I love Valentines Day but the kids seem to get candy everywhere! Here's what I made to encourage healthy snacking during this candy-crazed week.
These are great for a class party or just to have on hand for snacking. My girls loved the tiny hearts. It was a great chance to have a chat about loving our bodies and taking care of them with good foods. Peppers are expensive, so I used the leftover scraps for fajitas. yum!
Pepper Heart SnacksIngredients:
Red and Yellow Bell Peppers
Light Ranch veggie dip
Small heart cutter (we used a pastry cutter)
Oven Mitt or glove
Directions:
Cut off the top and bottom of pepper, remove center and unroll. Use small cutter to make heart shapes. If you're looking for a small heart cutter, Williams Sonoma used to make a great set of tiny pastry cutters. It's discontinued, but I found a similar one here.
Why the oven glove? After the first pepper, the heel of my hand hurt from pushing down. So, I put on on a oven glove and it worked like a charm! Save scraps for fajitas or pasta salad.
Serve on a tray with light ranch veggie dip. Enjoy!
8 comments:
These are too cute!!! They would be such a great snack for a party too. Love this idea! :)
Adorable! We love peppers :D I buy them when they go ridiculously cheap and then freeze them, they thaw perfectly!
Very cute Mandy and such a nice change from candy. I unlike you made a no no and made pb chocolate hearts. LOL but they are so good.
Those hearts are so cute. Last year I made watermelon hearts and oranges as the arrows which I found on the family fun website. I love it when you find the healthy and cute combo.
http://kat-mygirlsandme.blogspot.com/2009/01/healthy-valentine-treats.html
What a cute idea! I got my mini pastry cutters from Pampered Chef, but it was a few years ago, so I doubt they're still available. I don't use them nearly often enough, so I may put them to use for V-day!
Wonderful idea!
Healthy Valentines...CREATIVE!
You are such a good mom! Is Dan still anti Valentine's ? Brian tried to say :I'm going to be like Dan this year?" haha
DeAnn, yes, Dan is still anti-Valentines day. That big scrooge. Don't tell anyone but we're going out tonight to dinner.:)
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