Share some of my preparation ideas for children for children, especially if we are in the school season. We also made ourselves a reduction in packaged snacks, but I still feel like pantry essentials and favorites Thrive market. < - My link brings you 40% to your first order
Hello friends! How are you doing? I hope you enjoy the week so far. We find our new routine with the homeschool situation + LIV a break from the dance (I am admittedly a bit sad, but it doesn’t miss it to drive 30 minutes and back there and drive back twice a day). Now that we are traveling again and pack lunch again, there are a few things that I tried differently.
Meal preparation for children and reduction of packaged snacks
– Meal a ton.
It is so helpful to have a refrigerator full of healthy staple foods for snacks and meals.
Here are some things that I did every week:
– Fruit preparation. If there are fruits that are ready to go into the fridge, you will absolutely eat it instead of gripping a bar or a packaged treat. Melons are in the season and so good, so I’ve picked up a few different melons lately (especially the children Piel de Sapo and Golden Watermelon) and hack them to keep them in glass containers. I also soak berries in water and vinegar for 2-5 minutes (1 part of vinegar up to 3 parts of water), rinse them out and let them dry completely. Then I put paper towels in the bottom of a glass container with a lid. You last so much longer in this way! We usually make a mixture of berries: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. I also enjoy grapes and plums in water + vinegar for about 15 minutes, dry and store in an open glass bowl in the fridge. The children will snap a handful of grapes all day long and I love that we all eat more fruits!
– Energy stitches. I have some different recipes on the blog (like this!), But a favorite are the same parts of cashew nuts and chain data, cinnamon, a little salt, vanilla extract and a splash of maple syrup.
(So I don’t take any more food photos for the blog more LOL)
– Protein preparation: Snoted chicken, seasoned beef wood meat and Egg stings
– –Vegetable preparation: I will peel and chop a few cucumbers, peppers, carrots. They are easy for them to serve themselves and dive into homemade hummus or Guac. You also like the Edamame ready to be ready.
– –Dive: Hummus and guacamole are the fan favorites here.
– breakfast optionslike that Egg stingsOats overnight, breakfast cookies (you still love them!), Chia pudding. I also make Avocado in a snapshot for a school day and serve with Appegate breakfast sausage.
– Another/new/funny thing every week. This can be like a chicken or pasta salad, a Spanish tortilla, quiche or a cold noodle dish with vegetables and protein that you can easily get out of the fridge.
– Reduce packaged snacks.
We still have our go-to-TOS that I will list below, but the reality is that many packaged snacks are expensive and have no great ingredients. I could make 20 fantastic homemade energy stitches for the cost of 2 small four packs at Whole Foods. Our snacks were a large part of our crazy food budget and it is so easy to make them at home and adapt them for the children.
Some of the packaged snacks that we still buy:
– nuts, dried fruits, trail mix
– Beans in cans (for hummus!) And you also love the Lupini snack beans from the Thrive Market
– Sea tangs
– Gomacro bars
-Poshi veggie packs
-Snack size cheese
– house cheese
– Chia bag
– jerky
– Popcorn or Siete chips
– Deli meat – you will roll it up with cream cheese or Mayo
– Sardines. I usually let a sardine melt, but the children will eat them directly from the can
– Simple mill products (such as the crackers, cookies and baking mixes)
Some of my favorite -thhrive market finds and healthy brands are in this article.
– Go back to dinner and prepare as much as possible during the day.
We have done many dinner throughout the fly since we came home from Spain, especially since the pilot worked/travels so much. Back to school was the kick in my pants that I needed to plan and make more dinner instead of at the last minute to take away or random Hodge Podge meals. (I also found that I really have to plan and prepare dinner when I am a solo parent because we come home at the time of sport, it is dinner.)
Some of my favorite food for solo parents are in this post!
So tell me friends: What are some of your homemade snacks for the children?
xo
Gina
