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.

If she does not eat carrot etc. now you still have many months to introduce those things and many more tastes to her palate before then.

School snack though police who ive out fruit and ´police´ kids lunch boxes then don´t encourage brushing after their lunch. Weird is it not?

I would then give a small cheese sandwich. Easy to make, doesn't go off even in hot cloak rooms and can be eaten in the playground without choking risk (because yes, they do run around whilst eating their grapes and cherry tomatoes ...).

I think people are getting way too worried about things children have been eating for years and years. I can't see why raisins once in a while would be a bad snack, you're not likely to get a sugar crash because lunch is but a couple of hours after mid-morning and you could always couple the dried fruit (not just raisins but any) with a yoghurt or something with protein. Each to their own, though.

And Rockpool 'evil teeth murderers' was a light hearted joke, don't worry. I had a laugh in my voice, honest.

Fruit is fine surely.

The free fruit is sometimes tomatoes or carrots anyway. In which case she might not eat it? give her some fruit you know she will eat - apple, banana, grapes, pineapple, strawberries, raspberries, sliced peach or nectarine.

Carrots are not fruit!

What is wrong with quails eggs. They are nice and tasty and a perfect size for little ones to eat.

What about plain popcorn?

My 4yo would not want variety.
Heck, my 12yo does not really want it.
DC have the same thing daily for lunch & snarl at me if I try to vary it (or rather, they refuse to eat the variety, which means food goes to waste & they come home in foul snarling hysterical moods).
Think you have to play it by ear.
4yo DS would have packs of mini-cheddars & packs of pre-chopped cheese (wouldn't touch any of the rest suggested here, sigh).

ps: my dentist carries on about how cariogenic raisins are, too.

no I am aware carrots are not fruit; I was trying to say that IME schools offering free fruit at breaks are often sent carrots or tomatoes (at least my DCs' school and others I know well were).

The OP has said her DD won't eat carrots so it won't do any harm to send some actual fruit in case the "fruit snack" is actually carrots if that makes sense!

Nowt wrong with quails eggs I am sure. Never eaten them myself. I see Tesco has them at £2.35 a doz so about the same price as hens' eggs but a lot smaller.

Tomatoes are fruit so what is the problem with the children eating them?

I send my dd2 with a couple of ritz crackers and a few cubes of cheese. She won't eat any fruit other than raisins, bananas or apples and she won't eat any raw veg at all.

The cheese and crackers seem to keep her going until her school dinner at lunch time and she really needs it because she has her breakfast early before going to before school club.

I've 3 children with tomato allergies. Kiwi fruit were removed from the free fruit & veg options after someone complained so we get lots of windfall apples

other free options are satsumas, pears, strawberries, bananas, pea pods, carrot sticks or whole carrots, baby cucumber, dried mango, raisins, dried pineapple

eh? No problem with children eating tomatoes!

I was just trying to say to the OP, who was concerned about her child having two portions of fruit in one day ie one from school and one from her, that sometimes the free fruit from school is tomatoes, so a banana from her as well would be fine.

In fact IMO an apple and a banana would be fine IMO in terms of variety, but anyway....