Children like snacks, but, in most cases, packaged products are excessively rich in simple sugars and bad quality fats . For these reasons, if a snack can sometimes be granted, in the context of healthy eating it should not become the rule. So let's see some natural and do-it-yourself alternatives for our children's snacks.

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DIY natural snacks for home consumption

At home, the alternatives for DIY natural snacks are many, let's see some:

• Fruit salad. To make the fruit salad made with fresh seasonal fruit more tempting and inviting, you can add a few drops of dark chocolate and / or one or two tablespoons of vanilla yogurt. Every so often, even a spoonful of fresh cream can be a tasty idea to enrich a fruit salad.
• Skewers of fresh fruit . Children live on suggestions; a colorful and fragrant skewer will whet the appetite of even the most difficult child.
• Fruit with dark chocolate. Dark chocolate, if you don't overdo it with quantities, is an excellent food. Try to offer bits of fruit dipped in dark chocolate for a snack, children will love it for sure.
• Do-it-yourself natural snacks, for example bars made with oats, dried fruit and honey.
• DIY biscuits and cakes.
• DIY cakes and pies.

DIY natural snacks to take to school

When we talk about DIY natural snacks to take to school, the discussion becomes a little more complex, because the need to offer the child something healthy and nutritious is associated with that of practicality. Let's see some ideas:

• Mixed oilseeds, already shelled.
• Dried fruit (figs, apricots, plums).
• Some types of fresh fruit, those of simple maintenance: banana, strawberries, apricots, but also mandarins and clementines, perhaps already peeled, reduced to segments and stored in a small plastic container.
• DIY natural snacks .
• Homemade cookies .
• DIY tarts .
• White pizza made from spelled or kamut flour, sweet or savory.
• A small sandwich, stuffed with natural jam.

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DIY natural snack recipes

Here, as an example, two do-it-yourself natural snacks, which can be prepared simply at home. The possibilities are endless, you just need to do some tests and follow the taste of your children.

Citrus fruit biscuits

Ingredients : 300 grams of kamut flour, two tablespoons of citrus fruit honey, three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, the grated rind of an untreated orange, the grated rind of an untreated lemon, a pinch of salt, half teaspoon of baking soda, a large whole egg.

Procedure . Put all the ingredients on a pastry board, with the exception of oil, egg and honey. Mix the ingredients with your hands and make it like a volcano, with a crater in the center, where the honey will be put first and then egg and oil. Knead starting from the center, incorporating the other ingredients. The procedure is the same as that used for classic shortcrust pastry. If the dough is hard or you can't get the classic dough ball, add the juice of half an orange.

Once you have a dough ball, let it rest in the fridge for about half an hour, roll it out with a rolling pin and cut the biscuits with the molds. Bake at 180 degrees for about 7/8 minutes.

Sweet pizzas

Ingredients. 300 grams of spelled flour, 200 grams of kamut flour, half a cube of brewer's yeast, a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, raisins (optional), wholemeal cane sugar, warm water.

Method. Melt the yeast in half a glass of warm water to which you have added a teaspoon of sugar. Put the two flours on the pastry board, mix them and then add all the other ingredients, with the exception of sugar and raisins. Get a ball of dough and let it rise for three or four hours. Longer leavening times allow us to use less yeast. When the dough has risen, if your children like raisins, add a handful, previously soaked in water, and knead again. Otherwise, form the pizzas directly, which will then have to be "seasoned" with a sprinkling of wholemeal cane sugar and baked in the oven at 180 degrees for about 10 minutes.