Fun & Healthy Snack Ideas for Kids

One way is to slip in nutritious ingredients in a way they don’t notice or by including them in preparation and learn what they like and dislike. Kids love snacking and their tiny tummies need frequent refilling. Making healthy and fun to eat snacks is crucial for their growth and development.

There are various ways to fit in healthy ingredients into your child’s snacks or you can create new fun names for snacks that catch their attention. There are numerous snack ideas at your disposal:

v  Frozen fruit juice pops is the easiest way to make kids consume essential vitamins and protein at the same time. Take your child’s favorite fruit juice and blend it with vanilla yogurt. Freeze it in a Popsicle mold and have tasty, cool treats with less sugar and perfect nutrition for those hot days.

v  You can always make the vegetable eating experience fun by coupling veggies with dips. Most kids like their vegetables raw and would rather eat them uncooked. Slice vegetable into little pieces or sticks like French fries and serve with a variety of dip. A great idea is to have cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber, julienned carrots, celery sticks and sugar snap peas and other veggies that your child likes. Dips can me made with ranch dressing, yogurt, cottage cheese and cream cheese.

v  A very nutritious option for kids snacks when it comes to fruit is coupling fruits with vanilla yogurt dip. Kids love full fat organic yogurt with fruit, consider it a “fun-due” rather a “fondue.”Crackers with a mixture of cream cheese & honey are a very good healthy and fun treat for kids.

v   Smoothies are an ever green healthy drink for kids. You can add a little spinach and blend it with the drink, it’s tasteless and kids may not even notice it.

v  There is no match for the vintage peanut butter snack. Natural, trans fat free peanut butter on bread, crackers or pita bread is a blockbuster amongst kids. Peanut butter can also be used in smoothies to add extra nutrition or you can always make peanut butter shake with milk.

v  Sweet potatoes are also a tasty and healthy prospect for kids. Thinly sliced baked sweet potatoes sprinkled with a little sea salt make a very nutritious snack. Another way of offering a good kiddy snack is by slicing sweet potatoes in to fries, toss with a little olive oil and bake them. They are packed with nutrition and a favorite of kids.    

As long as you can make the food smell good and look like a five star restaurant’s, kids will be piling over each other to get some. A good way is to involve the child in creating their favorite meal so you can observe what they like and create something fun & healthy for them.