Kids can eat organic fruits and veggies raw and unpeeled in a nutrient dense salad every day, powering up with enzymes, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Many foods lose vitamins and nutrients when they are cooked. Organic means using organic seeds to grow the veggies and naturally produced fertilizers and compost for the soil, using no…
Category: Healthy Kid Snacks & Lunch Boxes
Kid Chef Hummus Sandwich
Kids can make a delicious sandwich with Mediterranean dips. Kids love hummus, a Mid Eastern dip made with chickpeas, also called garbanzo beans, which are an excellent source of protein and are good for the digestion. Another ingredient in hummus is tahini, a sesame seed dip that is heart healthy and good for the nervous…
Healthy Kid Snacks & Lunch Boxes
An organic backyard garden can be the snack vending machine for kids, while saving money for the family. Planting grapes and raspberries along a fence is a lovely landscaping technique producing yummy, healthy, and easy snacks for kids. Blueberry bushes and strawberry plants can be planted in containers on the deck as well as in…
Kids Energy Snacks
Kids can check out the bulk section of their health food store to find organic nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. When kids buy in bulk, the fruit and nuts are fresher, with no added sugar or salt. There is much less packaging making it more economical than prepackaged energy bars. Kids can scoop exactly the…
Healthy Kids School Party Treats
School Birthday Parties across the country are changing from sugary drinks, cupcakes, and cookies to healthy snacks and party games. Parents and teachers have discovered that the sugar rushes from birthday party treats made kids hyper and testy. Many schools now have policies on what food parents can bring for parties with special policies regarding…
Kids Bean Soup Lunch
Kid Chefs can easily make this power packed soup. When kids help with the planning and preparing of their school lunch, it will be eaten rather than given away or thrown in the trash. For a brain food lunch, kids can refuel their energy by filling a stainless steel extra wide mouth thermos with black…
Kids love Grapes
Kids love the sweet juicy energy boosts of grapes. Grape vines can create a beautiful landscape in the backyard, growing in a tub, up and along a fence, pergola, or trellis. Kids love to pick and eat grapes on the vine. Grapes are great for hydration, high in antioxidants, and counter free radical formation. A…
Healthy Kid Party Treats
Let’s pretend. Kids love to have a party theme, which turns decorations, treats, and the backyard into a magical experience. Following a party theme, kids can use cookie cutters, fondant cutters, punches, and plastic sandwich cutters to cut out fun shapes in organic cheese, bread, fruit, and veggies for yummy treats, like banana bread and…
Kids Cold and Flu Snacks
Healthy kids eat good food and drink lots of water. Doctors say that hand washing is one of the most effective preventive measures from spreading the common cold. Kids need to wash their hands often and keep the kitchen clean while preparing food. Healthy kids get lots of fresh air and exercise, which helps them…
Healthy Kid Snacks
A backyard garden can be the snack vending machine for kids, while saving money for the family. Planting grapes and raspberries along a fence is a lovely landscaping technique producing yummy, healthy, and easy snacks for kids. Blueberry bushes and strawberry plants can be planted in containers on the deck as well as in the…