Healthy kids snacks- Butterfly Zip Lock bags

Healthy kids snacks- Butterfly Zip Lock bags

These adorable butterfly snacks are made from everything you already have in your kitchen! A snack(plastic) bag makes up the butterfly wings while the body is made from laundry clips. Let your children paint the clips in bright colors and stick on pipe cleaner to make the antenna.

Take a zip-lock bag and a peg, and peg down the middle of the bag. Stick (or draw) on eyes and the pipe cleaner to finish. Fill the two sides of the bag with what ever healthy snacks you have to hand!

Why for kids only, try for yourself too....who wouldn't want to snack from such cute bags....remember to fill in healthy stuff....
 
source:-http://m.halfhourmeals.com/food-for-thought/fun-food-for-kids-10-cool-and-healthy-snacks/
Mrs Shilpa Mittal 
Nutritionist and Diet Consultant
Founder Shilpsnutrilife - Diet and lifestylemakeover

Healthy Snacking

Healthy Snacking

A snack is an addition to your meal which is in harmony with the food you will eat later as part of the meal. In short, snacks should balance with the meals to be taken during the day.

Snacks  must not be look upon as something to chomp on because you are bored!! It is a tendency to grab a pizza or a burger or chips when parked in front of the TV or waiting around at a meeting place. Well, don't. You should have a snack to eat because you are genuinely hungry and wish to boost up your energy a little till your next meal.

Munching between meals can actually reduce your overall caloric intake by curbing overeating at your next meal. By controlling later binging, snacking can help you stay on track. By eating at regular intervals, your blood sugar levels (and therefore your energy levels) remain stable. So, instead of that mid-afternoon crash, you’ll be full of vigor through dinnertime!   Eating every few hours (especially fruits and veggies) can also help add extra nutrition that might be missing from other meals.

Next, in order to snack right you need to come up with a list of healthy snacks to stock up on. So instead of simply grabbing some unhealthy bites, you will be reaching for a healthy snack. One example: a handful of dried fruit and a couple of healthy crackers in your handbag or drawer at your work place.

Finally, ditch the fried stuff and go the steamed way. A steamed dhokla or idli is healthy, a fried wada or masala dosa is not. A mixed bhel of sprouts is good snacking, a packet of wafers is not. A soup is hugely beneficial, a can of fizzy drink is not.

Be a Smart Snacker...stay healthy and full of energy

NUTRITIOUS SNACKS FOR KIDS

● Cut a papaya into square pcs, chop some dates, sprinkle with peanuts, almonds or cashewnuts. Your nutritious papaya treat is ready.

● Peel and cut some carrots. Put them in your mixer-grinder add honey, sugar, cardamom and nutmeg pd along with milk. A delicious healthy milkshake is ready.

● Whip curds with an egg beater. Pour it in a fancy glass bowl add pomegranate, a dash of salt and pepper and finely chopped capsicum pcs and your curd craze is ready.

● Add dates, a little dry fruits like almonds, walnuts, anjir, kismis and also fruits like pomogranate, grapes to kurmura bhel and make it nutritious and antioxidant rich.

● Pattice of leftover veg.

● Soak mushroom in water, drain n sauté lightly in a non-stick fry pan adding capsicum, green onion salt and pepper

● Soak some rotis in milk for sometime, add jaggery, stir on fire till milk thickens and jaggery melts. Chop and top with sliced almonds.

● On a low fire add some til seeds, jaggery and chopped mixed dry fruits. Roll into small balls when slightly warm, good chocolate substitute is ready.

● Milk substitute – basundi, kheer, milkshakes, custard, pudding, shrikand, fruit yoghurt, cheese, panir, raitas.