Feeding the kids after school/before activities whilst on the move?!

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Hello all...first time poster/long time lurker here. I've actually woken up hyperventilating a bit as the kids (boy and girl, 7 and 5 yrs old) start school on weds and I've got palpitations at the thought of what to feed them in between school pickup and their afterschool activities...does anyone have any suggestions?? Most of these snacks would need to be eaten in the car or on the cafe area of our local gym so I wouldn't be able to reheat food-should I invest in a couple of those hot food thermoses? A couple of days I'd be coming from home and a couple of days from work (we have a fridge there). Ideally would like to keep things healthy but understand they need the energy to keep them going for after school classes after a day at school and that this wouldn't come from a carrot stick! Was thinking I might make this 'snack' more like 'tea' and then give them a lighter supper style meal after we get home? Ideas please!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Cereal bars, sandwich, carton of milk and a couple of homemade biscuits, piece of fruit, oatcakes and cheese, houmous pot and breadsticks/carrots. Off the top of my head ...

Home made smoothies (I reuse plastic water bottles), bags of home made salted popcorn, wraps, nuts, cold pizza,,thermos of spag Bol (I add green beans too), thermos of chicken soup with cold cheese toastie in slices.

Can I add bananas to Jigglys list.

Sandwiches, pasta salad, sushi, rice salad. I usually have something I'm the slow cooker so that they can eat as soon as we get in.

What do they have for lunch at school? We have a fairly simple rule that, if it is an after school club day, they have to have hot school lunch just so that I can give them the traditional packed lunch foods for tea.

A ham butty and a banana.

My mum used to do us toasties in the sandwich toaster just before leaving the house, wrap them in foil and then put in insulated lunch box. They stayed warm for a surprisingly long time!

Thanks-all great ideas!! Think I might invest in food thermos...

Why do they need so much food? Surely a banana will do.

toast with some jam on wrapped in foil or in those really cheap freezer bag.use as plate then chuck.
toasties.again wrap in foil and stay supirsingly nice.
obviously things like wraps sandwhiches etc.
some roasted veggie crisps.really nice.or the fruit ones.we do apple and banana ones and they are great.
something you can whip up in bulk then ladle out into little containers like pasta salad.chickpea or coucous salad stuff.
even little chicken strips with a yoghurt tomato type sauce on with some rice in a tub works well for ours.
cracker stacks.
nana bread and then buy those little sandwhcih filler tubs like coronation chicken.then when you had used them once give em a wash in the dishwasher then make ur own and continue to refill with ur own filling.great for carrying and the right portions for a couple of servings.
pitas
fruit salad
get in to the local supermarket and by those takeaway(or have a take outhehe) and then re use them for carrying stuff with you.and a roll of freezer bags works for carrying keeping emptie and to eat out of.
could you get those special soup thermos.you coukd stick them in right before you leave
if one day they are allowed or you feel like treating thm.tupperware with custard and broken digestives and banana works wonders for our on a Friday night when they are shattered and still have after school club.dont forget to keep a tub of utensils in the car.

Wow kateandme, that's exactly the kind of ideas I wanted!! Thank you 😘😘!! The kids stay on for afterschool activities 4 out of 5 nights (partly things they want to do and partly because I need them to stay for work reasons) and once a week we go straight from there to piano/football lessons etc. Plus we live a 30min drive away from school so they're STARVING by the time they get home!