What to make for a 4 year old that LOVES snacks! what do i make for him?

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HELP!!!!!!!

Answer 1

peanut butter and banana mini bagels:

just take a banana and slice it up, get a pack of mini bagels, spread the peanut butter on it and put the bananas on it!

ants on a log:

take celery sticks, peanut butter, and raisins and spread the peanut butter all over the stick of celery and then throw the raisins on it.

cream cheese and jelly cracker:

take a couple ritz crakers (plain) and spread them with cream cheese and the kid's fav jelly and then put another cracker on the top1

frozen grapes:

freeze green or red grapes in the freezer for 3 hours and then put 'em on the plate.

baby burritos:

take the smaller kind of tortillas and take shredded cheese and sprinkle it all over the tortilla. warm it up in the microwave for 30 seconds and serve after it's cooled down a bit.

Answer 2

My Mom always made me and my brothers celery sticks with cream cheese-nothing else.  Very simple and wholesome.  To this day, I can't resist the combination a whole lifetime later, and I marvel how that woman managed to duck those "empty calories" so prevalent back in the 1950s.

Answer 3

Fun Food Tips

Freeze a whole banana and then serve with a spoon! It tastes like banana ice cream!

Serve frozen peas or other vegetables right out of the freezer as finger food, - they're sweet.

Puzzle sandwiches: Cut a sandwich into odd shapes that fit together like a puzzle.

Serve crepes with many different fillings.

Make and use sprinkles: Chop, grind, or mix together 1/3 cup granola, 1/3 cup nuts, and 1/3 cup wheat germ. Sprinkle on yogurt, fruit, ice cream, cottage cheese.

Serve shape pancakes: When frying pancakes, pour the batter into numbers, letters, or shapes. Let your child choose some shapes to have you prepare.

Try having breakfast foods for dinner, and leftovers from dinner for breakfast.

Mix plain sparkling water with fruit juice and add chunks of fruit for decoration.

Have a winter picnic on a blanket in the house!

Cut sandwiches, bologna, or cheese into shapes with cookie cutters.

Prepare soft shell tortillas with melted cheese, chopped vegetables, meat, or refried beans. Roll like a jellyroll or sprinkle flat like a pizza.

Dip less desired foods in appealing dips: cheese dip, bean dip, sweet mustard, ketchup, cream dips, salsa, yogurt, honey, etc.

Create international meals: plan a meal with a theme from another culture.

Make a variety of healthy shakes loaded with fruit, yogurt, and honey.

Bake a simple muffin or quick bread recipe with your child. Have a tea party, using the baked goods for the treat.

Make kabobs or "hors d'oeuvres" using pretzels for skewers, with meatballs, fruit chunks, cheese cubes, salami, etc.

Make cinnamon apples: Cut apples into slices and place a small amount of cinnamon sugar on the plate. Let your child dip the apples into the cinnamon.

Same food, more fun: Prepare foods that you can eat with your fingers and then serve in muffin tins, pie plates, or allow your child to occasionally use a fancy plate or serving dish.

Lunch Art

For kids ages 3-6.

Bet you never thought of white bread as a canvas to paint on, did you? Use white bread as your canvas and turn your sandwich into a work of art lunch!

  

  

  



Paper cups

Milk

McCormick® Assorted Food Colors & Egg Dye

Or

McCormick® Assorted NEON! Food Colors & Egg Dye

New paintbrushes (they must be new if you want to eat the bread)

White bread

Toaster

1. Fill each paper cup with 2 tablespoons milk.

2. Add a few drops of food coloring to each cup.

3. Paint pictures and designs on the bread using the colored milk.

4. Toast lightly to help the paint dry, then make fun, zany sandwiches.

Ask an adult if you can use the toaster!

Paint with even more colors - McCormick® Assorted Neon! Food Colors and Egg Dye contains neon purple, neon pink, neon green, and neon blue.











Fruit Kabobs

Ingredients:

• strawberries,

• pineapple slices,

• watermelon,

• peaches,

• bananas,

• cherries,

• grapes and

• apples

• (or whatever fruit is in season)

Directions:

1.  Cut and wash fruit ahead of time as needed.

2.  Can buy dowels sticks (at any grocery store) which may need to be soaked in water a few minutes before

     use.

3.  Arrange the fruit on the table in different plates and let the children choose some fruit to place on a

     dowel stick for their fruit kabobs. They may require help, depending on the age group.

4.  Eat and enjoy.

Wave your magic wand and this delicious and fluffy treat will separate all by itself! Add strawberries to make this dessert taste berry berry good!



  

STIR 11/2 cups boiling water into 1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Gelatin (any flavor) in a large bowl until completely dissolved. Add 2/3 tub of unthawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, stir with whisk until melted and mixture is well blended. Stir in 1 cup chopped strawberries.  

POUR mixture evenly into 5 dessert dishes.

REFRIGERATE 2 hr. or until set. Top with remaining whipped topping before serving. Makes 5 servings.



Funny Face Desserts

Recipe Rating:

Prep Time: 10 min

Total Time: 40 min

Makes: 4 servings, 1/2 cup each

  



2 cups cold milk  

1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling  

Decorations, such as JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows, chocolate chips, shoestring licorice, gummy worms or other assorted decorations  





POUR milk into medium bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes or until well blended.  

SPOON pudding evenly into 4 dessert dishes or plastic or paper cups. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes or until ready to serve.  

MAKE faces on pudding with decorations just before serving.  





KRAFT KITCHENS TIPS



Great Substitute

Substitute any flavor JELL-O Instant Pudding & Pie Filling for vanilla pudding.

Special Extra

Use cut-up fresh fruit such as strawberries, blueberries and banana slices to make the funny faces on these adorable desserts.



Astronaut Pudding

1/8 cup any flavor instant pudding mix

1/4 cup milk (not low fat)

Put both ingredients into a zip-type bag. Close the bag securely. Gently knead mixture until pudding forms. Snip off one of the corners and squeeze the pudding into your mouth

Creamy Blue Jigglers

2 1/2 cups boiling water

2 (8 ounce) boxes blue Jell-O®

1 cup cold milk

1 small box Jell-O® Vanilla Instant Pudding

Stir boiling water into gelatin in large bowl at least 3 minutes until completely dissolved. Cool 30 minutes at room temperature.

Pour milk into medium bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 1 minute. Quickly pour into Jell-O®. Stir with wire whisk until well blended. Pour into 13 x 9-inch pan. Refrigerate 3 hours or until firm.

Dip bottom of pan in warm water about 15 seconds. Cut into decorative shapes with cookie cutters all the way through gelatin or cut into 1-inch squares



POUR 22/3 cups cold milk into medium bowl. Add 1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Instant Pudding & Pie Filling, any flavor. Beat with wire whisk 2 min. or until well blended.

SPOON mixture evenly into 4 (6-oz.) paper or plastic cups. Insert wooden pop sticks or plastic spoons into each for handle.

FREEZE 5 hr. or until firm. To remove pop from cup, place bottom of cup under warm running water for 15 sec. Press firmly on bottom of cup to release pop. Makes 4 servings.

For an extra special treat , stir any of the following ingredients into the pudding mixture before spooning into cups and freezing as directed: 1/4 cup finely chopped Planters Peanuts, 1/2 cup Jet-Puffed Miniature Marshmallows or 1/2 cup chopped fruit.

Answer 4

Get "Deceptively Delicious" by Jessica Seinfeld.  It's a cookbook for mostly desserts, which incorporate veggies in them.  My daughter made some brownies with spinach which were WONDERFUL!  You can get it on eBay or Amazon.com.  Oprah did an episode on it a year or so ago......

Answer 5

I would say anything with dip, most 4 year olds love dip,  you could have chips and salsa, carrots/celery with blue cheese dressing, crackers with a soft cheese dip, chocolate and fruit...ect, its fun for them, easy for you and healthier then french fries.  good luck!

Answer 6

A pouch of gummy treats is okay once in a while but try grapes, banana's, apples, canned fruit etc...

Also a glass of choc milk or yogurt is yummy.

Toast with jelly or peanut butter on it. Cinnamon sugar toast. (Mix sugar and cinnamon together and sprinkle over hot buttered toast.)

Answer 7

The best way to go is to make a snack an art project, or something fun and healthy.  Here are some ideas:

Bugs on a log:

Ingredients:

Celery Stalks

Peanut Butter

Raisins

or

MNMs

or

chocolate chips

Directions:

Spread peanut butter on the indentation in the celery stalk.  Apply MNMs, raisins, or choc. chips to the peanut butter side.  Serve.

Circus Trail Mix

Ingredients:

Animal Crackers

Toasted Honey Chex

MNMs

and/or

Jelly Bellys

and/or

Skittles

Whole Grain Cheerios

Raisins

Directions:

Mix liberal amounts of each ingredient together.  Place in a baggie and serve whenever.  This makes a great lunch snack for day care or kindergarten.

Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup margarine

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

2 cups quick cooking oats

1 cup dried cranberries

Directions:

   Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.  In a medium bowl, cream margarine, oil, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time. Gradually stir in the sifted ingredients until well blended. Mix in oats and cranberries. Have fun shaping the cookies into fun shapes.   Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in preheated oven, or until edges are golden. Let set up on the cookie sheets for a few minutes before serving.  A project as well as a tasty, healthy snack.

Hope this helped!  Good luck!

Answer 8

Go here for 4 or 5 healthy snack recipes:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search?q=health...