My boys seem to have hollow legs they are always eating. They both have school lunch and then we eat together as a family at six pm each evening during the week. So I need to find them an after school snack that satisfies their hunger, but doesn’t overfill them. They also have Judo, cubs and football, so it is all about balancing their needs and wants, which isn’t easy when you are 8 and 9!
Healthy after school snack ideas
The biggest thing I have learned is that I need to make sure I have something ready for when they get in from school, to make sure that they don;t reach for the wrong type of food.
- Peanut butter, banana, and nutella on brown bread
- Cheese, crackers and crudites
- Afternoon tea
- Fruit salad and yogurt
- Muffins
- Cereal
- Smoothies
- Breadsticks and Dip
- Maltloaf
- Dried Fruit and nut mix
- Cookies and milk
- Toast
- Soup
- Beans or spaghetti on toast
Now I wish I was one of those Mum’s that always have things prepared, but I don’t and the boys don’t always go for what I do have. So it is great to have some alternatives in like chips and dip and cakes.
We were recently sent some Kate’s Cakes to try and the boys have been putting them to the test. They are GMO free, free of artificial flavourings and preservatives and made with free range eggs. The come in boxes of six (all individually packaged) for £1.99 and you can get them from Tesco’s.
Mini likes the Lemon Drizzle ones and Maxi’s favorites are chocolate fudge. It means that I don’t have to make a full cake and that I can have something in to serve them with a nice cup of tea after school.
The fact that there is none left two days later tells you how much the boys enjoyed them and MadDad thought they tasted great too. They didn’t even leave me one to try!
Win Kate’s Cakes
For your chance to win 4 boxes of Kate’s Cakes and an afternoon tea set like (with mugs and not my teapot)! then please follow the instructions below.
Kate’s Cake Selection
lots of yummy roasted nuts, esp monkey nuts 🙂
dried apricots and almonds
Cakes
Ryvita crispbread with low fat cheese spread, tomatoes and cucumber.
A handfull of nuts & dried fruit
Rice cakes with organic peanut butter and sliced banana
Grapes
Accidently put the answer in my name part of the rafflecopter so I’ve gone along with it! Vicky Carter.
crackers with cheese
Your Comments
Great competition, thank you.
Fresh fruit salad
Cheese, crackers and crudites
grapes and cheese
Fruit salad
strawberries
green grapes
Cucumber! We get through 6 a week in this house!
Avocado on wholegrain/seeded toast!
fresh fruit salad
Strawberries
Raw cabbage and herring.
any fruit
Fruit and Nuts mix
Your Comments cereal
Strawberries
Dried apricos.
frozen grapes
I love apples!
Peanut butter and banana sandwich
Apples and walnuts
Fruit salad is my favourite healthy snack 🙂 xx
Hummus and carrots or cucumber 🙂
Nuts and dried fruit
Breadsticks and hoummus!
carrot sticks
chopped mixed fruit
a granola bar
Cheese and crackers.
fruit salad
I love fruit….. when its in a cake 🙂
Thats as healthy as i get i’m afraid.
Fruit and nuts
Crackers and cheese
Fresh cream profiteroles covered with gooey toffee sauce.Your Comments
An apple
cheese and grapes
peanuts
I love fruit, but also nuts and carrots! However, I also love chocolate so it’s not all good news….
I love a fruit snack and my favourite drink at the moment is the Vita Coco drink – so yum 🙂
Caroline
http://www.my-family-ties.com
Grapes and Cheese x
Any fruit
Nuts!
Carrot sticks and cherry tomatoes!
Pickled onions & chillies!
Banana sandwiches
Mixed fresh fruit
Fruit and nuts
Fresh fruit salad
Apple and cheese, it’s tasty and quick.
Cold Green Grapes
Grapes and cheese
Bananas with yoghurt
Having now seen those pics, I want some crackers with cheese yummy… I also like peanut butter on apples x
Hmm can’t beat humous and carrots x
An apple
Dried fruit – in particular Apricots.
red and black seedless grapes
Bananas and grapes
A banana
Banana or grapes
My hubby is like a home simpsons wen it comes to cakes/.
walnuts x
Nuts! 🙂
My fave healthy snack has to be a packet of snack a jacks (cheese and chive) with a piece of fruit, or a glass of orange juice.
Fruit is big in this house although sometimes i stretch to a barney cake
Some sweet baby toms, with some lovely hummous. Dreamy!
Crudites and/or breadsticks with a yoghurt dip for me.
fruit and yoghurts
Nuts
cheese and crackers always go down well in our house!
nuts
nuts & dried fruit
Red grapes
Loving your snack list Jen x x
lots of fruit with yoghurt on it
great suggestions… we usually have fruit & yogurt in the afternoon. p.s I LOVE your teapot!!
bananas
rice cakes with peanut butter & banana
Raw carrots
Cheese and crackers with onion relish is my favourite.
Fruit
Activia kiwi yoghurts (full fat tasty ones!)
Marmite on toast! (disappointed your teapot’s not included – I love it!)
Almonds 🙂
Raisins and Sultanas – love eating handfuls of them
Grapes
Grapes or almonds
A fresh and lovely fruit salad 🙂
Flapjack
cherry tomatoes
Cinnamon toast!
Mixed nuts although I tend to pick out the brazils and eat them first.
Muesli Cookies
My Daughter and I both loved pomegranate
peanut butter and banana sandwich
grapes
Fruit & Fibre
Flapjacks – love with dried fruit such as cranberries.
Nuts and dried fruit
Flapjacks yummy!
grapes! faye
Banana
carrot sticks and homous
PEANUTS!
Almonds and dried fruit
Avocado and Honey
grapes
Bananas
Grapes x
Natural low fat yogurt.
Apple slices and peanut butter 🙂
carrot sticks
rice cakes with grapes and cream cheese
Dried fruit 🙂
I love almonds as a healthy snack 🙂
Carrot, Celery and Cucumber sticks with a home made dip.
Carrot batons
Trail mix
Blueberries
Fruit salad makes a fab snack.
Almonds : )
Strawberries
Grapes
Banana
Pitta Bread and Hummus
We love berries in our household – strawberries, blueberries, cherries etc. My carpet bares the war wounds though!
We love bananas and handfuls of sultanas in our house
popcorn 🙂
Fruit and nuts
lots of fruit
30g of cheese and grapes
Pineapple
Nuts