Healthy Valentine’s Day Food Ideas
It often feels like the time between Halloween and Valentine’s day is just one big extended chocolate and candy holiday. And, of course, you know that Easter is just around the corner! My kids definitely have their share of the sweet stuff {as do I!}, but I do try to balance it out with some healthy food options as well. Valentine’s Day has got to be one of the easiest holidays to create fun but healthy holiday food. You can pretty much cut anything into a heart shape or make it pink or red and you’re good to go!
Kids are all about fun, so try some of these healthy {or at least healthier!} Valentine’s Day food ideas and see if your kids even notice that they are missing out on the junk food!
Valentine’s Day Breakfast Ideas
Start the day off with a fun Valentine’s Day breakfast to show your family some love! It really doesn’t have to take much extra time. If you’re too rushed on a weekday, you can always do a Valentine’s Day breakfast the weekend before {or after!} or just have breakfast for dinner. Any time is a good time to show your family you love them!
Mini emoji pancakes from Hello Wonderful.
Heart pancakes with Nutella and raspberry sauce from The Gunny Sack.
Valentine’s Day egg and toast from Chef de Home.
Cupid’s arrow pancake and fruit kabobs from This Ole Mom.
Quick and Easy Valentine’s Day Breakfast from Clean and Scentsible.
Avocado hearts on toast from Mimi Avocado.
Healthy Valentine’s Day Snacks
Little snacks are a great way to sneak in some extra fruits and veggies. They’re also perfect for class treats or a healthy alternative at a Valentine’s Day party.
Heart Fruit Salad from Design Intuition.
Fruit Heart Emojis from What Mom’s Love
All Natural DIY gummies from No Time for Flashcards.
Apple Hearts from Vintage Rose Garden.
Coconut Raspberry Chia Pudding from Jeanette’s Healthy Living.
Cupid hearts from Spoonful
Fruit kabobs and yogurt dip from Parents.
Greek yogurt banana splits from School Bites.
Heart platter from Two Kids Cooking.
Healthy Valentine’s Day Drinks
If you’re looking for healthy Valentine’s Day drink ideas, try some fruit infused water using strawberries, or raspberries. It’s super easy to make and has very little sugar. Or add some cute heart shaped ice cubes with some frozen red fruit. Smoothies are another easy drink idea – just use strawberries or other berry combo to bring out the pink/red colors. You can even throw some spinach leaves in there without them even noticing!
Berry Green Smoothie from Clean and Scentsible. {For a more pink/red color don’t add blueberries}
Heart shaped ice cubes with pomegranate seeds from Two Loves.
Strawberry Mango Banana Smoothie from Clean and Scentsible.
Valentine’s Day Lunch or Dinner Ideas
These easy lunch ideas are quick to put together and can easily be packed for school lunches or class parties.
Conversation hearts mini sandwich stackers from Bent on Better Lunches.
Heart cut-out sandwiches from School Bites.
Heart pizzas from All Michigan.
Roasted Heart Potatoes from Haniela’s.
Healthy Valentine’s Dessert Table from Project Nursery.
Valentine Fruit Tags from Craftaholics Anonymous.
Fruit Love Notes from Alpha Mom.
Valentine’s Bento lunch from Bento Mama.
Heart Pizza from A Pretty Life.
So hopefully that inspires you to go create and play with your food! And remember that it can still be fun while being healthy! If you have any of your own healthy Valentine’s Day food ideas, I’d love to hear them!
Love the Valentine food ideas! Thanks so much for catching the link on the organizing post! I just fixed it. 🙂
Happy day to you friend!
karianne
No worries! I was still able to find it – I just love that space!!!
Thank you for compiling such a great list! I love the orange and watermelon cupid arrows.
I thought those were super cute too!
I love all these cute ideas!!!!
Yummy and healthy? Love it! Pinning 🙂
Thanks Desiree! Hope you are having fun in SLC!
Oh my goodness! These are all so adorable – what amazing ideas! I would be thrilled if you would share these with us over at {Healthy} Tips and Tricks Tuesday – where we share healthy living advice! This would be great for us and our families! Thanks!
Thanks so much! 🙂
Great round up! Thanks so much for linking to my blog. I love your site!
You’re welcome! Love your blog too!
I love all of these Ideas, but where are the “How To’s” to make them all happen ?
Just click on the links {the writing that shows up as pink} and they will bring you to all of the original posts! Hope you enjoy!
These are great ideas! I am not a big Valentines day person, but I’ll use any excuse to make food 🙂
Yes, there is always an excuse to make good food! {especially if it is fun too!} 🙂
I absolutely love these!! I’m always looking for fun, yet healthy snacks to make with the kids… especially for special occasions and holidays! I shared this all over my twitter and facebook page, because I think these are great!! Thanks so much for sharing with us! 🙂
Thanks so much Crystal! Hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day and got to enjoy some fun snacks! 😉
Hi Jenn, your link to the Avocado hearts on toast from Mimi Avocado goes to a “page not found”, looks like it should link here: http://mimiavocado.com/2013/03/avocado-toast-mimi-avocado-style/
Thanks! There was originally a post there all on the Valentine’s hearts but I guess it has disappeared! I changed it to the link above. 😉
Your strawberry mango smoothie looks really good. Strawberry is my go to for shakes, etc. The Greek yogurt banana split with heart shaped strawberries looks cute. I would definitely make this. My oldest daughter loves when I make shapes out of her sandwiches for her school lunches. It makes it a little more fun.
It’s amazing what a cookie cutter can do! lol!