Healthy After School Snacks

As this week marks the first week back for most school age children, I thought this was a great opportunity to talk about one of the most important meals of the day - the after school snack. If you want to avoid post school meltdowns and sugar highs followed by a crash, it’s very important to include protein and good fats in your children’s after school snacks. So what could this look like?:

✔️A nut and seed trail mix with fresh and dried fruit
✔️ A piece of fruit and some cheese
✔️ A sandwich made with wholemeal bread, nut butter and cucumber
✔️ Mixed berries and nuts
✔️Oat cakes, humus and veg sticks
✔️ A low sugar homemade cookie, flapjack, energy ball or muffin, such as my banana and nut butter cookies

I don’t have an exact recipe for these but they are the perfect combination of nutrients as they contain protein, good fats, complex carbs and fibre. And are super quick to make. Just mash a ripe banana then add oats and a dollop of nut butter until it forms a sticky dough. Add a handful of pumpkin seeds and some chopped dates. Roll into balls and flatten onto a baking tray. Cool in the oven for 10 minutes or so.

For more healthy, low sugar after-school snack ideas check out the recipes tag on blog page of my website.