10 Healthy Snacks for Family

Getting your family to eat healthy snack is a real challenge! As, where so ever you go – be it a coffee house, gas station or your office – you would find conveniently packed foods that are mostly unhealthy and high in calorie waiting for you. But, as the nutrition factor is very important to you, so let’s take this challenge and steer away the family from unhealthy snack.

Priya Singh helps you with 10 healthy snacking options.

1. Fruit Salad- Filling and highly nutritious, fruit salad is a vitamin-packed snack that has earned a justified reputation as an all-time breakfast standby. Take watermelon cubes, papaya, apple, banana, grapefruit, and other seasonal fruits. Slice and toss in a bowl with a pinch of salt, pepper powder, chat masala and your fruit salad is ready to eat. 
2. Sprouts - Go green with sprouts! It is one of the most complete and nutritionally beneficial snack contains vitamin A & B, protein, and minerals providing two fisted power punch to your body. Enjoy sprouts of legumes such as mung, bengal gram, groundnut and peas with a drop of lemon juice and salt. It’s amazing to eat and is a real energy booster.
3. Poha – A convenient, on-the-go snack solution that packs a high nutritional punch is ‘Poha’. Wash and drain pressed rice and sauté a bit with green peas, onion, tomatoes and ground nuts in a drop of oil, it’s almost done! Squeeze lemon juice and garnish with coriander leaves to serve. This low calorie, easy to make snack is very light for stomach and really nutritious for your health. The dash of lemon in poha makes the iron content available in it easy to absorb by the body.
4. Soya Chunk Chat – Make your protein, carb and iron source come alive with boiled and squeezed soya chunks, sprouts, onion, tomato sauce,  potato cubes, green chilli-mint chutney, and a pinch of salt and chat spread. Soya Chunk chat is good for health and delicious to eat. Both kids and adults consider it a as a good substitute to non vegetarian food. Good for weight watchers and body builders too, because it’s high in protein.
5. Steamed Corns/Pop Corns – Homemade steamed or roasted corns are real delight for your family.  It is the perfect snack for munching in the evening as it not only tastes great but also packs a high amount of nutritional value within itself. Carbohydrate, Calcium, dietary fiber, iron, vitamin A & B, protein, almost everything you add with intake of corns.
6. Bhelpuri – Toss puffed rice, roasted grams, peas, onion, green chillies with a drop of mustard oil and pepper and salt, this yum snack gets ready. Crunchy munchy, bhelpuri is very good for digestive system.  
7. Makhana  – These are very rich in iron and calcium content besides high dietary fiber. Simply roasted them in a drop of ghee and toss salt before you serve. You can also prepare sweet pudding of makhana with milk. It is highly recommended for pregnant women. People with chronic complaint of constipation can also profit from its use.
8. Roasted Chana (Whole Grams) – Available as a packed food, roasted channa is a good option to break your fast. The salty and crispy roasted chana contains high amount of nutritional value which helps improving your indigestion problems. Low in fat, you can serve them anytime you wish. 
9. Cheese Cubes – High in protein, cheese cubes are favourite of children. Serve then as a topping on a cracker or enjoy it alone. These are best source of protein, carbohydrate and good fat, as well as bone building calcium. Go ahead indulge.
10. Smoothies – It is the best way to combine several food groups into one appealing serving. Blend fruits like mango or banana with a glass of milk and serve cool to cherish this retreat. Milk mixed with banana provides you high value iron, calcium, vitamins, protein; everything good for health. Also, go for Parfait, dropping alternate layers of yogurt, fresh fruit (most berries work well), and granola or a crunchy cereal in a glass to make a perfect sip and munch recipe. It looks as good as it tastes and also provides rich nutritional value like vitamin A and B, and protein.

Make these tempting- Just follow simple tactics and ideas for snacks that are healthy, inexpensive and it will be grabbed as the best serving by your family, especially your children. When making healthy snacks for kids, you need to focus on making the snack fun so as to be sure your child will actually eat them. You can put all the effort in slicing fruits in different shapes and sizes.

Serving these homemade snacks with little trick not only fulfills the nutritional value but also keep kids satisfied and content. And your wallet is happy too!

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