Healthy on the Go Snack Recipe/ideas

Take your toddlers favorites, and mix them in a baggie together. This makes it interesting, and kids can pick what they want out of the bag. I have mixed cheerios, chex, raisins, (craisins), small crackers(like goldfish), a few m&ms (for fun and color. Kids like it! Also - for the summertime, freeze grapes in small bags - to grab out for a quick cool snack! Even I love these! Cut up apples, sprinkle with Everfresh (to keep them from going brown) and chill. Remember the water bottles! This will keep your kiddo from dehydrating, it also keeps 'em cooler in the sun. Have fun.

cheese sticks, cheerios, fruit, cooked cold pasta, crackers, raisins, granola/cereal bars, goldfish crackers, gogurt, graham crackers, rice cakes, pretzels, bagels, ...
Get those covered snack cups to try and lessen mess in your car.

When I had my god daughter during the week I would let her make a "medly" in the morning. I would lay out all of the snacks that we had in the house and she could choose to put one scoop or two in the bag that would be her snack.
I usually had the following on hand to choose from:
A variety of dried fruit
A variety of nuts
A variety of dried veggies
Gerber fruit and veggie puffs
Goldfish!
She loved making her "medly" and she always ate it happily!

She also liked Ants on a log (Celery with cream cheese or peanut butter and raisins)

Pooh Snacks (sandwiches) were also a hit (Graham Cracker with peanut butter and honey)

cream cheese in celery stalks
fruit skewers dipped in strawberry yogurt...kids love dipping things
apple slices (dip in lemon juice to prevent browning)
Cheese sticks
cucumber slices
carrot sticks or baby carrots
lowfat cheddar cheese crackers
rolled slices of reduced fat cheese or deli meats
raising, cranberries, and other dried fruits mixed with sunflower seeds
Gorilla Munch
pistachios and walnuts
watermelon cubes
organic granola (without the corn syrup)
natural peanut butter with apple, banana, celery, or rice cakes
frozen grapes
soy crisps
vegetable chips
cheerios
frozen Go-gurts or yogurt tubes
organic fruit leather
whole wheat fig bars
oat bran pretzels
whole wheat frozen waffles
lowfat graham crackers
pita chips

We struggled with the same challenge and my best advice is to get a small cooler that you can keep in the car when you are out. That way, you always have fresh, healthy good at hand. Some other food ideas are sesame sticks, dried fruit, whole grain bread or english muffins with nut butters (try almond and sunflower butter!), trail mix that you make with seeds, nuts, dried fruits, pretzels, etc. There are lots of great new bars out there that have fruits and even veggies in them. I've tried them and they actually taste good and my 18 mos old loves them. Just be sure to get bars without high fructose corn syrup. That's one of the worst sugars there is.

I need help finding food I can take on the go for my "new eater" who can't have rasins yet.

Our boys love fresh sweet snap peas. You can buy them in bags ready to eat. We don't even offer a dip, and they're usually all gone. We also go with the apples pre-cut, both red and green. Mott's makes dye-free fruit snacks. We also do the frozen grape thing. If you can carry them safely enough, bananas are good, too, but you have to make sure not too much and enough water.

make your own trail mix. go through the store with them and let them help choose what will go into it. let them help you make it, tasting each part as it goes in. Personally, I put it into the snack size zip lock bags so I have ready made servings. gl!
J. in MT

different fruits and vegitables, specifically carrots

my daughters doctor recently suggested i start giving my daughter multigrain cheerios. she is very small and a picky eater, so her doctor recommended these because they are very healthy (lots of vitamin and iron) and said i could mix in nuts, berries, chocolate chips, or whatever you like to make a trail mix type snack. she loves it, and so did my son and husband!

My son loves raisins, Craisins, and freeze dried fruit. You can buy a big can of freeze dried apples from the LDS church dry pack cannery for about $5. Otherwise, freeze dried fruit is very expensive. Oh, Gerber makes some bite size freeze dried fruit which is pretty spendy, but you can get a generic brand at Walmart that is very reasonably price.

We have recently found and loved the new Pringles STIX snacks. They come in a package of 10 I think and are pretty inexpensive. The vanilla flavor is great! Excellent "to go" snacks.

Hello, summer is a great time to start to eating all the raw fruit and veggies....slice it up and put it in containers for on the go. I also loved the "Just Veggie" line of products, very toddler friendly, and now that my daughter goes to school they're easy to put in her lunch. here is the link, ask for your grocer to carry them, all our local stores carry them now, but before they did I ordered them direct from the company, here's the link , http://www.justtomatoes.com/ .

My son is also picky, and I never know from one day to the next what he'll eat, but here's what we do. Whole bananas, apples and oranges already cut up, whole wheat goldfish crackers or any whole wheat crackers, pretzel sticks, PBJ or any nut butter with jelly, cheese sticks, baby carrots sliced into smaller sticks with ranch dressing(will keep for a bit without being refrigerated). Yogurt travels well with ice packs, and we occasionally throw in low sugar fruit snacks. For fruits that need cutting, like pears, I bring a dull dinner knife and cut as needed, but it may be soft enough that even a toddler can take bites from it whole. Pineapple chunks are also good, and as berries come in season, those travel really well. I have also found that my toddler, now 18 months, just doesn't eat and snack as much as he used to, so I don't worry too much about it.

Carrots, Graham crackers (there are many different kinds to choose from), pretzles, apple slices. These are just a few, but they worked for my picky eater! Good luck

Try putting fresh fruit- (Grapes are not so messy)in ziplock baggies in the fridge. I also keep little baggies of pretzles, cheerios, and goldfish on hand for a quick snack. My 20 month old daughter also loves string cheese.

I do alot of cut up apples, grapes, oranges, bananas, cheese slices, crackers, etc. Even if you have a picky eater, you should still keep trying to feed certain foods over and over since they will eventually like it. Mine can be picky too but if they are hungry enough they will eat what's given to them. You control it, not them. They choose if to eat and how much, you choose, when, where and what. This works well for us.

Heya! I have seen my sister give her toddlers healthly "bars" like Zone, Balance, Cliff...They are great for you, and the kids call them "cookies". They only get like a 1/4 of a bar at a time, but the bars can be a pretty filling snack. Good luck...

L. : )

You can always cut up carrots, celery, etc; Olives; make Ants on a Log (celery with peanut butter and raisins); bread sticks (the crunchy kind); sliced apples with lemon juice sprinkled on them so they won't brown; hard boiled eggs. They also sell this awesome granola snakc mix at Costco in the bakery section that is healthy and good.

Those new Cheerios snack mixes are a huge favorite of my kids, they are whole grain and baked not fried. Also raisins, grapes (freeze them in the summer after you have cut them up, super refreshing), or dried cereal. My kids love those veggie chips (they seem like potato chips but aren't). I get the snack bags of pretzels or chex mix too, my kids gobble them up. They have the snack bags of Teddy Grahams too.