Simple Yummy Healthy Snacks for Kids
Here's a list to get you through a full month of varied snacking:
(I have a calendar version of this list I'd be happy to email by request)
- Fresh Fruit Salad
- Bread Sticks & Cream Cheese
- Orange Slices & Jicama Slices (fruit tastes like an apple with potato texture)
- Rice Cakes & Apple Wedges with Cheese
- Assorted Raw Veggies and dip (try a new veggie like Sugar Snap Peas or Squash)
- Celery Sticks With cream cheese or peanut butter
- Unbuttered Popcorn with sprinkled Parmesan cheese
- Whole grain/wheat Crackers with cheese or peanut butter
- Plain yogurt with Fresh fruit
- Slice Hard-boiled eggs
- Cooked broccoli with parmesan cheese
- Finger sandwich with Tuna or chicken salad
- Raw carrots and glass of natural fruit juice
- Baked potato with cream cheese or sour cream
- Popscicle made from Gatorade
- Sliced pear and banana wheels
- Cubed cheese and pretzels (String cheese is always fun)
- Nuts in shell & Glass of natural Fruit juice
- Soy beans & fresh melon wedge
- Cold Cuts and cheese
- Dry unsweetened Whole grain cereal
- Fruit smoothie ½ c milk/soy milk ¼ c OJ or apple juice ½ banana ½ cup frozen fruit (if fresh fruit add ice)blend until smooth
- Cubed Sweet potato (Easy-most grocery stores have bags of these in the produce aisles)
- Natural white cheddar popcorn (Pirate’s Booty is a good brand)