My children typically eat GREAT for breakfast and dinner, but lunch never seems to happen. Between breakfast and dinner is usually a series of snacks. Many people argue that kids should have three square meals and not snack all day, well I invite them to come feed my children lunch. Way too busy playing to sit down and eat at that time of day!
I do not succumb to the pre-packaged (mostly grain-based) snacks like goldfish, cereal, and crackers. I also don’t think kids should live on fruit snacks and dried fruits. I want their snacks to still be high-quality food that is nutritionally dense. Here are a few of my favorite snack foods to give them.
- Venison snack sticks (pictured above), grass-fed beef sticks/hot-dogs, or pastured pork sausage
- Raw cheese (especially Gouda)
- Steamed or raw veggies with homemade mayo or fermented ketchup
- Green apple slices (lowest in sugar) with almond butter
- Hard boiled eggs
- Deviled eggs
- Frittata bites
- Frittata muffins
- Applesauce with raw yogurt
- Scrambled eggs and bacon pieces (bite sized pieces on a plate they can graze from because they won’t sit down to eat it for lunch)
- Kale chips
- Apple chips
Beverages:
- Water
- Kombucha
- Raw milk
- Raw milk Kefir
- Water Kefir
