40 Kid-Approved Healthy Snack Options
Nothing is more frustrating than being a mother to a picky eater. Getting my son to eat can be quite a tricky task; every day is a guessing game as to what food will actually stay in his mouth. This dilemma has caused me to become very creative with his snacking options. Do you have a picky eater in your home? Give these 40 Kid-Approved Healthy Snack Options a try; perfect for toddlers, kids, teens, and adults!
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40 Kid-Approved Healthy Snack Options
1. Fruit Kabobs – Layer your child’s favorite fruits on a skewer.
2. String Cheese – Peel and arrange cheese in fun and unique patterns.
3. Graham Crackers and Milk
4. Apples with Nutella
5. Celery and Peanut Butter
6. Peanut Butter Sandwiches – Use a cookie cutter to cut the sandwich in fun shapes.
7. Mandarin Oranges
8. Crackers and Cheese
10. Sliced Cucumbers
11. Peanut Butter and Bananas on Toast
13. Granola
14. Snap Peas
16. Olives & Carrots – See picture above
17. Personal Pizzas – Instead of using pepperonis, layer on the veggies.
18. Popcorn – Low Fat
20. Avocados
21. Dried Fruit
22. Sliced Kiwis
23. Cheerios Protein Snack Mix
24. Lunch Meat Wrapped String Cheese – See picture above
25. Hard Boiled Eggs
26. Carrots and Ranch
27. Green Smoothies
28. Dry Cereal
29. Frozen Grapes
30. Diced Strawberries with a little Whipped Cream
31. Bananas with Peanut Butter
32. Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
33. Cheese Quesadilla
34. Pinwheel Sandwiches – Roll up your favorite meats and veggies in a tortilla.
35. Diced Fruit
36. Egg Cups
37. Cottage Cheese with Fruit
39. Lunch Meat on Crackers
40. Greek Yogurt
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Dumping and mixing the mix-ins is my favorite part!
This 150 calorie high protein snack is perfect for busy moms on-the-go, school lunch boxes, dads at the office, and the collegiate student. Not to mention, MIXIM Greek Yogurt is 100% kid approved…by my son. Coming from a picky eater, his approval goes a long way. I’ll let this sequence of pictures do the talking:
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This is a great list! You can also try some cottage cheese topped with chopped pecans and drizzle of honey. YUM!
These are some great ideas that I never thought of. thanks for sharing
The yogurt looks yummy, I will have to try out this brand with my daughter.
Crackers, cheese and fruit are always big favorites.
The mixins look delicious! And judging from the cute kid pictures they are kid approved! Too cute!
Always looking for new snake ideas, thanks!
These are great! Thank you for the long list! Plenty to choose from to keep things exciting at snack time!
These are a lot of great healthy options to give children for snacks. I am so happy that my grandsons love a lot of those options and therefore it’s not hard to get them to eat a healthy option. Some I didn’t think of myself so that you for giving me “other” ideas.
Mmm, all of these sound amazing. A lot of favorites in there. This yogurt looks kid-approve for sure.
My kids love Fruit Kabobs and there favorite is the peanut butter with bananas on toast. Great better options here.
All these snacks look great. I can’t wait to try making the Jello Pretzel Salad. It sounds wonderful Thanks!
My kids love yogurt too! You listed a ton of good ones!
What a great list. I’m always looking for new snack ideas, love that these are healthy ones.
Those are really great sounding snack ideas. I think some of them we will have to give a try
What a ham! My daughter would love the shape of this yogurt! My kids are huge yogurt eaters!
Love messy-faced pictures of kids eating! My kids are big snackers, so we’ll have to try out some of these healthy snack recipes.
Ha ha he is the cutest! My kids love fresh veggies as snacks! I need to be better at having them ready and accessible!
Great snack list!!! I had never thought of apples with nutella before I am going to have to try that out tomorrow.
Even I would love snacking on those. Great selection, btw! 🙂
Oh My kids love healthy snacks. They will choose fruit, yogurt, or cheese over anything else… That Mixim looks amazing.
My kids love homemade fruit leather! And they are always up for some yogurt!
These are really great options. I make green smoothies for the kids all the time. They love them, and I love that they’re getting in a ton of veggies.
my girls love yogurt. I bet they would love this. they also love any type of berry especially strawberries
All of these are fabulous ideas! The greek yogurt sounds really, really good though!
These are great snack options. I like to mix and match some of these. Popcorn with dried fruit thrown in is delicious.
Home made applesauce is one of my favorite snacks, too. It’s really good stuff. Great snack ideas!
I like my yogurt like I love my ice cream, loaded with yummy stuff— fruit, nuts, or crushed cookies.
These are all great options for kids. My niece and nephew are HUGE fans of yogurt.
The photos are adorable. My daughter was a picky eater. It can be hard to be sure they are getting proper nutrition.
Cheerios have always been a big hit in our home- I would love to get the kids enjoying fresh fruit and greek yogurt but they have a textural thing right now!
My youngest son would literally live on string cheese if I would let him. Great list.