The healthiest snacks for kids

Once kids get a taste or a hint that there is something far more interesting (aka junk), up for grabs they can be very stubborn when offered anything even remotely healthy.

Ingredients

  • Rice cakes

  • ricotta or “light” cream cheese

  • Muffin

    toasted

  • honey

  • Pappadums

  • Crispbreads or plain biscuits

  • Wholewheat breakfast cereal

  • reduced fat milk

  • low fat ice cream

  • ½ cup canned unsweetened fruit

  • Banana

    peeled

  • other fruit such as grapes, peeled orange or mandarin segments

  • 200 gm frozen yoghurt or low fat fruit yoghurt

  • Raisin toast

  • Cheese scones or muffins

Allergy Advice

Contains Dairy

Contains Eggs

Contains Gluten

Equipment

  • 1 Microwave
  • 1 Toaster
  • 1 Icy-pole stick
  • 1 Bamboo skewers

Instructions

  1. Rice cakes lightly spread with ricotta or “light” cream cheese.
  2. Toasted muffin with a scrape of honey.
  3. Microwaved pappadums.
  4. Crispbreads with a low fat topping or plain biscuits.
  5. Wholewheat breakfast cereal and reduced fat milk.
  6. Scoop low fat ice cream with 1/2 cup canned unsweetened fruit.
  7. Frozen banana (spear peeled banana with icy-pole stick and freeze) or other frozen fruit such as grapes, peeled orange or mandarin segments.
  8. Fruit kebabs (skewer cubes of fruits on to bamboo skewers).
  9. 200gm tub of frozen yoghurt or low fat fruit yoghurt.
  10. Raisin toast.
  11. Cheese scones or muffins.

Notes

Tip
If you can’t break the juice habit, remember to water it down at least 50:50.
Tip
Soft drinks are completely unnecessary for anybody and particularly nasty for kids, so keep these for ‘parties only’.

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