Hi mums,
I like to keep a "snack box" in the pantry and a "snack shelf" in the door of the fridge for my young children to grab from when they like. It's a struggle to get them to eat anything at all so it definitely helps.
However it's a struggle to find healthy low sugar pantry snacks. I keep cheese, low sugar yogurts and fruit in the fridge but they never last long and often I have to throw them out before my children eat them as they tend to go through stages of wanting to eat them and asking for them to not eating them at all for a week. Pantry items are good as they have a long shelf life but I've found most pantry snacks in the supermarket are full of sugar. Even the ones marketed at toddlers and babies.
I've tried nuts and they don't eat them. Dried fruit is full of sugar.
Muesli bars are like candy disguised as healthy food.
Has anyone come across any low sugar long life snack foods for fussy children that they will actually eat?
Pantry snacks with low sugar
Pantry snacks with low sugar
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I buy big bags of vege chips and portion them out into zip lock bags or containers. I've never really looked at the nutritional content but I don't think they're terrible.
Plain milk arrowroot biscuits aren't perfect but they're not too bad in the sugar department either.
Low sodium saladas and crackers.
Rice cakes (you can even get bags of little mini ones now).
Health shops may have some options too.
Remember low carbs are just as important. Always read the packaging. Carbs convert to sugar in the body.
We love low joule jelly and whipped cream with no sugar. Mini tuna tins are also low in carbs and sugar and are filling. Salted seaweed chips are tasty and have no sugars or carbs.
Carbs convert to sugar (glucose) because it is the fuel our cells run on 🙄🙄🙄
Thanks Einstein. I'm aware of that. But if you omit carbs from your diet your body has to use its fat sources to burn energy which is much more long lasting and healthier than a sugar hit 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Are you saying to put children in a ketogenic state?
Scary advice some people give here.....
The poster wanted low sugar pantry snacks ideas. The keyword ‘snacks’. Meals will still have carbs and sugar. The kids can’t go into ketosis on snacks alone when they still eating regular normal meals containing sugars and carbs. Lol.
Ok sure, obviously a missed key point lol. However, children should not be avoiding all carbohydrates between meals and fat as an energy source is not healthier.
Hi mums. Am just reading on here. I hope you all know that a ketogenic diet was originally used by Paediatricians to treat epilepsy in children along with other Paediatric health disorders such as ADHD long before seizure medication took the place of a diet in natural healthy fats. The keto diet alone was sufficient until big pharma meds took its place. Research this yourselves before calling out those who are commenting on the benefits of keto eating in children by assuming it’s dangerous advice. Know your facts first. Have a nice day.
I do know my facts, and you are right about epilepsy etc re keto 🙂 but in general populations its not recommended. i have almost finished my bhs nutrition.
Kids don't have to snack. If they eat breakfast lunch and tea, its not a big deal if they arent snacking through the day.
Id just have some fruit in a fruit bowl for them to grab if they want it.
So much sugar
I don’t know the nutritional content, my kid is really skinny too, I do know this stuff can be fattening but he loves stuff like: mild salamis, crackers with a good quality cheese (can’t be the kiddy craft etc), twiggy sticks, feta cheese, those little toasts with a nice dip, cherry tomatoes raw, basil pesto as a dipping sauce with anything, grapes, sometimes I make a spinach cob loaf, he loves that too, plain arrowroot biscuits. Just giving ideas, I’m sure this is all really bad....😂😂😂
I make half the kids snacks. Super annoying because it takes a chunk of my day but then it lasts 2 weeks. Theyre easy enough to make but because i make a few different things it takes a while.
Like protein balls and muesli bars etc.