Try these healthful, no-cook snacks. You don't need here to enrol for private cooking lessons. They're easy and fun to make, and
depending on your child's age, require little or no adult supervision.
RECIPES:
Snack Kebobs. Cut raw vegetables or fruit into chunks. Skewer
them onto thin
pretzel sticks. (Note: To prevent discoloration, dip apples,
bananas, or
pears in orange juice after they're cut.)
Veggies with Dip. Cut celery, zucchini, cucumbers, or carrots into
sticks or
coins. Then dip them into prepared salsa or low fat dip.
Banana Pops. Peel a banana. Dip it in yogurt, then roll in
crushed breakfast
cereal, and freeze.
Fruit Shake-Ups. Put 1/2 cup low fat fruit yogurt and 1/2 cup cold
fruit
juice in a non-breakable, covered container. Make sure the lid is
tight.
Then shake it up, and pour into a cup.
Pudding Shakes. Use the same technique for making fruit
shake-ups, but
instead mix 1/2 cup cold milk with 3 tablespoons of instant
pudding.
Sandwich Cut-Outs. Using cookie cutters with fun shapes, like
dinosaurs,
stars, and hearts, cut slices of cheese, meat, and whole-grain
bread. Then
put them together to make fun sandwiches. Eat the edges, too.
Peanut Butter Balls. Mix peanut butter and bran or corn flakes in
a bowl.
Shape them into balls with clean hands. Then roll them in
crushed graham
crackers.
Ice Cream-Wiches. Put a small scoop of ice cream or frozen
yogurt between
two oatmeal cookies or frozen waffles. Make a batch of these
sandwiches
ahead, and freeze them.
Ants on a Log. Fill celery with peanut butter or cream cheese.
Arrange
raisins along the top.
Try it you'll surely love it as well as ypur kids. Simple and no-cook healthy foods are quite good for dnacks. Share your other recipes here at Turkish Cook Forum.