I don’t know about you, but after the fun of Christmas & New Year’s Eve has passed, I am not only happy to return to our normal routine, but I am also glad to get back to our usual healthy eating habits after indulging in all the holiday goodies. Yesterday was the first day back to school after Christmas break for my children, so I spent some time on Sunday cutting up fruit and vegetables for creating healthy lunches this week. If you have read my previous posts on packing lunches for kids~5 Easy Steps to Packing School Lunches & School Lunches Made Easy~you know that I like to include fresh fruit & veggies in my children’s lunches everyday!
Recently I was contact by the folks at SNACK PACK and invited to take part in their “NO TRADESIES” Blog Tour and to share ideas on creating healthy lunches for kids that they will love. I know that my children love fresh fruits and veggies in their lunches…the taste, the freshness and the crispness are all very appealing.
The folks at SNACK PACK sent me these fabulous containers{below} to use for packing lunches. I LOVE these containers {I had some like this about 5 years ago, but they wore out, and I haven’t been able to find any since.} because they allow you to create a ‘dinner plate’ effect, where food can be eaten in whatever order, which is more appealing to children. They can munch on a sandwich, while also popping in a veggie and a piece of fruit.
Here are some tips for making healthy, “NO TRADESIES” yummy lunches for children:
- Encourage kids to eat their fruit by adding a Snack Pack to ‘mix it up’ and turn fruit into a tasty, dip-able adventure. Try apple slices with a Toffee Caramel pudding, or Chocolate with strawberries and grapes…reminiscent of a fondue party!
- Sandwich Shapes. Make eating the regular sandwich a bit more fun. Break out the cookie cutter to create fun shapes and use different types of bread to make things interesting.
- Kebab it! My kids love mini-kebabs on toothpicks. Different fruits on toothpicks, or meat & cheese, or veggies…it doesn’t matter….kids just seem to like it better this way!
- Snack Pack Pudding is made with skim milk.
- Snack Pack Juicy Gels are made ith real fruit juice.
- All Snack Pack puddings have no preservatives or trans-fats.
- Giveaway is open to Canadian residents only.
- Runs from January 8th to January 31, 2012.
- To Enter: Please leave me a comment telling me what Snack Pack flavour is your favourite, or what Snack Pack flavour you would like to try.One entry per person.
- 1 winner, to be chosen at random, will win the following Snack Pack Prize pack containing: 2 delicious flavours of Snack Pack Pudding, Lunch Punch Sandwich Cutters, Happy Spoons, a mini portable travel speaker, and a tot-able lunch bag consisting of a cooler bag, and four leak-proof compartmentalized lunch containers. Valued at $50 and to be mailed to your home.
Okay. All this talk about Snack Pack puddings has made me hungry, and I’m off to eat my new fav~Lemon Meringue with some strawberries! Yum!
{Disclosure – I am participating
in the Snack Pack “No Tradesies” blog tour by enCompass Media on behalf of Con
Agra Foods. I received compensation as a thank you for participating and for
sharing my honest opinion}
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Lemon meringue sounds yummy.
What a fabulous give-away! Those containers are perfect for school lunches. Ice cream sandwich is always a favourite in our house.
I'd like to try the fat free chocolate.
Those lunch kabobs look good!
My fave is the chocolate fudge. It's the one we buy EVERY grocery shopping trip. I'm raising a family of little chocoholics too!
I've never thought of dipping fruit in them though, I think chocolate pudding-dipped strawberries will be in my daughter's snack bag tomorrow!
I would love to try the lemon meringue!
My favorite snack pack is the sugar free chocolate, yum!!!! Such great lunch ideas. It is especially harder as they get older and then it is more of not wanting to go to their locker to return a container or peer pressure of being weird for what they brought.
My families favourite's are chocolate fudge and tapioca. I have never tried the desert ones, but I LOVE your idea as using it as a dip! My have to run out and get some of those, I know my kids would love it! Thanks!
Chocolate is an favorite in our house but I love your idea of apple slices and toffee caramel, I think that would go over well with the kiddies! Thanks for the great giveaway!
I don't think I've ever seen the toffee caramel or lemon meringue in Washington State but I am going to look for them. My daughter would love them.
What a great idea. I am always looking for ideas for my daughter to have a healthy lunch each day. Thanks!
I had not seen these other flavors — the lemon meringue sounds so good and especially with those little kabobs! Wish I lived in Canada to enter 🙂 Love those sandwiches cut into the shapes too — lucky kids!
Great post Angie! I'm always looking for other lunch ideas (even though my kids aren't in "big" school yet, it's nice to have some new ideas to try at home!). I would love to try the ice cream sandwich Snack Pack, it sounds yummy!
My favorite for years has been Butterscotch, but I bet if I tried Toffee Caramel it will replace butterscotch.
sue2sueper (at) gmail (dot) com
We love butterscotch anything! Like many of your readers I hadn't thought of selling the pudding cups as a dip for other yummies! Thanks for the inspiration!
What an amazing giveaway! I love it!! The favorite in our house is chocolate — hands down. I never use it for dipping — so thanks for the fantastic idea!! Your blog is fabulous and inspiring!
I love butterscotch!! Snack pack has come out with a lot of fun new favors though, especially in there cake toppers collection! I wish they made more favors in low calorie sugar free.
I love Lemon meringue! The kids love the banana cream pie. I don't think I have seen the toffee caramel or the chocolate caramel. I will certainly be buying these if I see them! I live in the Edmonton area too, if you know of a grocery store that carries these flavours, please share! Thanks for the great post!
Banana cream pie is my favorite! Or classic chocolate. 🙂 I can't make up my mind!
Butterscotch is my favorite but i would love to try the Lemon Meringue Pie
angelsspot at hotmail dot com
Lemon Meringue sounds really good!
Your snack packs are making me hungry!
Sign me up for the give away!
Hugs, Cindy
Caramel is my fave.
Chocolate fudge is my fave!
My favourite is butterscotch
thanks
flower_child_23(at)hotmail(dot)com
My favorite is Vanilla & tapioca
My daughter says chocolate. Me,I'm lemon meriang
My favourite is Chocolate Caramel.
All the flavors are great, but chocolate is still my favorite
While I usually favour anything chocolate, I have to admit the lemon meringue sounds really yummy. I love the idea of using them as dip for fruit — brilliant!
lemon meringue!
The Chocolate – Chocolate Fudge Snack Pack (larger size) is our family favourite..you've listed some new flavours here that would be wonderful to try..great giveaway!
I'm a true chocolate girl – love the idea of the divided container too! Thanks for your blog and recipe ideas. Love!
I'd love to try lemon meringue.
I think the Ice Cream Sandwich would be fun to try
I want to try Apple Pie a la Mode.
I definitely like chocolate pudding the most. I've always wanted to try the fruity type ones haha~
Chocolate fudge is my fave flavour
Natasha- chocolate
OMG – the idea of dipping the fruits in pudding is genius! I am totally doing that this week for my kid!
We also use those multi-compartment lunch kids. They are the best things ever I think.
My favorite flavour of pudding is lemon meringue. MY kid loves the s'mores one.
I love plain old vanilla… but would love to try Lemon Meringue! Thanks
kyla.b2009 at hotmail.com
The chocolate is my favorite flavor.
Chocolate is my favourite flavour!
Lemon Meringue is my fav.
Chocolate is definately my favourite!
I am with you on the lemon meringue! I was amazed the first time I tried it! It is still my favourite!
What a fun giveaway! I always try to make my daughter's lunch interesting and healthy. My favorite pudding is usually plain old vanilla, but I love lemon meringue pie so I'm thinking I need to try the lemon meringue pudding cups! Thanks for the chance to win, Angie! =)
~ Catie
The Banana Cream Pie is my favorite snack pack flavor.
I would like to try the Lemon Meringue Pie.
Chocolate is definitely the favourite in my house!
andrea_hockeygirl@hotmail.com
My favorite Snack Pack flavor has always been chocolate BUT I would love to try the butterscotch, as that is the favorite of the two who would most likely eat it (my hubby and my youngest son). Thanks!
I love the Vanilla & tapioca!
I love the toffee caramel pudding cups!
My favourite flavour is the Banana Cream Pie.
brendapenton(at)gmail(dot)com
My favorite flavor is chocolate.
My favorite flavor is chocolate!
The chocolate is my favorite,but I also love the lemon meringue!
ksceviour at hotmail dot com
This giveaway is fantatic!
It would be so great to be able to spice up my girls lunches!
My favorite flavour is the Vanilla! But some of the other flavors sounds yummy!
My daughter and I love Butterscotch the most:)
We are big fans of chocolate fudge,
thanks for the great giveaway
lisadsmith1986 at gmail dot com
Lemon Meringue Pie is my favorite flavour of Snack Pack and my grandchildren love the Ice Cream Sandwich flavour.
blogandtweet(at)gmail(dot)com
What a great give away! 🙂 I'm going to HAVE to try the Lemon Meringue Pie flavour!! Looks delicious!
ashyb_(at)hotmail(dot)com
chocolate! Then again, I love anything that's chocolate in flavour.
nomnombearinyvr at hotmail dot com
Chocolate is my favourite – boring I know!
Lemon Meringue please!! 🙂
Great giveaway, Angie. Sharing this on our blog FB page! 🙂
my fav is chocolate, but would love to try the ice cream sandwich (didn't even know that it existed)
Our family favorite is Butterscotch but I have to say the new Lemon Meringue sounds delightful.
Chocolate Fudge is my favorite flavour!
butterscotch!
josiefiorda at yahoo dot ca
chocolate fudge is our favorite.
The photos are beautiful Angie! Such yummy combinations 🙂
milk chocolate
bula79 at hotmail dot com
I love vanilla but I would love to try the lemon meringue!
My favourite has always been butterscotch but the lemon meringue does sound delicious! Thanks!
oddball2003 at hotmail dot com
I really like vanilla, but the lemon meringue sounds yummy too, will have to try it!
It's a toss up for me – I love butterscotch and Lemon Meringue equally
My favourite flavour is Chocolate Fudge. Thanks for the chance!