At home

• Help your Girl Scout follow a recipe to make a healthy snack.
• Get your Girl Scout’s input when making plans for snacks and meals. 

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Snack

Discussion

Snack Discussion

While enjoying snack, here are some things for girls to talk about:

Have you ever made snack for yourself? What did you make?

Where does the food you eat come from?

How can you tell if a snack is healthy for you?

What can you do to stay safe in the kitchen?

Do you prefer sweet snacks or salty ones?

Does your family eat any special foods or snacks during holidays or celebrations?

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Snack

Game (5 min)

Name Game

In a circle, have the first girl state her name and a favorite afterschool snack that starts with the first letter of her name. For example, my name is Amy and I like apples as an afterschool. snack. The second girl repeats what the first girl said and then adds her own name and snack. Continue around the circle and see if girls can remember all the preceding names and snacks.

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Snack 1

Game (15 min)

Food Pairings

Peanut butter and jelly

Salt and pepper

Pancakes and syrup

Spaghetti and meatballs

Veggies and dip

Chips and salsa

Chocolate, graham crackers and marshmallows

1. Tape one food pairing card to each girl’s back.

2. Ask girls to figure out what food they have on their back by asking each other “yes or no” questions.

E.g. Do I eat my food with my hands? Is my food purple? Is my food sweet? Is my food salty? Am I jelly?

3. Once girls know their food items, they should walk around and look for the food item that goes well with their own.

E.g. “Jelly” looks for “peanut butter”

4. Once girls have found their partner, they should greet one another with the Girl Scout handshake and share about their favorite snack.

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Write out food pairings onto note cards, one food item per card

Tape

Prepare sample question cards

Snack 1

Game (15 min)

Meal Mash Up

Brownie: Snack Badge Step 1 Jump into the world of snacks

1. Review My Plate guidelines

2. Break into groups of 3 or 4 (depending on number of parent helper)

2. Pass out one set of food items to each team.

3. Tell each team to put together a healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner from the food items they have.

3. Ask each team to share their favorite meal from the ones they made with the group.

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Modified from: Girl Scouts River Valleys

Print and cut out the Meal Mash Up food items or write food items on note cards (one set per small group of 3–5 girls

Meal Mash Up.pdf

Snack 1

Brownie: Snack Badge Step 2 - Make a savory snack

Red Pepper Dip

1/4 cup Plain Greek Yogurt

1 Tablespoon roasted red peppers, pureed

1/4 teaspoon fresh lemon juice

salt to taste

PREPARATION

1) Put peppers in food processor or blender, blending until coarsely chopped. Do ahead.

2) Add yogurt, lemon juice, and salt and blend until combined, but not completely smooth.

3) Serve with carrots for dipping

Maple Spice Dip

1/2 c Plain Greek Yogurt

2  Tablespoon maple syrup

A sprinkle of ground cinnamon

A sprinkle o teaspoon ground nutmeg

A sprinkle o ground cloves

PREPARATION

1) In a small bowl combine yogurt, maple syrup, cinnamon, the nutmeg, and cloves.

2) Serve dip with apple wedges.

Recipes for each girl to take home

yogurt

blended red peppers

lemon juice

salt

maple syrup

cinnamon

nutmeg

cloves

baby carrots

cut up apples

bowls

paper bowls

Craft

Ants on a Log

Spread peanut butter on celery and decorate with raisins on top. Cream cheese or soft yellow cheese may substitute for peanut butter. Rye Crisp or other whole grain crackers can substitute for celery.  

Snack 2

HONEY MUSTARD YOGURT DIP

Make about 1 cup Goes great with veggies

INGREDIENTS:

½ cup plain yogurt 2 tablespoons honey

½ cup milk 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped fine

2 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 tablespoon fresh chives, chopped fine

2 tablespoons honey mustard 1 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS:

In a small mixing bowl, whisk together all ingredients until smooth and creamy.

Taste the mixture, and add more salt if you’d like it saltier or honey if you’d like it sweeter. Do NOT put your tasting spoon back into your dip. 

FRESH GUACOMOLE Make about 3 cups

*Be careful when handling fresh jalapenos! They can irritate your skin AND YOUR EYES. You might want to wear plastic or latex gloves (like the kind used for washing dishes) when you touch jalapenos. If you do touch them with bare hands, wash your hands well before touching your eyes.

INGREDIENTS:

6 – 8 avocados, ripe and soft but not mushy 1 jalapeno*

½ cup cilantro leaves, chopped 1 teaspoon cumin powder

½ cup tomatoes, chopped fine Salt

½ cup white onions, chopped fine 5 – 6 limes, halved

DIRECTIONS:

1. Peel and pit avocados. In a large mixing bowl, mash avocados one by one with a large fork until fairly smooth.

2. Add cilantro, tomatoes, white onions, jalapeno, cumin, and a few pinches of salt. Mash and mix all ingredients. *Take out the jalapeno seeds if you don’t like it hot!

3. Squeeze the limes into the guacamole one by one, mixing after each one.

4. Taste, and add salt pinch by pinch until it’s as salty as you like it. You will probably need about 3 teaspoons all together. Do NOTEVER put your tasting spoon back into your dip or use your finger more than once to taste.

Craft Food (15 minutes)

Food Sculptures

1. Using the fruits and veggies, have girls make a funny face, cute animal or crazy shape on their plates.

2. Have girls share their creations with a friend and enjoy!

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Assorted, washed and cut fresh fruits and vegetables

Paper plates napkins

Sink and soap to wash hands or hand sanitizer

Snack 2

Craft (15 min)

Sweet Graham Squares—A New Kind of S’ More

Brownie: Snack Badge Step 3 - Make a sweet snack

graham crackers

8 oz Cream cheese

1 c. powdered sugar

various toppings like chocolate chips, dried fruit, marshmallows

Rules are:

1) Only 5 toppings per graham cracker square

2) Make 3 and then when everyone is finished, you can go back for more

Before the meeting, mix the cream cheese and sugar in a mixture.

1. Wash hands and discuss proper hygiene during food preparation.

2. Distribute paper plates and ask girls to write their names on the plates.

3. Instruct girls to put the cream cheese spread on their graham crackers.

4. Next, ask them to add their desired toppings.

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graham crackers

a spread such as Nutella or almond butter

various toppings like bananas, apple slices, nuts, chocolate chips, dried fruit, candy bits,

marshmallows

Small paper plates

Napkins

Spoons (for spread and toppings)

Markers

Snack 3

Craft

Walking Salad

• Cut the top off an apple and core it, leaving the bottom skin over the hole.

• Scoop out the pulp of apple and chop. o Mix with peanut butter (cottage cheese or cream cheese may substitute) raisins, nuts and granola cereal

• Stuff mixture back into apple shell and replace top. 

Snack 4

Craft (15 min)

Trail Mix

1. Explain to girls that a trail mix snack is easily transportable to school or afterschool activities, does not need to be refrigerated and can be adjusted to suit each person’s tastes.

2. To begin, direct girls to wash their hands.

3. Discuss the benefits of the various ingredients you’ve supplied. For example, the nuts/seeds provide the protein for energy. Dried fruit provides essential vitamins and fiber.

4. Place ingredients at different stations throughout the room. Encourage girls to visit each station and include at least one source of protein and one dried fruit in the plastic zip bag. If there are ingredients

they haven’t tried before, encourage them to add a little so that they may try something new. Assure them that they do not have to finish that part of the trail mix if they do not like it.

5. Help girls securely close the plastic zip bag before they gently shake it to mix it around. Have them take the trail mix home to be used for a snack at home, on the go or at school.

Variation: Trail Mix Necklace

For more fun, make the trail mix into jewelry. Girls can string items together for a yummy energy necklace. Try pretzels or licorice with this option.

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Quart-size plastic zip bags (one per girl).

Spoons or plastic cups (one for each ingredient).

Permanent marker to label bag with girls’ names.

Trail mix food items, which could include:

o Popped popcorn, dry cereal and/or granola.

o Dried fruit (raisins, cranberries, apricots, etc.).

o Protein sources (almonds, peanuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds etc.).

o Candy bits (M&Ms, chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, etc.)

Snack 4

Craft

G.O.R.P. “Good Old Raisins & Peanuts”

Yield 12 cups

Combine:

• 2 cups peanuts

• 2 cups raisins

• 2 cups chopped apricots or other dried fruit

• 2 cups M&M’s

• 4 cups bite-sized shredded wheat or rice cereal 

Snack 4

Craft

GORP like variation

1/2 cup dried banana or apple chips

1/4 cup sunflower seeds

1/2 cup raisins

1/2 cup popcorn

3/4 cup granola

Mix the ingredients in a serving bowl. This recipe serves about three people

Snack 4

Craft Food (15 min)

Smoothie

Have the girls make a smoothie.  Girls can help by measuring ingredients, holding blender cap, turning on blender, pouring out drinks.

1c. frozen fruit

½ c. yogurt

1c. juice

1T. honey

While enjoying the snack, here are some things for girls to talk about:

What food groups are present in your smoothie? Have you ever tried a smoothie with vegetables in it? For example, some smoothies have carrot or spinach in them.

If you could invent an afterschool snack that contained at least one item from each of the main food groups (vegetables, grains, protein, fruits and dairy), what would you create?

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Paper cups

a spoon or spatula.

Blender (and extension cord, if needed).

Smoothie ingredients, which may include:

o Bananas

o Plain, vanilla or fruit yogurt

o Frozen fruit variety, such as berries and/or tropical fruit

Snack 4

Make your own juice

Brownie: Snack Badge Step 5 - Slurp a Snack

Have the girls make their own drinks

cups

sparkling water

various juices