Healthy Snack For Children
Children love to munch snack in between meal. But that snack should be healthy and nutritious .Nowadays there is question in front of mothers what should be there in snack? What snack should be avoided for children? Giving same snack to them creates boredom and it sometime leads to unhealthy eating pattern in child while sometime it may lead to great craze for outside junk food. Children always love to have change in food .if there is some change in texture and color in food what they have along with good taste makes them happy. Here are some tips on delicious healthy snacks for kids which will provide child different nutrients which are essential for them.
Most kids crave sweets for snacks so prefer to give them natural sweet like fruits. Give them different colorful fruits like banana, orange, plum, grapes, cherries, strawberries. Even kid with first 2-3 teeth can also enjoy these fruits by making mash or puree in blender and giving them. As they grow they can learn different colors while eating different color fruits. We can also cut fruits in different shapes to make it more enjoyable and teaching basic shapes to child. For a change fruits can be given in form of milk shake or different fruit juices made and added with topping of child fall time favorite chocolate. Sometime different colorful fruits put on a skewer sticks and dipped in chocolate or rolled in desiccated coconut gives great enjoyment to child.
To keep child away from food loaded with sugar and artificial color and preservative Some form of healthy snack can be made at home by adding sweet potato, banana or apple sauce while making pancakes, muffins or home mad cookies. Children also love different types of nuts to have as a snack. Give them sometime peanuts, almonds, pistas or raisins as they are full of nutrients. Ground and chopped walnuts, peanuts and almonds can be added to bread, muffins and cookies.
Some time a bowl of soup made colorful by adding different types of vegetables and topped with cream for children enjoyment also make snack time more enjoyable. Some green vegetables like spinach crackers can be made by adding puree to flour and fried it can give cracking and delicious snack. Another favorite and healthy snack of a child is different types of cereals made from, corn, rice, and wheat. As they can be given dry itself or added in milk. Thus by creativity and slight change lot of healthy snacks will make child enjoyable