Snacks are stressing me!
The Parent Bloggers Network and Brothers-All-Natural are teaming up to sponsor a Blog Blast about SNACKS this weekend. With the start of kindergarten and preschool this month I have been trying to think of new snack ideas to send with the kids and I have to say its harder than I anticipated (I am also just worrying about things too much lately!). I want to send them with “healthy” things but also make sure its something they will like and actually be happy about eating. Last week I tried to stock up on some things and while at the store I bought:
- a big bag each of vanilla and chocolate animal crackers from the “healthy lane”
- a box of mixed chips/corn chips/doodles in snack bags
- Batman fruit snacks
- grapes (but they didn’t have organic ones)
- kiwi (Ethan took them cut up on Friday to school but “a spider landed on them so I only ate 3 pieces”
- yogurt covered raisins
- baby Goldfish
- waffle shaped pretzels
- cheese sticks
- unsweetened apple sauce cups
- apples (again didn’t get organic, can’t wait until they are in season)
- baby carrots
I think I did pretty well but Ethan needs to pack a separate snack and then a lunch so I need to really send him with 2 “snacks” every day and after only 2 days of school I am starting to fear he is going to get sick of what I’m giving him! I just worry right now, he is my first baby starting real school and I’m 32 weeks pregnant and emotional, so yes its silly but snacks are adding some extra stress. Here is a confession to clue you into how nuts I can be: the night before his first day of school I actually hand picked only the unbroken animal crackers and placed them in the little snack cup so that the right sides were all facing up (somehow that made me feel better at that moment even though I know it was silly)! That first day I also sent him with 3 little balls of cookie dough but I had put them in a bag and they got gross and squished by his water bottle so he couldn’t eat them (luckily I had more to give him when he got home and then I froze some to send the next day in a lidded container).
I know I’ll need lots more snack ideas so I’m happy to learn about Brothers-All-Natural from this blog blast and will look for them in the store next time. I love finding new healthier options and our stores “healthy lane” is actually more like 4 lanes so I am pretty lucky. The Brothers-All-Natural Fruit Crisps and their brand-new Potato Crisps are 100 percent natural freeze-dried snacks with no added sugar or preservatives – for a fresh new way to eat your fruits and vegetables! This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as an entry for a contest sponsored by Brothers-All-Natural.
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Brothers All-Natural’s web site says that they have an exciting new product launch planned. I wonder if it might be some type of dried vegetables similar to those at http://www.justtomatoes.com/dried_vegetables.html. I also wonder if any of those dried veggies could be made appealing to the kids; maybe on the novelty factor? They work for me in my quest for healthy snacks, but I’m not sure how they would go over with kids.