What After school snacks do you give ?

[Heatherjayne1972]

Just wondering what after school snacks you give? Do you buy something or make something?

I don't bother to be honest! They have some fruit if they're starving but given we have dinner at 5pm I would rather not ruin their appetite for their dinner.

normally have a yoyo bear or an apple if they are starving. we also have dinner 430-5 :)

Fruit or yoghurt are staples. Sometimes carrot and cucumber sticks, sometimes chocolate biscuit (Penguin/Club type). If they are very hungry better an interim snack than a meltdown due to hunger before food is cooked.

We eat dinner quite late, seven, so DCs eat a lot, but itudt include a pot of veggies - usually carrot, cherry toms, sweet corn and cucumber. They are v bad at eating veg if it isn't hidden in dinner. Also usually have a grit or two - dried or sweet. About 3 times a week they also have a biscuit, or organic bar or alike.

Fruit. Not grit - that would be funny!

Fruit
Celery/carrot
Choc rice cakes
Sun bites
Philadelphia on crackers
Biscuit

Mini soreen loaf or 2 jaffa cakes
cucumber sticks
apple or nectarine or satsuma

all 3 very day after school even though we have dinner at 5 it doesn't seem to finish his appetite. He is sooooo hungry when he comes out of school.

He just seems to burn up food as quick as it goes in .

Normally a drink and a biscuit.

Sometimes one of them has made cake (they both like baking), and sometimes they might have a plum or apricot or something, but more often than not they just have a biscuit.

Dinner sometime between 6 and 7, and DD1 has quite a long walk home from school, so they need something to tide them over.

Fruit. Not hey can have cake or biscuits if they've baked or I have.

If there is something in the fridge they eat it - it's not something I plan for.
But if they find it they will eat fruit, veg, yoghurt, cake, ham hock, hot chocolate, cheese and biscuits, leftover pancakes.

Piece of fruit, or a crumpet if tea will be late.

Sometimes a flapjack or piece of cake on the rare occasions that I bake, or they share a piece of birthday cake or sweeties if one of them is given something like that by a birthday child at school / nursery. I wish school would stick to its no sweeties for birthdays rule, but that's a different thread...

Usually a cup of milk and a cereal bar

Pitta bread and houmous.

Toast

I am not as good as you guys!

Cereal bar most days, then fruit, but I have been known to give into biscuit and chocolate requests on occasion.

Breadsticks or fruit flakes or maybe bag of crisps. DC (5) always seems ravenous. Do worry she eats too much