Welcome to our second installment of our back to school shopping guide, featuring 8 better lunchbox snacks for your kids. If youโre like us, lunch packing can be a chore. To say nothing of the trips to the super market aisle in which the kids beg for any single-serving pack…
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Welcome to our second installment of our back to school shopping guide, featuring 8 better lunchbox snacks for your kids.
If youโre like us, lunch packing can be a chore. To say nothing of the trips to the super market aisle in which the kids beg for any single-serving pack made with artificial goo and stamped with a cartoon character on the bag. While we love packing fresh fruit, if youโre looking for more of a treat, these 8 snacks are definitely on the healthier side.
Peeled Organic Fruit Snacks
The next best thing to fruitโgently dried fruit, nothing at all added. The mango is to die for. And the truth is, we keep some in the house just for ourselves.
(from $17 for variety packs at Peeled Snacks, or at stores like Whole Foods)
[donโt miss 7 more of our favorite snack ideas after the jump]
Revolution Foods Yoโ Drops.
We described them as a healthy version of NERDS and our kids agree. This crunchable yogurt snack is just awesome.
Our kids go crazy for these all natural fruit strips, with flavors like Summer Strawberry and Mango Sunrise, and the managable size makes them a not-too-indulgent lunchbox treat.
(8/$2.99 or 30/$13.99 at Stretch Island Fruit Co.)
Natural Gummy Bears
Yes, candy in the lunchbox is generally for special occasions. Youโll feel less guilty when theyโre these natural koala gummy bears, hold the HFCS.
(12/$17.54 at our affiliate Amazon or stores like Stop and Shop)
Ellaโs Kitchen and GoGo Squeez Kids love to squeeze the all-natural fruit purees right into their mouths. Secret: you can also grab the fruit-veggie mixes and get things like carrots and beets into their snacktime, too. (Ellaโs Kitchen $1.79/pouch at Babies RโUs; GoGo Squeez is 12/$34.31 at our affiliate Amazon)
Kids Central Kitchen whole grain baking mixes
Spend a Sunday with the kids making banana bread or monkey bread together. Then they can enjoy it all week long.
I really like the Peter Rabbit Organics pouches. I’m also biased as my kid is their profile pic at the moment. Hahha- but seriously, out of the several different pouch brands, my 10month old twins like those the best. Go figure.
Have to agree with Jennypants, the dried fruit, fruit leather and gummies leave sticky residue and sugars between teeth and cause cavities. Our ped dentist advises against them.
I agree those fruit leathers are full of sugar!! I started sending a squeeze pack of almond butter to school with my kids and they LOVE it!! It is called Barney Butter and only has 90 calories. It is peanut free, healthy and very little sugar.
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