Food for day out with toddler.

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We are planning an outing to London zoo next week. It's going to be a fairly long day for my toddler and I want to make sure he gets plenty of opportunities to rest and eat, to avoid meltdown. Can you suggest easy finger or spoon food that we can take with us? I want to avoid sugary snacks.

TIA.

Buy yoghurt pouches (I like these but Frubes or whatever are fine), freeze them, and then they'll be defrosted but still cold by lunch. They'll keep the rest of your food cold too. Same trick works with drinks / milk.

DD loves avocado so I take one, a knife and chop it fresh. A little tupperware of grapes. Small boxes of raisins. Chunks of cheese and cold meat if you eat it - ham or salami. Oatcakes. Organix oaty bars are usually involved too.

Bananas are my staple for out and about to fill up between meals

And cooking up a tub of pasta salad

Cheese on toast cooled is surprisingly edible by my tots standards too...

Thanks, everyone. Anetter, just how did you find out about the cheese on toast?!

Pb sandwich, banana, grapes, babybel is standard fare for my 4yr old since ever. He loves a good peanut butter sandwich.

Ds2 20 months prefers soft cheese sandwich, banana, blueberries, breadsticks and a pot of hummus if theres room.

I just pack the same thing each time now, at least I know they will eat ok even if we stop for lunch somewhere they dont much like.

My grandma always made it for me for picnics as a kid... Is it really odd?? Lol

We usually take a Tupperware box billed with different fruits. Cheese Straws are very portable and you could make them in advance and freeze them. Patties are good and we've been known to stick a slice of homemade pizza in for dd when she was this age.

How about a slice of omelette, onion bhajis or a savoury muffin.

Failing that, just take a Greggs Pacifier sausage roll

I make cheese scones, home made fruity flapjack. Dried cereal in a tub. Little cocktail sausages and cherry tomatoes. Lots of drinks. Apple & date sticks (Organix).

Sandwiches are boring but universal for a reason.

I also carried a lot of cocktail sausages, breadsticks, grapes, lumps of cheese and small tupperware of dry cherrios.

Cocktail sausages are always a favourite here, and oddly my 15 month old loves picnic eggs! If you take sandwiches, cut them into little fingers rather than quarters, easier to give a bit as going around. Grapes and blueberries work well as snacky foods.