Soar Tips

Snacks are an important part of children's daily nutrition. Try to make nutritious choices for your children at snack time. Make snack time fun by offering foods of different colors and cut foods into shapes when possible. To prevent boredom, offer a variety of snacks during the week. Give your child a choice of two healthy snacks and let them choose which they want to eat.

10 Quick Healthy Snacks:

• Baby carrots, celery or other favorite vegetables with low fat ranch dressing
• Peanut butter on apple slices
• "Ants on a log"- Spread peanut butter or low fat cream cheese on celery sticks and top with raisins
• Top low fat vanilla yogurt with granola and blueberries (or other favorite fruit)
• Make fruit and cheese kabobs. Put cubes of low fat cheese and your favorite fruit cut into bite size pieces on a pretzel stick or beverage stirrer
• Tomato or vegetable soup with whole grain crackers
• Top a banana with low fat yogurt and your favorite whole grain cereal
• Make mini-pizzas. Toast an English muffin, spread with pizza sauce then sprinkle with low fat mozzarella cheese and your favorite vegetables.
• Baked tortilla chips and hummus
• Animal Crackers and applesauce