What are some healthy snacks for children?

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  • 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

Last updated 06/18/09

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