Healthy After-School Snacks

How to create recipes that would help your kids enjoy eating healthier? This is the question that bugs many a mother when they think about the daily nutrients of their kids. And many lose their sleep pondering over it while the kids run away from the veggies and healthy foods.

Drawing all of your expertise in the kitchen and as moms, you need to cook inspiring treats that are really healthy approaches to eating. You need to get a handle on the nutritional punch different foods pack in them.

Remember, it is important to teach the kids how to love all types of food for their own good health. Yes, vegetables too!

Today we bring you some ideas about how to prepare rally tasty, yet healthy after-school snacks for your kids:

Peanut Butter Berry-wich

Ingredients -

Two slices of Banana Bread or whole-wheat bread
One full tablespoon of natural peanut butter
One tablespoon of softened low fat cream cheese
Two medium sized strawberries, sliced and hulled

One teaspoon of honey

Preparation –

1 – First of all, lay the slices of bread on a clean kitchen work surface. Then, carefully spread the peanut butter on one of the slices of bread and the softened low fat cream cheese on the other slice.
2 – Arrange the hulled slices of strawberry in a single even layer on top of the peanut buttered slice. Drizzle a bit of honey on the berries and then lay the other slice of bread with the softened low fat cream cheese on top of it. Cut the pair of slices into halves or quarters, as your child would like it.

Nutritional analysis per Peanut Butter Berry-Wich:

307 calories,
40 grams of carbohydrates,
13 grams of fat (2.5 grams of saturated fat),
11 grams of protein and
5 grams of fiber.