After school snacks

sweetserendipity

melwright wrote: »

Hi,

Nothing very exciting I'm afraid. Cereal, cereal bars, fruit salad or cheese on toast are favourites in our house!

Ooooh cheese on toast - good idea - you see it, you want it!!:j

sweetserendipity

Thanks for all your ideas - I will do my best to tempt my daughters into eating them!! Not sure about the breadsticks & marmite tho!!_pale_
I have been making twinks hobnobs which go down VERY well!! Also make cornflake cakes but I tend to put these things into their packed lunches so feel like I'm duplicating all the time!!
I do try & keep the fruit bowl full but unless it's peeled, chopped, handed to them on a plate (!) they usually don't bother!
Thanks again everyone.

Krystaltips

This is a dilema I'll be facing the day after tomorrow

School is at the bottom of a hill to us so always a long trek home... and she was a nightmare when she was only doing 2 1/2 hours... Dreading full time!

Savvy_Sue

DS3 usually eats four slices of toast with houmous or cheese on when he gets in from school.

Then eats his tea too.

But he is 16, has hollow legs, and I'm not convinced he always eats any lunch ...

Primrose

When we were kids my mother used to make big trays full of bread pudding with currants and sultanas. They always went down a treat.

fiscalfreckles

My eldest (14) hardly ever eats lunch (says she's too busy) so she is starving when she comes in.

Sometimes she has a small bowl of pasta, or a pitta bread pizza (a dollop of Dolmio or homemade tomato sauce if it's in the fridge, bits of ham & thinly sliced cheese, 5 mins under the grill or in the oven).

Then she will wait and eat (again!) with the rest of us.

plzhelpmesave!

i was gonna post the same questions as the OP! have two boys - one starting tomorrow and one in year 1 - and never know what to do after school/before evening meal. Usually fruit or milk and biccies. I do need toget into a routine now they're both at school of giving them something and then having tea on time before 6.30 - always late in my house!!

sweetserendipity

Thanks for the replies.
I bought an uncut loaf from the co-op today & cut a big doorstep piece each for them coming home from school - didn't work - still starving!! (I do wonder if my eldest daughter is eating her packed lunch though even though she swears she is. No worries about younger daughter - she loves her food so I know she won't leave anything!!)
Anyway, another thing I'm going to try is making them a hot drink i.e. hot chocolate as I know that helps me keep going between meals!!
Hope everyone else is managing to fill those hungry bellies!!:rotfl: Any more suggestions?

Savvy_Sue

They're not confusing hunger with thirst, are they?

I know children are encouraged to drink during the school day, but it's possible they're not getting enough.

tomstickland

I really hungry when I get home from work. I stuff my face with breadsticks and humous quite a lot of the time.