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Frozen Fruit Crunchies Recipe: Healthy Dessert or Snack

Combine sweet fruit and yogurt with crunchy cereal and nuts, and you can't go wrong with this fun frozen snack. A healthy recipe to freeze for the kids--or anybody!
  • 1 med. banana, peeled and cut into 12 slicesfrozen-fruit-crunchies.jpg
  • 12 fresh strawberries
  • 1/4 cup Grape-Nuts cereal
  • 3 Tbsp. pecans, finely chopped and toasted
  • 1/3 cup reduced fat strawberry-banana yogurt

Combine the cereal nuggets and pecans; stir well, and set aside. Place the strawberries and banana slices on wooden picks; dip the fruit in the yogurt, coating halfway up the sides of the fruit pieces.

Roll the yogurt-coated portion of the strawberries and bananas in the cereal mixture. Place them on a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Cover and freeze for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until firm.

Per serving (six pieces): 121 calories, 4 g fat (sat. not published separately), 3.6 g fiber, 57 mg sodium.

Courtesy NutriFit Founding Director, Jackie Keller, www.NutriFitonline.com .

newsletter-graphic-free2Last updated and/or approved: March 2010. Originally appeared in Mar/Apr 2008 former print issue.


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