Healthy snacks for kids

knowsleyroader

Buy a french stick of bread (about 25p) cut in two, slice in half and top with butter or cheese spread.
Digestive biscuits spread with peanut butter are filling.
A bag of plain flour (about 30p) eggs and milk for pancakes. Buy a cheap tin of fruit (cherries are good) warm and put on the pancakes with a scoop of ice cream.
If you know anyone who grows rhubarb and has excess then a couple of sticks (with a small amount of sugar for dipping) should keep them busy for a while.

Taye

Good idea's thanks .... i tried fruit but it's really not all that cheap.. ok so i know an apple is about 10p but all those 10p's really add up, same with everything else tbh ...

i can buy a pack of biscuits pretty cheaply but when they last less than a day those pack's of biscuits really add up by the end of the money, it's just getting silly and no amout of drinks etc changes it.

i've even tried upping thier portions on thier main meals, they eat a bigger dinner than i do and still manage to empty my cuboards afterwards ..

How do little boy's do it?! goodness knows how i would cope if i have a OH as well!!! im petrified what will happen as they get bigger as it is they havn't even hit puberty yet !!

Bronnie

Make a big tray of potato wedges. Eat them straight from the oven or nuke the left overs later. Use spicy seasoning if they like it!
(I got big bag of whoopsied spuds from Sainsbury's last night for 10p!!)

I wouldn't try to fill them up on fruit. Healthy yes, but once they've had their quota for the day, it's just wasting money after that.

Intergalactic_Floozie

I bet they're sometimes eating out of boredom or habit - my two are exactly the same!

allydowd

Offer a glass of water. Then ask if they still want a snakck afterwards. Thirst and hunger are easily confused.

Primula

A jam sandwich?! I know bread is not so cheap now but you can still get the value bread a bit cheaper and nothing wrong with a good old fashioned jam sandwich! I remember coming home from school and having tomato sauce sandwiches! I think we are all spoiled now with all the "fancy" ready made snacks on offer.

MindaJ

Savoury muffins? I make this kind of thing that's halfway between a muffin and a frittata. Basic, grate and chop whatever veggies you have around, or can buy cheaply, add grated cheese, lentils and red kidney beans if you like them, bit of ham or bacon if you want, then mix with a few eggs or some olive oil and flour to combine. It should end up being mostly veg with flour holding it together, not batter with some veg thrown in.

Bake them however you like til cooked (I use muffin tins, my mum uses a pie dish), freeze and chuck in the microwave when you want one. Too easy! one muffin version does me for lunch quite often, could prove filling for young boys if they'd eat them? Also, the way I make them I reckon 1 muffin would would be pretty close to one serve of veg.

D&DD

I have the same problem here too and this half term has been awful as I've not had a chance to bake so its cost us a fortune :eek:
Tanya Ramsey has a delish recipe for ham and cheese muffins and I tend to split a batch normally and make normal size ones and mini muffins.

My lot have suddenly gone mad on toast so we are getting through nearly 2 loaves a day!! My stockpile of marmite is disappearing fast..

I make cheese straws and also if you have any scraps of puff pastry over from baking twist these up,sprinkle with cheese and sesame seeds and bake, they are lovely!
Also breadsticks are cheap and easy when homemade

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When I was small my late Mum had three skiiny kids with hollow legs to feed no easy task during rationing.A jeelly piece(a jam sandwich to those of the southern persuasion) usually worked quite well.After rationing finished and she had those long hot summers to feed us in she used to do 2 cream crackers with a scrape of marge and jam and a slice of cheese made into a sanwich. These were always quite filling or a banana and jam sanwich its amazing how far a banana goes in sanwiches. Another filling for a sandwich was a small tin of pichards with extra tomato ketchup mixed up in it and some slices of cucumber on top. My Mum made the most amazing sandwiches, and we never knew what was going to be next as a filling. I know the bread from Mr Ts doesn't have to be the best though .In our day there were no sliced loaves so it was 'doorsteps'.
Get some rice cripspie's and some cheap cooking chocolate and make rice crispie cakes ,or better still get the kids to make them, very easy to make and cheaper than buying them. I used to save all the bottom of the packet bits in a screw topped jar from all the different cereals. Or make them with mashed up digestive biscuits.Most kids if its got chocolate on will eat it .My DD has four hollow legged lads fro 5-13 and her cupboards are always being raided. Take them out to the country side and see if there is a fruit farm where they can help pick some fruit . In a few months time the blackberries will be abundant in the hedgerows and kids love to help pick some for jam.Jam making isn't hard and well worth the effort.tell your neighbours to save their jam jars. Ban all crisps as they are very expensive for what they are and just don't fill them up at all.
I grew up with hardly any crisps at all as they just wern't available after the war so what you don't have you don't miss .Even now I rarely eat crisps as I can't see the point of spending money on what is essentially half a potato at most in a packet Apples at 10p each are better than a packet of crisps at 25p

PasturesNew

There was a programme earlier in the week about dieting which gave some useful information about what makes you feel full and why.

They found that a high protein meal will make people feel fuller for longer - so eggs/cheese/beans based items.

Also, soup is filling. They did one experiment where somebody ate something with a glass of water and another person had it all liquidised together into soup - and when the stomach encounters the water it bloats the stomach at first then the water quickly passes through, leaving the stomach deflated and feeling hungry, whereas the soup was too thick to pass through quickly.

It was all scientifically based, so not a fads thing. It looked at science and body mechanics.

So how about having a huge saucepan of soup available all the time (could just be cheap veggies) and home made bread.

When I was young, in the holidays we'd have just been allowed a jam sandwich, or maybe jam on toast.

You can make your own crisps easily enough - even in a microwave so they literally take 2 minutes to knock up a portion.