There are loads of healthy snack options. Make these available and you’ll be amazed by how these healthy snacks get gobbled up – without complaint!
This list of snacks are designed to have a mix of carbohydrates, good fats and proteins to ensure your child gets energy and their hunger satisfied. Some are great snacks for school and others make fantastic healthy snacks options for after school and on the weekend. Make a habit of having these options available and reduce the packaged options.
Crunchy
- Popcorn – popped at home in coconut oil, serve with a mix of nuts. Watch this recipe – Popcorn 3 ways.
- Rice cakes with hommus
- Rice cakes with avocado or tomato and cheese, or nut butter
- Carrot sticks with hommus
- Apple slices spread with nut butter
- Celery sticks with nut butter, cream cheese, or avocado
- Fruit in season with mixed nuts
- Roasted Pepitas or chickpeas
Sweet
- Yoghurt and Fruit
- Smoothies – try to mix vegetables with fruit, such as this simple introduction to a green smoothie.
- Any of the fruit items from the Crunchy list
- Porridge with fruit and nut/seeds
- Freeze yoghurt and top with berries or even homemade muesli with nuts/seeds
- Home made Banana Ice Cream (frozen banana’s blended in food processor), add some nuts to make sweet and crunchy
- Thinly slice some sweet potato & normal potato on the mandolin & cook in oven till crunch
- Fruit & Veg Bread topped with yoghurt
- Banana Chia Pikelets
- Pikelets or pancakes – watch this video for pikelets 6 ways
- Frozen oranges, with a side of nuts
Creamy
- Smoothies
- Chia Puddings
- Rice Pudding
- Chocolate Mousse made on Avocado & frozen banana
- Banana Soft Centre Fun Balls
- Protein or Bliss Balls
- Plain yoghurt with peanut butter and touch of vanilla
Savoury
- Olives, Feta and crackers or rice crackers (watch for pesky ingredient #’s)
- Quinoa Crackers
- Mountain bread toasts with avocado or hommus
- Edamame
- Home made Chicken broth and rice noodles
- Egg and Bacon pies
- Muffins or slices
- Bacon & Zucchini Slice
- Mini Pizza’s
- Scrolls – ham, cheese, mushroom etc
In preparing this list, I realised this:
- How incredible it is to be able to give our children the gift of any of these healthy snacks
- Many of these are suitable for freezing and packing for lunchboxes too
- You could prepare many of these snacks in advance and then put a list on the fridge so they can help themselves to a healthy afternoon tea.
Note
Something small from this list that can be popped in a container and put in your hand bag (such as a protein ball or some frozen orange), is the perfect way to combat the “I’m starving” hellos you get at pick up time.
Want to Print a copy of these options?
Click here to download the TRC Healthy Snack Options sheet