimsy crepe pancakes - oh no - we're dreaming of their big, chunky, fluffy, melt-in-the-mouth American counterparts. 

Of course, these babies have had to sit tight in our subconscious as our new years resolutions put such delicacies on an indefinite hiatus.

But this was until we discovered the wonderful world of paleo pancakes: pancakes which are good for you and packed full of our favourite fruits. Control yourself, people, because we're about to share the secret to the world's best breakfast (Don't say we aren't good to you)

Lemon, Raspberry and Strawberry Pancakes

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Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups very fine ground blanched almond flour 
• 1/2 tsp baking soda 
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3 large eggs 
• 5 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 2 tbsp honey
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup raspberries
• 1/4 cup strawberries
• Butter or oil for frying

Method:

End of Three Fitness - Paleo Lemon Berry Pancakes Recipe

Banana Oat Pancakes

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Ingredients:

• 2 cups rolled oats
• 1 1/4 cups milk (nut or dairy)
• 1 ripe banana
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoons maple syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 egg
• butter or oil for frying

Method:

Beauty That Moves - Banana Oat Pancake Recipe

Apple, Banana and Cinnamon Pancakes

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Ingredients: 

• 2 eggs, whisked
• 2 bananas, mashed
• 1 peeled apple, diced small
• 2 tbs almond butter
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Butter or oil for frying

Method:

Paleo Newbie - Apple Cinnamon Banana Pancake Recipe

Paleo is essentially a low/no carbohydrate diet - also referred to as the caveman diet due to it's emphasis on cutting out processed food and grains.

It's really easy to stick to and has a huge focus on 5-a-day, so start hoarding the spoils from your office fruit box before the other fitness warriors in your office catch wind of your pancake plans...

Tweet us @office_fruit with your favourite fruit pancake toppings and we'll get searching for the perfect recipe for you! Also, let us know in the comments if you want some more fruity paleo recipes for other meals - we'd be happy to oblige once we've finished our third stack of pancakes.