Two Healthy Snacks for You and Your Kids

Whether you’re juggling family activities, work requirements or social commitments, keep on hand these quick recipe ideas to help you stay lean and healthy! They are quick and easy to prepare and most of all, budget-friendly.

Navel Oranges


Ingredients


4 navel oranges

• • 2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Directions

With a sharp knife, remove rind and white pith from oranges. Cut each into 5 or 6 slices and arrange on 4 plates. Whisk together orange juice and lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. Spoon over the orange slices.

Sesame Carrots

Ingredients

• 2 cups baby carrots
• 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
• Pinch of dried thyme
• Pinch of kosher salt
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Directions

Toss carrots with sesame seeds, thyme and kosher salt in a small bowl.

Pizza from Cheap Mushrooms

Mushrooms are healthy, don't you know that? So even if you buy them cheap, you get the most health benefits from them. A lot of people use mushrooms as topping to pizza and make a wonderful mushroom snack that kids enjoy.


It's definitely simple, I did it! Cut your mushrooms into bite sizes and saute lightly in butter and your favorite saute ingredients. Strip several branches of thyme leaves and crush them a bit with the back of a knife.
Roll out a thick crust (pizza dough) and brush it with melted butter and vegetable oil, sprinkle it with thyme, then mushrooms then with crumbled cheese. Bake in a 450 degree preheated oven until the crust and cheese are brown. Serve it along with refreshing fruit drink when the kids when kids are watching tv.

If you love pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella and mushrooms, enjoy this recipe from Anna Maria. She'll love it to know you and I are enjoying her wonderful pizza idea.