Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 13:28     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
Anonymous wrote:A snack drawer? So American.


Yes well unfortunately the pâtisserie where we used to stop for our goûter on the way home from collège doesn’t exist and it turns out if you store things in your house drawers come in handy.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 13:22     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
Anonymous wrote:Our grab-and-go snacks are granola bars, goldfish, pirate’s booty, Vermont smokehouse mini beef sticks, and fruit leathers.

We also keep string cheese, babybels, yogurt cups, cut up veggies, hummus, Greek yogurt dip in the fridge. I try to keep naan and pita on hand too.

We are relaxed about rules. Sometimes the shelf stable snacks get eaten, other times they just sit. Kids currently prefer cut up veggies and fruit with something to dip them in.


How did you get your kids to prefer veggies and dip?
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:49     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
Anonymous wrote:I found that if I don’t provide snacks, kids eat three square meals without complaint. So, no snack drawer.
That said, if they have to eat lunch early/late due to commitment, I suggest edamame, or a handful of unsalted nuts or dried fruit (dates, mango).
On road trips, we have roasted chestnuts, unsalted nuts, cubed cooked tofu or tempeh, roasted chickpeas.


You bring cubed cooked tofu on road trips?
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:45     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
I buy bars that are as close to straight nuts as possible, and I’m pretty lax about letting them grab those. Also have lose nuts in canisters. I’m basically fine with nuts and fruit any time.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:43     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
We have snacks in pantry for lunches. Kids sometimes ask to get something from it. Rarely. The fruit bowl on the counter gets demolished regularly tho.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:42     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
Anonymous wrote:I found that if I don’t provide snacks, kids eat three square meals without complaint. So, no snack drawer.
That said, if they have to eat lunch early/late due to commitment, I suggest edamame, or a handful of unsalted nuts or dried fruit (dates, mango).
On road trips, we have roasted chestnuts, unsalted nuts, cubed cooked tofu or tempeh, roasted chickpeas.


You sound fun.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:41     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
I found that if I don’t provide snacks, kids eat three square meals without complaint. So, no snack drawer.
That said, if they have to eat lunch early/late due to commitment, I suggest edamame, or a handful of unsalted nuts or dried fruit (dates, mango).
On road trips, we have roasted chestnuts, unsalted nuts, cubed cooked tofu or tempeh, roasted chickpeas.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:36     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
A snack drawer? So American.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:15     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t have one. Most snacks in a snack drawer will be all processed stuff with little to no nutritional value, unless it’s all nuts and some dried fruits. Why not have them grab fresh fruit, cheese, carrots and hummus, plain yogurts etc from your fridge. Have a snack area in your fridge.


We have a snack drawer in our fridge. Semantics about location.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:08     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
We have Clif Bars (and Clif Bar minis), nuts, trail mix, sometimes chips or goldfish doled out into single portions, applesauces, jerky, stuff like that.

We have several bins, one each for the kids - to hold their personal snacks and candy they've picked up. (We have a food allergy so kids can have different things.)
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 09:04     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
Our grab-and-go snacks are granola bars, goldfish, pirate’s booty, Vermont smokehouse mini beef sticks, and fruit leathers.

We also keep string cheese, babybels, yogurt cups, cut up veggies, hummus, Greek yogurt dip in the fridge. I try to keep naan and pita on hand too.

We are relaxed about rules. Sometimes the shelf stable snacks get eaten, other times they just sit. Kids currently prefer cut up veggies and fruit with something to dip them in.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 07:44     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t have one. Most snacks in a snack drawer will be all processed stuff with little to no nutritional value, unless it’s all nuts and some dried fruits. Why not have them grab fresh fruit, cheese, carrots and hummus, plain yogurts etc from your fridge. Have a snack area in your fridge.


This is what I do right now but they need more help with it (some are little). Due to our fridge layout it’s hard have it all together and visible, so there’s lots of me offering this and that and then they grumble.

-OP
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 07:27     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
Granola/nut/seed bars
Packs of seaweed
Cheese crackers
Nuts
Cheez it’s
Freeze dried mango

I literally just went and looked and that’s what’s in ours.

My kid eats healthy breakfasts and dinners but tends to want more junky food for lunches at camp/school. She’s 12. I think it’s easier to be strict with food in the younger years. By this age they want what their peers are eating.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 07:20     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
I don’t have one. Most snacks in a snack drawer will be all processed stuff with little to no nutritional value, unless it’s all nuts and some dried fruits. Why not have them grab fresh fruit, cheese, carrots and hummus, plain yogurts etc from your fridge. Have a snack area in your fridge.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2024 07:18     Subject: if you have a snack drawer, what’s in it?
And what are your rules? Thinking about doing a snack drawer/shelf and letting my kids have at it instead of doling out the snacks, but I don’t love all the trash it creates (both packaging and crumbs).