I have recently started a "snack drawer" for the kids in the fridge. It happened more by accident than anything else. We'd put the apples in one of the drawers, and that's what all the kids went for once they learned how to get into the fridge. So, I tried to put some other things in there that are quick snacks to curb hunger between meals. Unfortunately, I don't really know what else to toss in there. I put string cheese in, fruit cups and of course apples. I know, the fruit cups are not exactly healthy with all of that corn syrup, but I keep their quantity limited, and to be honest, they don't really go for them very often anyways. I was thinking about putting snack containers of grapes, watermelon, etc in there, but I wasn't sure if it'd hold up very well in vent-proof containers (the grapes I mean). Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Healthy, real food snack ideas, I need help!
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Grapes are a great idea. Would they do celery sticks? No calories and filling.
Do you have bananas on the counter? A great food.
Besides string cheese you can buy different varieties cubed.
My kids also like the tubed yogurt and in the summer we freeze.
Do you have bananas on the counter? A great food.
Besides string cheese you can buy different varieties cubed.
My kids also like the tubed yogurt and in the summer we freeze.
clemetine oranges are a big hit in my house and so are dried fruits like cherries, mango and raisins. My daughter also like peanut butter and celery - if you make up small containers of peanut butter and litle bags of cut up celery sticks they can dip the celery in the peanut butter. Laughing cow cheese - the low fat wedges are good, cherub tomatoes or any cherry or pear tomato from your garden if you have them. My daughter has kind of ecclectic taste for an 8 year old, but she also likes proscuitto ham. I buy it at Costco and freeze half of it - the rest I roll up into little rolls and store them in a baggie - she can take a piece of that as well. She also likes that wrapped around blanched asparagus. My son of course won't eat any of that other than the apples, celery, raisins and clementines
Good luck!
Good luck!
carrots, peaches, anything that is ripe at the time. I personally likr rasberries but they don't hold up very well. I so miss growing up in N.J. and picking fresh rasberries.
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Pre cut cheese and crackers(say 3 small slices and crackers ,applesauce,from scratch pudding,raisons,fruit leather,cereal mixed with pretzles rasins, make mini muffins and healthy cookies.
Whatever you decide to do, make it colorful! Kids love take different things out that have different colors. My son would even eat broccoli and carrots if there were in with the apples and string cheese. I used to put juice boxes on the shelf above too. Boil some eggs and dye them. It doesn't just have to be for Easter. Kids will take anything "pretty".
My DD is 4 now and will eat whatever she finds at her eye level so I did the same thing with her except she has her own little cabinet down low. In there she has: Goldfish, pretzels, several kinds of nuts, beef jerky, apples, and bananas/ On the bottom shelf of the fridge she has yogurt cups, carrots. jello, strawberries, string cheese and danimals smoothies. In the freezer she has the go-gurt yogurt things that we freeze. Me and her daddy are both overweight so I try to keep good things for her to snack on so maybe she won't be.
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OH - the dyed eggs are a great idea - another fun egg thing, if you look online for "bento accessories", you can find egg molds - you hard boil an egg, peel it warm and put it in the little mold and clamp it shut - put it in to cool and the next day you get hard boiled eggs shaped like bunnies or bears or whatever shape mold you bought. you can drop the peeled eggs in a little food coloring and water for a few minutes too if you want to make it a fun color.
You can also cut veggies with cookie cutters into shapes that make them more fun - I found flower shaped cuttters and cut out red and yellow pepper and filled baggies with the little "flowers" both my son and daughter will eat those.
OH - the dyed eggs are a great idea - another fun egg thing, if you look online for "bento accessories", you can find egg molds - you hard boil an egg, peel it warm and put it in the little mold and clamp it shut - put it in to cool and the next day you get hard boiled eggs shaped like bunnies or bears or whatever shape mold you bought. you can drop the peeled eggs in a little food coloring and water for a few minutes too if you want to make it a fun color.
You can also cut veggies with cookie cutters into shapes that make them more fun - I found flower shaped cuttters and cut out red and yellow pepper and filled baggies with the little "flowers" both my son and daughter will eat those.
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That is a great way to go because me and Brandons dad are both fat, and I raised him with no salt and no mayo etc... and to this day he prefers BBQ sauce for most stuff and vinegar for dressing. And he is SKINNY!
That is a great way to go because me and Brandons dad are both fat, and I raised him with no salt and no mayo etc... and to this day he prefers BBQ sauce for most stuff and vinegar for dressing. And he is SKINNY!
Oh don't get me wrong, she's all about some fun onions (funyuns) if you let her have a bag, but I try to make sure she has a wide variety of things that are better choices.
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