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Healthy After School Snacks

After school is your little one hungry for a snack? Do they run for the kitchen and grab any easily accessible packets of chips or bars of chocolate? Follow these easy to make snacks:

Here are some ideas of fantastic after school nutritious snacks for kids!

- Healthy Fruit Smoothies - just like a milkshake only healthy and full of fruit. Some suggestions are: add milk, strawberries, banana and honey. Or milk, banana and milo.

- Fruit salad and yogurt - cut up some chunks of fruit and mix it in a bowl with yogurt. Or cut up some different fruits and place them on a plate, then have a separate plate with yogurt.Then dip the fruits in the yogurt and eat. YUM!

- Home made muffins - make some home made muffins and add fresh fruits and fillers inside the muffins such as banana, sultanas, carrot.

- Dips and sticks - cut up some carrot, cucumber, celery sticks, cherry tomatoes, and ham. Then have some fun dipping vegetables in some yummy dips such as hummus, cheese dip.

- Crackers with spread - crackers such as vita brits or cruskits are a fantastic snack for kids, simply add a spread like vegemite and filler like cheese and there you have it a cracker with vegemite and cheese. Other spreads could be jam or cheese.

So next time you go to make an afternoon snack think twice before reaching for the chips or chocolate! And reach for some fruit, veggies or crackers!

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