Healthy Snack Tips
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Snacks are important part of a growing childʼs diet. Healthy snacks give children extra calorie and nutrients between meals and offer an opportunity to add a few more vegetables and fruits to their diet.
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List of Tips For Creating A Healthy Lunchbox For Your Child
- Get rid of unhealthy snacks that can derail your child’s goals.
- Limit the amount of added sugar in your child’s diet.
- For chocolate lovers, eat antioxidant-rich, heart-healthy, organic dark chocolate
- Try some kiwi for a tasty green snack!
- Cashews, almonds, walnuts, pecans, and peanuts have heart healthy oil. It makes a great after school snack. One ounce if nuts is equal to one serving of meat.
- Set out a bowl of veggies with a low fat dip for healthy kid snacking.
- Keep the total calories down by choosing baked chips instead of regular potato chips.
- Snack on dried fruits such as apricots, figs or raisins.
- If your child isn’t hungry at dinner, you may need to move snack time to at least 2 hours prior to the evening meal.
- Wash fruit the night before so they’ll be ready for a healthy afternoon snacks.
- Skip the chips at snack time and serve crunchy vegetables with low fat dip.
- Think of snack time as mini meals rather than "junk food" time.
- Avoid foods that have sugar or high fructose sugar as the first ingredient.
- Bring healthy snacks like fruit cups, raisins, celery with peanut butter, low fat cheese and crackers or trail mix in baggies.
- Limit the amount of processed ready to-eat-snacks you buy (such as potato chips or cookies).
- Snacking is the opportunity to add more servings of healthy foods from the food groups.
- Make snack kabobs. Put cubes of low-fat cheese and grapes on pretzel sticks.
- Spread mustard on a flour tortilla. Top with a slice of turkey or ham, low-fat cheese
and lettuce. Then roll it up.
- Banana Split: Top a banana with low-fat vanilla and strawberry frozen yogurt.
Sprinkle with your favorite whole-grain cereal.
- Peel a banana and dip it in yogurt. Roll in crushed cereal and freeze.
- Pack mini carrots for your child’s snack today.
- Limit the availability of high-calorie, high-sugar, high-fat foods that have little if any nutrients.
- Children need a healthy snack between meals.
- Microwave a small baked potato. Top with reduced-fat cheddar cheese and salsa.
- Mix together ready-to-eat cereal, dried fruit and nuts in a sandwich bag for an on-the-go snack.
- Spread celery sticks with peanut butter or low-fat cream cheese. Top with
raisins.
- Stuff a whole-grain pita pocket with ricotta cheese and Granny Smith apple
slices. Add a dash of cinnamon.
- Smear a scoop of frozen yogurt on two graham crackers and add sliced banana to make a yummy sandwich.
- Top low-fat vanilla yogurt with crunchy granola and sprinkle with blueberries.
- Spread peanut butter on apple slices.
- Parfait: Layer vanilla yogurt and mandarin oranges or blueberries
- Inside-Out Sandwich: Spread mustard on a slice of deli turkey. Wrap around a sesame breadstick.
- Rocky Road: Break a graham cracker into bite-size pieces. Add to low-fat chocolate pudding along with a few miniature marshmallows.
- Toast a whole grain waffle and top with low-fat yogurt and sliced peaches.
- Sprinkle grated Monterey Jack cheese over a corn tortilla; fold in half and microwave for twenty
seconds. Top with salsa.
- Toss dried cranberries and chopped walnuts in instant oatmeal.
- Mini Pizza: Toast an English muffin, drizzle with pizza sauce and sprinkle with low-fat mozzarella cheese.
- Mix together peanut butter and cornflakes in a bowl. Shape into balls and roll in
crushed graham crackers.
- Fill a waffle cone with cut-up fruit and top with low-fat vanilla yogurt.
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