Healthy, Real Food Snack Ideas For Kids

If you’ve got kids, you know that snack time is an important part of the day.  I’d say most parents prefer to serve their kiddos healthy snacks over unhealthy ones, but sometimes we get stuck in a rut and give our kids the same few healthy snacks over and over. They get bored and beg for different snacks or refuse to eat the snacks.

Have you ever run out ideas for healthy snacks for kids?  I have blanked on snack ideas while making my meal plans, so I wrote down a list of my children’s favorite real food snacks so that I have it handy for easy recall.

In a perfect world my kids would eat veggies, fruits, nuts, yogurt, and cheese without complaining. But the world isn’t perfect and neither is our diet.

Even though we strive for an 80/20 lifestyle, I still want my kids’ snacks to provide them with important nutrients. That way I don’t have to worry about the other “fun food” that inevitably ends up in my kiddos’ diets. (After all, I let my kids eat junk food because I know making it off limits will just make them want it more and sneak around to get it.)

So, here are our favorite real food snacks that make snack time a part of our nourishing, real food diet.

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1. Air-Popped Popcorn (we like this kind) with Butter and Real Salt
2. Almond Butter and Raw Honey swirled together in a bowl
3. Applesauce
4. Avocado Oil Potato Chips
5. Berries and Whipped Cream
6. Boiled Eggs
7. Carrots with hummus, or tzatziki dip
8. Cheese
9. Cheesecake Swirl Brownies
10. Cherry Tomatoes and Avocado Slices
11. Chocolate Maple Fudge
12. Cinnamon Sugar Sprouted Crackers
13. Coconut Flour Brownies
14. Coconut Flour Muffins
15. Crispy Pecans
16. Deviled Eggs
17. Egg Custard Pudding
18. Fruit
19. Goldfish Cracker Recipe
20. Fruit Leather
21. Granola
22. Homemade Chocolate Bars
23. Homemade Chocolate Pudding
24. Homemade Fruit Juice Gelatin
25. Homemade Fruit Snacks
26. Homemade Ice Cream
27. Homemade Maple Vanilla Yogurt
28. Homemade Marshmallows
29. Homemade Pickles
30. Homemade Vanilla Pudding
31. Lara Bars
32. Maple Freezer Fudge
33. Maple Pecan Candies
34. Maple Pecan Ice Cream Bites
35. Nitrate-Free Dried Meats
36. Buttermilk Pancakes
37. Parmesan Crisps
38. Peanut Butter Chocolate Maple Fudge
39. Pepitas
40. Pumpkin Cake Bars
41. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
42. Pumpkin Cookies
43. Raw Milk and Raw Honey
44. Smoothies (We’re loving this Cherry Vanilla Smoothie)
45. Soaked Crackers and Hummus
46. Soaked Oatmeal
47. Soaked or Sprouted Nuts
48. Creamy Peach and Honey Popsicles
49. Sourdough Bread and Strawberry Maple Jam
50. Sweet Potato Chips

For even more healthy easy snack ideas, check out Eat Your Beets.