- All fresh; frozen or dried fruit
- Any fruit with a nut butter for dipping
- Pomegranate (cut open and let kids spoon out and eat)
- Baby carrots
- Cucumber slices
- Grape tomatoes
- Peppers-sliced
- Steam snow peas or sugar snap peas chill and serve cold
- Steam edamame in the pod and let kids pick apart and eat
- Chickpeas-toast in the oven for about 30 minutes at 300 degrees
- Guacamole with corn chips
- Avocado spread on whole grain bread
- Hummus with corn chips or veggie sticks
- Salsa with corn chips or veggie sticks
- Any and all nuts (allergy alert!)
- Sunflower seeds; Pumpkin seeds
- Whole grain crackers
- Snap-pea crisps
- Whole grain pretzels
- Granola bars (without high fructose corn syrup)
- Crisp flat breads
Let kids make a fruit salad Sunday night. It should be good for a few days of snacking.
For fun buy a fancy plastic drink cup at the party store and serve fruit salad in it-it makes kids feel special
Add plain low fat yogurt to fruit salad-gives it a great protein punch
Let kids make fruit kabobs-buy cut up fruit and wooden skewers (sharp ends can be easily cut off )
Mix any two types of nuts and/or any two types of dried fruit. Add some seeds, and you have your own trail mix
Use whole grain crackers rather than bread to make sandwiches
Make homemade popcorn (take a couple of tbsp of popcorn; throw into a brown paper lunch bag and microwave for a few minutes)
Purchase pre-cut butternut squash; steam until tender; mix in blender with about 1/4 cup of non fat plain yogurt (just enough to give the mix enough liquid to blend) and 1 tsp of agave nectar-it is a very healthy sweet treat. You can serve it in a bowl for kids to just spoon; or serve it on a slice of whole grain bread (it spreads like fruit butter)
Please read labels: the fewer the ingredients the better - if you cannot pronounce and ingredient, think twice about buying it
For information on buying organic vs. non-organic, please visit the following website: www.ewg.org
Check out YouBar.com (you can create your own healthy bar)
For kid-friendly recipes, please visit the following website: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/
*at all times please keep food allergies in mind
