Healthier snacks for kids?

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Anonymous wrote:We probably just got lucky, but our kids eat raw veggies straight up:
- baby carrots
- cucumbers
- peppers
- cherry tomatoes
- broccoli

They also eat slices apples or bananas.

Please make sure you cut baby carrots lengthwise. DD choked on a baby carrot at four and had to be Heimlicked and rushed to the hospital. Paramedics told us baby carrots and grapes were most if their emergency calls with kids. I even cut cherry tomatoes lengthwise now.

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pomegranate seeds

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Frozen peas.

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“Apple cookies”
Thin slices of apple, helpful if they are big round slices
Thin layer of nut butter
Offer topping such as dried fruit, mini chocolate chips, nuts, etc. kids can decorate and eat their “cookies.” My 9YO still likes these although i think she can see thru the “packaging.”

Kale chips
My kids love bell pepper strips dipped in marinara.

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Cucumber sticks with a cherry tomato on top (i make a little hole in the base of tomato) with different color tomatoes its like "lollypops" and my 4 year old adores them.
We only so crackers or pretzels for morning snack which is before outside time. Otherwise its cheese or cottage cheese and fruit.

[Anonymous]

To start, we rarely snack. They get a snack at school, and one when they get home at 3. Otherwise, no snacks.

We switched to vegetable trays for snacks. If you’re hungry, you’ll eat it. If not, you won’t.

We went to the store together and picked out what they wanted to try. Then we cut them up together, in different shapes (cucumber circles vs spears) and put 3 dips in ramekins: hummus, ranch, and sour cream dip.

Then we made a little chart and tried them all! I found what combos they liked. And now I always have a little Tupperware in the fridge ready to go with that snack: cucumber spears and hummus or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To start, we rarely snack. They get a snack at school, and one when they get home at 3. Otherwise, no snacks.

We switched to vegetable trays for snacks. If you’re hungry, you’ll eat it. If not, you won’t.

We went to the store together and picked out what they wanted to try. Then we cut them up together, in different shapes (cucumber circles vs spears) and put 3 dips in ramekins: hummus, ranch, and sour cream dip.

Then we made a little chart and tried them all! I found what combos they liked. And now I always have a little Tupperware in the fridge ready to go with that snack: cucumber spears and hummus or whatever.

Awesome idea!

[Anonymous]

Heading into the wrong season, but our go-to for longest time was freezing coconut water in ice-cube trays for popsicles and kids pick what fruits to put in. So pretty when come done too! Also frozen blueberries and grapes (when old enough to eat them safely).

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Peanut butter, cream cheese or humus on a rice cake
Primal kids makes healthy low salt turkey and chicken jerky
Noka chia seed smoothie pouches
Hard boiled egg
Cucumbers with Trader Joe’s nori flakes
Tortilla with refried beans and cheese
Edamame

My kids don’t love raw vegetables, but if I offer with blue cheese dressing more get eaten.

They devour sheet pan roasted veggies with meals. #1 preference

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Simple mills almond flour crackers for change of pace. They think they are just getting crackers, but I feel better knowing they have almonds/ flax seeds in them and it doesn’t “count” as one of their simple carb treats.

Green smoothies with something for protein to balance sugar. Apple/lemon hides the bitterness of lots of spinach and kale

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My VERY picky 2 yo and less picky 5 yo love seaweed snacks, kale chips, and cauliflower stick things from whole foods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To start, we rarely snack. They get a snack at school, and one when they get home at 3. Otherwise, no snacks.

We switched to vegetable trays for snacks. If you’re hungry, you’ll eat it. If not, you won’t.

We went to the store together and picked out what they wanted to try. Then we cut them up together, in different shapes (cucumber circles vs spears) and put 3 dips in ramekins: hummus, ranch, and sour cream dip.

Then we made a little chart and tried them all! I found what combos they liked. And now I always have a little Tupperware in the fridge ready to go with that snack: cucumber spears and hummus or whatever.

So you’re saying they get two snacks a day... like everyone else’s kids here.

[Anonymous]

Hummus and let them dip into it with crackers.

We used to have "cheese apples" -- thinly sliced apples alternating with slices of cheese, in a circle around the plate. I don't know why but they are very influenced by how something is plated.

String cheese.

Yogurt tubes (frozen is really good too)

Buy an egg slicer; let them slice a hard boiled egg and put the slices around a small plate

Organic popcorn. We made it in olive oil. It's super healthy but can be a choking hazard for small kids so be careful.

Frozen green beans. Frozen blueberries.

Rice cakes. Triscuits.

Tuna on crackers. Again, plated nicely.

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My kids love dried apples. I buy them at Whole Foods but you could probably make them for way cheaper.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To start, we rarely snack. They get a snack at school, and one when they get home at 3. Otherwise, no snacks.

We switched to vegetable trays for snacks. If you’re hungry, you’ll eat it. If not, you won’t.

We went to the store together and picked out what they wanted to try. Then we cut them up together, in different shapes (cucumber circles vs spears) and put 3 dips in ramekins: hummus, ranch, and sour cream dip.

Then we made a little chart and tried them all! I found what combos they liked. And now I always have a little Tupperware in the fridge ready to go with that snack: cucumber spears and hummus or whatever.

So you’re saying they get two snacks a day... like everyone else’s kids here.

Right, I thought the same thing, like, when else would they be snacking???