Everyone knows that the vast majority of children love chocolate cakes in practically all their forms and all possible tastes, more or less full-bodied, with which they always want to drink a sweet drink such as soda or fruit juice. Here are some tips for providing a kid-friendly snack that's still balanced.
Pastry does not necessarily require spending an entire morning making your cake. There are a multitude of cake recipes that only require a few minutes of preparation before putting them in the oven for baking.
If your children swear by chocolate, there's no need to go into sophisticated specialties:yoghurt cake can be flavored with chocolate, just like madeleines or a cake that can also be marbled or embellished with sprinkles. of chocolate.
Also think about brownies, cookies or chocolate muffins:they require little preparation and cooking time and allow individual formats that are very practical in some cases.
If you are used to making homemade yogurts, consider flavoring them with chocolate at the rate of 8 level tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa for 1 liter of whole milk. Your kids will love it and you will too. They are a good alternative to fruit yoghurts or natural yoghurts.
But in addition to a cake and/or a yogurt, it is important to provide children, during snack time, with a vitamin intake that you will find in seasonal fruits.
Today, everyone has in mind the well-known recommendation of the National Health Nutrition Program that you should eat at least 5 fruits and vegetables a day, that is to say at least 5 servings, regardless of whether they are either fresh, frozen or canned.
At snack time, in addition to cake or bread, and dairy products, fruits are essential:they provide fiber, water, nutrients (vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, sugars, etc.), essential to the proper functioning of the body while playing a beneficial role in preventing the development of various pathologies such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and childhood obesity.
Fruit can be eaten fresh or juiced quickly if you have a juicer. And as the seasons are not all so prolific in fruits, when these are more difficult to find locally, this does not prevent you from consuming them in other forms:in compotes that you could have prepared in sterilized jars, fruit in syrup, pasteurized or even frozen fruit juice, etc.
Given the increase in childhood obesity, it is particularly important to pay attention to the nutritional value of children's diets:the more natural, unprocessed foods there are, the lower the risk of overweight. dread since the added fats and sugars will be much lower and above all of better quality for the body.
Fructose, the sugar contained in fruits, is a "good" sugar while the refined white sugar based on sucrose added in industrial pastries lacks everything that is good for the body, not to mention that it creates a addiction. Hence the importance of favoring natural fruits and fruit juices rather than sodas and other industrial biscuits.
