All parents want their kids to eat better, but when it comes to snacks, kids often reach for biscuits, sweets, and other unhealthy things.  How can you convince them that they need to eat healthier snacks?  By providing them, of course.  If you clear out all the junk food from your home and only have some of these healthy snacks available, your kids will have no choice by to try them if they want to snack.  Once they’ve tried them, they may be surprised to realise they like these snacks.  Here are just a few different ideas for healthy snacks:

•    Cut an apple into slices and spread peanut butter over them.
•    Likewise, you can spread peanut butter on celery sticks and then add raisins to the top.  This creates the “ants on a log” snack.
•    Dip a peeled banana in yogurt and then roll it in crushed cereal.  For best results, freeze this tasty treat before serving it.
•    For a healthy snack on a road trip, create your own trail mix by mixing cereal, nuts, and dried fruits together in a bag.
•    For a larger snack, microwave a small potato and add salsa and low-fat cheese.
•    Make a type of frozen yogurt sandwich by spreading yogurt between two cream crackers and adding a piece of sliced banana.
•    A healthy smoothie can be made by blending frozen strawberries, a banana, and low-fat milk.
•    Create kabobs by putting grapes and cheese on pretzel sticks.
•    Mix peanut butter and cornflakes together, roll them into balls, and roll them in crushed cream cracker crumbs.
•    Create a mini pizza by toasting an English muffin, covering it with pizza sauce, and adding low-fat cheese to it.

These are just a few good snack ideas for children.  What’s great about these ideas is that you can change them around a bit to suit your kids taste.  Once they try a few of them, you won’t have to worry about your kids going crazy over sweets again.