Snacks and Treats
Snacks
- Fresh fruit
- Pieces of salad
- Raw vegetables
- Wholemeal toast soldiers
- Ryvita
- Pitta breads
- Rice cakes
- Oat biscuits
- Various cheeses
- Milk
- Hummus
- Tinned pieces of fish
- Hard-boiled eggs, occasionally with a small amount of mayonnaise
- Salted popcorn
- Cold chicken
- Fruit smoothies
- Milk smoothies
- Water
Treats
- Fresh fruit
- Ice cream made from pureed fruit
- Ice cream made from orange juice and a bit of cream
- Strawberry tips dipped in melted milk chocolate
- Frozen pieces of orange
What Not to Give Children
Added sugars
- Found in many drinks
- Milk chocolate
- Breakfast cereals with artificial sweeteners
- Cereal bars (Unless natural)
- Margarines
- Spreads
- So called ‘fruit’ yoghurt with colour and sweetener
- Concentrated fruit juices
- Anything with glucose and with little honey and molasses
Chemical additives
- Namely colourings like sodium benzoate and MSG
- Refined carbohydrates
- White flour goods
- White bread
- White pasta
- White rice
- Many cereals
- White rice
- Instant mashed potato
Hydrogenated fat
- Most margarines
- Bakery goods which have been commercially prepared
- Fried food
- Fast food
- Crisps
Fatty meat
- Stimulants
- C affeine in cola, coffee and tea
- Coffee and tea destroy Vitamin B and changes your mood
- Cola drinks may block the body’s ability to absorb zinc
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