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21 Mar 2012

Healthy Snacks by Color – GREEN

posted by: Kia

Welcome to Green snack day!! Getting our kids to eat green fruits and veggies is so important for their optimum health as they are loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber and phytonutrients! If that isn’t an easy task at your house I would highly suggest making green smoothies or juice (if you have a juicer)! It’s an easy way to get those greens into your kids! We usually put in a few cups of whatever fruit we have on hand, a cup of baby spinach and a cup of either coconut water or apple juice. If you aren’t using any frozen fruit it’s a good idea to add some ice cubes to make the smoothie nice and cold! If you think your kids won’t been keen on the green color of the smoothie just add blueberries to cover up that green! You can also start off with 1/2 cup of spinach or kale rather than the full cup!

Hannah had sugar snap peas, cucumber slices and a tropical green smoothie! She ate the parsley garnish too

Here are some other ideas for healthy GREEN snacks:

Broccoli
Celery
Grapes
Green Pepper slices
Honeydew Melon
Kiwi

Our final stop on our food rainbow will be Blue/Purple snacks!

Happy Healthy Eating,
Kia

Tags: cucumber, eat a rainbow, fun food ideas, green produce, kids snacks, parsley, peas, smoothie

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 4:56 am and is filed under Healthy Nutrition, picky eaters. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

4 Responses to “Healthy Snacks by Color – GREEN”

Whozat says:

March 21, 2012 at 5:39 am

I like to make smoothies with strawberries, blueberries, banana and spinach which, as you can imagine, adds up to not a very pretty color.

My trick (more for myself than my daughter, who’s not too keen on the strawberry seeds, and won’t usually drink them) is to just use an opaque travel mug with a straw. Then I don’t have to see it, and I can pretend that it’s the pretty pink or purple color that it tastes like
Tiffany Casanova says:

March 22, 2012 at 5:10 pm

Honey dew melon sounds like a good idea. I will try it! I don’t think my boys will be too excited about the green color so maybe some blueberries too!
Kia says:

March 22, 2012 at 6:05 pm

Love your smoothie trick Whozat!! Also love the travel mug idea!!!!!!
Kia says:

March 22, 2012 at 6:08 pm

Hi Tiffany…Yes blueberries are fabulous for hiding green You can also take the smoothie and pour them into popsicle molds…they make a great healthy frozen treat! YUM!!!

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