Healthy Vegetable and Dessert Fruit Kabobs Even Your Kids Will Love to Eat

I like to eat kabobs. It's the variety of fruits and vegetables all on one stick that I enjoy. Kabobs are a good way to get some of the servings of fruit and vegetables the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says you should eat every day. Kids are often another story. They're notorious for not liking to eat their vegetables, and sometimes fruit. Unless you make them fun to eat, that is. Read this instructive article and find out how to make healthy vegetable and dessert fruit kabobs even your kids will love to eat!

Materials and Ingredients You'll Need to Make Kabobs

Bowls

Spoons

Kabob sticks - You can use long sucker sticks instead. They're safer for kids than regular bamboo skewers. Find them at your local baking supply store or at a craft store.

Fruit - Examples include apples, grapes, bananas, strawberries, peaches, melon, pitted cherries, pineapple, oranges and apricots.

Vegetables - Examples include broccoli, cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, pitted black and green olives, avocado and cucumbers.

Choose your kids' favorite fruits and vegetables. Or, add into the selection some tasty choices you want them to try. Healthy kabobs are a great way to introduce your kids to different fruit and vegetables they've never tasted, or ones they haven't liked in the past.

Vegetable and Fruit Dips

Instructions to Make Healthy Kabobs

1. Wash the fruit and the vegetables, and peel, core and deseed, if applicable. Slice up easy edibles such as bananas, zucchini and cucumbers. Cut up apples, peaches, bell peppers, avocado and the like into 2 inch squares. Trim down broccoli and cauliflower so they're bite-size "trees". Oranges can simply be separated into slices to slide onto kabob sticks. Green and black olives, strawberries, cherry tomatoes, et cetera, can be used in healthy vegetable and dessert fruit kabobs whole.

2. Place the prepared fruit and vegetables into separate bowls.

3. Prepare the dips in bowls and set them beside the fruit and vegetables. Place a spoon in each dip. For the vegetable kabobs, you can use Ranch dressing or store-bought veggie dip. You can also melt cheese to make a healthy fondue-like dip.

For the dessert fruit kabobs, you can use plain yogurt. Low-fat sour cream is good on vegetables and dessert fruit kabobs alike.

4. Let your kids pick and choose vegetables and fruits, and slide their choices on a kabob stick. Add a tasty dip, and let them enjoy!

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Kassidy Emmerson