When the children come home from school on Monday, asking what you have planned for Halloween...

...or for those of us who have not quite achieved Super-Mum status and hadn't considered the values of turning the front room into a bat cave - frozen food once again saves the day -creating a party atmosphere whilst giving you time to find some old black clothes or bin liners, some talcum powder and some lipstick that you didn't like anyway.

Turning the usual contents of your freezer into a spooktacular feast requires a little creative thought so here are some of our favourites from The New Ice Age HQ's crack-team of frozen experts (Experts on frozen, not experts who were defrosted for the occasion).

- Fish fingers become devil fingers. Add sweet corn finger nails to your fish fingers and stick them out of a bed of mash to create a severed hand look.

- Pizza is great party food and a Halloween favourite. Try decorating your frozen pizza. Adding olive eyes gives your meal a ghoulish twist, or use frozen pizza bases and create your own topping. Adding different vegetables to create spooky faces or using cheese to melt a spider's web works particularly well. You can even get the kids to decorate their own.

- To counteract all the chocolate and sweeties guzzled on Halloween getting some fruit into your little vampires' diet is easy when a fruit smoothie becomes a zombie blood smoothie. Use a frozen red berry mix, simply blend and enjoy.

- Freezer to plate noodle dishes create a gooey wormy plate of energy food great for your little monsters. We love Iceland's Duck in Hoi Sin Sauce Noodle bowl.

- Eye Scream, that well known party staple can be turned into ice-cream eyeballs. Scoop vanilla ice-cream and add a chocolate button pupil for a googly eye. Decorate with strawberry syrup for added gore.

- Blue monster brains can be made from frozen mash potato. Add blue food colouring and drag a fork over for a textured effect.

- Cut frozen puff or short crust pastry into bone shapes, sprinkle with cheese for added flavour and bake in the oven. Dip the ends in ketchup for a scary snack.

We'd love to hear your frozen food ideas - please post your suggestions below. Have a fangtastic time and Happy Halloween!