Looking for healthy snack options for your kids this summer? Melissa Bradley, RD, LD from Hy-Vee Savage has two kid-friendly recipes in this week's KARE in the Kitchen with Alicia Lewis and Sven Sundgaard.
Snails & Caterpillars
Snails & Caterpillars
All you need:
Snails
- Celery stalks
- Peanut butter, room temp
- Sliced apple
- Cashews
- Candy eyeballs
- Sliced orange
- Sliced kiwi
- Sliced cucumber
- Sliced tomato
Caterpillars
- Celery stalks
- Cream cheese, at room temperature
- Grapes
- Blueberries
- Candy eyes
- Celery or radish matchsticks
- Grape tomatoes
All you do:
1. Make the Snails: Fill celery stalks with peanut butter and top with an apple slice shell and a cashew head. Use peanut butter or cream cheese to glue on candy eyes.
2. Make the Caterpillars: Fill celery stalks with cream cheese and top with grapes or blueberries, for the body and head. Use peanut butter or cream cheese to glue on candy eyes and celery or radish matchstick for antennae.
Confetti Apple Donuts
Serves 4
Confetti Apple Donuts
Serves 4
All you need:
- 1 apple
- 1/4 cup nut butter
- 1/4 cup granola
- 2 tbsp unsweetened shredded coconut
- 2 tbsp mini chocolate chips
All you do:
1. Core apple and slice into 4 rounds.
2. Spread with nut butter and top with granola, coconut and mini chocolate chips.