{"id":12,"date":"2007-08-07T20:28:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.k2concepts.com\/~nutritio\/wordpress\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:18:09","slug":"classroom-snack-make-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/classroom-snack-make-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Classroom Snack Make-Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son is 16 months old and not officially in \u201cschool\u201d but he is in daycare. Weekly I see cake and cookies brought into daycare to celebrate a children\u2019s birthdays and holidays. This just makes me cringe and I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only parent with this concern.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong I truly believe and practice the idea that \u201call food fit\u201d into a healthy lifestyle but other snacks would be as equally appealing to kids if given a chance. Thus, in my attempt to reverse the cake, cookie and pop as the only acceptable snack trend I\u2019d like to share some classroom snack alternatives to bring into our children\u2019s classrooms to celebrate the many special occasions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Yummy Bugs<\/span><br \/>\n1 serving<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 round crackers<\/li>\n<li>1 Tbs. peanut butter<\/li>\n<li>6 pretzel sticks<\/li>\n<li>2 raisins or craisins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Spread peanut butter on one cracker.<br \/>\n2. Put the pretzel sticks on the peanut butter, 2 on each side to look like legs.<br \/>\n3. Put the raisins on one end to look like eyes.<br \/>\n4. Place the other cracker on top.<\/p>\n<p>Below are more snack ideas that are time savers because you may buy them at the grocery store premade and individually packaged.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dried fruit packs<\/li>\n<li>Pudding cups<\/li>\n<li>Applesauce<\/li>\n<li>Peanut butter crackers<\/li>\n<li>Nut mixes<\/li>\n<li>Cheese Sticks<\/li>\n<li>Trail Mix<\/li>\n<li>Popcorn<\/li>\n<li>100% fruit juice<\/li>\n<li>Whole grain teddy graham<\/li>\n<li>Gold fish cracker<\/li>\n<li>Fruit cups<\/li>\n<li>Go-Gurt portable yogurt \u2013 Freeze them for an extra special frozen treat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son is 16 months old and not officially in \u201cschool\u201d but he is in daycare. Weekly I see cake and cookies brought into daycare to celebrate a children\u2019s birthdays and holidays. This just makes me cringe and I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only parent with this concern. Don\u2019t get me wrong I truly believe and practice the idea that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/classroom-snack-make-over\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e","category-nutrition-2","cat-42-id","cat-780-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/fruit_kabob_picture.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}