Sweet and Savory Stop Lights

On Wednesday, for a healthy snack as I taught the Wolf Den we made these super yummy, sweet Stop lights. I got the recipe from a fun cookbook by LANA, a Preschool Nutrition character with a cookbook.

The kids loved this snack. The boys had several servings. And the cub scout leader told me her own kids have been begging to make them again.  This treat is:

• 1 Graham Cracker
• Cream cheese to spread
• Strawberries, sliced
• Apricots, halved
• Kiwi, sliced.

Then, I started thinking of a way to make this with vegetables, and came up with this one:

We’ve got:

• Celery: From Grimmway Farms*
• Cream cheese (although wouldn’t laughing cow cheese taste amazing!!)
• Red, yellow, and green bell peppers!

Simply spread cream cheese, or laughing cow cheese onto a stick of celery, cut into 3 inch stalks.  Cut circles out of peppers in all three colors.  Arrange your circles on the celery like a stop light!

I’ve never had much luck with cutting circles out of peppers, and then I saw a frosting tip (you know, the metal Wilton tips. I used the backside as a cookie cutter, and the peppers cut out to be the perfect size, with a clean edge!

Then I poked a skewer into the bottom, although you don’t have to do this part, but it made it so we could stand it up.

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