Healthy Snack Ideas for Kids
If you have children then you understand the struggle to prepare healthy snacks for them, especially if you don’t want to end up with hyperactive kids.
Here are five healthy snack ideas for kids that are easy to prepare, and the kids love them!
A veggie tray: While you’re making up the school lunches, make up a veggie tray with assorted veggies (baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, and cauliflower work really will) dip and cubed cheese. Wrap it up and put it in the fridge until the kids get home from school.
Ants on a log: A tried and trusted favorite is celery sticks with peanut butter, and raisins on top. You can easily make these up after the kids come home from school, and then watch them disappear!
Apples and peanut butter: Kids love apples and they love peanut butter even more. It’s so easy to cut up a few apples and put some peanut butter in a small bowl. They’ll go crazy!
Flavored popcorn: Making your own popcorn, tossing it in butter, and then using ingredients like taco seasoning or a cinnamon-cane sugar mixture is a sure way to win over the kids.
Fruit salad: Last, but not least is the good old fashioned fruit salad. Serve with a tube of yogurt and the little munchkins will be set to go until dinner time.
What are your favorite healthy snack ideas for the kids?
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I need to try ants on a log for my kids. Thanks for the ideas!
These days you can’t get enough healthy snacks. Children have to have a variety or they will go right back to the chips. Thank you!!!
Some great ideas! My son will eat the log (he loves celery) but he doesn’t like peanut butter or raisins. 🙂
Flavored popcorn sounds so good right now!
My kids love all of those, except the raisins as ants. 🙂 We haven’t made apples and PB in a while but will do that soon. Thanks!
I wish my son would eat celery, maybe I will try ants on a log!
Fruit salad is a hit at my house and the apple with peanut butter – great choices though.
I totally forgot about ants on a log. I haven’t seen that snack since I was a little kid.
When I was a kid, I would cut an apple, core it then use peanut butter to glue it back together. Then I would fill the core area with peanut butter and raisins. Whatever works, right?
My kids like to take lunch meat and roll it with cheese.
Ants on a log is one of my favorite snacks 🙂
My kids love string cheese and yogurt along with the items you listed!
Great ideas! My son is all about fruit and popcorn.
My kids love apples and peanut butter. We also do air popped popcorn and pretzels for a healthy snack.
My kids never turned their noses up at any of these snacks. They loved them!
My kids love fruit salads.
Yum! Fruit salad never lasts long in this house!
Thanks for the ideas! My son tends to stick to 1 or 2 things so I’m hoping maybe he’ll try some of these.
My kids always loved ants on a log! 🙂
Those are all in our rotation! My kids adore fruits and veggies, and I’m super proud of that!
The one thing about celery and carrots is its so hard for my kids to eat w/ their teeth..when P cant bite into something easy, he chews on it and then tosses on ground.