Sep 2

Back To School: After School Snacks For Kids Of Any Age

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It’s important to have a nice healthy snack waiting for your child after school. During a long day with only lunch, your child can become grumpy, tired and burnt out. It’s important to balance your child’s meals with healthy snacks. Healthy snack ideas don’t need to be complicated. The following are fun healthy snack ideas with a twist.

Toothpicks can be fun

There’s something about bite-sized food on miniature skewers. It’s fun for kids to see food in a different presentation. Make homemade chicken fingers and skewer them onto toothpicks. Use delicious applesauce which you can easily whip up for dipping sauce. Store the rest of the applesauce in the fridge and use for fruit and vegetable dips. Toothpicks can be a fun way to introduce new food combinations such as sweet potato cubes and blue cheese dip, cherry tomatoes and cream cheese and melon along with cottage cheese. Use interesting combinations to encourage new tastes and textures. Toothpicks can be a great way to get kids to taste something they normally wouldn’t.

Play with cookie cutters

It’s easy to make a sandwich interesting with cookie cutters. You can use a variety of breads and cheese to cut out favorite shapes and stack them together. Have a fun snack theme for younger kids. For example, turn sandwiches into sailboats using a toothpick on top with slices of tomatoes as the sail. Cut out cheese in the shapes of fish and place alongside the sailboat sandwiches. For older children, make a tall sandwich using leftover meatloaf and lettuce cut out in circles with a toothpick to hold it together. Have small containers filled with ketchup and mustard for dipping sauce.

Make a colorful pattern

All children are drawn to bright colors. It’s easy to make a healthy patterned snack using a tall clear glass. You can make fun yogurt treats ahead of time and keep them in the fridge for the kids to take out. In a tall clear glass, layer yogurt with jello cubes, fresh fruit and top it off with granola or oatmeal. Get creative and try different things such as rice pudding or pudding with berries topped off with toasted coconut. You can make frozen snacks layering frozen yogurt ice cream, melon and top it off with fresh cream. Add a colorful spoon for younger kids and you’re set with a scrumptious snack.

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