Campbell parents serve nutritious snacks to students

CAMPBELL — Berry, berry smooth — nine moms got together and figured out a way to get nutritious snacks into their middle-schoolers.

There’s a little trickery involved: They use healthier ingredients such as applesauce instead of oil in their baked goods, with delicious results.

But the key to attracting kids to their bake-sale table for one week a month at the Campbell Middle and Elementary school building is smoothies — sweet, cold, whipped drinks made with real fruit and yogurt.

“It’s a kid thing,” said Caliope Cunning, one of the Smoothie Moms, at the bake sale Monday.

Kids love smoothies, she said, and several of them among the many customers at the table agreed.

“I think they’re real good,” said Caliope’s son, Nicholas, 10, who washes down carrot cupcakes with them.

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