Healthy Vegetable Snacks for Kids

Getting kids to eat their vegetables can be a challenge for many parents. Serving vegetables in a new way may make them more appealing to kids. Include your children making healthy vegetable snacks; their participation may encourage them to eat more vegetables.

Vegetables & Hummus

Cold Vegetable Pizza

• Use refrigerated crescent rolls as the crust for a cold vegetable pizza. Press the dough together to make one large pizza, or flatten the individual crescent rolls into different shapes. Bake at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes. Spread the vegetable dip of your choice over the crust. Let your child top the pizza with sliced vegetables, olives and cheese. Have fun making faces or flowers with the vegetables. Chill the pizza for an hour before serving.

Vegetable Sculptures

• Encourage your kids to play with their food by building vegetable sculptures. Cut up a variety of vegetables. Give your child peanut butter, cream cheese or hummus as "glue" to hold the vegetables together. Challenge them to create people or buildings. After the fun is over, disassemble the sculptures and eat the vegetables.

Vegetable Roll Ups

• Use tortillas to make vegetable filled roll ups. Spread hummus or cream cheese seasoned with dill on a tortilla. Arrange sliced vegetables all over the tortilla. Start at one side and roll up the tortilla. Leave the tortilla whole, or slice it into bite-sized pieces.

Muffins

• To simply add more vegetables to you child's diet, add shredded or pureed vegetables to your favorite muffin batter. Shredded carrots and zucchini blend well with many muffin recipes; so do cooked and pureed squash or pumpkin.