Quick and easy snacks for school lunches
Last Updated on November 8, 2024
Thinking about snacks for school lunches is something that many mums struggle with, especially if you have fussy eaters.
However, adding snacks to your kid’s school lunches when you’re coming up with school lunch ideas, may increase the likelihood that the lunch will actually get eaten, and your school lunch meal planning efforts haven’t gone to waste.
If you’re looking for some quick and easy school snack ideas to make this part of preparing for school simpler, here are some ideas that you can try.
If you’re also on the hunt for more snack ideas, here are some road trip snacks for kids, toddler snack ideas, and even snack ideas for mums.
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Savoury snacks for school lunches
- Bagel with cream cheese
- Cheese and crackers
- Guacamole and crackers
- Cheese muffin
- Cheese stick or slice
- Cheese twists
- Hard-boiled egg
- Pita with hummus
- Pizza pinwheels
- Popcorn
- Pretzels
- Pumpkin seeds
- Roasted chickpeas
- Tortilla chips and salsa
- Trail mix
- Turkey slices
- Vegetable sticks with hummus
Sweet snacks for school lunches
- Apple slices with nut butter
- Baked apple chips
- Banana bread
- Berries with Greek yoghurt
- Fruit in juice
- Cereal / Muesli / Granola bar
- Chocolate chips
- Cookie
- Dry cereal
- Carrot bliss balls
- Flapjacks
- Freeze dried fruit
- Fresh fruit
- Fruit and yoghurt pouches
- Fruit leather
- Mixed berries
- Muffins
- Raisons
- Yoghurt covered rice cakes
- Yoghurt pretzels
How to store school snacks
You can store kid’s school snacks in their own containers, or as part of their packed lunch.
If you’d like to store snacks in their own containers, any small container will do the trick.
My favourite snack container for when I want my kid’s school snacks to be separate from their school lunch are these dinosaur themed snack containers.
I love how they come in 3 different sizes, so I can choose the size container I need depending upon the size of their snack.
If you’d like to store your kid’s snacks for school with their school lunch so everything’s together, a container that I use pretty much every day is the Sistema lunchbox.
This is a great container for storing school snacks because it has many separate compartments within it, making it easy to store a variety of different food types.
I hope there’s some snacks for school lunches here that you’d like to start adding to your kids’ school lunches.
What school snacks do your kids love?
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