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