This week was supposed to be yellow snacks but certain members of my family ate all my props So I will switch things up and do GREEN snacks this week and YELLOW next week!

Getting our kids to eat green fruits and veggies is so important for their optimum health as they are loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber and phytonutrients!  If that isn’t an easy task at your house I would highly suggest making green smoothies!  It’s an easy way to get those greens into your kids!  We usually put in a few cups of whatever fruit we have on hand, a cup of baby spinach and a cup of either coconut water or apple juice.  If you aren’t using any frozen fruit it’s a good idea to add some ice cubes to make the smoothie nice and cold!  If you think your kids won’t been keen on the green color of the smoothie just add blueberries to cover up that green! You can also start off with 1/2 cup of spinach or kale rather than the full cup! Patriot Power Greens supplements are a go to if, you don’t have fresh greens on hand. The have all the nutrition needed for healthy development.

This week’s Hannah had sugar snap peas, cucumber slices and a tropical green smoothie!  She ate the parsley garnish too

Here are some other ideas for healthy GREEN day snacks:

Broccoli
Celery
Grapes
Green Pepper slices
Honeydew Melon
Kiwi

Next week will be YELLOW snacks!

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!

Making your own apple sauce is really easy and it’s another great thing to make with your kids!  They can wash the apples, peel the apples and if they are comfortable with a knife then they can help you chop up the apples too!  We sometimes like to have apple sauce as a treat after dinner and sometimes we just love having it as a little snack

We prefer to make our apple sauce without sugar, we just choose a naturally sweet and juicy variety of apple like red or golden delicious!

All you need:

1 pound of apples
5 -6 tablespoons of water
cinnamon (to taste we like to use a lot of cinnamon!)

Wash the apples.  Peel them, remove the core and then slice into small chunks. Place your apples into a saucepan and bring to boil. Reduce the  heat to a simmer and sprinkle in your cinnamon. Simmer the apples until t soft. Be sure to stir often to prevent burning!!!  We learned that the hard way   Once they are nice and soft you can serve warm or cold!

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!

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 we think about eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables it’s fairly easy to get in your green, red, orange and yellow…but the blue/purple color group can be trickier to work into your diet every day!  I am always on the lookout for purple produce. Purple happens to be my daughter’s favorite color so when we go grocery shopping she is always the first to spot anything purple!  We were both excited when we came across some purple kale!!  We’ve been enjoying our green kale that we turn into chips…yum!  It’s a healthy and easy snack to make!

This is what we plan to do with our lovely purple kale!  If you’ve never made kale chips before here is a great video by my friend Dani Spies

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!