My boys are bottomless. Sometimes it seems they do nothing but eat and when they get home from school they are ravenous. So much so they will grab anything they can find and there is not thought to its nutrition. So as a parent it is down to me to make sure we have a selection of healthy after school snacks available and to help them make the right choice.
I am all about moderation and we do not have such a thing as bad snacks, just ones that we have in moderation. I am keen not to label unhealthy food as a treat. I am super lucky in the fact that I have got to boys that are pretty adventurous in their food choices but that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t love to have a Nutella sandwich every day after school!
So when we were offered a trial of Chewy Moon, a weekly snack box for kids, we decided to put it to the test. Chewy Moon provide a weekly box of hugely healthy, alternative snacks and guilt-free after school treats for growing kids. The boys have been diligently putting the box through its paces and trying the snacks out each night after school and I have to say we are big fans.
I have always been pretty strict when it comes to snacks, as family mealtimes are really important to me, so it is key that snacks are filling enough to see the kids though to mealtime, but not too much to impede on it. This is where Chewy Moon have got it spot on. The pack sizes are perfect and the selection of both sweet and savoury snacks are really satisfying. They understand that snacks form an integral part of children’s diets. Younger children need them as they can not eat enough in one sitting and often get hungry before their next meal and older children (like my boys) are active and fast growing, so get cranky without snacks. Hanger (hungry anger) is a BIG thing here.
So what do you get? For £4.93 including postage you get a weekly Snack Box that contains five 100% natural snacks, with no added sugar that come addressed to your child and then every fourth week, you get a family box with an additional two “adult” snack packs (not that us adults got to try them, as the boys ate them too)!
What we loved about Chewy Moon
- They realise that one size doesn’t fit all, so they can be tailored to your child’s age, activity level and can be nut free too.
- Compared to supermarket healthy snacks they are great value.
- You can opt for sweet savoury or a mix.
- You can cancel your subscription at any time. There is no commitment.
- They aim to make nutrition fun and each pack contains nutritional facts, comic strips and a cardboard totem toy that you can collect and stack as the weeks go by.
- The boys loved the easy open packets – no need to ask for my help.
We weren’t keen
Actually, we really struggled with finding any bad points, other than the boys arguing over who was having what – so we would be purchasing two packs and it would be nice to get a discount on subsequent packs purchased.
I am delighted to be partnering with Chewy Moon to offer you a months subscription to their excellent snack boxes. To be in with a chance of winning just complete the Gleam entry below. Good luck and even if you do not win, then head over to Chewy Moon and claim your first box free (you just pay the postage).
Chewy Moon four week subscription
My grandson loves a banana
At the moment it is breadsticks or pancakes. Great giveaway x
My 2 love cheese & crackers.
This looks like a great idea for something different.
a small bowl of raisins x
favourite chocolate, so to introduce him to something healthy would be good.
usually a bag of crisps
Look yummy!
bananas or digestives
My daughter loves dates
He loves blueberrys and some nakd bars, which are dried fruit and nuts combined x 🙂
Breadsticks
He’s turning into his grandad…he wants a cup of tea so he can dip his rich tea fingers in it 😉
I always have a big fruit bowl so my son can help himself to fruit as a snack at any time
Apples, she loves them ‘the red ones mum’! 😉 x
My son can’t get enough of apples – he’d eat 5 in a row if he could!
At the ages of 5 and 3 they still love rice cakes but we have now moved on to chocolate covered rice cakes!
My son loves bear yo-yos for an afternoon snack.
Banana
They look great. Love that they can be customised. We have had snack boxes in the past but we can’t really do dried fruit – although they’re healthy, they do still raise blood sugar really fast, so with type 1 diabetes they’re difficult to manage. We would definitely go with savoury to make the them a bit lower in GI.
my daughter loves a peanut butter sandwich as a snack.
My grandchildren love all sorts of snacks, cherry tomatoes, bananas, fruit, they also like all the things with chocolate in too 🙂 x
I think it would be toast and peanut butter!
My two love coming home and raiding the fruitbowl after school. I think they would like to try something different. It is so hard to get the right balance.
Cherry tomatoes xx
Bananas and grapes, ham cheese and crackers, raisins and yoghurt
These look fab, my kids are bottomless pits too
I love the idea of these. My kids are always so hungry after school. We’re loving yo-yos at the moment
My daughters favourite afternoon snack is cheese and pineapple
Cheese on toast.
An apple or some raw carrot sticks.
These look fab, such awesome packaging too!
banana
Her vote is for ice cream. She’s allowed one junk food an afternoon, and the rest is fruit or other healthy snacks.
My grandsons love raisins or an apple
Oh they sound great – we’ve been having real issues recently with finding something that fills my kids rumbling tummies up after school but doesn’t leave them too full for dinner.
Blueberries.
my boys love popcorn & yoghurt bark
That does look like a great little box although I think it would work out a bit expensive for my buying two a week – we have a fruit bowl rule that you can have anything from the fruit bowl any time without asking but any other snacks you have to ask for x
At the moment the favourite is banana followed by mini chocolate cookies.
At the moment cheese is the favourite here!
Grapes and banana
My daughters love malt loaf 🙂 These bars look great, they would love to try something different!
A bowl of mixed fruit x
any kind of fruit x
Strawberries or kiwi fruit
Sliced apples and raisins
Fruit salad
Mini babybels are the current favourites
Chocolate bars, but they are never allowed them!
Actually look quite tasty: might take some myself lol
My daughter loves muffins. She would prefer chocolate but mainly gets oatmeal raisin x
Favourite after school snack is crisps.
Both my kids love grapes but if I’m being honest, if you asked the question to them I imagine biscuits or jaffa cakes would be their first answer
my sons favourite snack is fruit
Blueberries 🙂
Rasins
If my daughter could choose anything then it would probably be a pack of crisps!!
Rice cakes and raisins 🙂
grapes