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Last Updated: Apr 28th, 2010 - 22:06:40 |
The Search for Healthy Kids' Snacks
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Aug 2, 2008, 17:16
Ideas for healthful kids' snacks.
Looking for hints for your little ones and your entire family to eat healthier foods but you are not quite sure how to begin? You can always begin with healthy kids treats that will please your little ones and your entire family family.
Many people have the notion that healthy foods have no taste. Some people think that if it is organic and in the specialty aisle of the grocery store that the product is cost prohibitive. This is not always the case.
Children enjoy ice cream but fruit sorbet is healthier for them. Fruit sorbet is yummy and tasty. You can prepare a wonderful sorbet sundae as a healthy and enjoyable healthy Kids treat.
Don't be alarmed if the entire family starts scooping and topping the sorbet as quickly as the kids.
Sorbet captures the essence of summer fruits and is almost completely fat-free. Best of all this yummy dessert is easy to make. Sorbet contains no milk. Ice cream has air whipped into it, sorbet has almost none, which makes sorbet a dense and incredibly flavorful product.
You may add any variety of berries to a sorbet recipe. Raspberries and strawberries make a tasty and healthy sorbet. Fruit Sorbet is packed with vitamins and fiber as well as a nice sweet taste. When you grow tired of eating fresh fruit, enjoy some of these healthy recipes. Most of the recipes work well with frozen berries too. Sorbet is a great way of adding a touch of summer to the winter months
Make Your Own Fruit Sorbet
Raspberry sorbet is a favorite
Ingredients:.
*2/3 cup of superfine sugar
*1 cup of water
*Purée 23 oz. raspberries with 1/4 cup lime juice.
Instructions:
1)Combine sugar and water in a medium sized saucepan
2)Stir slowly over low heat until sugar is dissolved.
3)Bring mixture to a boil
4)Boil for 1 minute.
5)Remove from heat and cool completely.
Make the fruit purée in a food processor or blender.
Add the raspberry purée to the cooled sugar syrup and stir to combine.
Place the purée/sugar mixture into an ice-cream maker and freeze according to
manufacturer's instructions.
If you don't have an ice cream maker, here is an alternative way to freeze the sorbet. Place the purée/sugar syrup in a metal bowl or cake pan and freeze for 1 hour. Remove from freezer and beat with an electric mixer or whisk; return to the freezer. Repeat at hourly intervals 3 more times.
Fruit Sorbet Deserts For Kids
Ingredients
2 pints of sorbet of your choice
2 ripe bananas, sliced
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 pint strawberries sliced
1 package wafer cookies
1)Set out ice cream cups, the sorbet ice cream scoops.
2)Toss the sliced bananas in lemon juice to keep them
from getting brown
3)Set each topping in a separate bowl
4) Let the kids choose and mix their sundaes
Add real whipped cream for added fun.
This healthy treat for little ones has sugar but the sugar can be reduced depending on the fruit's sugar content. This is a healthful way to enjoy fruit and a great way to introduce the taste buds to a healthful refreshing treat.
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