Fast snack ideas for kids

[tgrimes]

I'm in a snack rut.  I need something that's either already packaged or easy enough for me to throw in a container for daycare snacks and before dinner snacks.  They won't eat nuts.

I usually do:

fruit
pirate's booty
pretzels
apple sauce pouches

Please be specific on brands if it's something store bought like granola bars.

[wineallthetime]

I'm glad to see this. I need ideas too. Our other go to snacks are:

Cheese sticks
Chobani yogurt tubes
Veggies and hummus or ranch
Chobani smoothies

So nothing too exciting...

[lfig]

I’m lazy, so we do things like:
- dried fruit
- nutri-grain bars
- peanut butter crackers
- dry cereal
- hostess mini muffins
- pre packaged apple slices
- granola bites

[klong11]

Hillshire Farms snack plates are a big hit in our house right now. She likes the pepperoni and salami ones.

[jewels]

tgrimes, not sure if you are looking for M or H, but B loves these bars Plum Organic Mighty 4 in all flavors, and S actually eats them too.

They love the same bars cagoldi's kids eat Fig bars

Cheese sticks
Apple slices
Blueberries
graham crackers - the kids like the auntie annies bunny crackers

[jewels]

Oh, the mini-muffins that lfig mentioned are a big hit. we buy entemanns

We do dried apples -this one is their favorite

raisins

[lfig]

Dec 3, 2018 13:04:56 GMT -6 jewels said:

Oh, the mini-muffins that lfig mentioned are a big hit. we buy entemanns

We do dried apples -this one is their favorite

raisins

The Entemann's ones are much better!  But living in a small town, we get what we get.  Lol!  

[jewels]

lol lfig, posting with you all these years has really made me realize how lucky I am to have everything so accessible. We complain b/c the super nice grocery store is 15 minutes away. We pass 2 other grocery stores and a Target on the way there. And there are probably 10-15 other grocery stores, targets and Walmarts within 15-20 minutes of my house.

I guess the trade off for all that convenience is 24/7 traffic

Can you order some of that stuff from Amazon to get the better brands/more variety?

[jewels]

OH, tgrimes , are they allowed to have Peanut Butter at school? S loves the little packages of peanut butter sandwiches (like the Ritz Cracker ones)

And Horizon has a prepackaged cheese and pretzel snack that we pack for school sometimes.

Clearly this is a subject I have a lot of opinions about. We like to snack

[cheeksmum]

N’s typical snacks are
Granola bars
Bear paws
Baby carrots, celery or cucumber w/ranch dip
Grapes or berries (I wash and cut them on the weekend so we can just grab and go)
Dry cereal - mini wheats, honey comb, Cheerios, shreddies
Yogurt tubes
Cheese strings
Lunchables

[trtlcrzy]

I usually scope out the snack aisle at aldi when I’m there. They have things like mini pb cracker sandwiches, penguins (that are like goldfish) and little graham crackers (like teddy grahams). My kids love chewy granola bars, specifically sunbelt bakery brand. The kids clif bars are good too, just more expensive. Veggie straws are a popular choice.

[tgrimes]

Dec 3, 2018 13:16:07 GMT -6 jewels said:

OH, tgrimes , are they allowed to have Peanut Butter at school? S loves the little packages of peanut butter sandwiches (like the Ritz Cracker ones)

And Horizon has a prepackaged cheese and pretzel snack that we pack for school sometimes.

Clearly this is a subject I have a lot of opinions about. We like to snack

Yes, they can have peanut butter.

[klong11]

I'm jealous of all of your kids' food choices. Cadence is so particular it is hard to give her anything.

She does really like the freeze dried fruit packets. Our HEB has decided to only carry the apples, though, so we have to go to other locations in order to get the various other fruits.
www.brothersallnatural.com/strawberry-freeze-dried-fruit-crisps-sliced-200-pack/

[tgrimes]

Dec 3, 2018 13:31:32 GMT -6 klong11 said:

I'm jealous of all of your kids' food choices. Cadence is so particular it is hard to give her anything.

She does really like the freeze dried fruit packets. Our HEB has decided to only carry the apples, though, so we have to go to other locations in order to get the various other fruits.
www.brothersallnatural.com/strawberry-freeze-dried-fruit-crisps-sliced-200-pack/

I need to check out my HEB and see what they have.  

[klong11]

Dec 3, 2018 13:36:51 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

Dec 3, 2018 13:31:32 GMT -6 klong11 said:

I'm jealous of all of your kids' food choices. Cadence is so particular it is hard to give her anything.

She does really like the freeze dried fruit packets. Our HEB has decided to only carry the apples, though, so we have to go to other locations in order to get the various other fruits.
www.brothersallnatural.com/strawberry-freeze-dried-fruit-crisps-sliced-200-pack/

I need to check out my HEB and see what they have.  

The "good" HEB has peaches, pears, strawberries, the strawberry/banana combo, plain apples and cinnamon apples.

[vino]

I do a lot of what has already been mentioned:
-fresh fruit-apples, bananas, watermelon, mandarin oranges, strawberries, blackberries,
-gold fish
-Fruit Source bites
-dried fruit-they love mangos
-yogurt covered raisins
-pretzels
-veggie straws
-a treat would be a couple mini marshmallows added to their plate-the kids go crazy
-granola bars
-Kellogs fruit wafer bars www.specialk.com/en_US/products/strawberry-pastry-crisps-product.html
-raisins
-craisins

[guster]

-Lara bars and babybel cheese
-Cracker Barrel pepper jack cheese sticks and ocean spray cranberries (or dried apricot or mangoes)
Aldi snacked sized salami with pre-sliced apples (or pairs)
Simple smoothies: Soy or almond milk with a banana and peanut butter (sometimes I throw a pouch in to get some extra veggies)

[vino]

Oh yes, Lara bars are a hit over here also

[flamingo]

Stuff my kids love:

-fruit (bananas, strawberries, mandarin oranges, watermelon, grapes are favorites)
-Quaker "Chewy" chocolate chip granola bars
-raisins
-packs of mini Ritz PB or cheese crackers
-cheese sticks or Babybel cheese
-Chex Mix (super popular)
-Cheez-its
-turkey/cheese slices rolled up
-pretzel crackers (brand is Snack Factory)...esp. with pimento cheese


Clearly we like carbs. And cheese.

[mwhip]

Healthy snacks always in the fridge:
Cheese sticks
Applesauce squeezies in different flavors
grapes
apples
Yogurt tubes

Pantry Snacks:
flat pretzels
teddy grahams
peanut butter crackers
cheeze its
fruit snacks
cheerios
banana chips
blueberry blast trail mix

For some reason, Evie thinks healthy snacks are in the fridge, everything else is in the pantry.

[tgrimes]

guster vino Which flavor Lara bars are they eating?

[cagoldi]

Dec 3, 2018 13:47:31 GMT -6 klong11 said:

Dec 3, 2018 13:36:51 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

I need to check out my HEB and see what they have.  

The "good" HEB has peaches, pears, strawberries, the strawberry/banana combo, plain apples and cinnamon apples.

X eats a lot of these since they kind of “melt” and have a crunchy texture. Target has a great variety.

[guster]

Dec 3, 2018 14:45:46 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

guster vino Which flavor Lara bars are they eating?

Whatever I buy. Josie prefers the lemon , cherry pie, and the mint chocolate chip. Charlie likes the coconut pie (?), cashew cookie and apple cinnamon .

[tallb]

Nature's bakery fig bars. We get them at Costco and have several flavors in the pack. J wrote a recipe for them for his Thanksgiving class cook book😂

[xolastunicornxo]

We do:

Fruit
String cheese
Granola bars (Quaker, and usually the chocolate covered ones!)
Target brand fruit snacks
Peanut butter filled pretzels
Cheese crackers
Squishers

[xolastunicornxo]

Oh and fig newtons

[vino]

Dec 3, 2018 14:45:46 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

guster vino Which flavor Lara bars are they eating?

I just buy a variety of single bars, they eat most of them but neither kid like the apple cinnamon. The coconut cream one is good, the cashew, chocolate chip, chocolate brownie.  I feel like the variety is really good that there is something for everyone.  Also, they are quite dense so they usually share one.  Or they want half of two different flavours, because of course they do.

[vino]

Dec 3, 2018 15:28:58 GMT -6 xolastunicornxo said:

Oh and fig newtons

Yes!  These too.  It's been a while so thanks for reminding me, I'll be adding them to the list.

[tgrimes]

Dec 3, 2018 15:09:57 GMT -6 tallb said:

Nature's bakery fig bars. We get them at Costco and have several flavors in the pack. J wrote a recipe for them for his Thanksgiving class cook book😂

That is hilarious.

[tgrimes]

Dec 3, 2018 15:31:08 GMT -6 vino said:

Dec 3, 2018 15:28:58 GMT -6 xolastunicornxo said:

Oh and fig newtons

Yes!  These too.  It's been a while so thanks for reminding me, I'll be adding them to the list.

I haven't bought them in awhile either.  I wonder if H will eat them.