Make Snacks Healthy for Your Kids

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  • Author Christine Steendahl
  • Published September 13, 2008
  • Word count 520

Looking for suggestions 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 snacks that will please your kids and your whole family.

A lot of people have the notion that healthy foods lack flavor. Some people think that if it is organic and in the specialty aisle of the grocery store that the product is cost prohibitive. Nothing could be

farther away from the truth.

Little ones like ice cream but fruit sorbet is healthier for them. Fruit sorbet is delicious and tasty. You can prepare a wonderful sorbet sundae as a nutritious and satisfying healthy Kids treat.

Don't be surprised if the entire family begins scooping and topping the sorbet as quickly as the kids.

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

You can add any type of berries to a sorbet recipe. Raspberries and strawberries make a delicious and healthy sorbet. Fruit Sorbet is loaded with vitamins and fiber as well as a great sweet taste. When you grow tired of consuming fresh fruit, enjoy some of these healthy recipes. Many 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

  1. Let the kids choose and mix their sundaes

Add real whipped cream for added fun.

This nutritious treat for kids has sugar but the sugar may be decreased depending on the fruit's sugar content. This is a nutritious way to enjoy fruit and a great way to introduce

the taste buds to a nutritious refreshing treat.

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