Snack Question--What Do You Usually Serve?

[Missani]

tortillas with a little butter, cinnamon and sugar (microwave and roll up)
nutella spread on wheat bread
crackers with cream cheese and raisins
string cheese with any fruit
mini bagels with cream cheese
trail mix
vanilla pudding
peanut butter and jelly roll up (tortilla w/ pbj)
cottage cheese and canned peaches (mixed)
fruit smoothies
fruit pizza (refrigerated sugar cookie crust, cream cheese/little whipped cream, then top with any kind of fruit)
raisin bread toast
homemade muffins
yogurt with granola
cereal bars
granola bars

My morning snack "go to" is always graham crackers but that is "crackery" so don't know if that helps. They also love them spread with peanut butter

[Nebula]

I too am having trouble "snack storming"

I decided to do a four week rotational menu (I have to include 2 food groups per snack and all 4 for meals)

AM Snack: 9:00
Lunch: 11:30
PM Snack: After nap, generally about 2:30 - 3:00

These are some great ideas!

[Josiegirl]

One of my kids' fav snacks is kabobs, alternating chunks of cheddar cheese, ham, pineapple and grapes.
And peanut butter with just about anything.
Today we're having trail mix, honey roasted peanuts, honey nut cheerios, kix, and whatever kind of cereals I have left that needs to be finished, all mixed together.

[2grls4us]

I have the same age group. I do string cheese sticks, goldfish crackers, yogurt single serving cups, fruit/grain bars. They all get excited when I pull out yogurt cups they love them and good for them. I actually found a brand at walmart that is 4 oz cups and come in a 4 cup pack for $1.

[Familycare71]

Never heard of Weelicious. Love the site. Thanks for posting it.

I will be trying some new receipes this week from there. I feel like my kids and dc kids eat too many crackers.

Me too!!!

[daycare]

while the kids are napping, I cut up tons of fruit and veggies.....

I make kale chips alot and those are my grain....

I bought a massive pack of coffee filters the old cup style. I use those to serve in.

I fill them with cheese, kale chips, carrots, very small drop of yogurt to dip with, cucumbers, apples, strawberries, and etc.

one thing we have fun with is making smoothies....

[daycarediva]

this is an old thread, but my kids LOVE smoothies! Yogurt and a bag of frozen fruit (peaches or mixed berries or just strawberries, blueberries, whatever) they devour them!

[AmyKidsCo]

I do breakfast, lunch and PM snack, and have a template for snacks to make planning easier:
Mondays are cheese & fruit or vegetable
Tuesdays are rice cakes & fruit or vegetable
Wednesdays are something more complicated/time consuming
Thursdays are yogurt & fruit
Fridays are crackers & fruit.

You can see my menus here:

http://www.appleton-child-care.com/child-care-menus.shtml

[LK5kids]

I have menu ADD...I have to have lots of variety

Organic yogurt tubes or cups of organic yogurt
Annie's new graham crackers
Back to Nature Madagascar Vanilla wafers....at least a little fiber!
Watermelon
Annie's bunny crackers
String cheese
Peanut butter and apple slices or apple rings
Olives, avocado slices, and cheese slices or olives and cheese cubes on a small pretzel rod
Homemade banana bread
Homemade granola bars
Homemade blueberry oat muffins

Extra special trail mix-it has honey nut cheerios, kashi honey sunshine cereal, peanut butter, craisins, raisins, pretzels, chocolate chips...I sometimes put in Annies bunny mix.

I usually serve steamed veggies at lunch but my kids LOVE canned carrots, so I serve them for snack with crackers

Hummus and whole grain chips
fruit tacos
fruit salsa with homemade cinnamon tortilla chips for scooping
bananas with peanut butter
rolled up deli turkey and cheese
cucumbers & green pepper slices and dip
Cottage cheese and pineapple
Smoothies
Homemade Pumpkin Oatmeal cookies

Fish crackers, peanut butter, large rod pretzel .....for fishing! They Love it!
Chocolate or frosted mini wheats (dry) & fresh fruit

Homemade tapioca pudding (easy to make with instant tapioca...at least it has eggs and milk but is sweet)

No-bake cookies....I cut the sugar down...they are sweet too!

Some of these may lend themselves to p.m. snack more than a.m. I was just tossing out ideas for snacks I serve.

[Josiegirl]

Fruit salad, made with watermelon, mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, grapes, bananas, cantaloupe, blueberries, strawberries, whatever is yummy at the moment.
Fruit popsicles, the homemade kind where you can put your own healthy ingredients in, like yogurt and frozen fruit.
Ham and Cheddar chunks, pineapple chunks, ritz crackers
Plain cheese quesadillas
Mini corn muffins
String cheese
Crackers and peanut butter(we're pb-aholics here)
Trail mix using cereals, goldfish crackers and honey roasted peanuts(of course being careful with that one)
Veggie platter with dip
Small flavored rice cakes
Animal crackers
Yogurts
Someone on here has fruit kabobs that look like a rainbow, as their avatar, I want to make that with the kiddos.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

Oops, already replied to this topic. You can tell it's Friday, brain has turned to mush.

[WImom]

This week's Snacks are:

Plain yogurt w/Strawberries Slices
Banana Bread and Milk

Watermelon and Pretzels
Tortilla w/Melted Cheese

Crackers and Cheese
Graham Cracker w/PB and Raisins

1/2 Banana and Wheat Thins
Toast w/Fruit Spread

Carrots, Crackers and Ranch Dip
Hummus and Pita Chips

[Unregistered]

while the kids are napping, I cut up tons of fruit and veggies.....

I make kale chips alot and those are my grain....

I bought a massive pack of coffee filters the old cup style. I use those to serve in.

I fill them with cheese, kale chips, carrots, very small drop of yogurt to dip with, cucumbers, apples, strawberries, and etc.

one thing we have fun with is making smoothies....

I've tried to make kale chips for the kiddos to mixed reviews,. Mostly I have a hard time getting them crispy without burning. Are you on a food program? If so, can you sub kale chips for grain? I feel my kids get too much grains as is and I hate serving crackery things all the time, so bad for teeth. We do green smoothies a lot too. I call them 'shrek' smoothies and they love them.

[Josiegirl]

What goes into your green smoothies? Do they actually taste green? If some of my dcks even suspect a smidgeon of anything green, they'll avoid it plus talk all the others into avoiding it.

[Josiegirl]

We tried kale chips once, wasn't a favorite. We also did roasted chick peas, which I love, but there again....it seems as if the food doesn't come highly processed, sugared, weighed down with fat, they're very reluctant to try it.

[Indianadaycare]

I make a lot of my own home made snacks and get a lot of my ideas from www.weelicious.com.

Currently Im serving this week:

Home made applesauce with Cinnamon
Home made graham crackers
Yogurt parfait made with vanilla yogurt, chopped up cherries and chopped up kiwi
Lean turkey and wheat crackers
Dried fruit
cottage cheese with mixed fruit
Rice cakes
Strawberries, cantaloupe, pears, avocados, green/red and yellow peppers and cherries.

I always keep on hand:

100 calorie packs of cheese, cheese crackers and cookies
Animal crackers
Whole grain gold fish crackers
Gerber crunchies puffs
Gerber yogurt melts
Gerber fruit snacks
Gerber breakfast bars
Mum Mums

I try to feed the kids as healthy and homemade as possible (since Im already doing so for myself) as to keep the sugar at bay but sometimes the kids are picky so I keep the other snacks on hand for fussy days. Weelicious is awesome!

Thanks for posting the link!