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Step 1
Start with fruit and cover it. Chocolate covered strawberries are easy to make and fun for kids to eat. Bananas with peanut butter and a few chocolate chips get devoured in a hurry. Pineapple chunks drizzled with caramel sauce gets rave reviews. Be creative. A fruit base brings nutrition to a treat that normally just centers around sugar.
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Step 2
Beat the heat with summer-time fruit juice popsicles. Freeze fresh 100% fruit juice (no sugar added) into paper cups with popsicle sticks. Kids don't realize it's healthy, they just know it tastes good.
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Step 3
Smoothies take the cake. Smoothies are just enough like milkshakes to make the grade. Bulk up the smoothies with strawberries, bananas or peaches (frozen ones work well). Add in non-fat yogurt, low-fat milk, and even some malt powder. A little swirl of chocolate sauce makes them really feel it is a decadent dessert.
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Step 4
Jiggle it up with fruit cocktail mixed in to flavored gelatin cups. Kids love the wiggly dessert and get an extra serving of fruit in the process.
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Step 5
Put the freeze on fat by switching to frozen yogurt. Make it even healthier by topping with berries and crunchy granola.
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Step 6
Dried fruit offers a chewy alternative to sugar-laden sweets. Most children love the sweetness of dried fruit. Add it to granola with a few mini-chocolate chips for an dessert the whole family will love.
