Snacks are important part of a growing childʼs diet. Healthy snacks give
children extra calorie and nutrients between meals and offer an
opportunity to add a few more vegetables and fruits to their diet.
Sometimes you just need a few new ideas.
List of Tips For Creating A Healthy Lunchbox For Your Child
-Get rid of unhealthy snacks that can derail your child’s goals.
-Try some kiwi for a tasty green snack!
-Cashews, almonds, walnuts, pecans, and peanuts have heart healthy oil. It makes a great after school snack. One ounce if nuts is equal to one serving of meat.
-Set out a bowl of veggies with a low fat dip for healthy kid snacking.
-Keep the total calories down by choosing baked chips instead of regular potato chips
Snack on dried fruits such as apricots, figs or raisins.
-If your child isn’t hungry at dinner, you may need to move snack time to at least 2 hours prior to the evening meal.
-Wash fruit the night before so they’ll be ready for a healthy afternoon snacks.
-Skip the chips at snack time and serve celery with peanut butter.
-Think of snack time as mini meals rather than "junk food" time.
-Avoid foods that have sugar or high fructose sugar as the first ingredient.
-Bring healthy snacks like fruit cups, raisins, celery with peanut butter, low fat cheese and crackers or trail mix in baggies.
-Limit the amount of processed ready to-eat-snacks you buy (such as potato chips or cookies).
-Pack mini carrots for your child’s snack today.
-For chocolate lovers, eat antioxidant-rich, heart-healthy, organic dark chocolate
-Children need a healthy snack between meals.
-Snacking is the opportunity to add more servings of healthy foods from the food groups
-Make snack kabobs. Put cubes of low-fat cheese and grapes on pretzel sticks. Limit the amount of added sugar in your child’s diet.
-Banana Split: Top a banana with low-fat vanilla and strawberry frozen yogurt. Sprinkle with your favorite whole-grain cereal.
-Microwave a small baked potato. Top with reduced-fat cheddar cheese and salsa.
-Limit the availability of high-calorie, high-sugar, high-fat foods that have little if any nutrients.
-Spread mustard on a flour tortilla. Top with a slice of turkey or ham, low-fat cheese and lettuce. Then roll it up.
-Peel a banana and dip it in yogurt. Roll in crushed cereal and freeze.
-Mix together ready-to-eat cereal, dried fruit and nuts in a sandwich bag for an on-the-go snack.
-Spread celery sticks with peanut butter or low-fat cream cheese. Top with raisins.
-Stuff a whole-grain pita pocket with ricotta cheese and Granny Smith apple slices. Add a dash of cinnamon.
-Smear a scoop of frozen yogurt on two graham crackers and add sliced banana to make a yummy sandwich.
-Top low-fat vanilla yogurt with crunchy granola and sprinkle with blueberries.
-Spread peanut butter on apple slices.
