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Portable snacks for kids

Missmissy0003
Missmissy0003 Posts: 250 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone have any snack ideas for my kids to take to school in their backpacks? I was sending them with popcorn or goldfish, but I keep binging on them at night. I need to not have these in the house anymore. Cheezits, graham crackers, and animal crackers are definitely not doable either. Bananas squish too easily. I guess I could do cold items in the lunchbox, but I was trying to avoid that.

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    For lunch? What about a sandwich?
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Grapes.
  • DomesticKat
    DomesticKat Posts: 565 Member
    In this like a classroom snack? Grapes, raisins, dried fruit, apple or fruit sauce pouches, fruit leather, cereal bars.
  • rjdubock0609
    rjdubock0609 Posts: 19 Member
    Pepperation, cheesestrings, small portions of unsalted nuts.
  • rj0150684
    rj0150684 Posts: 227 Member
    Ill second the apple sauce pouches. My kids love baby carrots and cucumbers. Single serve Cheerios work. The Quaker granola bars.
  • Cbean08
    Cbean08 Posts: 1,092 Member
    What about things like tuna salad kits? Turkey/cheese lunchables? Or dried fruit? Dried mango and pineapple are very sweet. It's almost like a fruit roll up or fruit snacks. Or, freeze a go-gurt and send it. It'll keep cool all afternoon as it melts.
  • pomegranatecloud
    pomegranatecloud Posts: 812 Member
    Fruit. Put fruit that bruise or get squished easily into a container.
  • Missmissy0003
    Missmissy0003 Posts: 250 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    For lunch? What about a sandwich?

    I’m sorry, I see i didn’t make that clear. It’s not for lunch. It’s for their snack in the classroom before lunch. They start at 7;30 and don’t have lunch until 12:45 so they need a snack in between.

  • Missmissy0003
    Missmissy0003 Posts: 250 Member
    DomesticKat wrote: »
    In this like a classroom snack? Grapes, raisins, dried fruit, apple or fruit sauce pouches, fruit leather, cereal bars.

    Yes, this is for a snack for them to eat in the classroom. I think ideally, the teachers want it to be not messy, but I guess I just need to do what works best for us at this time.

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