Top 3 snacks for children that take no more than 5 minutes to prepare. Exclusive

Healthy and nutritious snacks are what a child who has already turned one needs. According to international standards, their number should be between 1 and 3.

Victoria Stelmakh, founder of the largest Ukrainian-language Facebook group on feeding and baby food expert, tells FoodOboz about what foods can be chosen and combined with each other for a snack depending on the age category of the child.

Top 3 quick, tasty, healthy, and nutritious snacks for kids

Yogurt or cottage cheese (curd) with fruit

Choose a good yogurt or cottage cheese for your child, with no additives, no added sugar, and natural.

Add fruit to it as you wish or as your child wishes.

For more benefits and calories, add nut paste, coconut paste or flakes, chia seeds, or just grated nuts to the yogurt.

Microwave cheese omelette

The world's fastest omelet that cooks almost instantly.

Ingredients:

• chicken egg - 1 pc
• cream - 20 g
• hard grated cheese - 50 g
• a little chopped dill or spinach
• a pinch of sesame seeds.

How to prepare:

Add all ingredients to a glass, and mix well with a fork. Fill 1 or 2 silicone muffin tins, not to the brim. Put them in the microwave. But there is an important point here: microwave ovens are very different in power. For some, it will take 30 seconds, and for others, 2 minutes.

Pay attention to the readiness of the egg: for children under 5 years old, it is 100 percent.

The omelet is very tender and airy and goes well with Greek or thick white yogurt.

Nutritious toast for a child

There are many variations on this theme. The main thing here is the basis – for a child, it is better to choose whole-grain bread. If it is filled with raisins, nuts, flax, or sesame seeds, it will be ideal. In this case, all you need to do is spread butter on the toast and add hard cheese. The child will get more than 2 food groups for a snack.

You can also spread the toast with cream cheese and grate nuts on top or use a natural nut paste. You can also serve the toast with avocado and sesame seeds, or even better, make guacamole (mash an avocado, chop a tomato, add olive oil and a couple drops of lemon).

Your imagination can help you ensure that your child gets healthy food, even for a snack.

I would like to remind you that according to all international recommendations, a snack for both children and adults should consist of at least two food groups.

Here's a cheat sheet to help you understand how to make your child's food as healthy as possible.