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BLOBS (for breakfast)

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup peanut butter, chunky or smooth
• 1/4 cup non-fat dry milk
• Honey to taste 
• 3 cups flake cereal

Directions:

Mix the peanut butter, dry milk, and honey in a large bowl with a wooden spoon. Crush the cereal in a large plastic bag (or crush 1 cup at a time in a sandwich-size plastic bag). Add the cereal to the peanut butter mixture. Stir with the spoon until combined. With wet hands, form about 1/4 cup of the mixture into a patty or squeeze to make an oblong blob. Place on a dinner plate. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. Store covered in the refrigerator.

Number of Servings: 10
Source: www.eatright.org

ANTS IN THE SAND

Ingredients:

• 2 Graham crackers
• Chocolate sprinkles

Directions:

Place graham crackers in a plastic sandwich bag and crush with a rolling pin. Add a few chocolate sprinkles to make ants. Seal the bag. Give them to the kids to take outside and eat or let them pour it into a small bowl and eat at the table-using their fingers, of course. Variations: Add raisins (call them beetles), red hots (ladybugs) or mini chocolate chips (spider eggs).

Source: Healthy Treats and Super Snacks for Kids, McNally, Jeff; August 1994, NTC Publishing Group

BANANAS

Ingredients:

• 2 bananas
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/2 cup wheat germ, coconut, crushed cereal, nuts, or granola

Directions:

Cut bananas into one-inch thick slices. Push a popsickle stick into a banana slice. Dip it in orange juice; then roll in one of the crunchy foods. (These many be frozen if desired to make banana pops.)

CAT'S EYES

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 8 Ritz crackers
• 1 banana; cut into 8 slices
• 8 raisins

Directions:

Spread peanut butter on crackers. Top peanut butter cracker with a slice of banana. Place a raisin in center of each banana to form a cat's eye. Repeat for all banana topped crackers.

Serves: 8
Source: Healthy Treats and Super Snacks for Kids, McNally, Jeff; August 1994, NTC Publishing Group

CATERPILLARS

Ingredients:

• 1/2 lettuce leaf
• 3 or 4 round snack crackers
• whipped cream cheese
• 2 raisins
• 2 chow mein noodles

Directions: Tear up a lettuce leaf and sprinkle on plate. Take 4 crackers and spread cream cheese on each cracker. Lay the crackers on top of the lettuce. Add raisin eyes. Add 2 chow mein noodles for feelers.

Source: www.nutritionexplorations.org/educators/lessons/chef-combo/chef-act-caterpillars.asp