Sugar Snap Peas

The best snacks for kids have just a single ingredient. No refined flours, added sugars, excess salt or cheap cooking oils. Enter sugar snap peas.

My kids go crazy over sugar snap peas. It’s one of their favorite after-school snacks, and it happens to be a single-ingredient snack, the best kind. These adorable little packets of nutrition are low in calories and high in soluble fiber – the type that helps regulate blood sugar levels. As a finger food, sugar snap peas are an excellent substitute for potato chips, pretzels and cereal bars.

Lately, we’ve also discovered a variant: the purple sugar snap pea. While this variety is not as sweet, it is very crispy and goes quite well in a stir fry.

What’s your kids’ favorite single-ingredient snack?