Cheap snack ideas - stop me buying crisps!

Stephen_Leak

Firstly, for home, I get a pack of mixed grapes, and keep them in the fridge.

For work, I also make my own mix of equal quantities of raisins, pine nuts and pumpkin seeds.

Aeshna

I love pine nuts, but they're so expensive! Some great ideas for snacking folks, thanks for sharing, my head is buzzing but I figure it's far too late now to head off to the 24hr Asda for some nuts.... tomorrow will have to do!

Aeshna x

pupsicola

Buy a big pack of rice cakes. They are yummy and reasonably healthy.

Sarah

lindseykim13

having grown up on lunch consisting of sarnie, crisps, fruit and or choc bisc! I'm keen not to get my kids in the same routine/habbit might be too late but can anyone give me some ideas for alternatives to crisps?


thanks

PasturesNew

You can make home made crisps, or use other vegetables (e.g. parsnips, beetroot) to make home made crisps. You can even make them in the microwave so no fat whatsoever.

It's not crisps that are bad, it's that the ones you buy are high in fat/salt and god knows what.

lynzpower

Breadsticks, pretzels, dried fruit, ritz-typre crackers, rice cakes.

Also dried beans, toasted corn, nuts ( when they are old enough!) and plaintain chips :drool:

Butterfly_Brain

breadsticks, dried apples, dried bananas

thriftlady_2

Home popped popcorn.

ubamother

It seems to be the law to put crisps in packed lunches - according to my son it is anyway. I alternate between homemade cheese biscuits or breadsticks, and baked crisps as a nod to health. Homemade breadsticks are fab for kids to make for themselves by the way - great fun on a rainy weekend. We freeze them raw and cook a week's batch at a time and keep in a tin. We don't like ricecakes but they're a good alternative if you do.

Mamae

My DD never has crisps (much to her dismay!), I give her olives, gherkins,tomatoes, dried fruit - she loves apricots, cheese,breadsticks or yoghurts. Hope that helps.