Kids are fussy eaters and you cannot force them to eat. They are moody and will eat only what they like. As a parent, it’s your duty to feed them with proper nutritious food. It is important that they get all the healthy nutrition that they can in the formative years of their life so that they are geared up for a healthier and fitter future.

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Here are some quick snack recipes that are full of nutrition and will be loved by your kids. These snacks are full of protein and carbs, but no sugar and essence, which makes them nutritious in a wholesome way. So purge their diets of unhealthy junk food, and instead let your kids enjoy these far healthier alternatives.

Rainbow fruit skewers
It is a fun vitamin-packed fruit skewer that is simple, colorful, and a fun way to get your kids to eat fruits.

Ingredients required:

• 7 raspberries
• 7 hulled strawberries
• 7 tangerine segments
• 7 cubes of peeled mango
• 7 peeled pineapple chunks
• 7 peeled kiwifruit chunks
• 7 green grapes
• 7 red grapes
• 14 blueberries

How to prepare:
Take 7 wooden skewers, insert the fruits in a sequence and finish with 2 blueberries. Plate it on the table like a rainbow.

Fruit and nut yogurt
A healthy recipe for a kid’s snack, that is a healthier alternative to cereals and will keep them full until lunchtime.

Ingredients required:

• 3 tablespoons of finely chopped mixed nuts
• 1 tablespoon sunflower seeds
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds
• 1 sliced banana
• 2 handfuls berries frozen or defrosted both are fine
• 200 grams of vanilla yogurt
• 2 tablespoons of pomegranate seeds

How to prepare:
Just layer the nuts and seeds, followed by the fruits and top it with vanilla yogurt. Repeat it in the same way and enjoy.

Spiced apple crisps
This healthy snack is a deal when it comes to keeping the hunger pangs of your kids at bay. You can even pack it for them to take to school.

Ingredients required:

• 1 apple
• Butter to drizzle
• Honey to drizzle
• Cinnamon for sprinkling
• 1 teaspoon Lemon juice

How to prepare:
Core the apple and slice through the quarter in very thin slices. Drizzle honey, lemon juice, and cinnamon, and mix well. Heat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius, and then put the parchment paper on a baking dish. Arrange the apples on this. Cook for 45 minutes turning halfway and stopping when the crisps have turned brown. Cool and store in airtight containers up to 10 days.

Dried fruit bar
Another healthy homemade snack for your kids, that is easy to prepare.

Ingredients required:

• 50 grams dried apricot
• 100 grams
• 50 grams cherry
• 2 tablespoon coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seed

How to prepare:
In a food processor chop all the nuts very finely. Add the coconut oil, mix it well, shape them into the size of small bars and then roll them in sesame seeds. Store it in an airtight container for a month and relish the wholesome goodness of nutty dessert that has no added sugar in it.

Quick energy bites
The yum taste of peanut butter enhanced with the goodness of flax seeds, raisins, coconuts, and pecans.

Ingredients required:

• 100 grams pecan
• 75 grams raisin
• 1 tablespoon flaxseeds, walnut, and almond all powdered.
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 50 grams desiccated coconut
• 2 tablespoon peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon honey.

How to prepare:
In a food processor churn the pecans in crumbs. Then mix raisins, peanut butter, honey, cocoa powder and flax seeds. Make small balls of the mixture and coat with desiccated coconut. Keep these balls in the fridge to set them firm. Serve them whenever your kid needs sudden energy.

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