Healthy Snacks for Kids: Easy and Nutritious Homemade Recipes

Healthy Snacks for Kids: Keeping something delicious for kids and at the same time maintaining a healthy balance of snacking is a challenging task. These sweet toffees and yummy yet easy to make desserts completely pacify the cravings for sweets while also serving the purpose of being nutritious for growth and immunity. Herein lies the compilation of a few healthy recipes that kids are sure to love.

Healthy Snacks for Kids:

1. Besan Jaggery Barfi/Laddoo

Benefits: Protein from besan and immunity-boosting from jaggery
Method: Dry roast besan with ghee then after little fragrance, add-grated jaggery, cardamom powder, and chopped nuts. The mixture is rolled into laddoos or pressed in a tray and cut into pieces like barfi. They are rich protein treats for children.

2. Chocolate Cake-Ragi

Advantages: Calcium, iron, antioxidants
Method: soak the dates and grind them into paste._ Mix this paste with ragi flour, wheat flour, cocoa powder, baking agents, and milk and then bake until toothpick comes out clean. This very chocolatey dessert could easily serve as the usual cake type.

3. Whole Wheat & Dates Cake

Benefits: Iron, fiber, and minerals; free from refined sugar
Method: Soak the dates and then blend to make a smooth paste. Combine the paste with wheat flour, baking soda/powder, and cinnamon, then add milk, mix and bake until golden brown. This cake is a good substitute to control sugar levels while giving nutrition.

4. Banana Oats Cookies:

Advantages: Being very high fiber, facilitates digestion, and gives a satiety sensation.
How-to: Take ripe bananas and mash. Mix in oats. Fold in dates or raisins, cinnamon, nuts or chocolate chips. Form into small cookies and bake. These are really filling and nutritious class school snacks or at home.

5. Chia Seed Pudding

Benefits: Omega-3s, fiber, protein; calcium, and iron provided by ragi
Method: Soak chia seeds overnight in milk. Next mix them with date paste, nut butter, and oats. Before serving decorate with fresh fruits.

6. Carrot Kheer

Benefits: Beta-carotene and vitamin A; iron and calcium
Method: Boil grated carrots in milk until soft, blend, add dates, cardamom, let boil a bit, then finish off with garnishing with nuts. This is every bit as delicious as it is nutritious in creamy pudding.

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