5 Healthy Summer Snacks To Stay Cool Cold treats are a delight for kids during the hot summer months. A cool popsicle, a slushy snow cone, or some creamy ice cream really hits the spot after a long day of swimming and playing. But summer treats don’t have to be filled with sugar for them to taste delicious. We have 5 summer treats that are not only kid pleasers, but parents love them too. Each one only takes minutes to prepare, and they’re filled with nutrients, not sugar. Rainbow Snow Cones: To make rainbow snow cones, simply blend up ice in a high powered blender until it resembles snow. By juicing your own fruits and vegetables, and putting the juice into squeeze bottles, you can squirt the flavors and colors onto your healthy snow cone. Homemade Ice Cream: There are a million ways to make delicious homemade ice cream, but our favorite is by blending up frozen bananas and adding a drop of vanilla extract and milk. You would never know there weren’t sugar in this ice cream. Once your bananas are frozen, this treat only takes a minute to make. Smoothies: Fruit smoothies are a kid favorite because they taste like a milk shake, except without the fat and sugar. Fruit smoothies can be as simple as blending up fruit and juice, or you can add some extra nutrition by adding leafy greens like spinach. We generally use 1 cup of juice or water to 2 cups of frozen fruit. Frozen Banana Bites: Any fruit dipped in chocolate and then frozen is a delicacy. All we do is chop our bananas into 1 inch bite size pieces and freeze on wax paper. After frozen, then dip bananas into melted chocolate and return to the freezer. After about 1-2 hours, your frozen banana bites will be ready. Sundae Bar: Freeze some plain or vanilla yogurt, and make a rainbow sundae bar using a variety of colorful, seasonal fruits. Kids enjoy assembling their own and with so much fun fruit to choose from, they might even choose them all. So, this summer, don’t let your kids talk you into sugar filled treats when ones without sugar can taste equally as good, if not better! facebook/MaFruitVeg IN ORDER TO RECEIVE UPDATES FROM US, PLEASE CLICK LIKE, THEN CLICK ‘GET NOTIFICATIONS’ AND ‘SHOW IN NEWS FEED’. If you do not do this, you will miss out on many posts.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:30:06 +0000
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