Hard boiled eggs, chunks of cheese. Sandwiches cut into smaller pieces. Watermelon cut into bite sized pieces.

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Anonymous wrote:We don't actually eat anything on the beach to avoid seagull attacks.

Same, but more becUse of the wind and the sand. My kids have so much fun at the beach and don't even ask for food. They are pretty much like this whenever the are busy having fun.

If I must, I'd just pack them PB and J.

Yeah but if you're there ALL DAY like my family was when I was younger and like we are now, at some point all that sun and swimming makes you starving and you NEED food. If you're there for like 2 hours I can see not bringing anything but beach days growing up were literally "set up chairs and umbrella at 9 and break down at 7 pm."

Anonymous wrote:We don't actually eat anything on the beach to avoid seagull attacks.

Same, but more becUse of the wind and the sand. My kids have so much fun at the beach and don't even ask for food. They are pretty much like this whenever the are busy having fun.

If I must, I'd just pack them PB and J.

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Anonymous wrote:We usually just bring a big bag (grapes, goldfish, etc). One tip: bring more drinks than you think you'll need. And bring wipes to wash the sand off.

Here's one much better than wipes to get the sand off (which I didn't buy until I tried it): baby powder.

We either grab a bucket of water and dip all the kids feet in then out them directly in the car or use the bristle side of a snow/ice scraper.

Anonymous wrote:I take a big bag of water and a bunch of plastic cups - then distribute snack in cups and recycle the cups after we're done!

We do the same, except we put snacks on our bag, not water.

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Anonymous wrote:We usually just bring a big bag (grapes, goldfish, etc). One tip: bring more drinks than you think you'll need. And bring wipes to wash the sand off.

Here's one much better than wipes to get the sand off (which I didn't buy until I tried it): baby powder.

YES! Keep a large bottle of baby powder in the back of the car for cleaning off feet and body of sand, and keep a small container in your bag for cleaning hands before a snack.

We bring some combination of grapes, goldfish, strawberries and/or pretzels. We also put Capri suns and water bottles in the freezer, and then by the time we're ready for them at the beach, they're cold and ready to drink.

Anonymous wrote:I take a big bag of water and a bunch of plastic cups - then distribute snack in cups and recycle the cups after we're done!

^ big bag of watery snacks....not water .

Frozen grapes, watermelon chunks (super watery fruit so it's very refreshing). Baby carrots, chips, non-chocolatey cookies (that shit melts), quartered sandwiches, water, juice boxes, and a bottle of chilled white wine in the cooler. YEAH.

pbj sandwiches. Thin cookies from trader joe's(lemon, coconut, and ginger). Pizza

We don't actually eat anything on the beach to avoid seagull attacks.

I take a big bag of water and a bunch of plastic cups - then distribute snack in cups and recycle the cups after we're done!

Anonymous wrote:We usually just bring a big bag (grapes, goldfish, etc). One tip: bring more drinks than you think you'll need. And bring wipes to wash the sand off.

Here's one much better than wipes to get the sand off (which I didn't buy until I tried it): baby powder.

Not one big bag of anything to the beach because sand will get in. We take grapes or watermelon in tupperware for the kids -- my son prefers to eat his water so I make sure I take lots of juicy fruit.
My mom and I indulge in cheese its at the beach. Not sure why, but that's what we've always done. I don't eat cheese-its any other time but at the beach.

We usually just bring a big bag (grapes, goldfish, etc). One tip: bring more drinks than you think you'll need. And bring wipes to wash the sand off.

Hey there, I'm not a super-be achy person, but am now off to the shores of NJ with my 5 and 3 year old. What snacks are good for the beach? Are right million little pre-wrapped things better or should we make a giant bag of chez mix and dole out? Thoughts? Ideas?
No allergies, no special requirements; just don't want to be uncouth - like taking goldfish and then realizing they all end up in sand and we leave our own personal gross mess.