Here's a quick snack that we enjoy when we go out to the zoo or museum- rice cakes topped with nut butter and trail mix. Three ingredients and bam, you're good to go.
This recipe takes something as simple as a rice cake, which are low calorie while tasting light and crispy, and adds a little more protein to it so that this snack has more holdover potential. As you all know I love incorporating nuts and legumes into my kids snacks since both both have so many vitamins and minerals. Case in point, peanuts (a legume, though commonly mistaken as a nut) are a great source of manganese, tryptopan, niacin, magnesium, folate, phosphorous, copper, zinc and protein. That's a lot of minerals, and that doesn't include anti-oxidants like resveratrol.
I just want to caution about the rice cakes- the less processed the better. That means that you shouldn't get ones that are covered in caramel or that are really unusual flavors. I recommend getting either plain ones or purchasing flavored ones from a more natural brand so you don't get a lot of additives in with this healthy snack. My go to brand- Lundberg Family Farm rice cakes. I wish I could say we go for the brown rice variety, but we tend to favor their apple cinnamon flavor.
As always feel free to experiment with the butter- I really like peanut or almond butter but you can also try cashew and sunflower butter. Also feel free to try all sorts of fruit or nut toppings. This is for one rice cake, so just multiply by however many you need to make.
Rice cake toppers
Prep time: 2 minutes
Serves: 1
1 rice cake (plain or apple cinnamon work best)
2 tablespoons nut butter
Dried fruit or trail mix to sprinkle
Simply spread the peanut butter on the rice cake and sprinkle on the topping of your choice. Serve immediately or save at room temp in an air tight container.
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I just want to caution about the rice cakes- the less processed the better. That means that you shouldn't get ones that are covered in caramel or that are really unusual flavors. I recommend getting either plain ones or purchasing flavored ones from a more natural brand so you don't get a lot of additives in with this healthy snack. My go to brand- Lundberg Family Farm rice cakes. I wish I could say we go for the brown rice variety, but we tend to favor their apple cinnamon flavor.
As always feel free to experiment with the butter- I really like peanut or almond butter but you can also try cashew and sunflower butter. Also feel free to try all sorts of fruit or nut toppings. This is for one rice cake, so just multiply by however many you need to make.
Rice cake toppers
Prep time: 2 minutes
Serves: 1
1 rice cake (plain or apple cinnamon work best)
2 tablespoons nut butter
Dried fruit or trail mix to sprinkle
Simply spread the peanut butter on the rice cake and sprinkle on the topping of your choice. Serve immediately or save at room temp in an air tight container.
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