My kids can help themselves to the fruit bowl and veggie sticks. Anything else they ask.

I’m a big fan of yoghurt, cheese and crackers, celery and carrot sticks, nuts and dried fruits for ready to grab snacks. Also muffin or mini frittata from container in fridge if there are any from baking day, or crumbed chicken pieces over from previous night. Snacks needing minimal preparation at my place: any kind of sandwich, buttered Weetbix plain or with any easy spread, fruit toast or plain toast. All easy stuff that I top up regularly . A glass of milk is good too.

Snacks in our house consist of mostly fruit, rice cakes, muesli bars, yoghurt, etc. Sometimes I get creative & make a snack kebab – kebab snack with various fruit & cheese.

Some helpful tips, thanks for sharing this.

We have the same issue with our 4 yr old. We make sure that there’s always tubs of yoghurt or slices of cheese in the fridge as well as various forms of fruit and vegetables, sometimes whole pieces, sometimes cut up. He can also help himself to tubs of baked beans, rice crackers, sultanas and dried cereal. Air popped popcorn is also popular here.

Master six loves sultanas so we always have plenty, and the multipack boxes are great for going out and about. Apple sliced, oranges, grapes, strawberries, when on season, are all good, too.

Such a good idea about making more green foods available and less red.

So adorable… thank you for sharing

its amazing, my daughter discovers what I’ve brought home in an instant and quickly takes her share, my son is clueless and sometimes misses out!

a good read with some helpful tips

great ideas – thanks for sharing

Cheese and crackers always filled my daughters stomachs.

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  • • ilees68 replied
    • 04 Jan 2014 , 3:21 pm

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  yum we love them to

Thank you for sharing this 🙂

We always snacked on a piece of fruit if we were hungry before tea, however kids now have a variety of food options, not always healthy. Our son went thru a growth spurt where he would come home from school and devour wheatbix with milk, his choice.

Our kids love mini quiches you can make a batch and freeze them.

Some great advice. Much needed here too

Keep a special snack container in the fridge (large clear rectangle container with the childrens names on it – You could call it their treasure chest. In this container put various items of fruit/small yoghurts/carrot sticks/celery sticks/dates/dried apple/small clear plastic containers with fruit and custard or yoghurt/muffins savoury or sweet/sandwiches, etc)

healthy snacks are always hard to come by, convenience means a lot of sugar of preservatives

My son also enjoyed his other snack such as biscuit, potato chips.

Of course fruit and veg but maybe also some dried fruits (sultanas and apricots), crackers (not sweet biscuits but more like cruskits). Perhaps getting her involved in making treats or meals (carrot cake, banana slice – things that have fruit and veg in them might be good options).