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Healthy Snack Ideas for Children

By: Meg Dilts
  

Healthy Snack Ideas


Your child might enjoy trying the following foods:

  • Fresh fruit.
  • Fruit canned in juice or light syrup.
  • Small amounts of dried fruits, such as raisins, apple rings, or apricots.
  • Fresh vegetables, such as baby carrots, cucumber, zucchini, or tomatoes.
  • Low-sugar, whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk.
Foods that are small, round, sticky, or hard to chew, such as raisins, whole grapes, hard vegetables, hard chunks of cheese, nuts, seeds, and popcorn, can cause choking in children under age 4. You can still prepare some of these foods for young children, for example, by cutting grapes into small pieces and cooking and cutting up vegetables. Always watch your toddler during meals and snacks.



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