What are your kids having for an after school snack?

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Today, they are having a croissant and apple but some days it’s crisps and biscuits, sometimes it’s soup.

I’m looking for inspiration so I can be a bit more consistent with healthy stuff.

I chop up a whole bunch of vegetable sticks and keep them in the fridge along with tubs of homemade hummus and either sour cream and chives or tahini yoghurt sauce. Those and a couple of breadsticks becomes an easy instant option for my boys...

My youngest likes to have crumpets or cheese.

biscuit of some kind usually - Goodies bar, Barney, Nature bar. Apple if still hungry before dinner.

They have a small chocolate bar and small 10p pack of crisps.

So far my 7 year old has had chocolate raisins, hot cross buns, hot milk and a banana! Must be a growth spurt...

Piece of toast with butter and a slice of ham, and a 50p mix up. It was two small slices of malted loaf with butter yesterday and I think he had crisps and an orange on Monday.

It's just whatever's about really, cucumbers and buttered crackers is a favourite.

My DC eat the leftovers from their packed lunches - this is their choice! They never eat it all at school as they're in a rush to get out and play. DS usually just has fruit left over. DD eats her sandwich crusts and other scraps too :)

No other after-school snacks, but they eat their tea quite early at about half 5 - me and DP eat later when I'm back from work.

At the weekends there are usually biscuits, cake etc. about.

Slice of banana Soreen with butter, toasted potato cake, cream crackers with cheese and jam, cucumber with hummus, mini wrap with cheese and tomato, Greek yoghurt with berries & granola, apples with peanut butter. These are some things my 6 year olds have after school that they enjoy.

I have teens - DS had a banana and DD is making chicken nuggets from scratch (she'll eat these then not want her dinner most likely!).

Crisps and chocolate one day
Rice cakes and cheese the next
Carrot sticks the next
She doesn't like bread, so it's a bit tricky.

nothing. they eat dinner quite early, about 5;30

Ds has just had two slices of cake. It was banana bread but if I mentioned the b-word he wouldn't eat it . Dd had a ham sandwich. Dinner will be about 5.30, but they have their packed lunch at 12.30 so they are half dead with hunger when I collect them at 3.

There is a little sainsburies with a bakery right by DS nursery so today we are sharing a cheese straw. Other favourite is a couple of their mini donuts.

More healthy options are a bowl of strawberries, apple crisps, toast, pitta bread and hummus, plain bread roll or porridge (DS is 2! I can't imagine an older DC asking for either)

Sometimes DS is starving so I just make him dinner (get home just after 4)

one had peanut butter on toast, the other chocolate crepe and a smoothie!

A hot cross bun.

He gets home at 4 and has dinner at about 7.

Ds rice crispie bar

Dd rice crispie bar, almonds and croissants

Not croissants! Carrots

Mostly hot cross buns and gluten free fruit loaf at the moment (depending on the child).

Mine are 4 and 8.

Sometimes they are too busy playing to bother with a snack, esp if they have friends round or go to the park after school. And sometimes I make them wait and have early tea, so that they eat that instead of filling up on snacks (dc2 is particularly likely to do that) - if we do that then they often have supper before bed.

Anyway, typical snacks at whatever time include:
Bowl of cereal
Dry cheerios
Homemade cake or flapjack (I like to tell myself that these are more nutritious than shop bought)
Malt loaf
Fruit
Popcorn
Babybel

I'm following as I'd like to get some more savoury options in the mix.

Today DS has had raspberries, a banana, creme egg and a small bag of haribo . He was very hangry when he finished school and has thankfully stopped shouting.

Mine don't eat particularly healthily with after school snacks. I started off with houmous and the like with all the best intentions. Now they have a yogurt/Ritz crackers/fruit/cereal bar/brioche/a biscuit.

Disclaimer teenager afterschool snack - apple and toast (4 pm). Cereal (5pm). Dinner is about to be ready by 6, then it will be some variation of bagel and peanut butter (7pm), milk and banana (8pm) and possibly more cereal and youghurt before bed. With crackers and cheese inbetween. Never ever stops eating!

It always surprises me when other children aren’t hungry after school and wait until their evening meal/dinner. My DD (Y1) is has a school hot lunch at 12pm and finishes school at 3pm and is ravenous, I take something for her to eat on the way home. School lunch portions are small though. She has a cereal bar, small sandwich, breadsticks or crisps straight after school and then has her hot evening meal around 5pm. And usually tells me she is hungry from 4pm onwards.

Some kids do eat more than others I guess.

Crisps.
Olives.
Nuts.
Choc digestives.

Nothing as they go to the cminders and she doesn't give them anything. They did have a phase of taking a bag of cookies but were forced to share (by other mindees). So now they wait for their dinner, inhale that and then snack after that.

On the days I collect they have cheese and crackers, humus and breadsticks, fruit and sweets (still getting through Xmas stash)