Healthy Recipes For Kids

Healthy Recipes For Kids: Fruits are the perfect healthy snack for kids after school. Fruits are colorful and fun to eat. Encourage children to eat vegetables is easy when you acknowledge them, to make their snacks of fruit. Healthy snacks listed below are easy to prepare. Age of children, they can use a blender to make your own cocktail snacks fruit. Cleaning up after cooking of meals is also easy.

The fruit, which children often prefer to eat as usual apples and bananas. This recipe for a cocktail can be made quickly with a medley of vegetables, which add variety. You can use any kind of fruit to make this healthy snack of fruit.

USDA "My Pyramid" recommends that children aged 2 to 8, with respect to consume 1 - 1 1/2 cups of fruit a day. At the age of 9 to 13, 1 1/2 cup is recommended. American children do not consume enough fruits and vegetables. It is important that we prepare the fruit in interesting new ways to make kids enjoy eating this important nutrient.

This recipe makes one serving of fruit - strawberry cocktail cool and refreshing treat. This delicious cocktail satisfies one of the requirements of fruit in a healthy, but tasty.

Strawberry Smoothie

Ingredients:

*2 ice cubes

*1 cup frozen yogurt

*2/3 cup frozen strawberries

*1/2 teaspoons of sugar

*1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions:

1) Pour all of the ingredients into the blender

2) Put the lid on the blender

3) Blend ingredients for 45 – 60 seconds until smooth

4) Pour smoothie into glass

5) Enjoy

This strawberry smoothie is so easy to make but so nutritious. Strawberries are roots of several

vitamins and solid homogeneous inorgani substances that children need on a each and everyday basis.

For another delicious kid fruit snack recipe try this one with ripe bananas and everyone’s bestloved chocolate.

1 Fruit Serving Coconut & Chocolate Dipped Bananas

Ingredients:

*4 bananas, cut in halves

*8 Popsicle sticks

*4 bars bittersweet chocolate

*Nuts

*Toasted coconut

*Sprinkles

*Granola

Instructions:

1) Place each banana half on a stick

2) Melt the chocolate in the microwave (Stir with a spatula)

3) Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper

4) Dip bananas in the chocolate

5) Roll in the topping of your choice

6) Cool to room temperature

7) Chill leftovers in refrigerator