The Search For Healthy Kids Snacks

Searching for ideas for your little ones and your entire family to consume healthier foods but you are not quite sure where to begin? You can always begin with nutritious kids treats that will please your children and your entire family family.

A lot of people have the misconception that healthy foods are tasteless. Some people believe that if it is organic and in the specialty aisle of the supermarket that the product is cost prohibitive. This is not always the case.

Little ones love ice cream but fruit sorbet is a better option for them. Fruit sorbet is yummy and full of flavor. You can create a wonderful sorbet sundae as a nutritious and enjoyable healthy Kids snack.

Don t be surprised if the entire family begins scooping and topping the sorbet as quickly as the kids.

Sorbet captures the essence of summer fruits and is almost completely fat free. Best of all this yummy dessert is easy to make. Sorbet contains no milk. Ice cream has air whipped into it, sorbet has almost none, which makes sorbet a dense and extremely yummy product.

You may add any type of berries to a sorbet recipe. Raspberries and strawberries make a yummy and healthy sorbet. Fruit Sorbet is packed with vitamins and fiber as well as a nice sweet taste. When you tire of eating fresh fruit, try some of these healthy recipes. Most of the recipes work well with frozen berries too. Sorbet is an awesome way of adding a touch of summer to the winter months

Make Your Own Fruit Sorbet

Raspberry sorbet is a favorite

Ingredients:.

* 2/3 cup of superfine sugar
* 1 cup of water
* Purée 23 oz. raspberries with 1/4 cup lime juice.

Instructions:

1) Combine sugar and water in a medium sized saucepan
2) Stir slowly over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
3) Bring mixture to a boil
4) Boil for 1 minute.
5) Remove from heat and cool completely.

Make the fruit purée in a food processor or blender.
Add the raspberry purée to the cooled sugar syrup and stir to combine.

Place the purée/sugar mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to
manufacturer s instructions.

If you don t have an ice cream maker, here is an alternative way to freeze the sorbet. Place the purée/sugar syrup in a metal bowl or cake pan and freeze for 1 hour. Remove from freezer and beat with an electric mixer or whisk; return to the freezer. Repeat at hourly intervals 3 more times.

Fruit Sorbet Deserts For Kids

Ingredients

2 pints of sorbet of your choice
2 ripe bananas, sliced
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 pint strawberries sliced
1 package wafer cookies

1) Set out ice cream cups, the sorbet ice cream scoops.
2) Toss the sliced bananas in lemon juice to keep them from getting brown
3) Set each topping in a separate bowl
4) Let the kids choose and mix their sundaes Add real whipped cream for added fun.

This nutritious snack for children does contain sugar but the sugar may be decreased depending on the fruit s sugar content. This is a healthy way to enjoy fruit and a awesome way to introduce
the taste buds to a healthy refreshing snack.

The Search For Healthy Kids Snacks

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