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Ha... very first thing that instantaneously popped into my head was Scout's ham costume in To Kill A Mockingbird...

Next image was of the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters...

I'm afraid I'm not of much use, but it gave me a chuckle, and I had to share...

good luck!

I love Halloween. Even though I'm almost 60, I still dress up. So do my sons. My youngest son, at 24, is the best--he's been Mrs. Butterworth, Richard Simmons, Lilo (when he came home with the coconut shell bra, we just about died laughing), a jade Buddha, the green M&M (his girlfriend was the blue peanut M&M). Off topic--sorry.

There's the old reliable bag of jellybeans: wear a clear trash bag stuffed with pastel balloons.

Or you could be a cannoli:

http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/coolest-cannoli-halloween-costume.html

You could dress as a maple tree and bring a friend wearing a track suit. The friend would be the sap, and the sap's running. It's funny even if you're not from Vermont.

Last year, I wore a yellow fleece vest, a black turtleneck and black leggings. I striped the vest with black duct tape and striped my arms and legs with yellow duct tape, painted my face yellow and bought a cheap plastic crown and some wings, an antenna headband and two furnace filters that I wore front and back. I was the queen of the hive and handed out honey cough drops everywhere I went.

This year, I will dye a sheet orange and wear it like a toga, paint my face and arms orange, make a crown of leaves and figure out a way to wear a giant drinking straw. I will be Orange Julius. My oldest son did that about 20 years ago, when it was legal to wear costumes in high school.

You could figure out a way to wear half of a cow costume and be a side of beef. Hmmm. . .a side of bacon, a side of coleslaw. . .I wonder.

My father-in-law is quite large and isn't all that nice. A brother-in-law, not joking, told him that if he wore a white shirt and white pants, he'd be the Pillsbury a**hole.

Ooops. Off topic again. Hope you have ever so much fun with this.

BTW, isn't it unsettling to see Halloween ads up there? How'd they do that?

About 20 years ago I was teaching in a school where the teachers all dressed up for halloween and competed for best costume (the kids had uniforms, so they didn't/couldn't dress up). They Irish guy, who everybody loved, usually dressed up as some version of a leprechaun and won every year. Determined to beat him, I dressed as a baked potato, attaching pillows to my mid-section topped with a paper bag in the front, and then covered the pillows etc with aluminum foil, except for a brown opening that showed the potato skin. When we went into the gym for the judging I lay down on the floor and asked the leprechaun to squirt shaving cream and sprinkle grass clippings on my midsection. It was his undoing. The first and only time anyone bested him.

Last year some girl went out as the Morton Salt girl, I think she won a prize of some sort.

my friend was the swedish chef from the muppets one year, it was awesome.

i've done lobster attacking a fisherman, with a friend. it was a fun but the lobster required a lot of work and didn't turn out that well (i am not very good at sewing).

@ lemonfair, that potato thing sounds hilarious.

Make yourself into a bunch of grapes- purple sweats or leotard and tights. Then attach balloons to your suit, add a felt leaf cap and a few chenille twirls for tendrils.

One of the neighbor's kids dressed up as a box of popcorn. They just painted a box white and put red stripes on it and glued popcorn to the top, cut out a hole in the bottom and top and attached suspenders to it.

Back in the day, a friend of mine wore a white leotard and leggings and a fluffy pink boa that matched her pink hair and said she was carnival cotton candy. That pink hair was something else.

There was a great line from an episode of Seinfeld where Elaine thinks she has a big head: "I'm a walkin' candy apple!" It's an idea.

We came up with this list last year. They're costumes you can order, but might inspire some homemade recreations!

Best Food-Inspired Halloween Costumes

For three years in college I went as a piece of Kosher meat. This involved me and three rolls of pink saran wrap. It's a great costume (think tube top and separate A-line skirt made my standing with feet more than shoulder-width apart while a friend wraps, with a USDA sticker well-placed) but I caution you to not hydrate over the day or evening, because it definitely does not allow for bathroom breaks. However, it was a hit and it keeps you very warm if the evening is chilly. Now I am too old for those shenanigans and can't even imagine going out dressed [virtually] only in saran wrap, but if you're less than 25, why not!

Last year I put on an orange sweater with felt sesame seeds, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, and meat glued onto it, then wore a crown. I was Burger Kin

i have been a carrot for the past two years. i wrap an orange towel around my self, wear my orange pumas, and built "greenery" by sticking green tissue paper pieces up from a headband. so fun!

tons more foodie costume ideas here.

favorite homemade costume EVER: I saw a little boy with a mattress pad folded over him, with a red oval on his white knit cap. Of course, he was a Stoned Wheat Thin. Hilarious! Simple & perfectly executed!

PS. Scout as a ham was great too, but wasn't that for a school presentation on health?

When I was in preschool my mom and I went as red M&Ms. She sews, so she made them-big red felt circular cushions held together with straps (like a sidewalk board person wears), with white m's sewed on.

Also, @hungrychristel- I've seen people wrapped in tinfoil too, but as Chipotle burritos.