Healthy Holiday Foods for Kids Ideas

Healthy holiday foods for kids? Holiday foods are filled with unwanted carbs and sugar and everyone, especially kids, feels very hyperactive, yet bloated after the season – making kids slow down a little bit on some activities. But you don’t need to sacrifice the joyful tradition of eating delicious sweets and stuff. Below are some holidays foods that will make every kid enjoy eating without the boring feels.

Healthy Holiday Foods for Kids

Fruit Ideas | Healthy Holiday Foods for Kids

Mandarin oranges, banana and pears / apple are some of the fruits that most kids love for the reason that they are easy to peel and bite. Below are some ideas you can do on fruits:

Fruits Christmas tree

Try making edible Christmas tree made out of fruits so that it will get your kid’s attention. You can use apples, strawberries, oranges, and more. You can also cut watermelon into triangle making them look like trees. Use some yogurt or melted white chocolate for a design so it will really look like Christmas trees.

Include fruits on the desserts served

Instead of having chocolate cakes with candies on top of it, why not use fruits instead? Chocolate plus fruits are such a great match for dessert. You can put fruits in ice creams and yogurts as well!

Healthy Holiday Foods for Kids

Pasta Ideas

Kids love eating Spaghetti but you don’t need to always offer them the traditional ones, try checking these ideas for a better and healthy alternatives.

Squash pasta

Ever heard of spaghetti squash? Yes, it’s a pasta made out of squash. By scraping the squash, using a fork, you can have a spaghetti-like strands. What’s good in here is that you can just cook it in the oven.

Veggie pasta

Skip the red based ones and try preparing olive oil based pasta while having vegetables on it instead of meat. Some vegetables used for oil based pastas are broccoli, sun-dried tomato, spinach, avocadoes, and more. If your little kid doesn’t enjoy those, you can still go back to tomato based ones with incorporating vegetables as well. There are a lot of healthy vegetarian pasta recipe available on the Web.

Skip the meat with tofu

You can just simply use it on your traditional Italian pasta as an alternative to meat as they are rich in calcium and protein.

Healthy Holiday Foods for Kids

Snack Ideas | Healthy Holiday Foods for Kids

Healthy Cookies

Healthy cookies or have a round shaped crackers looks like Santa face buy putting cheese (for the beard), sun-dried tomato (for the Santa hat) and raisins (for the eyes).

Egg Snowman

Make eggs look exciting by arranging it as a snowman.

Start giving your kids healthy foods as early as this time. So start showing them that holidays are not meant to be celebrated with only fatty and sugary foods. It is really a nice way to end the year and to start another new year healthy.