Fruity Snacks Your Children Will Enjoy
Posted: Saturday, December 06, 2008
by Christine Steendahl
Dine Without Whine
Searching for ways for your children and your entire family to eat healthier for the New Year but you are not quite sure where to being? You can always begin with healthy children snacks that will excite your children and your entire family.
A lot of people have the misconception that nutritious foods bland.
Many people believe that if it is inorganic and located in the specialty aisle of the grocery store that the product is expensive. Nothing could be farther away from the truth.
Fruit sorbet is delicious and flavorful. You can create a wonderful sorbet sundae as a healthy and enjoyable Healthy Kids snack.
Don't be alarmed if the entire family doesn't start scooping and topping the sorbet as fast as the children.
Sorbet captures the spirit of summer fruits and is literally fat-free. Best of all this delicious dessert is simple to make. Sorbet contains no milk. Ice cream has air whipped into it, sorbet has almost none, which makes sorbet a dense and extremely flavorful snack.
Add any type of berries to a sorbet recipe to make it even more flavorful. Raspberries and strawberries make a tasty and healthy sorbet. Fruit Sorbet is loaded with vitamins and fiber as well as a lovely sweet taste. When you get tired of eating fruit fresh, try some of these nutritious recipes.
Many of the recipes work well with frozen berries too. Sorbet is a fabulous way of adding a touch of summer to the winter months Here's how to prepare your own fruit sorbet. Raspberry sorbet is a favorite Ingredients:.
*2/3 cup of superfine sugar
*1 cup of water
*Pure 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 pure in a food processor or blender Add the raspberry pure to the cooled sugar syrup and stir to combine.
Place the pure/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 optional way to freeze the sorbet.
Place the pure/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 and 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
5)Add real whipped cream for added fun.
This nutritious snack for children does use sugar but the sugar can be decreased depending on the fruit's sugar content. This is a nutritious way to enjoy fruit and a good way to introduce the little ones' taste buds to a nutritious refreshing treat.
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