Here is a quick and healthy snacks that is also easy on the budget!  Cinnamon Apples!!!!  All you need is an apple and some cinnamon!  This is one of my daughters favorite after school snacks and since she’s been in practicing her knife skills for years she’s actually able to prepare this for herself.

Step 1. Wash the apple

Step 2. Place the apple on a cutting board and make four cuts so that you are left with a square core

Step 3. Cut the slices to the thickness that you prefer and place apple slices on a plate and sprinkle with cinnamon

Step 5.  Enjoy your yummy and healthy snack!

Some snacks really are a snap

Happy Healthy Eating,
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

When my daughter comes home from school she’s usually ready for a snack, and in our house, that means either fruits or veggies!  We like to make it a little fun buy using mini cookie cutters, toothpicks, cute dishes and most importantly we make it colorful!  We like to think of fruits and vegetables as being part of an edible rainbow so everyday we aim to eat a variety of fruits and veggies that are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and Blue!  The phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables give them their bright color and each color group provides our bodies with unique health benefits which is why we want to eat all the different colors of the rainbow!

Here is a an example of a Rainbow Fruit Snack!

Red: Grapes     Orange: Oranges     Yellow: Bananas     Green: Kiwi     Blue: Frozen Blueberries

Snack time is the ideal opportunity to get your kids eating fruits and veggies!  Have fun creating healthy rainbow snacks for your kids!

Happy Healthy Eating,
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

I must admit that I had no idea how easy it is to make homemade granola!  So when I saw a recipe in The Whole Family Cookbook I was pretty excited to see that it was so easy that my seven year old daughter did most of the work by herself!  I’m a big believer in getting kids in the kitchen, it is such a great way to spend time together and pass on life long skills.

My favorite things about making your own granola:

1. I know all the ingredients that go into the granola
2. My daughter can practically make this by herself
3. We can tweak the recipe to add our choice of optional ingredients (nuts, seeds, dried fruit)
4. It makes the house smell SO good!!!!
5. Let’s be honest it sounds a bit impressive to make your own granola

Head over to my Rainbow Blog to see what my daughter had to say about making homemade granola!

Happy Healthy Eating!
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

Rainbow Fruit Sticks

Need a colourful, tasty, healthy item to bring to your next potluck or school event?!?  Try these easy to make Rainbow Fruit Sticks!  They are a huge hit at any event with kids of all ages.

All you need is a collection of colourful fruit and some skewers! I like to use: Raspberries, Cantaloupe, Pineapple, Honeydew Melon and Blackberries to give the skewers a nice rainbow effect!

1. Wash your fruit and let dry a little so that they are easy to work with.
2. Arrange your fruit and skewer them in the same order.
3. Display your Rainbow Fruit Sticks on a platter and get ready for the compliments!

Happy Healthy Eating,
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!

We like to find ways to incorporate fruits or veggies into all our holiday celebrations!  There tends to be quite a lot of candy and sweets during holidays so we like to add extra produce in ways that compliment the festivities.  At Easter my daughter and I like to make this cauliflower bunny as part of our centerpiece…add a little dip and it’s gone by the end of the evening!

We just cut up a head of cauliflower (we buy two and cut up both and serve the extra in a veggie tray), use extra long tooth picks and stick on end into a small 3 or 4 inch Styrofoam ball, then you add the rest of the features with whatever produce you like and have on hand!  When you’re guests are ready to dig in, they just pull out a piece of cauliflower and use the tooth pick to hold on as they dunk the cauliflower into their favorite dip. It’s cute, fun and healthy…you can’t go wrong with that combination!

Happy Healthy Eating
Kia

Kia Robertson is a mom and the creator of the Today I Ate A Rainbow kit; a tool that helps parents establish healthy habits by setting the goal of eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables every day. Kia is passionate about creating tools that help parents raise healthy kids!