What snacks do you give your kids???
I want some snack ideas and I want to get a grasp on what the norm is..

Be HONEST if you feed them chips I WANNA know!!
I'm curious as to what the average person feeds their kids :D

99% of the time, Liam gets fruit and vegetables, fresh and just sliced up. He's also really fond of string cheese:giggle Cottage cheese, yogurt, and the Boca chick'n patties are big hits, as well.

Peanut butter and jelly(or sunflower butter and marmalade, etc) definitely good, too. :yes

i dont have any kids but that sunflower butter sounds good! where do you get it?

i dont have kids but i remember that i used to looove to eat string cheese..and chips and dip..oranges..frozen grapes...grapefruit with a little bit of sugar or some strawberries...yogurt. and cheese wiz on crackers :lol :P and peanut butter and jelly on crackers too :yes

lots of stuff :P

i dont have any kids but that sunflower butter sounds good! where do you get it?

We used to always buy it at Whole Foods. Since we don't have one here, we've been ordering it online:lol There are a million kinds, though, and any natural store wil have at least a few:yes

My kids favorites were celery and peanut butter, tortilla chips and avacodo and or salsa, string cheese, fruit smoothies (frozen fruit, goat milk and a bit of honey) and yogurt

Sydnee eats chewy fruit snacks, crackers and cheese, pudding, sometimes she does the cheetos thing, cheerios, carrot sticks, raisons, flies on a log ( celery w/ peanut butter and raisons on it) and so much more!

Dehydrated fruit (he won't eat much real fruit :sigh), apples, bananas, crackers with PB, 100 cal packs, string cheese, NutriGrain bars, nuts, 100% real fruit fruit snacks, granola bars, cereal, fruit leather, veggie chips, bread (english muffins, pitas, breadsticks, etc).

DD loves Veggie chips (I get them at Trader Joe's).. I keep things like PB cracker sandwiches, quaker mini delights, applesauce and fruit leather(http://www.stretchislandfruit.com/) in the snack cabinet.. and we keep cheese and such in the fridge for her to snack on. She also loves fruits.. oranges, apples and bananas are big around here.

apples, bananas, pineapple, grapes, string cheese, yogurt, lance crackers (we get that multi pack at costco), wheat toast with peanut butter.....
They beg for fruit constantly.....odd children.

my ODD loves fresh fruits and veggies! she rather have those than anything else.

my DS loves Popsicles! he loves cheese! peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, he aslo likes the chewy fruit snacks, but I dont buy them that often because I think they are just awful for his teeth. He also loves the gold fish crackers. the only fruit i can get him to eat are bananas. the only vegetables i can get him to eat are potatoes and carrots.

Oooohhh yeah! I forgot about the goldfish crackers:yes Liam LOVES them. He will drop them in tomato soup and make them swim around then fish for them when he's eating:teehee Those things are like gold in this house, definitely a treat I keep reserved for special times because they work wonders as a bartering tool when he's uncooperative and I'm tired. :rofl

Fruit Snacks, pretzels, club cracker sticks, string cheese, goldfish, shortbread cookies, Cheetos, lance cracker snacks, yogurt, pudding, fruit cups, fruits (all kinds), baby carrots with ranch, celery with cream cheese & olives, bread... yes ol' plain bread :lol, raisins, Teddy Grahams Snack mix, Dried Fruits, fruit puffs, Fruit chips (like tortilla chips only made with fruit).

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think.

String cheese
yogurt
Fruits
Pretzels
Popcorn

I bake a lot, so a lot of baked goods too.

Teddy grahms, raisins, dried apricots, string cheese, popsicle if we've been swimming, popcorn...

Yogurt Sauce :teehee We mix apple sauce and organic whole milk yogurt and she goes to town!
She also loves mangoes, pineapple, apples, papaya, bananas, cut up green peppers, carrots, etc. She'll eat almost any fruit/veggie
We recently found these 100% organic freeze dried white/yellow peaches that she loves.

My daughter isn't huge on fruits and vegetables or that's what she would get. She will eat bananas, grapes, and applesauce, so she gets that. Sometimes the freeze dried potatoes from Costco (they're like chips, but with no oil or anything), raisins, goldfish crackers, yogurt, string cheese, animal crackers...at school she gets fruit, bread, crackers, cold cereal (sometimes dry, sometimes with milk)...
Yeah, I'm not very creative.

She's more of a grape girl, I don't see how she's not tired of them yet.. even though they can be so expensive at times :teehee

garaham crackers, teddy grahams, ritz with peanut butter, saltines with sliced cheese, grapes, strawberries, sliced apples, oranges, cereal, string cheese, some sort of homemade cookie or bread or muffin, carrot sticks, cut up cucumbers, yogurt, occasionally they get 100 cal pack if we need something quick or on the go....

I think cereal is probably the most common one. We keep various low sugar cereals stocked b/c they are an easy, portable snack.

Almost anything. My DS is a very big grazer. I don't mind it either. We try to keep things healthy although he loves cookies. If they are gone, they are gone though.

Loves fruit, grapes, oranges, watermelon, ect.

Veggies, not so much.

Snackys: Chips, popcorn, found out about slim jims, cereal, almost anything.

My kids get dry cereal for snack, especially when I'm picking them up from school. At home on weekends, it's usually a Gogurt.

Trent is not a big snacker but when he is he eats dry cereal, chips of any sort, string cheese, pudding snack (only after nap time) apples but not the peel:arg, bread with peanut butter, and cheese singles.

Ok, I'll admit it. Madison eats chips. But she also eats teddy grahams, fruit snacks, peanut butter and apple slices (I say peanut butter first because there is MUCH more pb consumed than apples! :teehee), carrot sticks and ranch dressing, grapes and oranges.

My kids love grapes, (apples and bananas sometimes) Strawberries, fish crackers or cheese nips (they LOVE those!), yogurt (or gogurt) and string cheese are house hold musts in my family... They also love jello.... Chips are kinda a treat, few and far between. I would rather give em a piece of candy then a bag of chips on a regular basis...Call me crazy! =)

DD loves fruit, she could eat it all day everyday. She also loves salad. She likes the chewy fruit snacks, sugar free popsicles, yogurt, pretzels, cheese, goldfish crackers, cereal, tortilla chips and salsa. She also loves chocolate, cookies, and chips when she is allowed to have them.

Fruit string cheese, and yogurt for the most part. They get chips periodically but that is usually something that goes with hotdogs or hamburgers if we have them for supper.

We go through a heck of a lot of fresh fruit.

They love yogurt, string cheese, grapes, bananas, popcorn, apples, and goldfish. Sometimes they will get fruit snacks too.

lots of different stuff...I keep the 100 calorie packs in my diaper bag for a quick snack if we're out and about...but I do let them eat pretty much whatever they want to eat.

DD will eat grapes..oranges and apples first...and than we have like fruit snacks....fruit popsicles...we eat alot of fruit here..occasionally she'l have chips but we usually don't keep them in the house...mainly some popcorn or something..

it varies from day to day, but what we have on hand today for snacks would be:
apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, pretzels, yogurt, applesauce, dry cereal, & popsicles.

Apples w/PB, lots of fresh fruit, carrots w/ranch, tlc granola bars, string cheese, yogurt, graham crackers, now that it is summer, popsicles, ice cream, cottage cheese, smoothies.

Eian snacks on grapes, bananas, yogurt, jello, granola bars (he calls them cookies), graham crackers, oh and trail mix made with pretzels, yougurt covered raisins and cherrios and of course the stuff I wish he didn't have so much: Cheetios, and gummy bears (when we have them in the house).

my kids eat a wide range of snacks. Chips included.
Fresh fruit is a must around here, fresh veggies, canned fruit, applesauce, Peanut butter sandwiches, nutella sandwiches, yogurt, cheese.
My kids aren't picky ( well ydd is but not so much that she doesn't eat something) they love fresh fruit and veggies.

Bailey snacks on little puffs....lol

Caleb and Christine like bowls of cereal,Doritos,apples or bananas

I'm trying to push fruits for snacks, but it isn't going so well.

Typically they snack on peanut butter and bread, crackers, cheese crackers, cheese sticks, popcorn, chips, along those lines.

We're trying to push apples, bananas, grapes, etc, but it's not going so well.

Jack doesnt snack alot, lately, but i usually give him nilla wafers or teddy grahams. He usually eats grilled cheese with mandarin oranges for lunch.. gonna try pb&j soon, we tried it a few months ago but he didnt like it :giggle He also eats yogurt.

ETA- we also give him those nutragrain cereal bars :yes

LOL @ the demand for honesty.

Ok - I give my kids chips and tings of that junk food sort time to time. Mainly when I want some I share.
Mainly fruit - apples, oranges and bananas. Healthy snacking doesn't have to be expensive :) And bologna. Don't know why but a few ofthe kids just love snacking on bologna circles.

DD LOVES banana's! She'll TRY to eat an apple (she doesn't like it cut up, so she just walks around biting off tiny pieces, and then spitting the skin out!) She also loves string cheese, yougart, applesauce (I'll throw in some cheerios with the applesauce, she loves cheerios) PB & honey (she's not a fan of jelly) And they have these lunchables Jr's with pieces of cheese, cut up ham, or turkey, and baby ritz crackers- those are GREAT!!

I think I have the worlds pickiest eater as a child though, so when I find something she likes, I'm jumping for joy!

She also LOVES grahm crackers!

I have pretty much outlawed snacks because I was having trouble getting them eat their meals. My son is SO skinny, crackers aren't going to beef him up!

right now I have on hand two different kinds of nature valley granola bars and some packs of austin crackers, apples, bananas, nectarines and some baby carrots. Recently we'd have string cheese as well.

The boys love fruit, veggies with some kind of dip (though they both like different veggies), crackers (the cheap ones with pb or cheese in the middle), string cheese is a HUGE hit with both of them, granola bars, nutrigrains (though we don't have these much), yogurt, yogurt covered raisins, graham crackers.... my boys will pretty much eat anything for a snack. Zach loves pb&j sandwiches right now.

I try to give my kids as healthy food as possiable. They LOVE peaches, bananas, apple sauce and grapes. I give them the yogurt melts and the furit puffs still cause ds doesnt have all of his teeth yet and they love them. I also get these things called Cheddair puffs. They are like all natural and melt in your mouth and snyders all natural multigrain white cheddar curls. If I cant find thoes two I will go for the cheetos puffcorn but I try to keep that at a minimum because of msg

Apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, any fruit really cut up with crackers or a granola bar.

depends on what I am trying to get rid of......haha

when my kids say they are hungry between meals I offer the following first:
bananas
yogurt
grapes
other fruits
snack packs (the little bags of random cookies, crackers, sometimes 100 calories or not)
raisins etc

If they are TRULY hungry they'll generally bite at those.
Sometimes they get cookies, chips etc......I just try to make sure that those aren't ALL they eat. Granola bars, yogos, fruit gummies......

Tandis only gets junkfood when his dad gives it to him.

The current snacks available in the kitchen THIS VERY MOMENT are:
boiled eggs (just whites, dogs get the yolks)
broccoli florets and ranch dip
carrot sticks and hummus dip
pita chips, unsalted
low sodium crackers (ritz, saltine, multigrain organic one that I like)
UNSALTED tortilla chips, homemade bean dip (low salt, lowfat)
Apples
Peaches
Cauliflower and ranch
string cheese
cottage cheese
summer sausage (good with crackers)
gouda cheese
multigrain cheerios
mini wheats
Trail mix (no candy in it, just nuts and fruit, unsalted)
Dried apricots


Miko has a bag of Doritos out right now, and he gives Tandis one/two whenever he's having some but I don't allow more than two chips per day. No exceptions to that.

LOL @ the demand for honesty.

Ok - I give my kids chips and tings of that junk food sort time to time. Mainly when I want some I share.
Mainly fruit - apples, oranges and bananas. Healthy snacking doesn't have to be expensive :) And bologna. Don't know why but a few ofthe kids just love snacking on bologna circles.

oh my kids love "retarded bologna". its bologna microwaved, and it curls up to a bubble. My uncle called it "retarded bologna" when we were little, and it just stuck. Like "dippy eggs"...lol

Ava snacks on fruits, fruit snacks, graham cracker sticks, teddy grahams, nilla wafers, string cheese, yogurt, nutragrain bars, mini quakes. It depends on her though.

All different kinds of fruit, 100% natural fruit snacks, teddy grahams, yogurt, regular pringles. Those are the Major things and we give them different things here and there all of the time.

oh my kids love "retarded bologna". its bologna microwaved, and it curls up to a bubble. My uncle called it "retarded bologna" when we were little, and it just stuck. Like "dippy eggs"...lol

You ate dippy eggs too?? :lol I LOVED dippy eggs!

My grandmother used to either make me the fried ones with the dippy yolk in the middle (over medium) or she'd soft boil them to where the white was firm but the yolk was runny, then she'd put it in a egg holder and crack the top off. I LOVED me some dippy eggs!

DS eats..

cheese
bananas
yogurt
pita and hummus
pretzels
oranges
goldfish
applesauce
peanut butter toast
jelly toast

I'm the mom that will give my kids fruit snacks, adn then complain when they don't want to eat their dinner. I even pulled a brain fart the other day and let them each have a sucker after their nap (about an hour and a half til dinner). I couldn't get upset when neither one of my girls was hungry for dinner. But, I also cut apples up for them, or cheese, something like that. They will go for either sweet or fruity stuff. My kids are weird though, they won't eat crackers, and they don't like any fruit other than apples and bananas.

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sarah eats bananas and grahm crackers for snack time.
she loves it.

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I also just realized I havn't answered my own post..LOL
Yogurt
cheese
graham bears
cheerios snack mix
dried fruit
Chips if we have them
low fat pudding
jello
ummmm I'll add more as I think of more..lol

Fresh fruit (berries, oranges, bananas); string cheese or sliced cheese; crackers; whole grain goldfish; yogurt; applesauce; raisins

Sydnee eats chewy fruit snacks, crackers and cheese, pudding, sometimes she does the cheetos thing, cheerios, carrot sticks, raisons, flies on a log ( celery w/ peanut butter and raisons on it) and so much more!

Dito. Donovan isn't big on celery though.

mandarin orange cups like you get at Wendy's
grapes
pizza rolls
pudding cups

We don't do a lot of snacking but the kids will get fruit, 100 cal packs, Pirates Booty(puffed corn and rice), crackers(graham, ritz), popcorn....thats really about it.
Like I said, we really don't keep a lot of snakck type foods in the house since we don't do a lot of snacking really.

My son eats granola bars, Cheese Nips or Goldfish, apples, bananas, grapes, chips, dry cereal, cheese, pickles, the pre-made crackers with peanut butter on them, milk and cookies, Go-gurts and so much more.

Cottage cheese
Yogurt
Apple Slices
Mini Carrots
String cheese
Graham Crackers
Bananas
Raisins
Pretzels
Goldfish crackers
Cheese slices

I don't buy a lot of snack food but my son loves cereal(dry in a baggie) Sometimes if I catch it on sale I will by him some cheeze-itz or teddy grahams.

my kids will eat what ever is in the house...they are ages 7 & 10

must haves that are always in the house are...
cheese nips
ice cream or popsicles
pretzels

but my kids will also eat...
poptarts
sour cream & onion chips for my daughter
regular chips for my son
both love tortilla chips
oreos
cereal
donuts
muffins
fudge rounds
nutty bars
honey buns
dibs
nilla wafers
fruit bars
gogurts
cheese puffs
nachos
popcorn
fruit rollups/fruit by the foot
gummies
crackers

and i'm sure i've left out something but you get the general idea...its junk
for some odd reason the commissary here (NWS) does not sell Hostess but if i remember at walmart i'll buy twinkes & the cupcakes

they also eat fruit and some decent stuff...

like i said i just let them eat whatever is here most of the time...they eat at meal time so i don't worry what they snack on

i guess i should say that not all that stuff is in the house all at once but we do always have junky snacks

Wanted to add dried Goji Berries to our list! Zoe loves them. They're same texture as raisins but less sugar.