CM club - what snacks do you give?

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For a very long time I have been considering stopping cooking a proper tea for mindees and this week have let all parents know that I'll will be replacing a cooked tea with a snack for everyone.

So, today, they had pitta cut up into fingers, lots of chopped carrot, cucumber, pepper and dip. I offered fruit but only one of them wanted any.

Some days, when time was very limited, I'd do beans and toast so will still offer that and sandwiches.

Any more snack suggestions?

I have lots of fussy eaters, 2 vegetarians and one or two who refuse to try new things and I'm hoping to be able to offer lots of different things to encourage everyone to try things.

Firm favourites here include:

brioche
pitta bread and dips
cheese and crackers
pancakes
toast (with various toppings)
strawberries, cream and shortbread
cheese scones
bread and honey
homemade biscuits / flapjacks
occasional tea party with sandwiches and cake
I almost always have fruit / crudities on offer to supplement the snack ( i.e. I would offer tomatoes or grapes with cheese and crackers or banana with the brioche or pancakes etc.

I do get stuck for ideas though so will be watching other replies with interest

Thanks!

Well, mindee 1&2 today looked quite unimpressed when they realised there wouldn't be a cooked meal, eventhough they are two of the hardest to feed. Mindee 3 was thrilled with the pitta bread and the fact that it was all in the middle of table as she thought it would go unnoticed that she only ate the bread and kept well away from the rest of it .

I'm just so fed up of the amount of food wasted and the amount of time spent preparing and cooking it for most of it to end up in the bin .

The downside to this is that I still have to actually cook dinner for DS and I once everyone has left .

I have before and after school mindees. 2 of them are siblings the only snack they eat is toast. They get picked up at 4.30 and we get home from school at 4.00. The other mindee sometimes has toast but wille at fruit. The 2 siblings won't eat fruit or veg,

I'm really lucky in that I sometimes have up to 8 for dinner and they all eat pretty much everything as long as there are no mushrooms!

I think you have it pretty much covered. I would have put humus with my pittas and cucumber/carrots etc - it's nice to dip it.
Add crumpets to your list too.
How about as an activity you get some paninis, slice them as if to make a toastie and allow the children to turn them into pizzas - chopped tomatoes, grated cheese and a variety of toppings - stick em in the oven for 10 - 15 mins and hey presto

I'd get teacakes too, and yogurts. Brioche rolls are good. I agree with not cooking.

I do:
Toast
Sandwiches
Wraps with ham or cheese
Crumpets
With breadsticks/ mini sausages.

With yoghurt, rice pudding, homemade sponge and custard, homemade cake/ buns for pudding.

The children are happy with it and the after schoolies all have school dinner. I feed my one daytime mindee a dinner at 12, and I usually scrape most of it in the bin because they must eat crap at home! Which is why I don't do a cooked evening meal, I think there would be so much waste.

Nokidshare - lol mine are the same will eat pretty much everything except mushrooms (which I love & would gladly put in anything!!). Some of these snacks sound delicious but I'd wonder whether they are more expensive than a basic meal sometimes.