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Healthier School Snack Options

My kids school provides snacks and though they are healthier than many options are still not as healthy as they seem. So even though we have totally given up on processed foods, and do not buy much anymore, I researched a bit to find out some healthy snack alternatives to kids. Here is the list I came up with for nut-free healthy snack options. I intend to talk to the school to see if they can switch to the following healthier alternatives instead and I urge all of you do the same for your kids.

(1) Organic Barbaras Brown Rice Crisps
Ingredients
Organic Brown Rice
Organic Fruit Juice (apple, pear, peach)
Sea Salt

(2) Honest O’s Original Cereal
Ingredients
Organic Whole Oat Flour
Organic Non-Gmo Corn Flour
Organic Oat Bran
Organic Apple Juice Concentrate
Sea Salt
Baking Soda

(3) Cascadian Farm Organic Purely O’s Cereal 
Ingredients
Organic Whole Grain Oats
Organic Whole Grain Barley
Organic Wheat Starch
Malted Barley Extract
Vitamin E

(4) Food Should Taste Good Olive Chips 
Ingredients (Non-GMO)
Stone Ground Corn, High Oleic Sunflower Oil and/or Safflower Oil and/or Canola Oil, Olives (Green, Kalamata, Nicoise), Garlic Powder, Sea Salt. 
Or any other chips which are not in the dirty dozen organic list like: 
The Works Tortilla Chips
Multigrain Tortilla Chips

(5) Eziekel Sprouted Waffles

(6) Horizon Organic Mozzarella String Cheese

(5) Dried Fruits like Mejdool Dates, Organic Black Raisins

(6) Organic Kale Chips Costco

(7) Organic Kettle Cooked Pop Corn Costco
(Or organic corn kernels cooked on stove top and sprinkled with sea salt and nutritional yeast and garlic powder (optional)).

(8) Late July Organic Classic Rich Crackers
Ingredients
Organic wheat flour, organic evaporated cane sugar, organic expeller pressed sunflower oil and/or organic expeller pressed safflower oil, organic palm oil, sea salt, leavening (baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate, cream of tarter)

(9) Mediterranean snacks Gluten Free Lentil Crackers
Ingredients (non-gmo)
Lentil flour, corn flour, potato starch, palm fruit oil (RSPO certified) and/or olive oil, whey protein, pea flour, sugar, cream, sea salt, leavening.

(10) Jovial Inherently Good Tomato Basil Organic Sourdough Einkorn Crackers
Ingredients 
Organic Einkorn Flour, Organic Einkorn Sourdough Starter (Organic Einkorn Flour Water), Organic Strained Tomatoes, Organic Palm Fruit Oil, Sea Salt, Organic Basil, Organic Oregano
(11) Vans Simply Delicious Fire Roasted Veggies 
Ingredients(non-gmo)
Gluten free blend of brown rice flour, oats, millet, quinoa, amaranth, non-gmo cold pressed sunflower/safflower oil, potato starch, brown sugar, rice flour, dried red pepper, dried carrot, sesame seeds, tomato powder, salt, sun dried tomatoes, sunflower lecithin, natural flavors, onion powder, garlic powder, mixed tacopherols for freshness.

(12) Annie's Organic Cinnamon Graham Crackers

(13) Costco Organic Animal Crackers

(14) For Birthdays, schools can provide a list of snacks (treats) for parents to opt from and the cost involved in distributing to the class. This way, the school can enforce only healthy, organic snacks which are over the schools budget:
Example:
Marys Gone Crackers Grahams 
Organic Mulberries

As more healthier snacks are suggested, the school can filter out the allergic information (nuts, peanuts, soy etc) of the students and add to the list of snacks. If the school cannot provide these options for funding reasons, adding all the above list to the birthday list would be a start.

(15) Some other options include:

  • Indian Store Snacks like Sev, Bhel, Crunchy chick peas, Crunchy green peas
  • Ezekiel or Sourdough breads with Organic Pesto or Organic Sunflower butter
  • Soaked OrganicChia seeds with Cinnamon and Organic Raw Honey.
  • Perfect seed bars from refrigerated section at Costco  






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