Favorite Snacks??

[MommyWithDreams]

What are your favorite snacks to bring into the park? What do you find easy and lightweight? Healthy and treats?

 

[princessnicchia]

Nutri-grain bars---they're not totally horrible for you, they are super light to carry. Fruit strips--you can get organic ones that have less sugar.

I'm looking for good ideas too!

 

[MommyWithDreams]

We are huge fans of granola bars here so those do work well for us too. I've never tried fruit strips, I'm thinking a trip to trader joes might be a good thing. I refuse to buy the sugar sheets as I call them, just the regular fruit roll-ups. Thanks for the idea.

 

[Brady's Mom]

We bring granola bars, beef jerky, and nuts. Sometimes we will get the all juice fruit snacks. They are not sticky and don't have artificial color (UGH). My kids love those b/c they are sweet, I love them b/c they are a little more healthy!??!
We also bring lots of water. I prefer my kids to hydrate with water instead of dehydrate with soda.

 

[Mommy2PrincessAbby]

In October we brought mini-bags of pretzels, and pre-cut washed apples (Costco carries these now!!--organic even!), the apples have calcium carbonate added to them so they don't turn brown... so those are really easy. We also discovered (thanks to MHT) the freeze dried no sugar added strawberry/bananas and/or apples that come in single serving bags (also can be found at costco!) Ooh and baby carrots!

 

[DSNY4ever]

My husband and I like to make our own trail mix with the usual nuts, raisins, sometimes cherrios or dried cranberries and of course M&Ms! It is the perfect snack for the sweet or salty craving and we can just put it in a tupperware container or bag and toss it in the backpack, it's not the lightest, but it's good!

We also do granola bars as noted above and pretzels often. Just make sure to pack wet wipes so you can clean your hands first incase you aren't near a bathroom! (Hey I read the "grossest things you've seen in the parks" thread on here).

 

[DangerMouse]

Dried Fruit from Trader Joe's (no sugar added)
Turkey Jerky
Stonybrook Farms Yogurt Tubes (freeze them overnight) -- also at TJ's
Peanut Butter & Honey rolled in whole wheat tortillas
Trader Joe's Fruit Leather

 

[Dizneydaz]

We like to bring those flattened pretzels (Pretzel Crisps is one brand) in Ziplocs. I buy them at Sams or Trader Joes. Also, we bring those Crystal Lite (and others) flavor tubes for adding to either bottled water or glasses of water from food locations. Since we have AP, we tend to not buy too many snacks, sodas, etc. when we go, since we go so often. When we do buy a snack, it's a treat!

 

[bumbershoot]

Nature's Valley granola bars.

 

[MommyWithDreams]

Dried Fruit from Trader Joe's (no sugar added)
Turkey Jerky
Stonybrook Farms Yogurt Tubes (freeze them overnight) -- also at TJ's
Peanut Butter & Honey rolled in whole wheat tortillas
Trader Joe's Fruit Leather

mmm good list! You reminded me of one of my sons favorite simple meals....peanut butter and bananna burrito (as he calls it). Same as what you described minus the honey. None of us are honey fans around here.

 

[4_Churros_Please]

I say leave good health at the door and pick up a churro right at the front of main street, chase it with some ice cream and than head over to the candy store!

No seriously, we pack Annie's crackers and Gold Fish. Fruit roll ups are good too, don't take fruit as it will get smashed in the back pack. We try to take in water bottles as well. Though their not too healthy, we brought some Nemo fruit snacks that were a big hit with my little ones.

 

[MommyWithDreams]

I say leave good health at the door and pick up a churro right at the front of main street, chase it with some ice cream and than head over to the candy store!

No seriously, we pack Annie's crackers and Gold Fish. Fruit roll ups are good too, don't take fruit as it will get smashed in the back pack. We try to take in water bottles as well. Though their not too healthy, we brought some Nemo fruit snacks that were a big hit with my little ones.

We'll definitely have our share of "treats" inside the park. Right now all I have on my mind is the the flying dutchman cookie boat at BB. Just makes my mouth water thinking about it!

 

[Mrs. Bee]

I rarely bring anything into the parks. Maybe a granola bar once in a while. Typically if I want a snack I'll just grab something in the park like some veggies and ranch dressing. They are only $4 and hold me over quite nicely until meal time.

 

[DoomBugger]

The fruit bowls can be good, even when produce in the stores is lousy.

I like the veggie kabobs at Bengal BBQ, kinda healthy.

Not really healthy but I love the Chimichangas!

 

[MommyWithDreams]

The fruit bowls can be good, even when produce in the stores is lousy.

I like the veggie kabobs at Bengal BBQ, kinda healthy.

Not really healthy but I love the Chimichangas!

I really wanna try the bacon wrapped asparagus one. That sounds wonderful.

 

[Lynzer Torte]

For our trip next week we bought:
-Individual packs of beef jerky
-100 calorie snack bags (Reese's & Hershey's) soo good!
-Trail mix in a huge bag which we'll divide into snack size Ziplocs
-Special K bars
-Dasani bottled water (the entire case was the price of 2 bought at the park!)

We bought everything (except the Special K bars) at Costco.

 

[Lynzer Torte]

Costco also had this huge tub of organic Disney vanilla flavor animal crackers. They are so cute- my 9 month old loves them!

 

[MommyWithDreams]

For our trip next week we bought:
-Individual packs of beef jerky
-100 calorie snack bags (Reese's & Hershey's) soo good!
-Trail mix in a huge bag which we'll divide into snack size Ziplocs
-Special K bars
-Dasani bottled water (the entire case was the price of 2 bought at the park!)

We bought everything (except the Special K bars) at Costco.

Are you flying or driving? Just curious because of the water? I can't see us needing 50 bucks worth of groceries to have it delivered.

 

[Lynzer Torte]

Are you flying or driving? Just curious because of the water? I can't see us needing 50 bucks worth of groceries to have it delivered.

Flying. We won't take the entire case of water.

We'll evenly distribute the food in the luggage so we don't go over the weight limit.

I haven't even added what we're taking for breakfasts!

 

[MommyWithDreams]

Flying. We won't take the entire case of water.

We'll evenly distribute the food in the luggage so we don't go over the weight limit.

I haven't even added what we're taking for breakfasts!

Hmm....I may have to experiment with that and see if we could get away with it. It just might work afterall.