A recipe blending chickpeas with creamy peanut butter, lemon, garlic and cayenne, served with home-baked whole-wheat pita chips. Eight servings at 235 calories each, from the NHLBI's Deliciously Healthy Family Meals.
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Healthy snack recipes.
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Snacks
Make-Your-Own Snack Mix
Toss toasted oat cereal with unsalted dry roasted peanuts, raisins and dried cranberries for four half-cup servings at 136 calories each. NHLBI suggests bagging portions for grab-and-go snacking; most children can make it themselves.
Snacks
Grapesicles
Thread green and red seedless grapes onto six-inch wooden skewers and freeze for 30 minutes. Four servings at 83 calories. NHLBI warns that the skewers are sharp and that grapes should be halved for children under 3 to prevent choking.
Snacks
Healthy Eating Recipes: Fruit Skewers With Yogurt Dip
A no-cook recipe: strawberries, pineapple, blackberries and tangerine segments threaded on skewers, served with a dip of pureed strawberries, fat-free yogurt, vanilla and honey. Four servings at 71 calories each.
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Healthy Eating Recipes: Celery With Cream Cheese Mousse
Mix low-fat whipped cream cheese with fat-free yogurt, scallions, lemon juice and pepper, spread it down celery sticks, cut them into pieces and top with walnuts. Six servings at 35 calories each, and children can help make it. From NHLBI's Keep the Beat.
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Healthy Eating Recipes: Bruschetta
A 15-minute recipe from the NHLBI's Deliciously Healthy Family Meals: toast whole-grain baguette slices and top them with diced tomato, jarred roasted red peppers, Kalamata olives, basil and olive oil. Four servings of three slices, 119 calories each.
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