Fruity Snacks Your Children Will Enjoy By Christine Steendahl At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Looking for ways for your children and your whole family to eat more nutritiously for the New Year but you are not quite sure where to being? You can always start with healthy children treats that will please your children and your whole family.

A lot of people have the misconception that healthy foods are tasteless. Many people think that if it is inorganic and located in the specialty aisle of the grocery store that the product is cost prohibited. Nothing could be farther away from the truth.

Little ones love ice cream but fruit sorbet is healthier for them. Fruit sorbet is delicious and flavorful. You can create a wonderful sorbet sundae as a healthy and enjoyable Healthy Kids snack.

Don't be surprised if the whole family doesn't start scooping and topping the sorbet as quickly as the little ones.

Sorbet captures the essence of summer fruits and is virtually fat-free. Best of all this delicious dessert is simple to make. Sorbet contains no milk. Ice cream has air whipped into it, sorbet has almost none, which makes sorbet a dense and extremely flavorful snack.

Add any type of berries to a sorbet recipe to make it even more flavorful. Raspberries and strawberries make a yummy and healthy sorbet. Fruit Sorbet is packed with vitamins and fiber as well as a lovely sweet taste. When you tire of eating fruit fresh, try some of these healthy recipes. Many of the recipes work well with frozen berries too. Sorbet is an awesome way of adding a touch of summer to the winter months

Here's how to create your own fruit sorbet. Raspberry sorbet is a favorite

Ingredients:.

*2/3 cup of superfine sugar *1 cup of water *Purée 23 oz. raspberries with 1/4 cup lime juice.

Instructions:

1)Combine sugar and water in a medium sized saucepan 2)Stir slowly over low heat until sugar is dissolved 3)Bring mixture to a boil 4)Boil for 1 minute. 5)Remove from heat and cool completely

Make the fruit purée in a food processor or blender

Add the raspberry purée to the cooled sugar syrup and stir to combine.

Place the purée/sugar mixture into an ice-cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.

If you don't have an ice cream maker, here is an optional way to freeze the sorbet.

Place the purée/sugar syrup in a metal bowl or cake pan and freeze for 1 hour. Remove from freezer and beat with an electric mixer or whisk; return to the freezer. Repeat at hourly intervals 3 more times.

Fruit Sorbet Deserts For Kids

Ingredients

*2 pints of sorbet of your choice *2 ripe bananas, sliced *2 teaspoons lemon juice *1 pint strawberries sliced *1 package wafer cookies

1)Set out ice cream cups and the sorbet ice cream scoops 2)Toss the sliced bananas in lemon juice to keep them from getting brown 3)Set each topping in a separate bowl 4)Let the kids choose and mix their sundaes 5)Add real whipped cream for added fun.

This healthy snack for little ones does use sugar but the sugar can be reduced depending on the fruit's sugar content. This is a healthy way to enjoy fruit and a good way to introduce the children's taste buds to a healthy refreshing treat.

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