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Summerscomin · 19/07/2023 13:58

DC is 5 and comes home from school hungry. We usually get back around 3.30 and I don't do dinner before 5. What's your go-to snack?
I'm pestered for crisps every day but don't want them eating crisps so often and they're hardly filling anyway.
Already eats loads of fruit (at breakfast/school snack and usually pudding). I tend to offer a rice or oatcake with nut butter, carrot/cucumber batons with or without hummus, a yoghurt or a cereal bar at a push. But my mind goes blank and I give in to crisps more often than I'd like to!

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SirenSays · 19/07/2023 14:07

Quesadillas
Yogurt or frozen Yogurt coins
Peanut butter balls
Scrambled eggs
Pita chips
Crackers for homemade lunchables
Muffins
Banana bread
Leftovers from dinner
Whatever they didn't eat for lunch

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 19/07/2023 14:09

Toast and peanut butter and banana

Sandwich

Banana

Yoghurt

starlight2023 · 19/07/2023 14:44

Usually toast or an omelette

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DaisyWaldron · 19/07/2023 14:51

Chicken drumsticks (or cold chicken in general), eggs, quark with fruit, hummus and veg sticks and oatcakes, cheese, tuna pitta. Although that was more in the later years of primary when they were doing a lot of growing. I think it might have been more fruit and an oat biscuit in the earlier years.

Shellista · 19/07/2023 14:56

Mine are always starving after school. I think of it as one of the main mealtimes of the day. They eat dinner at 5.30/6ish and are always hungry again by then.

After school we might have

Pancakes, fruit, glass of milk
Cheese toastie and fruit
Banana split, glass of milk, rice crackers
Muffin (sweet or savoury) and milk
Macaroni cheese
Cookies, fruit, yogurt

I don't aim for veg after school but try to get in some fruit, protein and/or dairy

AtleastitsnotMonday · 19/07/2023 14:57

I think your current offerings are good you could add a piece of cheese with a couple of crackers, slice of fritata (make in advance and keep in the fridge) a boiled egg, roasted chickpeas, savoury flapjack.

Ostryga · 19/07/2023 14:59

I usually do Dd a little snack plate - crackers, fruit, sliced meat (leftover from roast or dinner night before) and yogurt/cheese.

We usually eat at 6/6:30pm and that tides her over.

Maddy70 · 19/07/2023 15:01

Banana, apple, fruit pot some cereal, yogurt

takealettermsjones · 19/07/2023 15:36

Cheese and crackers
Avocado on toast
Boiled egg with dip

Clevs · 19/07/2023 16:03

Normally fruit for my 5 year old.

Summerscomin · 21/07/2023 20:22

Sorry I forgot I'd posted this! Some good ideas here that will come in handy thank you. Especially like the idea of savoury flapjack, I've never made/had it before.
Some of the suggestions are more like lunch but that's handy to have with the holidays upon us!
I don't like to give anything too big as it does seem to spoil appetite for main meal. As suggested, good for growing/ravenous phases.
By the time I've discounted anything too filling/sugary/processed junky it doesn't leave so many options but I've a few more to go on now!

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