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Provide Nutritious Snacks for After-School Study Sessions

Chances are, the refrigerator is your middle schooler’s first stop upon walking through the door after school.

It’s usually several hours between the time middle schoolers eat lunch and the time they arrive home. They typically need a hearty, healthy snack before they can settle down to study and do homework.

That doesn’t mean that you must wait in the kitchen to fix them a mini-meal. Instead, hand your child this list of recipes for nutritious snacks that middle schoolers can make himself:

  • Fruit or veggies on a stick. Thread pieces of fruit or raw vegetables onto a skewer. If using apples, bananas or pears, dip in orange juice first. It keeps them from turning brown.
  • Frozen bananas. Crush a cup of breakfast cereal. Dunk a peeled banana in yogurt, and then dip it into the cereal. Cover the whole banana. Place it on a piece of waxed paper and freeze.
  • Shakes. For a fruit shake, mix ½ cup fruit yogurt and ½ cup fruit juice. For a pudding shake, mix ½ cup milk with three tablespoons of instant pudding.
  • Put the ingredients into a container with a tight lid. Shake hard and pour into a glass.
  • Ants on a log. To make this old favorite, fill a half of a stalk of celery with peanut butter or cream cheese. Top the spread with a line of raisins.

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