What are we feeding our kids? Snacks

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With the summer holidays looming, I'm looking for inexpensive, relatively healthy snack ideas for my DC, 6 & 8. They are pretty picky eaters, one more so than the other (ADHD) and won't eat any veggies, and only eat a limited variety of fruit. Things that seem fun or are a bit of a novelty might go over well but I'm drawing a blank - and I don't want to add loads extra to my normal shop cos who can afford that?!

Home made popcorn, big bag of kernels are £1 from the range. They’re lovely, freshly popped with a sprinkle of icing sugar. Fun to made too if you do them in a glass lidded pan.

Fruit kebabs (they can make them for “fun”).
breadsticks dipped in whatever they can handle.

My kids are snack tyrants in the holidays. I find that generally find the first snack of the day is the easiest time to get healthy things into them. For this, I do a plate of cucumber and carrot sticks, raisins and whatever fruit is cheapest (often this is apple slices but I supplement with reduced/yellow stickered anything from the supermarket). Once they’ve eaten a load of this I’m much more relaxed about filling them up with beige stuff if they’re still hungry: rice cakes, oatcakes, breadsticks. They can decorate the oatcakes / rice cakes with other bits of fruit too which sometimes helps.

It’s all so expensive though, the holiday snack situation is always fairly ruinous for us!

Fantastic ideas! I don't know why I hadn't thought of popcorn before. My kids love it .

Mine have:

a little plate of fruit and a yoghurt to dip it into

cucumber, breadsticks and dip

mini cheddars and little cubes of cheese

banana and custard

Maybe not completely healthy, but a compromise with a bit of both.