NOT EVERY KID IS A CHIA SEED PUDDING LOVER. I know. I have four small kids now and they’re all doing this thing where they’re developing their OWN tastes.
It reminds me of this great post from Facebook, “I want my children to be independent headstrong people. Just not while I’m raising them.”
But when a mother’s ambitious thoughts of raising tiny foodies who happily eat super foods intersects with preschoolers who love the sound of their own voices saying “no”, I have a secret weapon: popsicles.
We’ve made chia seed pudding with coconut milk in the past but regular milk works too. I let mine set up overnight and on a recent morning piled on a bunch of fresh strawberries. But when only one of my three solid food eaters dug right in, we had a lot left over.
So I filled our popsicle molds and served them as an afternoon snack.
They’re all gone now. Every last omega-3 filled lick.
Printstrawberry chia seed pudding pops
Let the chia seed pudding set up for at least an hour (or overnight) before pouring into molds or you’ll have crunchy popsicles when the time comes.
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk (coconut, regular, almond…whatever you like)
- 1/4 cup chia seeds
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 cup diced strawberries
Instructions
- Combine everything except the strawberries in a bowl and refrigerate for about an hour, or overnight.
- Mix in the strawberries.
- Pour into popsicle molds, leaving enough room at the top for the popsicles to expand.
- Chill for about 4 hours.
You read my mind! “What on earth will I do with all these chia seeds????” Ha. These sound great.
Popsicles! Why didn’t I think of this sooner? What a foolproof way to get chia seeds (or anything awesomely healthy) into the kids? Thanks!
Ha, Pete. Spinach is next. I’m kidding. Mostly.
Great idea! No one touched my overnight chia pudding breakfast.
Where did you get those pop molds? They look super sturdy. I have come cheapie ones that have cracked already (I’m impatient when removing them)
They’re just the Mainstays brand from Walmart, I’m afraid. So, they’re not really that sturdy. You do have to let them sit out for a few minutes OR run some warm water over them in order to get the popsicles out easily. I have another popsicle mold, Norpro Ice Pop Mold, that’s VERY sturdy. But because nothing can ever be easy, those take even longer to actually get the darn things out. They’re bigger in size though and the mold makes 8 so I like having both on hand. Good luck!