5 Healthy Junk Food Snacks that Good For Your Kids

Kids love to eat snacks, especially junk food snacks. Even if you know that junk food is not good for your kids, they would still ask for it, and it would be hard to say no. If you wonder about how to make your kid happy while keeping them healthy, these are 5 healthy junk food snacks that you can easily make at home.

1. Skinny Pumpkin Spice Kettle Corn

When kids watch television, they won’t forget to bring a bowl of popcorn to keep their mouth busy. If you’re thinking to give microwave popcorn for your kids’ snack, you better think twice. Microwave popcorn is delicious and easy to make, but it contains many harmful chemicals like TBHQ, PFOA which may cause cancer. Well, not all popcorn is bad, you can try this healthy junk food recipe which is good for your kids.

What do you need?

• ½ cup unpopped popcorn
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• ¼ tsp ginger
• ½ tsp coconut oil
• 3 tbsp zero calorie sugar
• ½ tsp salt

How to make it?

First of all, mix the cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg in a small bowl. Next, put the coconut oil in a pan and heat it until all of them melt. Add the unpopped popcorn and heat it on medium-low heat. Shake the pan every 3 seconds to make sure the heat spread to all of the popcorn. Then, add some zero calorie sugar and salt, mix it together. Cook the popcorn until all of them pops. Finally, sprinkle spice mix to the popcorn and pour the popcorn into a bowl.

 

2. Hazelnut Dark Chocolate

For this next list of healthy junk food snacks, there is hazelnut dark chocolate. When your kids carve for some sweet midnight snacks, but you worry about them gaining weight, you can try this healthy cake recipe which is really yummy and easy to make.

What do you need?

• ¼ cup dark chocolate chunks
• 2 cup 1% chocolate milk
• 1 scoop chocolate powder
• 1 ½ tsp cocoa powder
• ½ cup hazelnuts
• ½ cup dates
• 1 cup low-fat yogurt
• 1/8 tsp salt

How to make it?

First, blend together hazelnuts, dates, salt, and cocoa powder until becoming a paste. Next, slowly add yogurt, chocolate powder, and chocolate milk. Finally, add the dark chocolate chunks and stop the blender.

3. Baked Chicken Nuggets

Moms believe that chicken nuggets are junk food to avoid for their children.  Now, with a little modification of ingredients, chicken nuggets can become healthy junk food that good for your kids.

What do you need?

• 16 oz skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut
• 6 tbsp breadcrumbs
• 2 tbsp panko
• 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
• 2 tsp olive oil
• Olive oil spray
• ½ tsp salt and black pepper

How to make it?

For the first step, spray the oven with olive oil spray. Then, toss the chicken with some olive oil, salt, and black pepper. In another bowl, mix some breadcrumbs, panko, parmesan cheese, and put the coated chicken in there. Finally, bake the chicken in the 425^oF oven for around 15 minutes.

 

4. BBQ Chicken Pizza

This healthy junk food is not only packed with flavor but also rich in antioxidant as well. If your kids love to eat chicken, but they hate high-nutrition tomato, then this BBQ Chicken Pizza will be a perfect snack for them.

What do you need?

• 285 grams thin pizza crust
• 2/3 cup plum tomato, diced
• 1/3 cup green onions, chopped
• ¾ tomato chutney
• ¾ cup shredded cheddar

How to make it?

First, bake the pizza crust in 450^oF oven for 3 minutes. Then, spread some tomato chutney over the crust. Next, add some chickens, tomatoes, green onions, and cheese. Finally, bake the pizza in 450^oF oven for 9 minutes and cut the pizza into 6 pieces.

5. Baked French Fries

Potatoes are healthy because it contains high fiber, B6, potassium, and more. So, why French Fries are considered as junk food? Well, because most restaurants reuse their frying oil when they make the French Fries. With this healthy junk food recipe, you can make delicious junk food which is not junk at all.

What do you need?

• Potatoes
• Baking sheets
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper

How to make it?

First of all, cut the potatoes into ½ inch thick sticks. Next, toss the potatoes with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Then, put the potatoes on a baking sheet. Finally, bake the potatoes in 450^oF oven for around 45 minutes.

If you look at the healthy junk food recipes above, you will realize that cooking healthy food for your kids is not hard at all. The key is you have to choose the rich nutrition ingredients and avoid using the frying method if you can. Now, are you ready to make fun healthy snacks for kids?

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