Healthy snacks for young kids

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I am in desperate need of inspiration

I have a 3 year old and a 6 year old. They are both extremely fussy, like different things, and their diets are getting worse by the day.

Please give me your snack ideas. It doesn't even need to be particularly "healthy" , just not unhealthy treat type foods.

(Also any breakfast ideas welcome too!)

My son is autistic and very picky. He likes oat cakes with peanut /almond/ cashew nut butter on. It's quite filling. Could slice a banana on too?

You can make quite healthy flapjacks and muffins if you Google the recipes (I'm a bit too lazy!)

Cereal
Egg and soldiers
Rice cakes
Smoothie
Fruit in jelly
Toasted bagel
Cuppa porridge of various flavours or with various stir-ins
Ham sandwich
Toasted cheese
Breadsticks, veg and dip
Yogurt
Cheese and crackers
Crumpet pizza
Cocktail sausages
Homemade sausage roll
Pitta bread and humous
Bowl of soup
Beans on toast
Apple and peanut butter
slice of quiche

I got my kids to start eating healthy snacks, particularly raw veg by putting a plate of cut up peppers, cucumber, cherry toms, carrots, raw mushrooms, celery (strings removed) on a plate to share, with a bowl of very smooth hummus (the Sabra brand is nice and smooth, not grainy) and a bowl of olive oil with salt. I would leave it on the table while making the rest of their meal, and put on a show they liked on the ipad so they would start mindlessly grazing on the veg. Also putting it on a plate they had to share between them seemed to stimulate sibling competition to grab what the other didn't get.

I had read somewhere that once kids try a vegetable a few times, particularly a bitter or earthy tasting one, they start liking the taste, so you have to get them to try it a few times by stealth.

my mum always described us as lazy fruit eaters. Tell us to have a piece of fruit, no chance. Cut it up nicely and lay it out on a plate and we would demolish it.

Some really helpful, great ideas. Thank you all

@SummaLuvin that made me laugh, I was like that too, and my kids do prefer it cut up!!

My DC are like this.

Mix some lemon curd/strawberry jam through cream cheese and use as a dip with cut up fruit

Would it not be better to look for meal ideas instead of filling them up with snacks?

@NC12345665 they eat really good lunches and dinners. It's just the after school snack, or weekends in between meals I'm struggling with