Healthy After School Snacks

We often don’t realize how hungry our kids get as soon as they get home from school. Snacking is an essential part of growing up and a lot of our memories revolve around it. Children are nothing but bundles of energy who need healthy snacks to get over the hunger pangs. It’s important for parents to know that snacks should never replace regular meals and therefore, it is important to regulate and monitor the kind of snacks your child eats during the day.
Not every parent can be home cooking to have a snack ready for their children. This is why in this article you will find two kinds of healthy snacks, one that can be simply put together by yourself and the other that can be bought off the shelf.
1. Tortilla Chips.
Tortilla Chips are a staple in Mexico and most Spanish speaking countries around the world. They are made from corn, vegetable oil, salt, and water. Tortilla Chips are baked and not fried, but you will never know the difference. They are so good an easily available off the shelf.
2. Ragi Cookies
These cookies are packed with Calcium that are required in order to develop strong bones and teeth in growing children. The goodness of ragi and the cane of sugar makes it the perfect mid-meal snack, not to mention it is low in fat. 100 grams of ragi contains about 300 Kcal of energy in them.
How its made:
Mix 1 cup of ragi flour and a ½ tablespoon of cardamom powder in a pan and roast the mixture for a minute or two. Add a whisked egg, a ½ tablespoon salt and 2 pinches of dry ginger to the ragi and cardamom mix. Add a ½ cup of rice bran oil and mix it well till it turns into a dark dough. Make round balls from the dough, flatten them and place them on a flat dish covered with butter paper. Preheat your oven and bake the cookies for 8 minutes at 180 degrees.
3. Whole Grain Crackers
This snack contains whole grain wheat flour which is packed with carbohydrates and fiber. This aids digestion and supplies enough energy to children to power them through the day. Other than Whole Grain crackers, you can try out DIP Foods Baked Whole Grain Chips as they are also a great healthy snack for your children!
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4. Oats Apple Crumble
One serving of oats contains 66% carbohydrates, 17% proteins, and 11 % fiber thus making it a well-balanced nutritional composition.
Recipe:
You will need three to four large apples, thinly sliced. Put them in a bowl and add juice from two lemons, along with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder, grated lemon zest and a pinch of nutmeg. Mix it well and leave it for 30 minutes. In the meanwhile, make the oat mix with 1 cup of oats, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and ½ teaspoon of cinnamon powder. In a baking pan, spread a little oat mix at the base, add the apples and pour the rest of the oat mixture over it. Add 2 tablespoons of butter and then bake it for 30 minutes at 180 degrees till the crumble turns brown.
Having something prepared for your children which is tasty yet a healthy snack would bring a smile on their faces as soon as they come home
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