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7 Simple & Delicious Suppers for Halloween Night

Whatever you serve for dinner on Halloween night needs to tick a few boxes:
✔️ QUICK so your ghosts and ghouls don’t get antsy
✔️ HEARTY so they’re fuelled up for a night of fun
✔️ SIMPLE so you aren’t delayed by clean-up
✔️ YUMMY because obviously

We have more than 60 years of collective parenting experience between us at ParentsCanada, so we know a great Halloween night recipe when we see one. But don’t just take our word for it—try out one of our fave pre-trick-or-treat suppers on Thursday!

Pizza Beans
One-Pot Macaroni and Cheese
Slowcooker Chicken Chili
Sticky Korean Beef
Chicken Caesar Salad Wraps
Easy Spaghetti Carbonara
Quick Butter Chicken

Are You For or Against Loot Bags?

Our editor, Katie, has always had a rule about loot bags: If you have to do them (and you don’t), the contents should be edible or useful. If you go to a birthday party for one of her kids, you’ll come away with a colouring book and crayons, a new picture book or a couple of homemade cookies. “If it can’t occupy my child on the way home, I don’t want it,” she says. But not everyone feels this way. Some parents love how excited their kids get over these parting gifts. Tell us: How do you feel about loot bags?

🍬 If you like the idea of giving guests a party favour but want to make them a little more meaningful, check out our article on reinventing the loot bag.

The results of last week’s poll:
Are you still up on pop culture references post-kids?

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Most recent season of Bluey? Sure. Everything else? Nope. (16.7%)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Absolutely. I live for the streaming and scrolling part of my day. (8.3%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sort of. I catch the big stories and know the basics. (75%)

Advice from our readers:

“It feels like we live in a bubble sometimes…but it’s a good thing because we focus on the here and now.”

Help! My iPhone is Out of Storage and I Need to Take Halloween Pictures—What Can I Do?

Despite the iPhone's immense popularity, many still struggle with running out of storage on their devices. And going into Halloween, followed by holiday seasons en masse, this is a problem that needs solutions, stat.

Find some space with this “good,” “better” and “best” approach, from our resident tech expert Marc Saltzman.

GOOD: Connect your device to a PC or Mac, and manually dragging and dropping all the media over to the computer. You can do this with the phone or tablet’s charging cable.

BETTER: Consider a cloud service. Your photos and videos can be uploaded to a password-protected server in cyberspace, just in case your iPhone or iPad is lost, stolen or damaged. You can also set up your device to automatically upload a copy of a photo or video whenever you shoot them.

BEST: The quickest, easiest and most affordable solution for big payoff is to consider a specialty thumb drive. If you haven't seen these, they're flash drives that snap into an iPhone or iPad's charging port. No internet connection or subscription is required. (These are available for Android devices, too!

For all the details on freeing up storage space, hit the button below. Your Halloween memories are waiting!