What is a healthy snack?

[GrooveIsInTheFart]

Dd starts school in September.

They are required to take a healthy snack each day. They are provided with a piece of fruit daily from school.

She won't eat carrott sticks/cucumber/toSS

She loves fruit. I'm stuck for ideas I could try.

I could send fruit daily so she gets 2 pieces but I'm worried about lack of variety.

No other types of veg - celery?
Are raisins healthy or are they too full of sugar?
If no other veg appeals you could give her more fruit.
I sometimes give ds crackers. Crackerbread. He loves it dry.

I have always given savoury snacks for my children as they get enough fruit during the day, and fruit is simply sugar in another form. Plus, a more protein rich snack will satisfy them more for the long haul. I usually give:

Cubed cheese and mini breadsticks
Plain popcorn
Goldfish crackers
A couple oat biscuits made with a bit of honey
a couple hard boiled quails eggs

My DCs like cheese cubes and rice cakes. They also like dried fruit some days. I also buy fruit and oat bars from fruitus, Lyme Regis foods, though these are expensive. Sometimes they take grapes or blueberries and my DD likes cheesy biscuits and I sometimes make cheese straws with marmite for them. Very very occasionally when I have spare time on my hands I make savoury muffins. DS, who is an extremely greedy hungry kid, takes sandwiches to fill up on and I've recently discovered fruity buns and scones are allowed.

Our school won't allow sweet biscuits (except cereal bars), crisps, sweets or chocolate and the policy is strictly enforced. My kids won't touch veg sticks either.

And it's water only to drink.

www.parents.com/toddlers-preschoolers/feeding/healthy-eating/the-20-best-snacks-for-kids/
www.purepackage.com/2010/08/the-best-healthy-school-snacks-for-kids-lunchbox-ideas-recipes/

Raisins hard eggs and cheese all good.

Cheese crackers like ritz would work.

She loves ham, chicken and Parma ham, do you think sliced meat is a healthy snack?

Brioche rolls and lemon raisin pancakes??? malt loaf???

A few crackers/ricecakes with some hummus?
Dried fruit?
Yoghurt?
A smoothie?

Wouldn't send raisins.I have 2 friends with quite young children that have a mouthful of fillings from snacking on raisins.

Forgot about humous. Great snack, and you can find individual packets (or make your own).

The problem with yoghurt is that it is a faff to send in a spoon (but not too much). They have the yoghurt tubes, but these are notoriously difficult to open, and usually end up spraying on the children/teachers/furniture.

Agree that dried fruit is the same as giving sticky sweets. Smoothies are also very high in sugar.

You could also give a home-made mini muffin (made with agave syrup), of small slice of banana bread/courgette bread.

Brioche roll and mini pancakes are also fine, and nice for a change.

Frozen yogurt 'frubes' are very popular in my class. All types of fruit. Crackers. Breadsticks. Cheese.

We even have a few with olives

Oak cakes and cheese is a popular one for my DSs and school is really militant! If I go really crazy and send something decadent like a cereal bar with choc chips, it gets sent back un-eaten! I'm lucky in that they'll both eat a chopped pepper or carrots, and they get hummus too sometimes. Rice cakes are bland alright. Do send things like dried apricot on occasion

Oh yeah, they get olives sometimes, but never boiled quails eggs I mean how Boden

Cheese scones? You can freeze a batch and they travel well.

nuts and seeds

Where do your children eat their snack? Mine eat theirs in the playground, couldn't imagine her whipping a tub of chopped veg out of one pocket and a tub of homous out of the other. How on earth would she eat the stuff what with holding the lid of the tub in her mouth

Oat cakes, Cheesy flapjacks, rice cakes, cheese & ham muffins, boiled egg, falafels, toasted pitta bread chopped into little bits so it's like crisps, chopped up omlette or tortilla would be nice.

Oh god, imagine what the classroom would smell like at the end of the day after 30 or so hummous and egg munching 5 year olds had been sat there farting away all day. Think of the poor teacher

For when is the healthy snack? If it is for break time, the piece of fruit is probably sufficient. If it is for lunch I would give a sandwich and maybe half a banana or a few strawberries and bottle of water.

I'm sorry, but where else but Mumsnet would you get someone suggesting quails eggs for a playtime snack

(apologies Mominatrix, it just tickled me)

Snack for mid morning before lunch and fruit is given mid afternoon.

True about class full of farting 5 year olds!

Not sure I'm up to baking

Any simple recipes?

Rockpool, I snacked on raisins all the time as a child and I've never had a filling? My parents made sure my teeth were clean and as I grew up I did too.

Raisins are not evil teeth murderers, I promise. They are a yummy, healthy snack. Children don't have to veto high-sugar foods all together, just eat them in sensible amounts and brush their teeth regularly.

Packets of raisins are one of the things delivered by the free fruit and veg for schools scheme.

Smoke never said they're evil,I'm sure they're highly nutritious and yummy however our dentist said to avoid them like the plague as a snack as they stick to teeth and are high in sugar. Can only go by the advice given to us.Who knows?

Kids normally don't clean their teeth until bedtime.As a mid morning snack also personally I think they're less than ideal as you'll just get a sugar high then a plummet.

As I said I have 2 friends who regret giving them as daily snacks due to fillings and extractions.

There are so many other healthy and teeth safe snacks.

There was a report recently re dentists calling for juice to be limited and fruit to only be eaten at mealtimes ideally or followed by a piece of cheese to stop the damage done by acid.Who knows.

Banana muffins.