healthy snacks

[Blessed Homemaker]

I packed these for my kids's snack time in school


Dried fruits and nuts
Biscuits
Breakfast cereal
Cookies
Home baked cakes (fruit cake, butter cake, chiffon cake, banana cake, muffins, brownies etc)
Energy bars
Ma-ti-su (malt biscuit)
Dou-sa-bing
Chocolate (occasionally)

verygeksim:

Hi Mums

I pack a Sandwich for Daughter's recess and a snack box (assortment of biscuits) for bus journey home.

Any suggestions for a healthier snack box that will last until past 1 pm ?

Think all that processed food I give her as snack box will not be good for her long term.

The daughter said that bread will \"harden\" so will not eat it as part of snack box.

[Lynn2010]

verygeksim:

Hi Mums


I pack a Sandwich for Daughter's recess and a snack box (assortment of biscuits) for bus journey home.

Any suggestions for a healthier snack box that will last until past 1 pm ?

Think all that processed food I give her as snack box will not be good for her long term.

The daughter said that bread will \"harden\" so will not eat it as part of snack box.

Wrap the sandwich with cling wrap before putting into the box. It will not \"harden\"

[Lynn2010]

Imami:

verygeksim:

Hi Mums


I pack a Sandwich for Daughter's recess and a snack box (assortment of biscuits) for bus journey home.

Any suggestions for a healthier snack box that will last until past 1 pm ?

Think all that processed food I give her as snack box will not be good for her long term.

The daughter said that bread will \"harden\" so will not eat it as part of snack box.

I pack cereal for son. You know those small boxes of cereals from kelloge, nestle... Etc? I need to prepare breakfast/tea break for my child every mon/we'd/fri. As I am a full time working mum, I always end up buying buns the day before. Due to the length of time between buying the bun and child eating the bun, I don't really have a lot of choices (in terms of buns). Sometimes, worse - forget to buy. So I come up with this idea - cereal - as back up plan. My child eats cereal \"kosong\" I.e. Without pouring milk into cereal.

Anyone has other ideas?

My girls love cereal kosong. As long as your kid loves it, i think it's fine. If you want to be creative with your cereal, you can bake honey joy, coco pop coat w honey (you can google the recipe - very easy & kids love them). I used to have to do all these stuff when i was in Aus as their tuckshop choices are boring. Nowadays, i thought kids love to buy recess food from their school tuckshop? I used to fried noodles, make soba, fry udon, make sushi, etc etc for their recess. Hehehehe.... all their classmates will crowd round dd to check out what's her food for recess

[Lynn2010]

honey joy, coco pop, rice pop… can last till 1pm

[Blessed Homemaker]

Mine also prefer breakfast cereal kosong. And to add some variety to their breakfast cereal, I add mixed fruits/nuts.

Eg
Day 1 cornflakes with cranberries
Day 2 cocoa crunch with golden raisins
Day 3 rice krispies with currants
Day 4 cheerios with almond
Day 5 mixture of breakfast cereal/mixed fruits

No fixed \"recipe\", just mix and match. So that settles a week's menu

Lynn2010:

Imami:

[quote=\"verygeksim\"]Hi Mums

I pack a Sandwich for Daughter's recess and a snack box (assortment of biscuits) for bus journey home.

Any suggestions for a healthier snack box that will last until past 1 pm ?

Think all that processed food I give her as snack box will not be good for her long term.

The daughter said that bread will \"harden\" so will not eat it as part of snack box.

I pack cereal for son. You know those small boxes of cereals from kelloge, nestle... Etc? I need to prepare breakfast/tea break for my child every mon/we'd/fri. As I am a full time working mum, I always end up buying buns the day before. Due to the length of time between buying the bun and child eating the bun, I don't really have a lot of choices (in terms of buns). Sometimes, worse - forget to buy. So I come up with this idea - cereal - as back up plan. My child eats cereal \"kosong\" I.e. Without pouring milk into cereal.

Anyone has other ideas?

My girls love cereal kosong. As long as your kid loves it, i think it's fine. If you want to be creative with your cereal, you can bake honey joy, coco pop coat w honey (you can google the recipe - very easy & kids love them). I used to have to do all these stuff when i was in Aus as their tuckshop choices are boring. Nowadays, i thought kids love to buy recess food from their school tuckshop? I used to fried noodles, make soba, fry udon, make sushi, etc etc for their recess. Hehehehe.... all their classmates will crowd round dd to check out what's her food for recess :)[/quote]

[Eunice72]

Anyone tried to pack cheese and ham sandwich for recess? Will it turn bad?

[Laura_Ang]

Lynn2010:

Imami:

[quote=\"verygeksim\"]Hi Mums


I pack a Sandwich for Daughter's recess and a snack box (assortment of biscuits) for bus journey home.

Any suggestions for a healthier snack box that will last until past 1 pm ?

Think all that processed food I give her as snack box will not be good for her long term.

The daughter said that bread will \"harden\" so will not eat it as part of snack box.

I pack cereal for son. You know those small boxes of cereals from kelloge, nestle... Etc? I need to prepare breakfast/tea break for my child every mon/we'd/fri. As I am a full time working mum, I always end up buying buns the day before. Due to the length of time between buying the bun and child eating the bun, I don't really have a lot of choices (in terms of buns). Sometimes, worse - forget to buy. So I come up with this idea - cereal - as back up plan. My child eats cereal \"kosong\" I.e. Without pouring milk into cereal.

Anyone has other ideas?

My girls love cereal kosong. As long as your kid loves it, i think it's fine. If you want to be creative with your cereal, you can bake honey joy, coco pop coat w honey (you can google the recipe - very easy & kids love them). I used to have to do all these stuff when i was in Aus as their tuckshop choices are boring. Nowadays, i thought kids love to buy recess food from their school tuckshop? I used to fried noodles, make soba, fry udon, make sushi, etc etc for their recess. Hehehehe.... all their classmates will crowd round dd to check out what's her food for recess :)[/quote][/quote]


For cereal, I found the Ovomaltine Cereal at one of the Candy Empire shops. It tastes really yummy and crunchy. Not only my children likes it, it is stated to be nutritious too. Refer to picture as attached.
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[ammonite]

Eunice72:

Anyone tried to pack cheese and ham sandwich for recess? Will it turn bad?

Pan fry the ham first if you are worried about it going bad, cool before putting in. Skip the cheese and don't use mayo or cream based sauce. If using cucumber, de seed it so the sandwich will not be soggy. Any uneaten portion to be thrown away by end of recess, it will not keep till end of school day.

[Eunice72]

Thx for the advice.

[Glorared]

Thanks for sharing!