Mental block for SNACKS!

So my snacks at the moment consist of craackers, cheese slices and grapes. They have gone off bananas. Sometimes I give popcorn. Need some new ideas for healthy (and sometimes not so healthy is ok) snacks. Please tell me what you give. Thanks!

 

We do rice cakes, animal crackers, Teddy Grahams and Mini Ritz. One of mine has a dairy and nut allergy, so it limits what I can give them. I'd like some new ideas too.

 

DH and I just started brainstorming this one because we were stumped as well, and here's what we have come up with:

Cheerios (duh)
Cheese and wheat crackers (like the pre-wrapped peanut butter crackers)
Goldfish
Fruit cups (like Del Monte; boys LURV these!)
Sweet potato fries
Animal crackers
Cheese bits
Halved blueberries
Quartered cherries
Nutrigrain bars (cut up)
Fig Newtons (cut up)
Graham crackers
Bologna bits

Eventually we'll start giving them raw veggies like carrots and celery, but they need more teeth!!

All of the above snacks have been big hits, so I hope this gives you a few ideas!

 

peeled and sliced apples

goldfish crackers

pretzels - the mini pretzels or the little sticks that break up easily

yogurt

jello or pudding cups

occasional popsicle

watermelon

 

We do
Goldfish
Cheerios
cheese
lunch meat cut up
fruit cups

but their favorite is veggies. I take one of the green giant steamers bags and microwave it, then put it in small tupperware and put in in the fridge. When its snack time I just give it to them out of the fridge, they seem to love the cold peas, corn and green beans.

 

Our snacks:
grapes/apples
Dole/del monte fruit cups
yogurt
cereal bars
teddy grahams
broken up Nilla wafers
Grips Cheese Its
veggies
cheerios
Beech Nut yogurt nibbles (my kids LOVE these)
toast

My DD has discovered a fondness for greek yogurt, so when that's on sale I add that to our snack list.

 

we do:
cheese sticks and crackers
fruit pieces (kiwi, peaches, nectarines, blueberries, strawberries, pineapple, sauteed apple slices, etc)
beans (black, kidney or pinto)
graham crackers
yogurt
cottage cheese (hit or miss though)
scrambled eggs (usually just mroning snack if they had waffles, oatmeal or toast for breakfast)
any left overs I might have
cereal bars (nutrigrain or TJ's)
olives
Joe's O's (cheerios)
toast with jam (if they didn't have bread at breakfast)
tomatoes
avacadoes

my girls love veggies, so if I have lots of veggies for the day then I will give them some veggies and cheese or veggies and crackers for a snack. I usually do a combination of 2 or 3 things.

 

Yogurt [we use the gerber graduates kind too, the melts, cause they like to feed themselves]
Graham Crackers
Goldfish
Animal Crackers
Jello
Toast with jam
Gerber puffs and crunchies
Cheerios [we give them multi-grain or the yogurt ones]
yogurt covered raisins
mum mum's

 

Honestly..I give them just about anything. I don't give them raisins or popcorn though because they are both choking hazards. When I give them fruit I cut it up. I recently found out that they both like DQ Thin Mint Blizzards for dessert (like their mamma)!

Snacks
Cheese
Graham crackers
Puffs
Cheerios
Gold fish
Teething biscuit
Fig Newtons
Mum mum
Ritz crackers
Ritz with peanut butter
Bagels
Nutrigrain bars
Fruit
Yogurt
Tapioca
Turkey
etc etc.

 

Graham crackers (or usually graham bunnies)
Cereal bars
Cheerios/Kix/etc.
Rice crispy bars (they aren't really rice crispies but some earth's best thing)
Cheese
Fig newtons
Edamame
Carrot sticks
Pretzels (mine LOVE pretzel rods)
Green pepper slices
Dried fruit and veggies (Whole Foods has a huge selection - we do peas, corn, raspberries, pomegranate, pineapple, etc.)
Bagels
Puffs/crunchies

I'm sure there are more, but we are also a bit in a rut on the snacks.

 

We eat all sorts of goodies-
some of our favorites -
mix whole milk yogurt with cherrios and fruit bits
avacados and mashed taters
or avacado and yogurt
almond butter/or peanut butter on mini bagels
frozen go-gurt

 

I was just making a list the other day because I feel like we need to expand, too!
We have:

cheese and crackers
cereal bars
graham crackers with PB
graham crackers with cream cheese
teddy grahams dipped in yogurt or vanilla pudding
all kinds of fruit
mini muffins

Today I got bored so I emptied the cabinets, made them each a little bowl of cheerios, goldfish, "fruity bunnies," pretzel pieces and teddy grahams. They loved the variety! (Of course, my son's bowl ended up on the floor once, but we're still learning about handling plates and bowls!)

 

I wonder if this will work on my non-vegetable eating twins?

 

I should write down what everyone is posting! We kinda do the same thing day after day... The big hit being goldfish and popsicles.

I just wanted to mention about the popsicles... My boys have been getting one when they get up from nap because a.)it's hotter than all heck and b.)it puts them in a great mood!

The popsicles we use are the Might Mini Slow Melts. If you haven't heard of them-run to the nearest grocery store and look for them. They are AWESOME! My kids LOVE them! They are SMALL and they hardly even melt! OK-that's my PSA for Popsicle! LOL!

 

Thanks ladies for the great ideas! Going to put my new list of snacks on the fridge and get some variety into their snack times!

 

We usually do :
Raisins
Cheese Its
Gold fish
Grapes
Fruit cups
Gogurt
Fig nutons
Bananas
Nutri grain bars
Cheetos
Toast
Ritz
Cheese sticks

 

We only have one snack a day and we don't put them in the high chairs for it anymore, so our snacks mostly consist on random crackers (graham, cheese, goldfish etc) or animal cookies. The day they know how to use a spoon and putting them in their highchair isn't an ordeal anymore (I'm just so sick of the cleaning up every time) I'll add some variety again... lol.