What are some healthy snacks for children?

Kristel Hassler, CPNP

Almonds
Animal crackers
Apples, whole or sliced, dipped in lemon juice
Applesauce
Avocado, mashed on whole wheat crackers
Baked chips and salsa
Banana bread
Bananas-fresh
Bananas-frozen in its peel, served with chocolate sprinkles, chopped nuts or low-fat Cool Whip
Blueberries, fresh or frozen
Broccoli and cauliflower florets
Canned tuna or salmon chunks
Cantaloupe
Carrot sticks
Celery sticks
Cheerios
Cheese cubes
Cherries
Chex mix
Corn on the cob
Cornbread
Cottage cheese
Crackers and tuna dip
Cucumber boats
Dried apricots or cranberries
English muffin
Fig bars
Fruit smoothies
Graham cracker and cream cheese sandwiches
Granola bar
Grapefruit halves
Grapes
Green beans, blanched and chilled
Hard-boiled egg
Kiwis
Low-fat popcorn
Mangos
Melba toast
Milk, plain or with Ovaltine
Mushrooms
Nectarines
Nuts
Oatmeal
Olives
Oranges, peeled or cut into "smiles"
Peaches
Peanut butter (reduced fat) and crackers
Pears
Pickles
Pineapple cubes
Pita bread with fresh veggies
Plums
Pretzels
Pumpkin seeds, shelled
Radishes
Radishes
Raisins
Rice cakes
Salmon, canned, chunks
Shredded wheat
Sliced red peppers
Snow peas
Strawberries
Sunflower seeds
Tomato juice
Tomato slices or cherry tomatoes
Tomato soup made with low fat milk
Tortilla-vegetable wraps
Trail mix
Turkey on a toothpick
Vanilla wafers
Watermelon, seedless
Whole-grain muffins
Yogurt
Zucchini bread
Zucchini sticks