After school snack ideas

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DS1 is 11 and is home alone after school. He is always starving. I've tried bagels / cheese and crackers but he's still hungry.

He's not that into fruit and has a very sweet tooth!

Any other snack suggestions? Particularly stuff that's easy for him to make himself.

Batch cook banana muffins. Freeze and defrost one each day.

Same with pin wheels, mini frittatas etc

I had this with mine as both didn’t eat anything during the day as didn’t want packed much and thought the school dinners were disgusting, so upon arrival at home they were ‘starving’.

Snacking when they got in didn’t work as they wanted to eat a million choc bars and not anything healthy as such so I just brought forward their tea time earlier so that that they ate a proper meal when they came home and then later on in the evening g they could have a snack and or a light supper.

Teach him how to boil eggs / make scrambled eggs on toast?

Mine always liked instant packet noodles when he got in.

I don't get in until after him soola so it's hard to bring dinner forward.

Noodles is an idea!

Do you have a good muffin recipe!! Or a pinwheel one .

Flavoured instant porridge
Flapjacks
Mini pizzas
Crumpets
Smoothies
Frozen yogurt
Rice pudding

Could you make pasta salad and just keep in fridge so he can help himself? Or if he wants something hot, could you teach him how to make a toastie?

He loves a toastie (!!) but has them for lunch most days!

He'd not eat pasta salad unfortunately.

Thanks for all the ideas.

Put a large Birds Eye potato waffle in the toaster. Whilst waiting, microwave a Heinz beans snap pot and voila... a quick and easy snack!
Microwave soup and a bread roll
Hot chocolate (made with milk so it’s filling)

@Soola I read an article by a mum who did the same thing. Decided to serve DCs proper dinner food when they came in from school, and then they'd have a snack later on while parents ate dinner.

My DCs are not in school yet but I think it's a very good idea. As otherwise you always worry that the snack you serve will put them off a proper meal later.

Crumpets, hummus and toasted pita, still frozen peas (!!) , fruit but prreferably cut up. Melon, watermelon, oranges, grapes.

Are our staples. But also often an icelolly or hotchocolate depending on weather.

Healthier alternative, but sweet enough even for jaded teens!

www.wellplated.com/energy-balls/

Just have make himself a sandwich

Fruit toast or toasted buns ?

@Soola I do the same ds has his main meal at around 4pm then supper around 6.30

Can you prep dinner in the slow cooker in the morning so it can just be spooned out, or make it the night before and portion out so he can just heat his serving up in the microwave? Then you can have yours when you get in, and he could have a bagel or whatever before bed if necessary

Teacakes / hot cross buns
Scones - sweet or savoury
Mug shots / pot noodles etc
Tinned soup
Toast
Babybels or similar
Pepperamis/ cocktail sausages / mini scotch eggs etc
Brioche

Hummus
Nuts
Yoghurt
Quiche (and salad, ideally!)

Protein is normally what curbs hunger pangs, though a growing kid needs plenty of pretty much everything. What you ideally want to avoid, if this is every day, are too many sugar laden things like biscuits, cake and the like.

Could you have a portion of whatever you had for dinner the previous evening in the fridge that he could just microwave?