By Angela Kidd
Most kids are naturally picky with food, and most of them are not fond of fruits and vegetables. Like you, a lot of parents get concerned about their little ones not getting enough nutrition in their daily diet. But just try and try – and sooner or later you’ll get through to them. Start small and introduce healthy snacks!
Kids love sweets and giving them yummy fruit snacks is a great way to start their journey to healthy eating!
Try these delicious fruit snacks for kids:
Mini Fruit Pizzas
What you need:
4 medium whole wheat tortilla
1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
1/4 cup strawberries, sliced
1/4 cup canned mandarin oranges, drained and sliced into smaller pieces
1/4 cup blackberries, quartered
1/4 cup kiwi, peeled and sliced
1/4 cup green grapes, quartered
3/4 tablespoon fresh orange juice
1 teaspoon honey
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix together yogurt, honey, vanilla extract and orange juice in a mixing bowl until ingredients are well-combined. Set aside. Using a small round cookie cutter, cut circles into wheat tortillas. Spread each circle with yogurt mixture and top with strawberry, mandarin oranges, blackberries, kiwi and grapes.
Serve as is or refrigerate for 10 minutes before serving if your little one wants a cold treat!
Rainbow Skewers
What you need:
7 raspberries
7 strawberries, hulled
7 segments tangerine
7 cubes peeled mango
7 chunks peeled pineapple
7 chunks peeled kiwi fruit
7 green grapes
7 red grapes
14 blueberries
7 wooden skewers
Thread the following into each skewer – 1 raspberry, 1 strawberry, 1 tangerine, 1 cube mango, 1 chunk pineapple, 1 chunk kiwi fruit, 1 green grape, 1 red grape and 2 blueberries. If preferred, chill the fruits for 10-15 minutes in the refrigerator beforehand.
Nutty Fruit Yogurt Bowl
What you need:
1 banana, sliced
2 handfuls frozen berries of your choice
1 cup vanilla yogurt
3 tablespoons chopped mixed nuts
1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds
1 tablespoon sunflower seeds
Layer up a bowl with the banana slices, berries, yogurt, mixed nuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. Chill in the refrigerator at least 10 minutes before serving.
The different tastes, textures and colors of fruits gives you endless of possibilities to create filling and nutritious snacks for your little one. Introduce them slowly but surely into their diet and before you know it, they’re eating nothing but healthy snacks!
Try these delicious fruit snacks your kids will love!
Angela Kidd is an author and illustrator, a wife and a mother to 3 beautiful kids. In her spare time, she would personally create storybooks and coloring books for her children for fun and they loved it.. And so did she. Angela quit her job and created her own line of educational activity books for children of various ages, with the main goal of making learning fun! You can check out some of Angela’s amazing books here.
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