What healthy snacks/treats can I get in for the kids?

[FoodWoes]

Am over hauling our eating habits

What better choices can I make?
Obviously fruit but what about stuff with a better shelf life?

change 4 life have loads of healthy breakfast recipes here.

Popcorn. Cook it yourself (DC love doing this). No oil, just a hot pan, a small scatteirng or corns and a glass pan lid.so you can see them pop and bounce. Then fine sprinkling of salt or vanilla sugar (or paprika or cinnamon sugar if they prefer) and they have a bowl full of warm popcorn with lots of fibre, no fat and only 2.5g sugar.

I sometimes roast a roast in the bag chicken and they love snacking on pieces of that, straight from the frige, wrapped in iceberg leaves.

Nuts are good. Lightly toasted walnuts, almonds or cashews.

You can make cake, biscuits and chocolate brownies with almond and soy flour, lots of eggs, real butter and low sugar (1 part sugar & 1 part butter to 2 parts flour. That way the cake is full of protein from the almonds, eggs and soya, so it's better for them and won't induce cravings like white flour carbs do.

I wouldn't encourage snacking. Three meals is enough.

When I was a child there were no restrictions on food, i was welcome to help myself whenever and as much as i wanted, to whatever was available. There were always loads of crisps, chocolates, sweets, unhalthy things available along with healthier fruits, nuts etc. I ate A LOT. I ate out of boredom, because I wanted it, because it was there. Never gained a lot of weight because I was young and fit and active but as I grew older I gained massive amounts of weight as i carried the snacking habit with me. I ate mindlessly and even when trying to lose weight with diet and exercise i just kept eating snacks and it was a really hard habit to break.

then when I did work through the snacking habit, I gradually lost 100lbs and maintained it after losing and gaining and losing and gaining 50lbs over and over. Cutting snacks is definitely the thing that helped get to a point where i don't need to lose more AND can maintain weight.

If they absolutely must have snacks, make it a thing you control and portion things out for them. Don't give them free access to the food unless you want to risk creating an unhealthy attitude towards eating.

Popcorn kernels. Pop your own.

Cereal: weeta box, dried fruit seeds. Lasts longer than cornflakes.

Not really interested in peoples opinions about snacking. That's not what I asked.

Good lord, a significant amount of these posts can't be considered healthy food.

Fruit is sugar
Wheat is sugar when digested
Corn is sugar when digested (including popcorn)
Rich tea biscuits are sugar when digested
Breakfast cereals are sugar before they're digested!!
Bread is sugar when digested as is pasta rice and potatoes.

Eating sugar drives hunger.

To keep kids fuller for longer pick whole foods with good protein and healthy fats. Otherwise it's sugar for breakfast, lunch and dinner and sugar for snacks.

@Anewchapter19 nut butter etc is fine from 6months, but whole nuts are still a chocking risk for toddlers/young children so not recommended

Agree with 8stoneloser, a lot of the snacks suggested are all carbs and no protein. After the sugar dip you're hungry again.

I knew someone who dried slices of sweet potatoes and gave them to her kids as snacks. They seemed to like it.

@Anewchapter19
Choking hazard. He has nuts in food, just not whole ones for snacking. I think 5 is recommended age.

Bread, toast with butter, peanut butter, jam or marmite
Fruit
Yogurts
Noodles for teenagers
I figured out if they were really hungry they would eat these

Apple and peanut butter is a great snack super healthy too. Cheese and grapes/pineapple,Crackers and hummus/cream cheese, bread sticks, homemade ice lollys. We make ours with not from concentrate juice mixed with water. You can put Greek yogurt, cut up fruit and honey if you want it sweeter in a muffin case and freeze. It's a bit messy but delicious
Also if you mix oats and banana together and bake makes a sort of chewy bite thing!

Snacks we have are plain popcorn/do sometimes have sweet for movie night , cheese and crackers, breadsticks and cream cheese , rice cakes ( my little boy has plain I have nut butter ) homous crisp things, fruit , veg sticks ( just simple things apple , banana , carrot ect ). For breakfast my little boy always has fruit usually a few things cut up apple/ tinned peaches/ grapes/blueberries ect then he will either have a bowl of bran flakes ( dry ,) then Greek yoghurt , handful of almonds, or beans on toast, or a omelette, scrambled eggs on toast, eggy bread or homeade banana and oat pancakes, sometimes we get the frozen bake your own croissants usually have those at the weekend. If he is hungry before we leave for school he usually has a banana and milk.

@milliefiori do you have any recipes for the cakes/biscuits please?