Food Choices to Keep Children Eating Healthy Through the Holidays

QUICK snacks for Healthy Kids

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The kids are hungry and your time is limited. Try some of these quick snacks for healthy kids that require little prep time!

Veggies and Dip: Baby carrots, cucumber slices, red pepper slices, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, snap peas, or celery sticks served with hummus, salad dressing, or other dip.

Vegetable Sticks with Spread: Celery or carrot sticks topped with nut butter or cream cheese (add some raisins to make ‘ants on a log’!)

Snack Kabobs: Veggie or fruit chunks skewered onto thin pretzel sticks.

Sweet Potato Fries: Baked sweet potato wedges, tossed lightly with olive oil and salt.

Cottage Cheese or Yogurt with Fruit and/or Granola: Try using fresh grapes, frozen berries, or canned peaches or pineapple.

Mini Bagel with Spread:

Try cream cheese, nut butter, or hummus.

• Apple Treats: Sprinkle apple chunks with cinnamon and/or raisins or granola, then mix in some nut butter.

• Chips and Salsa: Use whole grain baked pita chips or baked tortilla chips. also try out bean dip instead.

• Taco Roll-Up: Small whole wheat tortilla rolled with cheese, beans and salsa.

• Turkey Roll-Up: Turkey slice rolled up with cheese.

• Mini Pizzas: Top pita bread or half of a whole wheat english muf n with tomato sauce, cheese, and chopped vegetables and toast until cheese is melted.

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QUICKER snacks For even quicker snacks, try one of these!

• Whole Fruit: Grapes, apples, bananas, etc.

• Fruit Salad: Store-bought fresh fruit,

• Pretzels: a handful served with a spoonful of hummus or nut butter.

Let’s not forget about beverages.

Reach for some of the suggestions below the next time you provide beverages!

• Water

• Milk

• Seltzer water with a splash of 100% fruit juice

for Healthy Kids

unsweetened canned fruit, or snack cup.

• Frozen Fruit: Berries, mango, you can even freeze grapes.

• Dried Fruit: look for unsweetened varieties and keep it to a handful.

• Apple Sauce: Unsweetened.

• Nuts: Such as almonds, walnuts, cashews,

or mixed nuts; keep it to a handful.

• Cheese: one string cheese or 2 slices of cheese.

• Granola/Fruit Bar: look for whole grain bars that are low in sugar.

• Cereal: Choose whole grain cereals like Cheerios, Multigrain Chex, and Shredded Wheat.

• Trail Mix: Made with nuts, seeds, granola, and/or dried fruit; keep it to a handful.

• Popcorn: 2-3 cups popped.

• Fruit Smoothies: Store-bought or homemade with fresh or frozen fruit and milk or yogurt.

Quick Snacks

Try making yummy infused water

Just add fruit (think berries, melons, citrus fruit, kiwi, etc.) and/or vegetables (like cucumber, celery or carrot), and/or fresh herb leaves (like thyme, mint, cilantro, or parsley). Mix and match and let it sit a few hours in the fridge to let the avors infuse.