by Angela V Are you going on a road trip with the kids soon? Looking for snack ideas? Keep reading…
I personally love family road trips and we have lots of fun when we travel together, but a very important rule we follow is to pack lots and lots of snacks for the kids. Both of our boys are often asking for snacks right after we leave the house and we could not have a successful trip without a good selection of nutritious snacks for everyone.
Road Trips With Kids {The Best Snack to Pack}
Below is a list of our top snacks for on the go. These snacks are great for road trips or long trips in the car:
Fruits and Vegetables: We usually pack sliced apples, mandarin oranges and grapes. Easy to eat, delicious and the boys love fruits! We also pack celery and cucumber slices in little containers.
Cheese: String cheese is a good snack for car rides or cubed cheese in a small container.
Mini Muffins: I love baking mini muffins for the boys and I often have some in the fridge ready to pack and take with us. For our easy to make recipe of butter-free banana chocolate chip muffins click HERE.
Cereal: Super easy to munch on and pack. Our boys love whole grain breakfast cereal, specially our toddler.
Yogurt: Yogurt is an excellent source of calcium. We love iögo Nano and its resealable, spill-proof cap is great for on-the-go. The kids can enjoy a nutritious snack that way without making a mess in the car. iögo Nano is also made from natural ingredients (real fruit purée), contain no preservatives, artificial flavours or colours.
Trail Mix: We usually mix some almonds, peanuts and raisins together and pack them in small containers for the boys and us. Easy to snack on and healthy for everyone.
Mini Sandwiches: Finger sandwiches are super easy to make and they make great snacks. We usually make them with peanut butter or hummus or just cheese.
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27 Comments on “Road Trips With Kids {The Best Snack to Pack}”
Some really good ideas here, I also used to make sandwiches for my kids on a road trip, anything that was clean and simple to eat. Fruit was of course part of the snacks too.
trail mixes are always a winner here!
Mini sandwiches and trail mix! My to go snacks! Yogurt is also great!
I think the snacks are so important,here we mostly do mini sandwiches and trail mix and always water for drinks !
great list of items! my daughters love cheese so we always bring that along. cheese strings would definitely be a lot easier. i always dice some up but especially when your in a rush to leave its very hand to just grab them and go! I will have to get those Iogo yogurts! what a great idea and mess free
Road trips are such fun, definitely my favourite way to travel. However, they’re not fun with hungry and cranky occupants! Great tips for nutritious snacks for the entire family.
I usually make up snack packs containing popcorn, cereal, mini rice cakes/crackers, etc. to pass out and keep control of the crumbs and messiness.
Another fave is yogurt tubes frozen….we put them in a mini cooler and we are good to go!
cheese and crackers are a hit with my lil ones , great ideas thanks for sharing
Thanks for the tips! The one thing I am super-excited about and looking forward to sharing my friends who have small kiddos still are these storage containers I found at the Dollar Store that allow us to put multiple types of snacks into their own individual compartments; but all inside one container (it looks like a jewellery box, tool box or art set. Its awesome!
my daughter saw the picture of the yogurt drink while Iw as reading this and she said ‘I love those!’ 🙂
Great ideas! Always looking for new ones or reminders 🙂
Good article. We always pack snacks for the kids on the road. It is so much cheaper.
My kids love pretzles and oranges to go… Also small sandwiches…
If we didn’t have grapes on our road trips we were goners!
We have to take bags of crackers or cereal for my daughter.
We road trip often! I am always looking for new ideas! Thanks,
Excellent ideas – it really does save $$ (and time) if you leave the house prepared!
We’re going on a road trip soon and these are great ideas!
All very great ideas! We also love pretzels and fruit for road trips!
These do sound like great snacks – I can see why they want to dive in as soon as you leave!!! It make a long trip much more fun!
good to have on long road trips
Trail mix is always a winner and a box of plain cheerios always gets you through a trip.
Thanks for the ideas. Cheese and goldfish would usually be our go to’s.
You’ve got a great list of snacks but I’d add gold fish crackers and ritz crackers because ritz were my favorite when I was a kid
Lots of good ideas here. Have used some of them before.
Good afternoon! My wife and I would like to go on an interesting tour, but we also want to take our son with us. What would you recommend that would be both interesting and a good way to taste the local cuisine and have a good time?