Most of the times when we want to give something healthy to our kids we end up picking up something that says ‘Organic’ or ‘Healthy’ from the racks of our health store. We serve our kids packed juices, smoothies and milk products and the chances are these products have stiff doses of sugar and caffeine. We take great pride in giving our kids protein bars as a snack when they are hungry. Little do we know that the same thing would take us seconds to prepare that too under our vigilance and free from preservatives of any kind.

Here are some quick hacks using quinoa as an ingredient to keep kids away from junk food. All that will be required from you is a little planning and a few minutes in the kitchen.

• Carry water/quinoa milk/quinoa smoothie instead of packed juices and beverages.
• Replace wheat flour with quinoa flour to make cookies to serve your kids a healthy snack.
• Replace pasta and cheese bakes with quinoa.
• Quinoa pancakes and burritos are interesting and taste amazing.
• Quinoa granola bars are perfect dose of protein and energy for kids. Make and store them.
• Replace wheat flour with high protein quinoa for cupcakes.
• If rice is the staple of your family, use the alternative quinoa instead. (

(Credit: India Gate)