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What are your best-selling kid-friendly products?

Lisa Santos, Southport Grocery, Chicago
Customers like to purchase items that are organic and have no artificial flavors for their kids. Freeze-dried fruits are very popular as well as organic yogurt. My picks include:
• Crispy Green Pineapple, Peach or Apricot Freeze-Dried Fruits
• Gary Poppins Kettle Popcorn
• Cultural Revolution Organic Yogurt

Cheryl Harrington, The Better Cheddar, Kansas City, MO
Kids are attracted to bright packaging and moms, like myself, appreciate products that contain no artificial colors or flavors. My picks include:
• Hot-Kid Baby Mum-Mum Rice Rusks
• Starr Ridge Chocolate with Vanilla Cream Sandwich Cookies
• McVitie’s Penguin Chocolate Bars
• Journey’s Dr. Whatever Carbonated Herbal Beverage

KC Lapiana, In the Kitchen, Wexford, PA
Parents love children’s cookbooks and kids love cooking supplies made just for them, such as chefs hats, toy stoves and authentic baking sets. My picks include:
• Five Piece Starter Baking Set
• Kitchen Supply Little Chef Hats
• Cooking with Children by Marion Cunningham
• Small World Toys cooking supplies

Rick Vernon, West Point Market, Akron, OH
We sell the experience of West Point Market to our customers’ children from toddler-hood on. Parents appreciate that we create a kid-friendly environment. My picks include:
• Cookie Credit: Every child gets a free cookie in the bakery by climbing a set of wooden stairs so they can see over the counter
• Miniature Kids Shopping Carts
• Halloween Costume Parade
• Grandma’s Corner: A place in the store where kids can play with the toys we sell

Evelyn Ignatow,Hyde Park Gourmet Food & Wine, Cincinnati
Kids love popping popcorn or making easy pies with conserves. Parents choose kid-friendly all-natural snacks and candy alternatives. My picks include:
• Urban Accents “The Art of Spice” Premium White Gold Popcorn
• Heritage Country Living Farmhouse Apple, Pecan Pie or Apricot Conserves
• Sunflower Sunny Seed Drops

Nicole Potenza Denis is senior editor of Specialty Food Magazine.