We are overthinking judgmental food hippies around here.

On occasions when I don't have time to prep anything, I send my kids with a Larabar or a few strips of krave brand jerky or some prepackaged seaweed slices.

When I have more time to plan ahead, I do as other posters have suggested and make big batches of things that freeze well. A big one of these is grain free (egg and coconut flour-based) muffins, with lots of fruit baked into them. We freeze these ahead of time and then place them frozen in a container and they are thawed out by lunch/snack time. I also make a huge batch of steel cut oats, season it and add lots of fruit and then pour it into a greased 9 x 13 pan and bake until the top is hard, then flip it upside down onto a cookie sheet and bake until the opposite side is hard. I then slice it and serve them as bars. He's also free freeze well. I have also been known to make my own Larra bar equivalence (a little bit of honey for sweetness and stickiness and then whatever kinds of nuts, seeds, and dried fruits I want) Again they freeze very well.

for day to day, my kids mostly take whole fruit or chopped veggies, with something to dip it in if there's a way to refrigerate it.

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