healthy homemade take-out snacks for toddlers

[soandsosmum]

Hi

I've enjoyed using Ella's Kitchen snacks especially when we are out during snack time, but I'd really rather make my own.

Do you have any recipes for health, non-messy to eat snacks for toddlers?

eg I'd love to have a nice breakfast bar type thing, but not full of sugar. How do I get dried fruit to stick the thing together??!

to be honest i think tons of dried fruit etc is as bad as sugary treats.

my 4 yr old has a tiny cavity in one of his front teeth and the dentist says she's seeing more and more of them in young children because we feed them all raisins etc thiniking it's healthy but actually they're full of sugar and they stick to teeth

she said a couple of digestives, or some chocolate are far better in terms of their teeth because it washes off the teeth quicker than dried fruit etc!

if your concern is giving unprocessed food rather than the sugar in it though you can use honey or agave nectar to make flapjack and just add whatever fruit yoiu want into it

what about scones? Cheese or sultana?

yes scones is a good idea!
sandwiches
breadsticks

Cheese sticks.

DS (16 months) loves savoury muffins, I bake some every now and then and put broccoli, cheese and tomatoes in them. I love them too, I eat more than him

www.mydaddycooks.com/2010/09/16/radio-courgette-parmesan-and-sun-dried-tomato-muffins/

Cheese cubes, fruit pieces if he will eat them, bananas.

Interesting post thisisyesterday, sort of off post a bit, but I have a friend that seems to think that all these 'organic' yoyo bears, fruit winders and fruit factory dried up bits are all healthy snacks.. however, as you say, I'd also heard from a dentist source that half these things are just not what they appear..

I'd be interested to hear if other's have heard same and if my suspicions are correct and so much is all just about branding, packaging and getting our money! Also, sure also I've heard of lots of middle class kids having tooth decay or is it acid erosion ? caused by this too much fruit...is there a dentist out there?!

Been desperate to make savoury muffins, thanks for that reciepe.

Sadly I seem no longer able to fob off dd at 18mo with a breadstick.. be great to hear other ideas.

These are lovely gruyere and courgette muffins

I just take a banana or peanut butter sandwich out for a snack. Sticks of carrot/cucumber/pepper and cubes of cheese sometimes. My dentist has given me the fear about raisins and dried fruit, although ds does eat them. I view most snacks aimed at young children as a big con tbh, especially if you compare the ingredients to the 'adult' equivalent. The only difference is the children's one are a 1/4 of the size and cost twice as much!

yummy.. loving all this muffin talk!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that thought that with regards to all these 'snacks'.. it took me a while (call me gullible with a pfb) to suss this - I think I've now discovered raisins in various guises in various places throughout the supermarket at varying cost rather like the coconut milk .. she says drifting off topic.

Sorry not actually contributed any healthy snacks - rice cakes ? though must say, rather like bread sticks I think my dd has developed more 'un-refined' tastes these days!