School is starting soon. I can tell because my older kids are starting to whine and fuss about how bored they are. Whenever they do that I know that it’s time to give them lots of school work.
That’s how we do things in our house.
Moms everywhere are out buying school supplies and back to school clothes. I thought that I would help by putting together a list of peanut free school snacks.
Aren’t I helpful?
I filled a canvas grocery bag with a couple of my favorite options from my local President’s Choice and No Name brands. There are other options out there but I chose to focus on what was quick and boxed. I will do another post on healthy school snacks.
The list:
Carrot Cake with cream cheese filling
Banana Cake with chocolate chips
Brownies with chocolate chips
Rich & Chewy Chocolate Chip granola bars
Dipped & Chewy Chocolate Fudge & Chocolate Chip granola bar
Marshmallow Squares
Wheat Bran Bites, maple & brown sugar flavor
Wheat Bran Bites, banana bread flavor
Soft & Chewy Chocolate Chip cookies
Soft & Chewy Raisin Oatmeal cookies
Soft & Chewy Cranberry Oatmeal cookies
Teensy Weensy banana muffins
Teensy Weensy blueberry muffins
Teensy Weensy chocolate chip muffins
That sounds like a lot of school snacks but I wanted to really research peanut free snacks and get my kids’ opinion on the taste of everything. I wouldn’t have guessed how thrifty they were with the food. Jason and Jocelyn opened one package of everything to share between them. They savored the flavors like they were school snack connoisseurs. They nibbled off a small piece and let it sit in their mouths while they made thoughtful looks.
It made me crazy so I jumped into the pile of snacks and tore everything apart. Eventually the kids caught on and now we have almost nothing left!
I need to learn self control.
Laurelyn’s favorites were the Bran Bites. She takes a while to eat an entire bag, 140 grams, but she’s little. Jason can have one of those bags polished off in no time. He loves them just as much as the baby! I like the idea of sneaking some bran into my kids’ diets when they’re not looking.
I put the cakes and cookies into my freezer to slow down our consumption of everything not nailed down and I am happy with how well the snacks taste after being frozen. One of the other perks about the cookies is that they are individually wrapped to keep them fresh. I personally would like to see less packaging used but I know that some moms will be drawn to how convenient it is to throw a cookie in a lunch box and be sure that it will be still be yummy by lunch time. I think my favorite’s would be the cookies. They’re chewy and I’m a sucker for a chewy cookie!
Jason’s favorite is the marshmallow squares and unfortunately he’s tall enough to reach the goody jar so all of the squares are gone. Each square is not only peanut free but individually wrapped for freshness as well.
David’s favorites are the granola bars, any type. Dipped or not dipped, he doesn’t care as long as he can eat it RIGHT NOW!
Jocelyn’s favorites have been the brownies and the cranberry cookies.
The cakes are pretty good but they don’t taste like a school snack. They taste like something I should be eating after the kids are tucked away in their beds, too far away to ask me to share.
There you have it. Peanut free school snacks courtesy of the President’s Choice and No Name brands. If you have ideas for school snacks please comment and we can create a list.
Happy school shopping!
I thought you were trying to get away from those cute little circus peanuts those orange marshmellowy spongy candies, that old people like.
that would break grandpas’ peaked little heart.
So which of those snacks was healthy?