what to bring for snack to school - elementary
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Anonymous
| DD's school lunch schedule is ridiculous ( it was at 1 pm in K, now is 11 am), what healthy snacks to pack? There is no fridge, and only 1 item/per day is allowed. |
Anonymous
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What time is snack?
I do a whole wheat mini bagel with cream cheese for my first grader. His snack time is 10am. I'm fine with leaving cream cheese out that long, although I know others aren't. But you could use peanut butter or sunbutter. He also likes wheat chex mix. |
Anonymous
| We send fruit, granola bars and apple sauce squeezers. |
Anonymous
| Fruit or a cheese stick or a chobani yogurt tube. I pack the snack in my kids' lunchboxes so it stays cool with the ice pack. If they didn't have access to their lunchboxes, I'd put the snack in a little tupperware with a mini ice pack. I freeze the yogurt and it is nicely soft and cool at snack time. |
Anonymous
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I usually pack an apple (or other whole fruit) or some graham crackers in a separate snack bag ... and if that doesn't quite do it, I tell DS to to eat the cheese stick from or yogurt from his lunch box.
FWIW ... my kid's lunch time is 1:30pm. I'd be so hungry if I had to wait until 1:30 to eat, so I try to make his snack as filling as possible. |
Anonymous
| Doesn't sound like he needs much with an early lunch..I would just do fruit or veggies |
Anonymous
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Dairy -
1) Cheesesticks 2) Yogurts 3) Milk (in carton - horizons) Fruits and veggies 1) Apples (cored and halved) 2) Grapes (sliced) 3) Banana 4) Celery sticks (with peanut butter) 5) Carrots (with ranch dressing) Trail mix (homemade - let kids assemble) - 1) Cheerios-raisins-cashews 2) Chex-goldfish-craisins-peanuts Sandwiches - 1) Bagle - cream cheese 2) Bread - peanut butter - banana 3) Croissant - cream cheese - lunch meat Others - 1) Small boxes of raisins 2) individual sized goldfish crackers 3) peanut - granola bars 4) Juice boxes 5) Apple sauce cups I usually give a combination of things and I pack the lunch box with little ice-packs to keep it cool. You can also freeze sandwiches the night before and it will thaw out before snack time. Unfortunately, I am not very talented in putting together a more creative menu for snacks and this has been my go-to list for some time. |
Anonymous
| I would avoid messy things. In our school, we have a huge mouse issue b/c of the afternoon snacks in the classroom. We also do breakfast in the classroom too. Cheese sticks, fruit, yogurt tubes are good choices b/c they don't really have crumbs. Avoid anything crumbly. |
Anonymous
And MCPS is not doing anything to take care of this issue? The mice are not going to go away simply because kids bring non-crumbly snacks...once they are in a building they will remain there. |
Anonymous
| Kids don't need snack time if they eat breakfast. Even if they eat at 7am, they don't need to eat again before lunch. |
Anonymous
If lunch is at noon - maybe - but when lunch is at 1:30pm, I strongly disagree! |
Anonymous
Just curious, but why is this schedule "ridiculous"? Assuming she goes to a K-5 school and each grade needs its own lunch slot, somebody has to be earlier and somebody has to be later. My kids' school has lunch times from 11-1:30, which seems pretty normal to me. |
Anonymous
| I put a small ice pack in a plastic bag with cheese slices and a couple of crackers for my son. His lunch is at 1:15 so he has a snack at 10:30. The instructions for us is "1 item" but I consider this "cheese and crackers". I don't like the packaged cheese/peanut butter crackers, and I like to mix a carb with a protein because the protein slows down the digestion of the carb, which gives a quick energy boost but digests quickly. Same idea with an earlier poster's of bagel and cc, the fat in the cc slows the digestion of the bagel. |