The trick to simple healthy snack recipes is often in the ingredients and presentation.  Unfortunately, many store bought snacks rely on excess sugar, salt and low-nutrition, artificial substances.  When you make simple snacks and home, you can use basic, nutritious ingredients, like yogurt, bananas, peanut butter and hummus.  Ingredients like these are great for kid [...]

Smoothies are a great way to get kids to enjoy fruits and vegetables they would have otherwise snubbed.  Since smoothies are so versatile, simple and tasty, they are a great healthy recipe option for kids.  They’re quick to make with a blender or food processer and can be taken on the go, which is great [...]

Simple healthy meals for kids include options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, even snacks and beverages.  Simple healthy meals can be made to help kids that are picky eaters, or kids that have special nutrition and meal plan needs.  Thanks to recipes that are designed to be quick, easy and affordable, but also healthy and [...]

Kids desserts often consist of some of the most over-sweetened, high fat artificially flavored food substances you can find.  Prepackaged snack cakes, high-fructose loaded ice cream pops, puddings and yogurts are hardly a treat to a growing kid.  Kids should be allowed to enjoy a great tasting dessert without it being such a detriment to [...]

It’s always a question – what to give your kids to eat? You want them to eat healthy food, but you don’t want them coming home saying, “I didn’t have time at recess”, or, “I didn’t like the look of my sandwich and anyway I dropped it in the yard!”. With this book, you’ll always [...]

www.howdini.com Kids are gonna snack–but snacks don’t have to be junk food. Author and dietitian Elizabeth Somer has great ideas to help you get your kids to eat healthy snacks. Encouraging kids to eat healthy snacks * 25% of your children’s calories come from the food they snack on — that’s a quarter of their [...]