After school snacks for Mediterranean diets

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I keep hearing about the Mediterranean diet being really healthy etc and then think about what DC eat after school for snacks and it got me thinking, what do teens in Mediterranean countries eat when they get back from school? I don’t mean meals, but where DC might have a hot cross bun for a snack before dinner…. What is an equivalent?

All sorts really, Figs, dates, olives, almonds, dark chocolate, yoghurt, berries, cold meats, oats, eggs etc

• Slice of whole grain toast and whole nut butter
• Date bark (dates, nut butter, dark chocolate)
• Omelette
• porridge (DD likes apple and cinnamon) - could also do baked oats /sort of flapjack
• veggie sticks and hummus/ tahini

Piles of UPF crap

What's wrong with a hot cross bun? Loads of "Mediterranean" countries happily feed rheit bread and Nutella after school every day!

I’m not Mediterranean, we don’t really bother with snacks generally during the day, but we often have olives, cheese, cucumber, carrot, peppers, etc., as a snack before dinner whilst it’s being prepared.

Honestly...
pane e nutella
or
tea and biscuits.
I used to love dipping lady finger biscuits into yoghurt.

IME Italians tend to have very healthy lunches and dinners but kids usually have an unhealthy afternoon snack. Breakfast varies but is usually small and toast/biscuit based.

I'm Mediterranean and feed them what my mum fed me...

Cheese
Fruit
Yogurts
Nuts
Homemade savoury muffins

Sorry nothing wrong with hot cross bun! Just been told they’re bored and ‘there’s never anything to eat’ etc so was looking for inspiration!

lots of great suggestions here!

Date bark sounds yummy!

It's delicious 😋 😋 😋

This.

DH is Mediterranean and he has meat and cheese with some nuts.

The Mediterranean diet has been debunked. The study was done during the post war period and during orthodox lent. They were either too poor after the war for meat or orthodox so during lent didn’t eat it.

My DH’s grandparents ate mainly meat, cheese, eggs and few vegetables. They had pasta once or twice a month, not daily.

Also, they can just have simple things like an apple or banana and some yoghurt.

Get them to make savoury muffins and flapjacks. Really easy to make.

Also omelette bites they can have

They can have cheese toasties, or a mug/bowl of homemade soup.

Chicken l and sweetcorn/ tuna mayo pasta etc

My sister lives abroad and her kids will often have a sandwich as a snack. School finishes earlier and leans comes are different so it’s not a direct comparison.
The previous poster who suggested kids not having hugely healthy snacks was right in my experience. Lots of enormous packets of crisps and sweet mix ups from the little roadside cabins .

I'm mediterranean; my after-school snacks used to be yogurt, wholemeal bread with some nutbutter, fruit, cheese, cucumber, carrots- whilst waiting for dinner. Depends on the age of course, teens will eat junk. It also depends on the household, like everywhere. We can't really generalise. My Dc's snacks are crackers, cheese and carrot/cucumber sticks. Or yogurt. Or some homemade pie/muffin/cake. I don't mind if they have an unhealthy snack now and then because on the whole, we follow the mediterranean diet - the only one I know so not difficult for us.

I’m British but I gave my dc hummus, carrots and cucumber after school when little, snacks stopped completely around 7, they waited until dinner. Not sure when this snack obsession started, mine ate tea at 6.30, so not early, if they had even a biscuit it affected their appetite