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Food, Family & Fun

A seasonal Guide to Healthy Eating
Commemorating 50 years of School Lunch

This Week's Recipe:

Frozen Fruit Pops

4 hours to freeze Serves: 12

It is a tasty, healthful and inexpensive way to take advantage of whatever fruit is seasonally available. Use single fruits or combine several for special "house blends."

Blender or Food Processor

1		ripe honeydew melon
2		ripe bananas
2		pints ripe strawberries
1/4		cup honey or sugar

1.	Help children peel, seed, and cut fruit into chunks. Put fruit and honey or sugar in blender in small batches and purée. (Pops will taste less sweet when they are frozen . )
2.	Ladle the purée into Popsicle molds and freeze for at least 4 hours or until frozen .
	purée can be frozen in Plastic ice cube trays. Poke Popsicle sticks into place when the pops are almost frozen so that the sticks will stay upright.

Nutrients per serving
1/2 cup

Calories	90	Saturated fat	.1 g	Iron	.3 mg
Protein	1 g	Cholesterol	0 mg	Calcium	14 mg
Carbohydrate	23 mg	Vitamin A	7 RE	Sodium	11 mg
Total Fat	.4 g	Vitamin C	55 mg	Dietary Fiber	2 g

Look at the ingredient label for the many types of grains used in cereals. Look at cereal box labels and compare them. Which cereals have the most fiber? Which have the least? Which cereals contain a lot of sugar?

Compare the nutrition facts label of the various snacks you eat. look at the serving size. How many cookies are in one serving? Look at the amount of fat and calories there are in one serving. Discuss which snacks make a better, more healthful choice.

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