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.

@paddingtonthebear I'm always surprised when other children need snacks the minute they leave school, as it's only 3 hours since they had lunch.

As you say, some kids eat more than others.

That wasn't meant to sound rude!

DD has toasted something, bread, crumpets, teacakes, fruit bread etc. Mostly with peanut butter and a Mocha coffee. She’s nearly 15. Takes it off to her room and does her homework.

She could of course wait until tea at 6.30pm but I don’t go 5-6 hours without a snack or something so why should she (plus I think it helps with the study).

Yes school portions are much smaller (I’ve seen them) than what we would give at home. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be hungry after 3-4 hours.

Toast, crumpets, malt loaf, teacakes with fruit & milk.

Fruit salad, breadsticks with hummous, nuts/seeds/raisins mix, cheese, popcorn, yoghurt.

I take something to school for DS1 as we have a 20 minute walk home and he is always so hungry! Usually either a packaged snack (goodies oat bar or maltloaf), homemade banana bread/ muffin/flapjack, or cracker/ oatcake with peanut butter or cream cheese.

DS17 has sausage rolls and more sausage rolls. Surprised he doesn't look like one!,

Pretzels from M&S bakery currently a favourite or a peeled carrot to eat on the way home and occasionally an ice cream
from the van

Mine are 5 and 8 and go to after school club. I send in mini brioche rolls, cheese strings, fruit, sometimes those yoghurt and seed covered rice cakes from Sainsbury's

DD is always “starving” when she comes out of school, so I take advantage of this and give her carrot sticks, berries, mini cucumber and tomatoes, a banana, etc, when she comes out. She’s generally still hungry after this (no wonder), so will have crusty bread, cheese, bread sticks, Pom bears, a couple of biscuits or little cake. If she eats too much, she picks at her dinner

Mine is allowed fruit or veg as soon as she comes home from school and then at snack time (school finishes at 12 so too early for a proper snack when she comes home) it'll be either toast with cheese/yoghurt and granola/crisps/couple of biscuits and fruit. I do a menu each week with the snack written up so there's no arguing about it.

Usually a piece of fruit and a cereal bar. I wouldn’t survive with all my limbs if I didn’t give them a snack the second they leave the classroom

My DC are starving after school and even though we eat dinner early, they need something to eat to last a few hours.

Yesterday it was cheese sandwiches and berries
Today it was pain au chocolate and crisps

DS (8) has a choc bar on way home from school. Then toast or crumpet with an apple or banana. Then biscuits he'll have sneaked out of the cupboard and another piece of toast as he has just learnt to do it himself, maybe a yoghurt too. I do dinner at 6.30.

Older DC make sandwiches and empty fruit bowl and biscuit tin!

My youngest has a habit of liberating (with permission) a piece of fruit from the school office on our way out of the building. That keeps him going until we get home. Dinner isn’t usually too late so that’s often all he’ll get. When times are traumatic I’ll break out the biscuit tin though, because sometimes a small boy needs a custard cream to help deal with the cruelty of the life he is forced to endure.*

• Having to share a switch console with his siblings. Oh! The humanity!

Youngest always has a babybel cheese.

Oldest varies but generally crisps, an ice lolly or sometimes a biscuit

I used to have a tomato with salt on it, or ryvita with cheese. Never really had a sweet tooth.