My life saving mom “hack” for snacks

Do you do snack trays? Or something similar? Tell me what you use in your house!

These babies are a life saver in our house! My kid isn’t much of a meal eater. He will graze all day long and constantly ask for sugary snacks. To save my sanity, he gets one of these. He needs to eat it before he asks for another sweet snack. Yes, it is a lot of food, but the other family members usually snack on it too 😉

We use whatever we have on hand. We just toss it on a cookie tray, a platter, cupcake pan, really whatever we have clean!

Here’s the “rules” I follow:

1- Use whatever you have on hand. Have produce that’s about to go bad? Toss it on the snack tray!

2- Use a few of the child favorites (hello, candy and chocolate granola bar 🤦🏼‍♀️)

3- Include at least one fruit. In the summer we love to load these trays up with berries!

4- Include at least one veggie. He didn’t want the carrot sticks, so peppers were our only other option today.

5- Include some meat and cheese (or something with more substance) because he usually eats this as his “lunch” as well.

6- No asking for snacks/candy until tray is mostly gone. Or at least some of each had been tried.

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