Snack Week: Keeping it simple

Elise (Hazel Rose, BY) shares some of her snack-time favorites. These are delicious, kid-pleasing and healthy as well as light on prep and clean-up. What's more, they both seem to fill the room with irresistible aromas that bring kids running to the table.

My favorite snack (which I now make every time):

Popcorn with brewer's yeast
Toasted sunflower seeds
Dried cranberries (renamed "blood raisins" on a vampireish day)
Apple pieces

For some reason this snack seems to have the right magic of "something for everyone," is all whole foods, doesn't have the allergy foods of the Back Yarders, and is easy on the wallet (as long as the cranberries are limited ). Please don't bring this snack to the Back Yard on the same week that I have snack! Because I will be bringing it, too :).

Another successful one:

Toast and Tea

Toast with jam and/or butter (I used that sprouted wheat bread)
Apple pieces
Toasted sunflower seeds or pecans
Tea (chamomile, mint, whatever ...)

I just toasted the bread as people came and quartered it, so if a lot came at once each got a quarter at first, or all the pieces if only one person was there. They seemed to like the idea of tea more than actually drinking it, but it did draw more people in. I asked each one what they wanted on toast as they came.

-- Elise (Hazel Rose, BY)