Preparation of meals for children and reducing packaged snacks

Share some of my meal preparation ideas for children, especially since we are in the school season. We also have taken the mission of reducing the packaged snacks, but I always fill up on the main pantry and evaluation of Market prosperous. <- My link gets you 40% reduction on your first order

Hi friends! How are you doing? I hope you enjoy the week so far. We find our new routine with the situation at home + Liv takes a break in the dance (I am certainly a little sad, but are certainly not missing to drive 30 minutes there twice a day). Now that we are on the move again and preparing lunches, there are a few things that I tried to do differently.

Preparation of meals for children and reducing packaged snacks

– Preparation of meals a ton.

It is so useful to have a refrigerator full of healthy staples for snacks and meals.

Here are some of the things I have done every week:

– Preparation of fruit. If there are fruits, ready to go to the refrigerator, they will eat it absolutely instead of grasping a wrap or a packaged treat. The melons are in season and so good at the moment, so lately, I have picked up a few different melons (children particularly like Sapo Piel and gold watermelon) and chopped to store in glass containers. I also soak the berries in water and vinegar for 2 to 5 minutes (1 part of 3 parts of water), rinse and let them dry completely. Then I put paper towels at the bottom of a glass container with a lid. They last so much longer in this way! We usually make a mixture of berries: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. I also soak grapes and plums in the water + vinegar for about 15 minutes, dry and store in a glass bowl open in the refrigerator. Children will just take grape handles throughout the day and I like that we all eat more fruit!

– Energy dicks. I have a lot of different recipes here on the blog (like these!) But a favorite is cashew nuts with equal parts and dates to pit, a cinnamon, a little salt, a vanilla extract and a net of maple syrup.

(That’s why I no longer take food photos for the blog lol)

– Protein prep: grated chicken, seasoned chopped beef and egg bodies

–Prepgie Prep: I’m going to peel and cut cucumbers, peppers, carrots. They are easy for them to use and dive into homemade houmous or guac. They also like ready -to -use edamame.

–Soak: Houmous and guacamole are the favorites of fans here.

– Breakfast optionslike the egg bodiesNight oats, breakfast cookies (they still love them!), Chia Pudding. I also do lawyer in the blink of an eye for a BFAST school day and serve with Applegate breakfast sausages.

– A different / new / fun thing every week. This can be like a chicken or pasta salad, a Spanish tortilla, a quiche or a dish of cold noodles with vegetables and proteins that they can easily grasp the refrigerator by themselves.

– Reduce the packaged snacks.

We always have our Go-Tos, which I will list below, but the reality is that many packaged snacks are expensive and have no excellent ingredients. I could make 20 impressive homemade energy bites for the cost of 2 small packs at Whole Foods. Our snacks were a large part of our crazy grocery budget and it is so easy to make them at home and personalize them for children.

Some of the packaged snacks that we still buy:

– nuts, dried fruits, mixture of trails

– Canned beans (for Houmous!) And they also like the Lupini snack beans of Thrive Market

– Algae snacks

– Gomacro bars

-vegetable picks on

– from the size of a snack

– White cheese

– Chia sachets

– jerk

– Popcorn or siete chips

– Deli meat – They will do it with cream cheese or Mayo

– Sardines. I usually make a cast of sardine, but the children will eat them right away

– Simple Mills products (such as crackers, cookies and cooking mixes)

Some of my favorite Thrive market finds and healthy brands are in this post.

– Go to plan dinners and prepare as much as possible during the day.

We have been doing a lot of dinners on the fly since we got home from Spain, especially since the driver works / traveling so much. Return to school was the kick in the pants I needed to start planning and preparing more dinners, instead of last -minute take -out or hodge podge random meals. (In addition, I found that I really have to plan and prepare dinners when I am solo parent because when we come back from sport, it’s dinner time.)

Some of my favorite solo parental dinners are in this post!

So tell me, friends: What are some of your homemade reactive snacks for children?

xo

Gina