The 20 Best Snacks for Kids

Toss out the junk food and start making snack time fun again! Check out these 20 kid-friendly ingredients that make great snacks, plus an easy recipe for each one.

By Jacqueline Plant, Fraya Berg, and Lori Brookhart-Schervish

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Cheese

The protein in this kid-friendly snack keeps energy levels high until dinnertime. We like to stick salt-free pretzel sticks into cubes of low-fat cheese to make "satellite snacks," but you can also make cheese more interesting to kids by cutting it into fun shapes with a cookie cutter and making kabobs with your favorite fruit.

See Fruit and Cheese Kabobs recipe

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Comments (45)

harry.fassett wrote:

Plus kids should learn more about bad eating habits and good eating habits, but many parents nowadays are usually the kids worst example unfortunately. Way too much processed sugar in processed foods at mini marts, convenient stores, and fast food restaurants, and there should be a label on sugar just like other products that are bad for people to consume, especially growing children. Snackhealthysnacks.com

2/9/2012 09:37:47 AM Report Abuse

harry.fassett wrote:

Great snacking tips! I also suggest kids learn more about the bad things sugar does to people over time. Sugar as reported in Yahoo news just the other day stated that sugar related deceases and mortality rates were 8 million last year alone. Bad news for processed sugar, and there should be a label on it just like other products that are bad for people to consume, especially growing children.

2/9/2012 09:32:00 AM Report Abuse

kcelestie wrote:

OMG!!MY SON WROTE THAT!!! I AM SOOO MAD,HE IS TROUBLE

1/1/2012 10:23:04 PM Report Abuse

kcelestie wrote:

my 11 and 14 year old think they are fat

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