50 Healthy After School Snack Ideas
6:00 AMIf your children are anything like my four boys, they are always asking about food. What's for dinner, what's for breakfast, can we have a snack? I commonly hear this last statement right around the time traditional school is ending. You know, that awkward time between lunch and dinner when your children claim they might actually starve to death! I often have a hard time coming up with new ideas for after school snacks though, so I thought I would make myself a big ol' honking list, and share them with you all.
- Fruit
- Chopped veggies with dip
- Hummus and crackers
- Pita chips
- Ham slice roll-ups
- Cheese squares
- Whole grain muffin
- Veggie chips
- Nuts
- Trail mix
- Homemade granola
- Bagel chips
- Oatmeal blueberry bars
- Sweet potato fried
- Kale chips
- Baked chickpeas
- English muffin pizza
- Graham cracker sandwiches
- Yogurt
- Almond milk milkshake
- Peanut butter banana sandwich
- Popcorn
- Pretzels
- Homemade fruit popsicles
- Applesauce
- Jello
- Pudding
- Hard boiled eggs
- Homemade fruit leather
- Fruit and Veggie muffins
- Smoothies
- Banana Bread
- Whole wheat bagel
- Parmesan cheese straws
- Rice cakes
- Sushi sandwiches
- Beef jerky
- Dried fruit
- Animal crackers
- Goldfish crackers
- Granola bars
- Fruit and peanut butter quessadilla
- Creamsicle Smoothie
- Pear boats
- Yogurt covered raisins
- Seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, etc.)
- Fruit chips
- No-bake energy bites
- Olives or pickles
- Healthy candy bracelets
What is your favorite healthy after school snack?
26 comments
Great list! Our favorites are bananas, clementines, and yogurt.
ReplyDeleteThese are great suggestions! I especially love the English Muffin pizza and kale chips ideas.
ReplyDeleteWow, you have it all on that list. I really, really, REALLY love pretzels!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat snack ideas. I always run out of things to give my kids.
ReplyDeleteFantastic ideas. I'm planning to use several of them when school starts next week!
ReplyDeleteWe really like Pretzels around our home. Twists, sticks, fat, thin, braided, crips, chocoalte covered, you name it we like them!
ReplyDeleteOk all my kids do is snack. That's their meals! Thanks for the ideas.
ReplyDeleteWhat an extensive list! Thank you for sharing these!
ReplyDeleteI snacked all the time when I was younger. My favorite was clementines!
ReplyDeleteMine gets home from school & makes a rapid beeline to the fridge for snacks. She likes a lot of the things on your list too.
ReplyDeleteThat is one great list of snacks. I'm sure to have some of these on my list when I'm shopping.
ReplyDeleteThose sound like good "anytime" snacks.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for posting these great snack ideas. My kids come home from school famished and I always seem to run out of snack ideas.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas! Definitely going to try some of these, like the healthy candy bracelet.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic list! I'm definitely bookmarking it to reference later!
ReplyDeleteThese are great snacks for after school or (during work LOL)
ReplyDeleteThis.list.is.awesome! Saving so I can pour through all of these weekly.
ReplyDeleteThat's a wonderful list of snacks! I'm definitely bookmarking as I'm adding some of these to my shopping list!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this! This is the first year I'll need to make after school snacks!
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas, my kids love a few of these so gonna try a few more I haven't even thought of.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list! My son usually has yogurt after school.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to have a list like this to come to for inspiration.
ReplyDeleteOh my boys always ask that! our favorites are: Fruit, Yogurt, Bread and Veggies (together those make a meal :))
ReplyDeleteMy daughter eats a lot of those yogurt sticks.
ReplyDeleteI need to try the energy bites -- those haven't made it into my kitchen yet.
ReplyDeleteWe eat a lot of those. Thanks for sharing!
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