What snacks do you buy for your kids weekly?

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?? I think we're snacking too much and need to cut down

Mine are in primary school and go to after school club and I don’t know exactly what snacks they have there.

But we don’t really buy other snacks regularly. They get sweets etc at parties that tend to last a while, they still have chocolate from Easter. Sometimes they get a packet of crisps but I don’t buy them regularly.

At times far too many. Other times we are better. If I bake I always try and load it with flack seed or whatever. Every little helps etc.

Crisps, biscuits for the tin, big bag of popcorn and individually wrapped biscuits.

I don’t buy many packaged snacks, they mostly have things like fresh or dried fruit, veg sticks, nuts, cheese and crackers. But my kids are v fond of crisps and those itsu seaweed thins so we go through quite a lot of those. I buy those yo-yo things sometimes too.

Granola bars like nature valley or Go Ahead yoghurt bars. We mainly buy Sun bites crisps and ritz crackers. We make flapjacks and cake bars and banana bread. Usually fruit or veg sticks with cream cheese or hummous.

We also have biscuits in the barrel, bread and mini sausage rolls, scotch eggs, chicken bites etc in the fridge.

Yoghurts and babybels.
Otherwise various fruit. Grapes are our main go too, for some reason my DS takes ages to eat one bowl of grapes, that’s keeps him busy 🤷‍♀️ And they’re easy to pop in a little bag or tub to take along somewhere.

Fruit, natural yogurt and we bake cakes or make flapjacks.

Cubes of cheese or raisins also go down well.

I think this depends on the age of the children. Snacking needs of a 3 year old are different to that of a 15 year old.

None

Cheese strings, yoghurt, and multi-grain hoops. Oh, and some ritz crackers.

That’s about it, really.

After school snacks tend to be (because they are always staaaaaaaaaaaaarving):

Cheese and apple
babybels
hummous and crackers
ritz crackers
A ridiculous amount of strawberries at this time of year

Yogurts, crisps, fruit, crackers, nuts, nature valley bars, the fruit bowl fruit snacks, biscuits, flapjacks, brioche, the mini packs of cookies/whatever. Not all at the sane time though!

12 yo doesn't often snack but when he does its babybels or yoghurt

(For teenagers) fruit, crisps, biscuits (loose ones for the tin and individually wrapped ones), yogurts, cereal bars (actually, they’re mostly mine), crackers, something for the fridge like sausage rolls or scotch eggs, cake of some kind or I bake. I don’t buy everything every single week, but we get through all of those things regularly, plus bread, ham, cheese, toast toppings (when Ds1 was at home we got through soo much peanut butter and chocolate spread!)

My DS5 is one of those kids who gets HANGRY. He’s very thin and tall, and seems to need to eat constantly so we buy a lot of snacks.

He has 4 section snack boxes which usually I fill with 2 sweet and 2 savoury snacks per day and he has 1 in the am and one in the pm at school.

So it might be a box of raisins, some chopped up strawberries, a bag of mini cheddars and some cubes of feta and chopped cherry tomatoes in each box.

Then when he gets in from school he has a big snack - cheese on toast or a sandwich or marmite crumpets or something.

Then his 3 meals.

school sometimes give him extra snacks if he runs out and is still hungry - usually breadsticks and apple or a banana.

DH is about the same with snacks - needs a pretty much constant supply.

I don’t snack at all. They are both skinny and I’m fat - how is that fair?!

crisps, popcorn, rice cakes (the big ones), biscuits, mini cathedral city cheese, breadsticks, raspberries, ice lollies, crackers.

Mine are 9 and 5 and eat loads during the holidays.

Agree it depends on the age of the child or YA

When DS 21 was younger he would inhale crisps and chocolate bars at the expense of food if he had been allowed.

Now, I get requests for olives, smoked salmon to go with his scrambled egg ( salmon only when it is on offer) parma ham (again offer) avocados and wraps and olive bread.

Yoghurts, babybels, cocktail sausages, crisps and fruit.

More fruit than is reasonable.
Raisins
I bake once a week only something quick either flapjack or cookies (a healthier recipe).
I make cheese sticks because they got into the cathedral city ones at my mums but they are ridiculously expensive.
cheese crackers/ritz for homemade lunchables.
shit for smoothies/orange juice which I then freeze into lollies.
Cereal and Nutella.
a cow’s worth of milk a week.

Feta, olives, ham, chorizo, dips with crudités, lots of melon and strawberries, raisins, yogurts, flap Jack, baby bel and other cheeses/fruits and Madeleines.

Costs a fortune.

My teen - pepperami, crisps, fruit, yoghurt, houmous, mini cheese snacks, two finger Kit Kats
my 5 year old - fruit, yoghurts, cheese strings, baby bel, party rings, slide type cakes, cheese straws, rice cakes (this is also what her lunches are made up of but will be snacks too)

when I was younger snacks were rationed and a lot of the time snacks like biscuits were counted to keep track of what we was having, we weren't allowed to snack between meals even if we was hungry it was "you can have a piece of fruit" and it meant we would often sneak food upstairs and deal with the consequences later. But as soon as we got our own money we would gorge on chocolates and cakes and now I don't even feel like I like cakes and chocolate all that much but something in my head tells me I have to have them because they was used as a reward for finishing my tea when I was younger and I secret eat a lot too.
Now I have my own daughter i buy a normal amount of unhealthy and healthy snacks and she can have them when she wants she's 2 and she often opts for fruit over chocolate and biscuits. I think if you are deprived of something you want it more.
IMO I probably wouldnt pay too much attention to how much snacks your buying as long as your children aren't overweight and are healthy.

Agree with @daisyjgrey the snacks type depend on your children's age.
Mine eat 3 meals a day with 1 snack sometimes just because I'm very conscious about their dental health. I give them a solid 2 or 3 course at lunch and dinner with protein to make sure they can last til the next meal.

Snacks that I buy/make but are often eaten with a meal:

Fresh coconut pieces, fruit, mini vegetables, cucumber, Dried unsweetened coconut flakes, sugar free jelly, Greek yogurt with desiccated coconuts or flaked almond and honey, strawberries and cream, frozen fruit and cream or yogurt, olives, garlic prawns, guacamole/salsa and tortilla chips, smoked salmon and cream cheese, frozen banana lollies sometimes dipped in chocolate, smoothies, tzatziki and mini toasted pita and veg sticks, cold cooked chicken tikka slices.

So it would be: breakfast at 7;30am, lunch at 12pm, snack at 3;30 and then dinner at 6-7pm and bed at 10.

itsu seaweed and nuts as well! Sometimes a cup of bouillon in winter or a soup.