Valentine’s Day is simply round the nook, which implies that its time to whip up some artistic treats for you and the children. While Valentine’s Day is all the time related to candy treats resembling chocolate and sweet, you possibly can create some yummy treats for the children whereas nonetheless retaining it on the wholesome aspect.

Valentine’s Day Kabobs

One approach you possibly can let the kids take pleasure in a particular Valentine’s Day deal with, with out shedding dietary worth is by making Fruit Kabobs with Yogurt Dip. You should buy purple or pink plastic skewers after which load them up with strawberries, cherries, watermelon and purple seedless grapes. You can use a tiny coronary heart formed cookie cutter for the berries and watermelon so as to add to the festive look. Low-fat vanilla yogurt works properly as a dip and strawberry yogurt can be excellent together with your theme.

Here’s one other nutritious deal with thought in your favorite little Valentines. For breakfast on this big day, make coronary heart formed muffins. You will not want a particular muffin pan both. Just fill your muffin liners with the batter after which press a chunk of tin foil, rolled to 1/2inch thick between the muffin liner and the pan to form the muffin liner right into a coronary heart.

Here’s one which’s a bit completely different:

Strawberry Roll-ups

You will want: 4 (6 inch) comfortable tortilla shells
Low-fat Strawberry cream cheese
4 T Strawberry jam

Spread the cream cheese evenly throughout every tortilla. Add 1 T of strawberry jam, unfold down the heart. Fold in the edges of the tortilla, about two inches. Now roll the tortilla up- jelly roll type. Slice into 2-inch bites for the excellent Valentines Day snack.

Mini- Fruit Smoothies for Valentine’s Day

Little ones take pleasure in fruit smoothies, so why not serve them on Valentine’s Day to point out your children how a lot you recognize them- in a nutritious, tasty approach. They’re really easy to make, you may end up making up a batch even when it isn’t a big day. Simply mix a mix of fruits in your blender, with just a little fruit juice added for liquid. You can serve them in embellished Dixie cups for little palms and embellish them with cocktail umbrellas for a particular contact.

In staying with the theme of the day, use principally purple fruits and juice. Strawberries and raspberries are glorious choices and you’ll combine in bananas with out altering the coloration scheme. Apple juice combines properly with the berries in your liquid.
Jell-O Hearts- Without the Sugar and Dyes

Little ones love Jell-O, however as a Mom you stress about all that sugar and synthetic coloring. Try this as an alternative for a nutritious possibility:

Boil 1 cup of water, add ½ cup of grape juice and 1 packet of unflavored gelatin. Stir till dissolved. After it cools barely, add one other ½ cup of grape juice. Pour into coronary heart formed molds and refrigerate till agency. If you do not have coronary heart formed molds, you possibly can pour the gelatin combination right into a baking pan after which lower out coronary heart shapes with a cookie cutter after it’s agency.

These treats will add some particular touches to Valentine’s Day for you and your children. You could make them as a shock or the kids can partake in the enjoyable!