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Healthy School Snacks Idea.
Serving healthy snacks to children is important to providing good nutrition, supporting lifelong healthy eating habits, and helping to prevent costly and potentially-disabling diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity. They will also get important nutrients like vitamins A, C and fiber.
Fruits and Vegetables
Serving fresh fruits and vegetables can seem costly and time consuming. But in real sense they are actually less costly than many other less-healthful snacks on a per-serving basis. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average cost of a serving of fruit or vegetable (all types – fresh, frozen, and canned) is 25 cents per serving. This is a good deal compared with a 69-cent single-serve bag of potato chips or an 80-cent candy bar.
Try lots of different fruits and vegetables and prepare them in various ways to find out what your kids like best.
Fruits
Fruit is naturally sweet, so most kids love it. Fruit can be served whole, sliced, cut in half, cubed, or in wedges. Canned, frozen, and dried fruits often need little preparation.
- *Apples (good with peanut butter)
- *Bananas {good with peanut butter}
- *Blackberries
- *Blueberries
- *Cantaloupe
- *Cherries
- *Grapefruit
- *Grapes (red, green, or purple)
- *Honeydew Melon
- *Kiwis (cut in half and give each child a spoon to eat it)
- *Mandarin Oranges
- *Mangoes
- *Nectarines
- *Oranges
- *Peaches
- *Pears
- *Pineapple
- *Plums
- *Raspberries
- *Strawberries
- *Tangerines
- *Watermelon
*Applesauce {Unsweetened}
*Dried Fruit. Try raisins, apricots, apples, cranberries, pineapple, papaya, and others with little or no added sugars.
*Frozen Fruit. Try freezing grapes or buy frozen blueberries, strawberries, peaches, mangoes, and melon.
*Fruit Salad. Get kids to help make a fruit salad. Use a variety of colored fruits to add to the appeal.
Fruit is naturally sweet, so most kids love it. Fruit can be served whole, sliced, cut in half, cubed, or in wedges. Canned, frozen, and dried fruits often need little preparation.
- *Apples (good with peanut butter)
- *Bananas {good with peanut butter}
- *Blackberries
- *Blueberries
- *Cantaloupe
- *Cherries
- *Grapefruit
- *Grapes (red, green, or purple)
- *Honeydew Melon
- *Kiwis (cut in half and give each child a spoon to eat it)
- *Mandarin Oranges
- *Mangoes
- *Nectarines
- *Oranges
- *Peaches
- *Pears
- *Pineapple
- *Plums
- *Raspberries
- *Strawberries
- *Tangerines
- *Watermelon
*Applesauce {Unsweetened}
*Dried Fruit. Try raisins, apricots, apples, cranberries, pineapple, papaya, and others with little or no added sugars.
*Frozen Fruit. Try freezing grapes or buy frozen blueberries, strawberries, peaches, mangoes, and melon.
*Fruit Salad. Get kids to help make a fruit salad. Use a variety of colored fruits to add to the appeal.
Vegetables
Vegetables can be served raw with dip or salad dressing:
- *Broccoli
- *Carrot sticks or Baby Carrots
- *Celery Sticks
- *Cucumber
- *Peppers (green, red, or yellow)
- *Snap Peas
- *Snow Peas
- *String Beans
- *Tomato slices or grape or cherry tomatoes
- *Yellow Summer Squash slices
- *Zucchini slices
Dips.
Try low-fat salad dressings, like fat-free Ranch or Thousand Island, store-bought light dips, bean dips, guacamole, hummus (which comes in dozens of flavors), salsa, or peanut butter.
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Vegetables can be served raw with dip or salad dressing:
- *Broccoli
- *Carrot sticks or Baby Carrots
- *Celery Sticks
- *Cucumber
- *Peppers (green, red, or yellow)
- *Snap Peas
- *Snow Peas
- *String Beans
- *Tomato slices or grape or cherry tomatoes
- *Yellow Summer Squash slices
- *Zucchini slices
Dips.
Try low-fat salad dressings, like fat-free Ranch or Thousand Island, store-bought light dips, bean dips, guacamole, hummus (which comes in dozens of flavors), salsa, or peanut butter.
Please leave some more Healthy School Snacks Ideas, down below.
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