Homemaking - Family Food Tips
Build Young Brains with Healthful Food
Below are some suggestions for more healthful than average snacks! To let you know why these are important, read "Brain Foods," an interesting article about how foods help improve performance, reduce ADD/ADHD symptoms, boost your mood, and more. (You have to click past the page that says "No newsletter for me. Take me to my article.")
Healthful Snack Suggestions
Fun Ideas:
Ants on a Log: Celery with peanut butter* and raisins on top
Spiders: Ritz crackers spread with peanut butter and studded with stick pretzels.
Lettuce boats: Full leaf of Romaine lettuce with canned pears or peaches on top. Make sure the kids eat the lettuce.
Easy Ideas:
Any raw veggies -- Slice into creative shapes.
Homemade granola with dates, oatmeal, sunflower seeds
Sunflower seeds (plain)
Crackers and hummus
Plain rice cakes
Homemade bread or bagels
100%-fruit fruit leathers
Dried fruit
Frozen orange juice or other juice (like a popsicle)
Hard-boiled egg
Plain peanuts (Dry-roasted are best.)
Applesauce with cinnamon (unsweetened)
Yogurt
Juiced vegetables
Crackers with a tiny bit of cheese
Cottage cheese with grape/cherry tomatoes
String cheese or sliced cheese with an apple
Hard fruit with melted peanut butter as a dip
Fruit smoothies
Fruit salad
Jello with diced fruit
Whole grain bread and butter or cheese
Real oatmeal cookies with nuts (preferably almonds) and raisins
Popcorn (Air-popped is best!)
Crackers with peanut butter
Grapes or any other plain fruit
Trail mix (Cheerios, raisins, peanuts, and pretzels)
Carrot sticks with plain yogurt for dip
Cucumber sandwiches
Tomato sandwiches
Clean waffles (waffles with no topping -- warmed in the toaster)
A whole tangerine that the kids get to peel themselves
Boboli pizza
Pizza with veggies (no meat or cheese)
*Use all natural peanut butter if you want the most healthful product!
