Protein Pancake Snack for Kids

Here is a great healthy and high in protein snack recipe for kids. You'll be able to make 11 pancakes.

1. Mix together 1 cup of oatmeal with 1 cup of egg whites and 1 cup of fat-free cottage cheese. You can add some vanilla extract.

2. I personally like to add blueberry or little pieces of apple to the mixture. If you can think of other fruits to add, go ahead.

3. After you done adding ingredients, spray your non-stick pan with pam oil. Pour out the mixture as pancakes. After few minutes flip them to the other side.

4. You can serve them with some cold low fat yogurt and strawberry on top :) You can serve it with glass of low-fat milk.

Now, let's see how much protein we have. Each pancake should have around 7 grams of protein and 0 fat. Kids love it. You can use this recipe to make a healthy breakfast or healthy snack for kids.

Banan Hot Dog for Kids

Any time my kids asking me for a hot dog snack, and you know hot dogs are not the healthiest snacks out there, I make Banana Hot Dogs. Kids love this recipe. Very easy snack to make.

1. Take a whole-grain hot dog bun and toast it.
2. Spread a peanut butter on both sides. (looks like mustard)
3. Put one peeled banana in the middle.
4. And top it with jam. Strawberry jam works great. Looks like ketchup.
5. Sprinkle it with raisins.
6. Add a side of apple juice (with 50% water for less sugar) or milk.

You can also use this healthy snack for kid's party. If you have any healthy snack tips for kids, please let me know.

Halloween Fruit Bites

Healthy Snacks for Kids

Great way to have fun and get your kids to eat apples and nuts. Fruit bites is a healthy snack for kids that you can make together.

To make these little bites you can use pears or apples. Any nuts will work. We used peanuts.

1. Wash apples and pears. Dry them.
2. Quarter a pear, cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter.
3. Sliver the peanuts.
4. Cut them into smaller teeth looking pieces.
5. Press the your peanuts into the pear to make teeth.

And your very scary snack is ready. If you know any good healthy snack recipes for kids you would like to share, please let me know.

Healthy Snacks for Kids before the Dinner

Kids are always hungry. So while we are cooking dinner they are running around screaming “I am hungry and I want an ice cream”. It’s our job as a parent to teach our kids to eat healthy as early as possible. So I have great healthy snack tips for kids before the dinner. No, ice cream of course.

1. Sandwich Cut-Outs. Make a sandwich on whole grain bread. Cut out your favorite shape using a big cookie cutter. Eat the fun shape and the edges, too! If your child is old enough, let him help you pick the shape and cut it out. Kids love to help.

2. Make snack kabobs. Put cubes of low-fat cheese and grapes on pretzel sticks.

3. Make a mini-sandwich with tuna or egg salad on a dinner roll. Use wholewheat roll if you have a choice.

4. Sprinkle grated Monterey Jack cheese over a corn tortilla; fold in half and microwave for twenty seconds. Top with not spicy store salsa or homemade salsa. You can use not spicy salsa for kids in a lot of recipes. It's very easy to make and has a lot of vitamins your kids need. To make salsa at home chop tomatoes, green pepper, green onions and avocado. Add some salt and lemon juice.

5. Stuff a whole-grain pita pocket with ricotta cheese and Granny Smith apple slices. Wash all the apples when you right after you buy them so it will take you only 2 minutes to prepare this snack.

6. Microwave a cup of tomato or vegetable soup and enjoy with whole grain crackers. Canned soups don't have less vitamins than home made so if you have time make a lot of it and frizz. I usually put a little yellow sticky note with a date on it. It will take you just few minutes to warm it up.

7. Sprinkle grated Parmesan Cheese on hot popcorn. I usually save this snack for the TV time rather than before the dinner.

8. Spread homemade mayo on a flour tortilla. Top with a slice of turkey or ham, low-fat cheese and lettuce. Then roll it up. Trust me when I tell you that homemade mayo can be sooooo much healthier than the one you buy in a store. It will take you 5 min to make and you can always frizz it. I am sure that it will be gone. I have a great healthy recipe here.

9. Make a Mini Pizza. Toast an English muffin, drizzle with pizza sauce and sprinkle with low-fat mozzarella cheese and add some vegies. This is your chance to put some vegies into your kid as long as you have a melted mozzarella cheese on top.

10. Try Inside-Out Sandwich. Spread mustard on a slice of deli turkey. Wrap around a sesame bread stick.

I got hungry writing all these great snack ideas. You can see how easy it is to make a healthy snack for kids. It takes less than 5 min. I am always looking for new snack ideas so please let know if you have a great healthy snack idea that you would like to share with the readers.

Sweet and Healthy Snacks for Kids

Can Sweet snacks be healthy for kids? Sure. In fact there a lot of great tips on how to make sweet healthy snacks for kids. I’ll give you my favorite. Don’t be surprised if you husband (or wife) starts eating them too

1. Homemade ice cream that is made of yogurt and banana. Peel a banana and dip it in yogurt. Roll in crushed cereal and freeze. Whole family can enjoy this healthy snack while watching TV in the evening.

2. Everybody wants an ice cream. But it the frozen yogurt can taste just as good, and sometimes even better, than the ice cream. Try it. Smear a scoop of frozen yogurt on two graham crackers and add sliced banana to make a yummy sandwich. Who can say no to this?

3. Top low-fat vanilla yogurt with crunchy granola and sprinkle with blueberries. I put strawberries some times, tastes great too.

4. Toast a whole grain waffle and top with low-fat yogurt and sliced peaches. If you don’t have fresh peaches go for the canned ones. Fresh fruits have much more vitamins and no preservatives.

5. Spread peanut butter on apple slices. Very quick and easy.

6. Toss dried cranberries and chopped walnuts in instant oatmeal. I am not a big fan of oatmeal but my kids like it so pretend to like it.

7. Mix together peanut butter and cornflakes in a bowl. Shape into balls and roll in crushed graham crackers.

8. Fill a waffle cone with cut-up fruit and top with low-fat vanilla yogurt.

9. Banana Split: Top a banana with low-fat vanilla and strawberry frozen yogurt. Sprinkle with your favorite whole-grain cereal. Who needs the ice cream?!

10. Break a graham cracker into bite-size pieces. Add to low-fat chocolate pudding along with a few miniature marshmallows.

11. Layer vanilla yogurt and mandarin oranges or blueberries in a tall glass. Top with a sprinkle of granola. Layers of fruits look so colorful and yummy. We all know kids love colorful food. Remember presentation is just as important.

As you can see it's very easy to make sweet and healthy snacks for kids. I am always looking for new snack ideas, so please let me know if you have a great healthy snack idea that you would like to share with the readers.