Afternoon snacks for children

Healthy and delicious afternoon snacks for children to enjoy after kindergarten or school, providing a tasty alternative to sugary or high-fat options.

 Afternoon snacks for children  (photo credit: PIXABAY)
Afternoon snacks for children
(photo credit: PIXABAY)

Corn pie for kids

Corn pie is one of the foods most loved by children, you can find many recipes in 10 minutes to prepare it. After you prepare it, the smell that will spread in the house will already bring the children to the kitchen and they will be happy to receive a piece of pie. You can prepare it as a light dinner with soft or hard cheeses and cut vegetables such as gamba, cucumber and tomato.

Chopped vegetables

Chopped vegetables can be a great snack that is easy to make and fun to eat. Choose vegetables that children like, such as a green cucumber that can be cut into strips in half or thirds, depending on the size of the cucumber. Cherry tomatoes cut into quarters, carrots that can be cut into circles, playful corn kernels, kohlrabi cut into half circles, soft palm hearts and olives. You can serve them as they are or next to cottage cheese, white cheese or sour labneh with a little olive oil. The kids will eliminate them in no time and will be satisfied until dinner and you will be happy that they are snacking on healthy vegetables.

A refreshing fruit salad

A great, healthy, sweet and refreshing snack. It doesn't matter if it's the winter season or the summer season, a delicious fruit salad can always be prepared. In the winter season, you can combine apples, pears, bananas, strawberries, persimmons, clementine segments, oranges and red grapefruit for children and of course add fresh and delicious orange juice. In the summer season you can prepare a particularly refreshing salad with nectarines, peaches, plums, apricots, peaches, mangoes and of course grapes, all of which will also be in refreshing orange juice. Both salads can be upgraded with walnuts, raisins, grated carrots, cranberries, fresh mint and more.

Delicious chocolate balls

Well, this particular snack is less about the purity of health and more about the purity of taste. But this is a particularly favorite snack that the children can also participate in making, so if you are also looking for an activity for the afternoon, chocolate balls are a very successful solution. Ask the children to break the biscuits as much as they can and put them in a bowl, then melt in a glass bowl dark chocolate with butter in the microwave and in another bowl melt cocoa powder with warm milk, mix well and add the contents of both bowls to the biscuits and mix again until you get a great paste that the children will really enjoy putting into it their two little hands and knead it.

Then ask them to make small circles and ask them to cover them with colored candies or coconut chips. Finally, ask them to spread paper cufflinks on a tray and put all the wonderful chocolate balls they made with their hands into them. Put them in the refrigerator and then treat all the children to chocolate balls from their hard work!

Cheese muffins that you can't stop eating

Cheese muffins are a great snack that can easily evolve into dinner as well. In summary, it is a pie batter that is put into a muffin tin to reduce the content and produce small mini pies. You can combine a variety of cheeses in muffins, you can also add corn or olive rings to give them an upgrade that the kids will love to eat. You can also serve delicious cut vegetables with the muffins and kill two birds with one stone.

In conclusion, there are a lot of great snacks that you can give kids in the afternoon without them eating crap and spoiling dinner.