Snack Foods

We have lots of fruit - and the girls get 1 thing once a day that would classed and "treat-ish", that said we do have a range so that they can choose.

Pre-packed stuff that we have in our pantry for them:

Rice-wheels (paris takes half a pack to school with her in a container) sour cream and chives and barbque ( i buy in bulk when they are cheap)
Raisins (small boxes - we used to get a big box and put in containers but got lazy)
Mother earth baked fruit sticks in strawberry and also apple
Sun real dried fruit snack packs, some have apricots and sultanas and raisins, others have dried apples, pears and raisins.
Snacker bite apricot bars
And bickies - the girls can choose from super wine, gingernut, or the crazy-face bickies.

Typical snack for morning tea usually consists of a piece of fruit - either half an apple or banana or mandarin, then a bickie, and usually some raisins/dried fruit - or in place of a bickie they get a fruit bar. Sometimes i add pieces of cheese - or cheese and crackers in place of the biscuit. and of course water

Afternoon tea is kinda the same but smaller - usually a milo and a biscuit to dunk (the girls are big on "dunkers")and some raisins.

Paris's school lunches usually have 2 sammies, 2 pieces of fruit (at the mo mandarins cos she can peel them herself and they are cheap and readily available) a container with 2 superwines, container with half a pack of rice wheels,and a pack of raisins, or sometimes i send a small container of fruti yogurt for morning tea in place of a piece of fruit.
So far when she's done her "practise runs" at daycare it has been just the right amount for her.

We do have other prepacked stuff though - like the jellies from the supermarket - in place of actually making up a large jelly i tend to buy a few of those for impromptu puddings as we never can guarantee that they'll actually eat well enough to 'qualify' for pudding lol so no use making up large ones.   We buy the small pottles of fruit salad or peaches that the girls have on their brekkies if they don't have banana or with puddings if they have pudding - again we used to get bigger packs and put in container in the fridge but had alot of waste.   That and pizza pockets we always have before swimming on a tuesday as we pick them up come home get changed have a snack then off to swimming at 5.15 so Paris needs something to keep up her stamina and ayja needs something to stop her turning feral from hunger.

We used to have alot more things, alot more different things - but tend not to now cos otherwise i get tempted and there alot more things you can do from scratch - ie: le snacks - much easier and better to do cheese and crackers.



Edited by mum2paris

We have quite a bit but more for me and DH than Jake!
Daycare provides Jakes food (sammies/toast and fruit for morning and afternoon tea and a cooked meat/veg lunch), so he isn't having snack foods everyday but most days will have some sort of crackers and is big on raisins at the mo.

In our pantry:

Rice rounds - BBQ and Cheese and Bacon (I work for Healtheries, and I eat about 95% of these myself - Jake just has a couple out of my packs).
Rice crackers
Crackers - plain snax and cheesy ones
Raisins
Fruit tubs (that he didn't like)
Gingernuts
Tiny teddies (that he doesn't like either)
Those rice bubbles bars - 2 flavours (mainly for DH)
Organic bikkies and wheelies (from work)
Popcorn packs (for me)
Cheese slices (in fridge)

I think I'd better stop there!
He mainly snacks on fruit, yoghurt, raisins, crackers and the odd biscuit or cheese slice.

Edited by Nikki

Thanks Meow, I never thought of buying dried fruit in bulk and the gremlins go thru dried apricots like nothing on earth!

Maya's school lunchbox always has a sandwich or roll with ham, cheese or marmite, 2 pieces of fruit or one piece of fruit plus a Fruit Squirts thing or some dried apricots, a pack of rice wheels or mini rice crackers, a couple of mini muffins from the freezer or 2-3 biscuits. They have a "brain snack" at 9.30am when they have to choose something healthy from their box which I think is great, encourages them to make healthy choices. And they can order sushi once a week on a Thurs for lunch so she does that most weeks.