anyone have good snack ideas?

They are a little expensive, but my kids love the orange bell peppers, they are sweet and fun to eat. We cut them in slices and my daughter sometime dips hers in dressing. Son eats them plain. We also eat grapes and cheese as a snack. That makes a nice display on a tray and again is something colorful to eat. Other times we do brocoli, cherry tomatoes, and carrot sticks... another colorful snack. I'm blessed to have kids that love veggies and fruits, so that helps a lot. We make fruit salads and smoothies quite a lot too. ; )

I tutor at a center for homeless youngsters in downtown Los Angeles and we provide snacks. We have things like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fruit snacks. If they are at the age where they can be taught little cooking activities you can probably have them make a Chinese chicken salad or mini pizzas using English muffins. We did these during our summer program.

I make homemade trail mix for my kids and they love it. You can add anything really and bake it in the oven. Like the chex ceral, pretzels, peanuts, stuff like that. It is really good.

broccoli, carrots, celery, peppers with ranch dip Pita wedges warmed up with hummus/tobbuli/bab ganush (sp) salomi rolled with chream cheese fruit with fruit dip apples with carmel dip trail mix string cheese speghetti squash cooked with a little cinnamon and brown sugar yogurt with granola or fruit asperagus spears blanched with a dash of lemon juice and garlic soy chips "milk shakes" made with fruit, yogurt, protein powder deviled eggs hard boiled eggs

When I did home daycare, I loved to make snack trays for the kids to nibble on. Each child would get a "tray". Take a paper plate, place on it a blob of peanut butter and a small dish of ranch dressing. Then, add carrot and celery sticks, pepper rings, and broccoli and cauliflower "trees". Cherry tomatoes, grapes, and apples are also super for this. The kids can choose which dip they want to dip their foods into. Another huge hit was melon balls. You can pick up a melon baller at the store very inexpensively. If you are concerned about choking, cut the melon into larger squares instead of using the baller. I would mix up watermelon, honeydew and cantaloupe for a nice color blend.

A great snack that most kids will like is "Ants on a Log". The only part that takes a little time to get ready is washing the celery and cutting it into 3-4" logs. The kids have a great time making them. Turn you celery with the opening face down. Spread peanut butter on the back and stick on the ants.(Raisins) You will always have at least one out of the qroup that wants their ants in the log. That is your real ant-eater

Graveyard Crunch Recipe Rating: Prep Time: 5 min Total Time: 35 min Makes: 18 servings, 1/2 cup each 1/4 cup maple-flavored or pancake syrup 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon 4 cups POST Cocoa, Fruity or CINNA-CRUNCH PEBBLES Cereal 1 cup PLANTERS Dry Roasted Peanuts 2 cups JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows 1 cup candy corn 1 cup candy-coated chocolate pieces PREHEAT oven to 300°F. Place syrup, butter and cinnamon in large microwaveable bowl. Microwave on HIGH 1 min.; stir until butter is completely melted. Add cereal and peanuts; mix lightly. Spread into lightly greased 15x10x1-inch baking pan. BAKE 30 min., stirring after 15 min. Cool completely. Break into pieces; place in large bowl. ADD marshmallows and candies; mix lightly. Store in tightly covered container at room temperature. KITCHENS TIPS Substitute Substitute 1 pkg. (7 oz.) chocolate-covered raisins (about 1 cup) for the candy corn. This is very nice kid friendly recipe. I've used this one and others that I have gathered from this site: http://www.kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=recipe&m=recipe/knet_recipe_grid&u1=bytype&u2=12*152 They also have a mailing list and you can receive a free cookbook 3 - 4 times a year.

i was doing a little research this afternoon to respond to a poster's discussion, and one thing i learned, and i was surprised at this, were the health benefits of eating hot and fresh popcorn. popcorn contains minerals and vitamins, and unlike candies and softdrinks, it doesn't harm your teeth so much that would necessitate immediate brushing. so, for me, a good snack idea would be a bag of fresh and hot popcorns.

I was helping my mom with grocery shopping today and we came upon these baked fruit crisps snacks in the store. They have several flavors of these available and have already tried it and it is really good and pretty healthy. I bought the wild berry flavor fruit crisps and liked it very much. I did not know about these til today. Here is a picture of it that I took.

cookies easy to make and good to get the kids involved makin them or rice crispy bars takes 5 minutes just melt marshmallos,mix in rice crispy and chips or whatever spread in a pan hit the fridge and thats it no pain lol

You can get those mozzarella string cheese sticks, they're nutritious and tasty and they come individually wrapped.

i prepare cheesesticks..

My son is a huge snacker so I will share his favorite. We cut up some smoked sausage,ham,chunked cheese,melon etc and stab them with little pretzle sticks. He loves it!

Rice cakes with peanut butter and jelly. Just spread a pinch of both on both sides. Also, cheerios and unsalted potato chips work well.

Deep fried chocolate bars. No more than six in one sitting however.

Honey!! you can put it with lots of things, it's sweet and healty.

i was doing a little research this afternoon to respond to a poster's discussion, and one of the things i came across with were the health benefits of fresh and hot popcorn. fresh and hot popcorn contains minerals and vitamins, and unlike candies and softdrinks, it doesn't harm the teeth so much so that it would require immediate toothbrushing. so i guess, if you're looking for a healthy snack to nibble on, have a bag of popcorns and keep popping!

fruits, yogurt, peanut butter and jelly sandwich