About two weeks ago I decided to clean up the pantry and sort the food by groups. Mostly organizing the cereals, nuts, dried fruits, bars, and individually packed snacks for easy access from the kids. Than a light bulb appeared over my head:
PRE-PACK SCHOOL SNACKS FOR THE WEEK
I already had brown paper bags. All I did was write the week days on them and started sorting snacks. In no time I had a whole week of mornings snacks ready to go and a couple more after-school snacks too.
All I had to do was pick on of the bags and place in my daughter's backpack and she was ready to go.
Because I did the packing of the week at the same time I was able to pack a variety of things to keep snack interesting and healthy. I tried to keep a caloric count under 300 and lower sugar levels as well.
Here are some of the packing ideas:
Monday - 100 cal, cheez its, pouch of bunny gummy
Tuesday - 100 cal. mini blueberry muffins, natural apple sauce
Wednesday - dried strawberries and bananas pouch, chex mix snack pack ( you can use snack size zip bags)
Thursday - cereal fruit bar
Friday - apple, cheese crackers
