Breakfast and snack tips

From “Back to School with Family Education”

Quick, Healthy Snacks for After School
These healthy snack ideas are quick, easy, and sure to be a hit with your kids! They're perfect as after-school snacks or as anytime treats.
• Banana Smoothie
This basic smoothie can be adapted to suit your child's taste by adding her favorite fruits.
• Easy Frozen Yogurt Pops
Here's a cool snack that is healthy and delicious.
• Fruit Salad and Dip
Kids love dipping! Make their fruit a little more fun with this yummy dip.
• Healthy Sunflower Treat
Your child will love helping to assemble this treat!
• Hummus
Here's a healthy spread that can be used as a dip or a sandwich filling.
• Peanut Butter Power Balls
These treats are packed with protein and will help recharge your busy child.
• Quick and Cheesy Quesadillas
Parents will enjoy these simple quesadillas as much as kids!
• Stuffed Apple Surprise
These apples are stuffed with a yummy surprise.
• Vegetable Pita Pizza
Pile on the toppings. Kids love pizza, and you'll love that they're eating their vegetables. Top pitas with pizza sauce, part-skim cheese, and your favorite tasty veggies, for a low-fat treat.
• Animal Gelatin Shapes
Remember the gelatin salad molds of yesteryear? You can adapt this 1950s' classic for today's lunch box and sneak in some fruit without your kids even noticing. Just add sliced fruit to the gelatin mix; mold in small plastic containers.


Super Snacks

by Beth Hillson
Finger Food from FamilyFun
1 of 8 next As the school year gets under way, sit down with your kids and try to agree upon a few snack options, mostly nutritious, with a few pure treats thrown in for good measure.

Below you will find suggestions that bridge the snack gap, and they all can be whipped up by school-age kids with minimal assistance.

Whichever treats your family settles on, be sure to keep in mind the four commandments of snacking.

1. Snacks should not take longer to make than to eat.

2. Invention makes everything taste better. Even those dreaded good-for-you foods are a hit when cleverly disguised. I am always amazed by how quickly my son will devour carrot sticks when they first have been the masts for three-masted potato boats.

3. Never eat snacks with forks and knives. It's a proven fact that anything eaten with fingers tastes better.

4. Stock up on basic ingredients, such as grated cheeses and cold cuts to pair with corn chips or pita bread for microwavable snacks and fruit, granola bars or nuts for instant snacks.

Fruity Kebobs
It's one of life's snack mysteries: Putting food on a stick improves the flavor. This sweet kebob alternates fruit and marshmallow.
1 large red apple, cut into 8 wedges
6 marshmallows
1 small jar of creamy peanut butter
1 large banana, cut into 1-inch slices
1. To make a kebob, carefully push a skewer through the ingredients, starting with a piece of apple, then a marshmallow, then banana, then another marshmallow. Spread a dollop of peanut butter on top of the marshmallow. Now, skewer a piece of banana and another marshmallow (with more peanut butter) and finish with a piece of apple. Repeat with a second skewer. Makes 2 kebobs.

Funky Fruit Snack

Looking for a fun way to get kids to eat more fruit? Give your child's after-school snack an appealing twist with a homemade hybrid.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Any kind of fruit of relatively the same size
Options:
Apples
Pears
Oranges
1. Slice two pieces of fruit that are relatively the same size and alternately stack the pieces, as shown.


Back-To-School Breakfast Recipes and Ideas
Tips and recipes for easy, kid-friendly breakfasts
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Getting kids to eat a healthy breakfast can be a next to impossible task. Depending on their ages and morning moods, we might be lucky to get a glass of instant breakfast drink into our kids before they're out the door. No matter what their ages, it can a real chore

Like adults, kids have different tastes, and they know what they like. Some kids like cold cereal, some like hot, while others turn up their nose at any cereal and choose a donut or muffin. Pre-made breakfast bars are another alternative, but be sure to check the labels for nutritional value and consider making your own.
Breakfast Preparation Tips:
• A breakfast casserole takes a little time to prepare but it can be done the evening before then refrigerated. Pop it in the oven in the morning for 45 minutes while everyone is getting ready and you have a quick and nutritious breakfast!
• Set the breakfast table the night before, even if it's only for juice and cereal.
• French toast is another quick and easy breakfast, and a sure kid-pleaser. Add a little cinnamon to the egg batter for variety. Cut into shapes for younger children.
• Keep pancake or waffle batter in the refrigerator, ready to pour on the griddle.
• If you like to bake, you might keep a supply of muffins in the freezer, ready to warm in the microwave.
• Try making your own nutritious granola and granola bars.
• Quesadillas or breakfast burritos just might appeal to the "grab-it-and-run" types.

Fruity Frog

This apple-phibious treat is so charming, your kids may not even notice that it's good for them. RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Green apple (such as a Granny Smith)
Cream cheese
Chocolate chips
Green grapes
1. Cut the apple into quarters and remove the core. Cut a thin wedge from one quarter for a mouth. For the eyes, shape cream cheese into two half-inch balls, and set them in place. Insert a chocolate chip, point-side in, into each cream cheese ball.

2. Use the grapes, cut in half, for the legs and feet. Slice four halves to create toes. Arrange the pieces as shown and serve on a paper lily pad.

Desert Nachos

This Mexican-style treat swaps the heat of jalapenos for the sweetness of fresh strawberries. Set out the ingredients buffet style for kids to serve up their own after-dinner treat. RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
3 6-inch flour tortillas
Cooking spray
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries, cleaned and hulled
1 tablespoon orange juice
8 ounces vanilla yogurt
1 cup chopped strawberries
1/2 cup shredded coconut or white chocolate shavings
1. To make the tortilla chips, heat the oven to 350°. Cut the tortillas into triangles, lay them on a baking sheet, and spritz them with cooking spray.

2. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar over the tops of the tortillas and bake for 12 minutes or until crisp.

3. For homemade strawberry sauce, combine the strawberries, orange juice, and the remaining 1/2 tablespoon sugar in a blender. Puree the ingredients until smooth.

4. Once the chips have cooled, set them on a plate. To complete the buffet, set out separate bowls containing the strawberry sauce, yogurt, chopped strawberries, and coconut or chocolate shavings. Serves 4 to 6.

Quick Breakfast Bites Recipe
Ingredients
•4 eggs
•1 1/2 cup milk or heavy cream
•1/2 cup sliced green onions
•1/2 stick butter
•4 to 5 pieces of bread(I prefer Nature's Own Butter Bread)
•4 oz. shredded cheddar cheese
•3 slices of bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled
•salt and pepper to taste

Directions
1.Spray mini muffin pans with cooking spray.
2.Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3.Cut or tear bread into small pieces and place in the bottom of the muffin tins.
4.Saute onions in butter.
5.Whisk eggs and milk in a mixing bowl.
6.Add bacon and season with salt and pepper.
7.Spoon mixture over bread pieces.
8.Top with cheese.
9.Bake until firm, about 12 to 15 minutes.

Quick And Delicious Breakfast Sandwich Recipe
Sunshine1 / All my dishes
1 year, 3 months ago
I think this rivals the Egg McMuffin! Very easy to make and the kids love them!
Ingredients
•1 english muffin
•1 egg
•1 slice cheese
•11/2 peices deli ham
Ingredients
•1 english muffin
•1 egg
•1 slice cheese
•11/2 peices deli ham

Directions
1.Coat pan with cooking spray, heat up to medium heat.
2.Fry egg. (I use a round silicon egg holder, it gives it a good shape)
3.When you turn egg over, add ham to pan to slightly cook.
4.When egg is done, assemble sandwich (I like to put the cheese in between the ham and egg so it melts)