Grilled Cheese Creepy Fingers

Yield 6

Pillar of Nutrition Lean on Protein, Eat the Rainbow

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Grilled Cheese Creepy Fingers

This fun take on grilled cheese sandos will please all your little monsters around Halloween time.

Ingredients

• Ingredients:
• 10 slices of whole grain bread
• 8 cherry or grape tomatoes
• 8 olives
• 10-12 leaves of spinach
• 1.5 cups of shredded cheddar, mozzarella or cheese of choice
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• ½ tsp black pepper
• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 1 tablespoon of cream cheese ( to be used as glue)
• For cooking
• Extra butter or olive oil

Directions

1. Mix cheese with pepper and garlic powder in a medium bowl.
2. Cut tomatoes and olives in half; set aside for fingers.
3. Spread butter on one side of 2 slices of bread.
4. With the butter side down, top one slice of bread with cheese mixture and tear 2 spinach leaves on top of cheese. Top with the second bread slice, butter side up.
5. Heat pan/skillet/griddle to medium. Place sandwich, butter side down, on pan or griddle. Brown on this side then flip and brown other side. Make sure cheese is melted.
6. Allow sandwich to cool, then cut in 3-4 long rectangular pieces to resemble fingers.
7. Use cream cheese as glue to attach tomatoes/olives as fingernails.
8. Happy Halloween!

Notes

Substitution and variations

• Try adding your favorite protein to these sandwiches
• You can also add other veggies in the cheese mix!
• Add avocado to make the filling creamy with a dose of healthy fat!

Something to Chew On

• What ingredients makes this dish meet the pillar Eat the Rainbow?
• What is your favorite “fingernail” vegetable?

Nutritional information is approximate guide only, calculated using an online nutrition calculator. The facts are based on one pancake using one tbsp of mixture. Yields about 12 -15 pancakes.