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After School Healthy Snacks

March 14, 2022 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

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Looking for After School Healthy Snacks? Here are ideas for if you eat dinner early or late, before practice snacks, car snacks, non-perishable snacks and more.

after school healthy snacks

Hi friend!

A couple of years ago I rounded up some of my favorite recipes for after school snacks in this post- 10 Healthy After School Snacks For Kids. It covers everything from English muffin mini pizzas to energy balls to oatmeal. Since I know that at home, homemade snacks are not realistic for every family every day, I wanted to give you guys a few more good after-school snacks (both homemade and storebought) for specific after-school scenarios.

If you’re looking for store-bought snack ideas, here are some posts that may help:

  • Healthy Amazon Snacks
  • Best Trader Joe’s Snacks
  • Best Healthy Walmart Snacks
    Healthy Snacks At Costco For The Whole Family

Easy After School Snacks

after school snacks

Healthy Snacks for After School

If you eat dinner later or have a couple of hours between the kids getting home/leaving school and dinner time they may need a fairly substantial snack, especially if they ate lunch early:

  • Smoothie
  • Microwave Egg Sandwich (or Turkey Cheese Avocado, PBJ etc)
  • Overnight oats or warm oatmeal
  • English Muffin Mini Pizza + fruit
  • Waffle + peanut butter
  • Homemade energy balls or Made in Nature Figgypops
  • Sweet Potato White Bean Bar + lifeway kefir
  • Amy’s frozen burrito
  • Simple Mills crackers + turkey + cheese
  • Clif Nut Butter Bar or Larabar or KIND bar
  • Beanitos chips + Guacamole
  • Kodiak Cake pancakes + yogurt
  • Barbara’s Puffins or Love Grown cereal + milk

Lentil Banana Muffins - perfect for breakfast or snack

Easy After School Snacks To Make

If you eat dinner fairly early and just want something to tide your kids over until then without ruining their dinner. Added bonus- these are simple after school snacks kids can make themselves with minimal help from you!

  • Veggies with hummus or ranch + pita
  • Apple slices with peanut butter
  • A hard-boiled egg and some raisins
  • A small bowl of Cheerios with milk
  • A handful of trail mix
  • Lentil Banana Muffin (or another nutrient-dense muffin/bar)
  • Freeze-dried veggies like Rhythm Superfood carrot sticks with string cheese

Healthy Toddler Snacks - cottage cheese, hummus, cereal, peanut butter with banana

Healthy Pre-Workout Snacks

Have kids headed to sports practice after school? Here are some ideas:

  • Granola bar
  • Cereal or muffin
  • Half a bagel
  • Apple or banana with peanut butter
  • A small bowl of oatmeal
  • Crackers with turkey
  • Trailmix- raisins, cereal + peanuts
  • Yogurt + fruit
  • Clementine + hard-boiled egg

crunchy snacks from costco

Healthy After School Snacks To Buy

I have a whole post of after school snacks to buy – 60+ Healthy Packaged Snacks For Kids so check it out for tons of ideas. I also have lists for Healthy Costco Snacks, Best Trader Joe’s Snacks and Healthy Walmart Snacks. But in general, here are a few of my favorite packaged snacks:

  • Skinny Pop or Angie’s Boom Chicka Pop 
  • Cheerios/Barbara’s Puffins/Love Grown Foods cereal
  • Lifeway Kefir or Chobani or Siggis lower sugar yogurt – For the kefir, I make a glass with half plain/half flavored to reduce the sugar, for the yogurt I would pair with fruit
  • Simple Mills Almond Crackers or RW Garcia Sweet Potato Crackers
  • Sabra Hummus or Wholly Guacamole with crackers/veggies
  • Larabar or another from this list of  Healthy Store-bought Granola Bars For Kids
  • Biena Roasted Chickpeas
  • Made in Nature Figgy Pops
  • Kashi Waffles
  • Kodiak Cakes pancakes

Low Mess Snack for Kids

Healthy Car Snacks

I wrote about Low Mess Snacks for Kids here. Here are some simple pairings that won’t make too much of a mess in the car. Keep a little trash can or bag in the car for wrappers.

  • Yogurt tube + banana
  • Cheese stick + That’s It fruit bar
  • Chomps Meat Sticks + clementine
  • Egg wrap + apple
  • Smoothie made with milk/yogurt, fruit, and spinach
  • Turkey, cheese, and apple or avocado rolled in a tortilla
  • PBJ sandwich
  • HB eggs + granola bar
  • Cold pizza or quesadilla (less mess than when they’re hot!)

Healthy Microwave Popcorn in a paper lunch sack

Healthy Non-Perishable Snacks

Ideas for non-perishable snacks if you have to pack them in the morning and need them to still be safe to eat after school:

  • Granola or protein bar
  • Trail mix
  • Popcorn
  • Healthy Muffin/Bar
  • Chomps meat sticks (aff link) + fruit (try fresh fruit, fruit cups, dried fruit or fruit/veggie pouches)
  • Dried fruit + Whisps cheese crisps
  • Low sugar cereal + Horizon Organic shelf-stable milk boxes
  • Peanut butter sandwich
  • Roasted chickpeas or roasted edamame (you can add these to trail mix!)
  • Squeeze pouches of nut butter + crackers /banana/celery
  • My SuperCookies/bars
  • Bitsys crackers
  • Triscuits/Simple Mills/RW Garcia crackers
  • Bare Apple chips
  • That’s It Fruit bars 
  • Fruit & veggie pouches

After School Snacks for Teens

Have a teenager? Here are some snack ideas:

  • Tuna Salad + Crackers
  • Scrambled egg + toast
  • Turkey Sandwich
  • Smoothie with fruit, yogurt or milk and spinach or a smoothie bowl topped with cereal
  • Popcorn trail mix
  • Deviled eggs
  • Ramen
  • Chicken quesadilla
  • Rotisserie Chicken wrap
  • Energy balls
  • Oatmeal
  • Yogurt parfait
  • Frozen waffles
  • Frozen Fish sticks/chicken nuggets/potstickers
  • Freezer breakfast sandwiches or burritos
  • Avocado toast
  • Nachos with guacamole
  • Charcuterie snack plate

Want more? My friend Sally wrote a post of 100+ Healthy Snacks for Teens Who Are Always Hungry.

And don’t forget I have a whole list of Peanut & Tree Nut Free Packaged Snacks if you need those!

Looking for After School Healthy Snacks? Here are ideas for if you eat dinner early or late, before practice snacks, car snacks, non-perishable snacks and more.

Enjoy!
–Lindsay–

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About Lindsay

Lindsay Livingston is a Registered Dietitian and new mom from Columbus, Ohio. On her blog, she shares simple, healthy recipes, nutrition tips, workouts and snapshots of her life. Follow her on Twitter @LeanGrnBeanBlog and Instagram @TheLeanGreenBean and be sure to subscribe via RSS or email so you never miss a post!

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