Healthy Inexpensive Snacks for Kids

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Healthy Inexpensive Snacks for Kids

Submitted by: anonymous 04/03/2009 6:27 AM

Instead of prepared foods I give my kids cut up fruit and dip (really just flavored yogurt) or cut up vegetables and dip (just their favorite salad dressings) for their after school snack. They consider this a treat!

Oatmeal raisin cookies with a reduced amount of sugar or made with honey make a good on the go breakfast. I always have some in the freezer and they defrost in seconds in the microwave.

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Great tip. Healthy snacks can actually be cheaper than processed junk foods.

Raisin bread toast makes a great snack food. You get a great snack food crunch combined with a little bit of sweetness from the raisins. You can buy a loaf quite cheaply at Aldi's or at a local bakery outlet.

Popcorn is also a healthy snack - but not the expensive microwave popcorn. Use a cheap air popper (costs about $15 at Walmart) and buy bags of popcorn kernels.

This makes healthy popcorn at a super cheap price, and it pops in the same amount of time as microwave popcorn!

Pudding makes for a delicious after school snack. Forget those little plastic snack packs. Its much cheap to pick up a box of instant pudding mix. It takes only minutes to create pudding with milk and these instant mixes.

Posted by Charlie - PayLessForFood.com on April 03, 2009 11:38 AM

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And making your own pudding and generates less packaging waste too.

Posted by anonymous on April 03, 2009 11:54 AM

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Just watch sugar content.
There seems to be an epidemic of diabtes in America.

Posted by anonymous on April 16, 2009 9:31 PM

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I fix pudding and jello for my kids even send it to school for snacks and lunches, only I made a small investment in the small gladware containers with lids (they seal no spill) and I spend just a few minutes making and filling them and just pop them in the fridge, they are there when I need to grab them in the mornings, and the kids just grab and go when they need a snack, much cheaper and healthy is using the sugar free!!!

Posted by mmmypls4 on April 30, 2009 10:50 PM

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