Easy road trip snacks for kids

Last Updated on November 8, 2024

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There’s something about being in a car that makes kids hungry, and if you’re going on a road trip with kids, even a short one, being without road trip snacks can make your journey feel very, very long.

If you’d like to be as prepared as possible when hunger strikes on your next road trip adventure, here are some road trip snacks for kids that you can take with you, as well as some ideas on how to pack them.

Road trip snacks for kids

Here are some easy road trip snack ideas, and if you’re interested, here are some healthy snacks for toddlers to take on the go once you’ve reached your destination, and some snack ideas for mums so you don’t get hungry either.

Bars and muffins 

• Angelic Oat Squares
• Freddie’s Farm Berry Bars
• Homemade Granola Bars
• Kid’s muffin ideas
• Kiddylicious Fruit Bars
• Organix Goodies Fruit Bar
• Organix Kids Flapjack Bites

Biscuits 

• Heinz Chocolate Biscotti
• Jammie Dodgers
• Kiddylicious Biscotti
• Kiddylicious Coconut Rolls
• McVitie’s Mini Gingerbread Men
• Mini Oreos

Balls, melts and dried fruit 

• Banana chips
• Bear YoYos
• Coconut chips
• Dried apples
• Dried apricots
• Dried cranberries
• Dried mangos
• Dried peaches
• Dried pineapple
• Kid-friendly Energy Bites
• Kiddylicious Smoothie Melts
• Raisins
• Trail mix

Pouches 

• Apple sauce pouches
• Ella’s Kitchen Organic Smoothie Fruits
• Frubes
• JellySqueeze
• Naturelly Juicy Jelly
• Organix Kids Organic Smash Pouch
• Piccolo Organic Yoghurt
• The Collective Suckies
• Wildlife Choobs

Fruit and vegetables

• Apples
• Bananas
• Blueberries
• Carrots
• Celery sticks
• Clementines or mandarins
• Cucumbers
• Grapes (halved lengthways)
• Pears
• Strawberries

Crackers, rice cakes and cereal 

• BEAR Alphabites Cocoa Cereal
• Cheerios
• Cheese crackers
• Kallo Kids Rice Cake Minis
• Popcorn
• Wholegrain crackers

Cheese

• Babybel
• String cheese

Crisps and chips 

• Bagel chips
• Baked chickpeas
• Ella’s Kitchen Melty Sticks
• Kiddylicious Veggie Straws
• Pretzels
• Scrapples Apple Crisps
• Sweet potato chips

Sweets

• Chocolate covered almonds
• Chocolate covered raisins
• Dark chocolate chips
• Gummies
• Haribo
• Jelly beans

How to pack road trip snacks

There are many different ways that you can pack your kid’s road trip snacks, here are some ideas:

• Pre pack snacks into individual bags or snack containers, which has the benefit of being able to pack different snacks for each of your kids, depending on their tastes or age
• Putting all of the snacks into a large car snack container, or felt caddy, so your kids can access their own snacks, or so you can have them with you and give them out when needed
• Putting any snacks that need to be kept cool in a cooler bag
• Keeping snacks and other items your kids may need in a car seat organiser or a car seat tray

It’s also a great idea to have a bag or container on hand for any rubbish that you need to dispose of later.

I hope you’ve found some road trip snack ideas here that you’ll pack for your next road trip, that make the trip more pleasant for everyone.

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What do you take with you on road trips?