Easy, Tasty and Healthy snacks for Kids

Snacking is a major pastime for most of the kids. Children not only obtain their nutrients from their diets, snacking also can help children to control hunger and get some energy and nutrients throughout the whole day, but children must snack on healthy foods. Hence, healthy snacks are the key for good nutrition and to help your kids to do well throughout their school day.

Below are some healthy snacks recommended for kids (just a suggestion, need not to follow exactly):

1. Peel a banana, dip it in the yogurt. And then roll it in crushed cereals and freeze it.
2. Mix small pieces of apples with lemon juice and blend until very smooth, then stir the mixture with sugar and cinnamon. Then kids can enjoy the awesome applesauce.
3. Mix dried fruits and nuts with a ready-to-eat cereal in a sandwich for an on-the-go snack.
4. Spread a scoop of frozen yogurt onto 2 graham crackers and add in a slice of banana to become a tasty sandwich.
5. Pour some yogurt into a paper cup and fill it. Put a small piece of plastic wrap on top of each cup and then poke a hole in the plastic wrap with a popsicle stick straight up to the center of the cup. After that, put the cup into the freezer until the yogurt frozen solid. Then your kids can enjoy the yogurt pop.
6. Parents also can top up low-fat yogurt with crunchy granola and sprinkle with blueberries or some other fruits as a snack for the kids.
7. Mother also can let their kids to do it themselves like as them to spread peanut butter onto an apple slice or a whole meal cracker.
8. Blend low-fat milk, frozen berries or fruits and a banana for a while to make a delicious smoothie.
9. Prepare mini sandwich with tuna or egg salad on a dinner roll.
10. Parents can also make some freeze with fruits such as peach for their kids. Just pour the milk into the ice cube tray to freeze it. Then pop the milk cubes out and add in peaches and small amount of sugar into the blender and blend until the mixture become very smooth. And then the peach freeze is ready. The freeze also can be made by using other fruits.
11. Moreover, fill a waffle cone with cut-up fruits and top with low-fat yogurt also can be a healthy snack for a kid.
12. Mother also can make mini pizza by toasting a whole grain bread and then drizzle with pizza sauce and some sausages and sprinkled with low-fat mozzarella cheese.
    

Parents must remember that, a child’s nutrition requirement cannot be achieve just by snacking. A proper, nutritious and balanced diet is important for a child’s growth, therefore, young kids need to eat a proper and balanced diet to obtain sufficient nutrients they required daily.