Smart Snacking

Eating the right type of small snack between breakfast and lunch, and again between lunch and dinner, helps to prevent large peaks and dips in your blood sugar level, which can radically affect your child’s energy level, concentration and mood.

Many great snacks are easy to prepare and to eat. Here are some healthy, tasty and easy snack options:

• half a sandwich
• cheese and crackers,
• cereal mix and carrot sticks with dip,
• a fruit smoothie,
  
• yogurt with peaches (or other fruits),
• raisons,
• rice cakes
• or nuts and apple slices.

Things to avoid
Avoid offering your children high calorie and low nutrient snacks between meals.
Foods like:

• potato or corn crisps,
• chocolate bars or sweets,
• cookies and biscuits,
• ice-creams
• fizzy drinks.

They will temporarily satisfy your child’s hunger but they do not provide very much nutritional value.
Soft drinks and even fruit juice consumption should be limited for children due to the high amounts of sugar they contain.

PUT HEALTH BACK INTO YOUR SNACKS!