snack suggestions for hospital bag?

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I'm going to pop to Sainsbury's just to grab a few bits and I've realised I have no snacks for my hospital bag! I've sampled the food in the hospital already and my god, it's pretty awful ha. so just after some suggestions for snacks I should take with me and dh

I have a nut assortment and some granola bars.

I like taking those small cans of sweetcorn if I know I'm going to be somewhere where fresh food is hard to come by!

I've got cereal bars, jelly sweets, monster munch, biscuits, coke, water and those little pots of fruit in juice that come with a little fork.

Not the healthiest of snacks but pretty much what I had last time. I ate the cereal and croissant they gave me but I didn't like any other food.

Cadburys Brunch Bars are delicious, I'll be stocking up on those this time.

Last time I went to Tesco in early labour and got strawberries, Twiglets, satsumas, small bottle of squash, skittles, chocolate cookies and Pringles.

Cereal bars, Jaffa cakes and jelly babies

I froze cheese and ham sandwiches!

Just left them in the freezer and grabbed the on the way out...they tasted fantastic later that day. Dh really enjoyed them too better than the stale vending machine ones.

I packed drinks and snacks for labour. DH ate them all while I spent most of labour throwing up. He did get me some more afterwards though, when I was making up for it. This time I won't bother.

Lucozade tablets, for energy if you don't feel like eating. Packets of dried fruit and nuts, flapjack bars.

cereal bars and jelly sweets plus some lucozade tablets going in my hospital transfer bag (planning another home birth). Plus water.

Haven't wanted to eat once in the midst of things either previous time and cannot stomach energy drinks at the best of times. Anything carbonated or acidic would definitely not have been appreciated either.

Ill be taking several big bottles of peach iced tea, a couple of small bottles of lemon lucozade, some cereal bar type things, liking the idea of fruit in a pot so will take a few of those and some Kendal mint cake for during active labour.

maybe some flapjack or something similar for after too, tea and toast does not cut it when you've been in labour for days!!

Cadburys Brunch Bars are delicious, I'll be stocking up on those this time.

Last time I went to Tesco in early labour and got strawberries, Twiglets, satsumas, small bottle of squash, skittles, chocolate cookies and Pringles.

Dried fruit. Lots and lots of dried fruit. And bottles of juice/squash if you aren't a water drinker - you'll want to be well hydrated and consuming lots of something like dried fruit to keep things, ermmm, moving.

I have lucozade sport, choc chip belvita biscuits (you have to get your own breakfast in our hospital and I wasn't feeling up to leaving the bed last time but was starving!), and alpen granola bars. Might have to investigate these Cadbury things though!

dried mango

Porridge bars, digestive biscuits and a small bottle of lucozade.

I froze some cartons of ribena and got them out the freezer as we were leaving, it was so hot in there, they were lovely. I didn't eat any of my snacks but left them all in the bag by my bed at home and ate them over the following days when breastfeeding in bed!

Dr Karg's for energy in labour and chocolate brownies for afterwards.

Lucozade sport, bonne maman cake, digestives, crisps and tonnes of other stuff. Came into handy mainly after the birth

Get something sugary. I ran out of energy on the final push and my contractions stopped until I ate some jelly beans, then they started again and my baby was born. I'm SO glad I packed them.

I think they were the only thing I actually touched from my hospital bag during the birth. That and Lucozade Sport.

Cereal bars and lucozade, going to get some biscuits and sweets :)

Chocolate raisins. Squash or juice. Bananas. And straws to drink through as it's difficult to tip up bottles or cups in some positions.

Huge bottles of water! I was so thirsty!
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I've got some Nakd bars, nuts and dried fruit mix, and will probably make some coconut bars too. Carbonated water too, lots of it!

I've packed lots of chocolate, rice cakes, cereal bars and sweets mainly to keep DH entertained but I've also packed the mini soreen bars ( the banana ones)DH takes them when he's cycling as they provide more energy than an energy gel and are tiny so hoping they will be good to keep me going.