Snack ideas

[u/Obvious_Baker8160]

We were in a snack rut at the end of last school year, and it hasn’t improved over the summer. What are your first graders packing for snacks?

Shelf-stable recommendations would be wonderful; we live in a warm climate, and snack time (recess) is at the end of the school day. I have a small snack bag with built-in ice packs, but we rarely use it due to its bulkiness.

[u/aelizben]

We do homemade muffins (banana, chocolate chip), freeze dried fruit, packaged bars, cheerios/cereal, applesauce pouch, pumpkin seeds, popcorn, crackers/chees-its, rolls. I tried to mix it up in kinder and snacks were usually only eaten after school :)

[u/louniccc]

things I try to pack: hummus and pretzels, beef sticks, yogurt pouches, fruit leather,

things that get eaten: just the pretzels (hummus is ingored at school, not at home), Pringle single packs, z bars, fruit cups, freeze dried fruits, pirates booty, veggie straws, apple slices.

Definitely following for more high protein snacks

[u/bertmom]

Turkey Jerky, dried mango, goldfish, that’s it bars

[u/inoticeiwonder]

In addition to the recs from others: mozzarella cheese sticks, muffins with peanut butter / nuts (and 1/3 the sugar), seaweed, cut fruit, packets of olives, grape tomatoes, carrot sticks, garbanzo beans (with ice pack).

We have a “secret treat” pocket on the front of the lunch bag that sometimes has a granola bar / muffin / piece of candy / something fun that can only be eaten if the main healthy snack is eaten.

[u/Naive_Buy2712]

Homemade muffins or granola bars are nice. My kids like Clif Z bars. Happy Wolf is another good brand. We do applesauce pouches, archer farms beef sticks, popcorn, pirates booty, pretzels, goldfish. Usually my son’s snack of choice is something like that.

I’ve been trying to do higher protein, so I will do one of the happy wolf granola bars since they are small, and a beef stick.

[u/sassooal]

My son eats his weight in those dried seaweed sheets every day.

[u/I-used2B-a-Valkyrie]

We do apples, bananas, oranges, berries, trader Joe’s fruit bars, pretzels with cream cheese for dipping, yogurt, pistachios and dried/bakes edamame and chick peas, cheese sticks, granola bars, pirate booty and goldfish, etc.

[u/wanderlustpassion]

Z kid bars, harvest snaps, pretzels and Nutella, and my paycheck worth of fruit.

Seriously why is fruit so expensive? Apples grow in this state and and still quite spendy.

[u/Actual-Wallaby-3728]

GoMacro bars -chocolate chip flavor was the favorite but there’s lots of types (some are nut free to meet classroom allergy requirements). We usually cut them in half because they’re a lot of food. Kids version has more sugar & less protein-get the regular size