In this age of fast foods and eating on the
run, snacks have become a way of life.
Make your child snacks count. Raw vegetables like carrot
and celery sticks can be prepared ahead of time and
ready when you need them. Fruit juices and milk
drinks replaced sweetened soft drinks. Cheese, peanut butter
, meat salads, nuts or hard cooked eggs.
Make hardy snacks that provide the body with needed protein
. A message from your Virginia Cooperative Extension Service.