What kind of foods do you provide for snack time?

Do you offer more than one choice?

What portion size for each child?

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Snacks are usually very simple here, and usually have 2 items. Kids can have one or both, and portions are not limited (within reason; sometimes I do have to say that's all there is). However, if they're gobbling up one thing and ignoring the other, I sometimes say I'll get them more food when all the food on their table is gone. Snack foods include:
green smoothies
cut fruit
cut veggies
muffins
cheese
chips/salsa
popcorn
nuts
popsicles (pretty much a smoothie, frozen)
crackers/peanut butter

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String cheese or cheese slices
Annie's crackers-bunny, graham or others Annie's crackers
I like to spread whipped cream cheese on graham crackers
Carrots and green peppers or cucumbers and homemade dip
Homemade muffins
Homade oatmeal cookies
Smoothies
Apple slices
Watermelon in the summer
peanut butter toast
Trail mix made with different cereals and crazins. And or golden raisins. I also make one called extra special trail mix that has a peanut butter coating
Yogurt
HM Pumpkin cookies or bars
Black olives and cheese on a stick pretzel

Let's go fishing! Rod pretzel, peanut butter or almond butter, goldfish crackers. Kids dip "rod" in nut butter and stick a fish on!

Cottage cheese and pineapple
Homemade granola bars
HM Blueberry oatmeal bars
Homemade chunky applesauce...yummy served warm! Just chop up peeled apples and cook for about 10 min.
Thawed frozen peas
Salsa and organic blue corn chips
Fruit salsa and cinnamon tortilla chips
Tortilla and PB&J
Frozen 100% juice (organic) Popsicles
I normally do one serving, and possibly a little extra. Not A large second serving. I follow the food program.....one item from two different food groups.
Frozen Yogurt in a tube-organic
I do maybe 90% organic

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Such fun ideas!!! Do you have recipes you could share for your homemade stuff? Seeing your list makes me feel boring.

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Makes me feel boring too! But then my kids can be so picky..... even the fun cute fishing idea would be disliked by my peanut butter hater. Tell me, how can you not like peanut butter!!??
My snacks are basic(and boring)
yogurt
apples/p.b.(except for above mentioned child)
trail mixes with leftover cereals, raisins
cheese/crackers
muffins
eng. muffin pizza
veggies/hummus
rolled up deli turkey or ham/crackers
kabob style pineapple chunks, ham, cheese

Haha Friday was clean out the fridge day, kids were eating leftover sloppy joe mix, chicken, pancakes, etc. Kids loved it and I didn't have much food to throw out this weekend.

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Don't feel bad. Basic is fine. I just have an obsession with lots of variety. It's kind of my hobby to find new recipes.

I just chop up various fruits for the fruit salsa. Then you take soft tortillas, lightly butter, I spread a very fine amount of maple syrup, but the recipe calls for sprinkled sugar, so that fine too. Take a pizza cutter and cut into triangles. Lightly bake. Use to scoop fruit!

My smoothies always start with frozen banana chunks. This makes the smoothie thick like soft serve ice cream almost! Then I throw in other frozen fruit (or fresh), yogurt and milk.

I just tried to cut and paste my pumpkin cookie recipe but I couldn't do it from my iPad.

The extra special trail mix is on a PC that's not hooked up right now. I'll type that up, as it's not too long.
3 cups Cherios (I use organic O's)
2 cups Kashi Honey Sunshine cereal ( or your choice of other)
1 cups pretzel sticks
1/2 c creamy p. Nut butter
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup golden raisins
1 cup craisins
1/2 cup ch. chips
You can add other things if you want
Heat p nut butter and butter to boiling., stirring often, pour over cereal mix. Toss, spread on ungraded cookie sheet. Bake 10 min. I don't have the temp. Let cool. Add ch chips, raisins, Usually I just pour over and stir, and let cool. I don't bake it.

Here's an easy one....Apple biscuit bake. 1 triangle of a crescent roll, 1 apple slice, a little sugar and cinnamon. (I use a tiny bit of maple syrup instead. I also use immaculate brand which at least isn't loaded with artificial stuff...but it's spendy)
Roll up and bake at 350 for maybe 5-7 min. I just watch them close!

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Yes--I forgot to say that: we are open M-Th. So Thursday afternoon snack is "leftovers." I use whatever little bits were left throughout the week and serve it buffet style; they come get what they want.

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I never thought about smoothies! What do you put in yours?

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some kind of milk or yogurt (usually almond milk)
greens (usually spinach, sometimes kale, cucumber, lettuce)
slightly more fruit than there were greens--anything! At least part of that should be frozen.
some water if needed
I usually add flax seeds or chia seeds, too.

Blueberry-spinach-peach-coconut milk is the current favorite.

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Being that I am doing countries of the day, my babies get what is normal for that area we are observing - yep, other countries don't pamper the kids, they eat what parents eat inc snacks. Haven't had too many problems yet. Tomorrow is Moroccan. Discovered my babes will eat almost anything before age 18 months lol

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