One of the most frequent email requests I receive is how and what to feed children as snacks.
One thing is for sure, the selection of snacks that pass muster even at the health food store is slim! Rancid vegetable oils like canola or soy along with other unhealthy additives such as vital wheat gluten are frequently used even if most of the ingredients are organic.
I re-read the ingredients on a bag of “natural” ginger snaps at the store recently that I had purchased in the past only to discover with dismay that the ingredients had changed and now contained soy flour!
“Another one bites the dust!” I thought to myself. Yet another snack added to my no-buy list!
In this video, I show you some of the favorite snacks I make in my own home. Limiting grains to a moderate level as practiced by Traditional Cultures is a good goal to strive for when making snacks – overeating of grains even if homemade and carefully prepared to eliminate anti-nutrients can bring on weight issues in a hurry and encourage lack of variety in your family’s diet.
Never heard of “properly preparing” grains before? Check out the linked article to find out how.
This video was filmed for the Weston A. Price Foundation as part of the 12-part Beginner Series to Traditional Cooking I’ve been working on over the past few months. I still have 3 more to post, so stay tuned for more to come!
For a full transcript of this video in any language, click here.
This video is GREAT Sarah! I’m loving your series and referring many people to them.
However HELP!!! My 6 year old is in a grade 1 class with SAD kids. And a TON of violent food allergies. She is naturally a WAPF baby and never sick, allergic to nothing. However- I can’t send her to school with ANY nuts, diary or eggs!!! I bring her home for lunches as often as possible for real food… but are there any suggestions out there for REAL FOOD that will be filling and sustaining so she can actually learn something? She is getting bored of hummus, pepitas, coconut oil and carob drops, sourdough and chicken sandwiches (with NO BUTTER- even I think thats gross) etc etc.. I am looking in particular for protein and FAT ideas. I am giving her usually eggs with BUTTAH and kefir cream smoothies in the mornings… my small child has a very healthy appetite and she is home at 3pm just starving after having fruit, veg and hummus for lunch. Not to mention, bored silly after 2 months.
Oh and we live in Canada where most fun things are either not available or hard to find.
Any ideas out there… other then let the majority eat real food and send the minority with allergies home. Apparently, that is a politically incorrect idea. SOY was the teachers suggestion as a solution on the note sent home to us parents. You can imagine my thoughts about that. Poor kids. Poor teacher!
Homemade mayo made with coconut oil or ghee is a good sub for butter if necessary. Sunflower butter or tahini is a good one too as a sub for nutbutters … my child couldn’t bring any nutbutter to school either.
Very difficult situation for you no doubt!!!
awersome post i love you for this post
1. Do you use unsweetened cranberries?
2. What is “brown” ginger. I can’t find that description anywhere.
Thanks,
Mary
Yes, unsweetened cranberries. I say ground ginger not brown ginger.
Where do you find unsweetened cranberries? Are they only dehydrated wtihout anything else in them? Even in the health food grocery here, they are sweetened with sugar but organic. I love them sooo much but would love a non sweetened cranberry.
I get them at the healthfood store. They have a little sunflower oil added but that’s all.
The brochure from Weston A. Price Foundation you talk about in the video is out of stock until January. 🙁 Boo, I hope I remember to order one in January.
This was extremely helpful, as the most common question in my house is, “Is it snack time yet?” Thanks!
I just want to attest to the deliciousness of the homemade raw butter fudge you mentioned in this video! It is awesome. My son has a friend who asks for it every time he comes over! Thanks for the other great ideas 🙂
Wonderful! My kids get so excited whenever I make the raw butter fudge too! It is the best snack after school as they are usually so ravenous and it stabilizes their blood sugar very fast and then they don’t get grumpy.
That doesn’t include editing time.
My problem is that I can’t “see” them. I have a goofy little icon that won’t let me click on it. 😛
Thanks Paul. Would you believe it takes about 20 hours to pull off one of these?
You have the best videos, Ms Healthy Home Economist.
…or for those of us whose computers no longer output sound, thanks to a too smart toddler : lol thanks!