a low additive, low preservative, no colour snack????

[musicalmummy]

we're going really well cutting out the presevatives, additives and colours, but now i'm getting stuck for ideas. we are financially restricted in a big way. i'm finding their diet is quite boring now and am worried they'll become so used to eating certain foods they won't eat anythign else.
so ideas please people

TIA

[jag5000]

fruit
yoghurt
cheese
sandwich
rice crackers

what did they eat for snacks before? you can generally modify or find alternatives to most things

[musicalmummy]

horrible bars...like apple fruit bars, things like that. its a bit harder for ds as he is lactose intolerant so yoghurt i limit to only a couple times a week, and he won't even have a bar of cheese. as for sandwiches i give them avocado on sandwiches cos i can't think of waht else to put on it. i can't put salad items on cos they'l jsut take them off and eat plain old bread and not the salad. hmmm, what about mashed potato on a sandwich?

[jag5000]

there are a few decent (no additive) bar type things around .. but yeah, they aren't terribly cheap. my kids love as a treat 'fruit flakes' or dried fruit. I tend to make my own nowadays.. a big pan at made on the weekend lasts us all week.

hmmm.. sandwich fillings... off the top of my head.. hope it helps a little, it is hard without salad things!

mashed banana
egg (and mayo if you want)
cream cream
peanut butter
some jams are additive free
hommus
tuna
lots of dips can be used as sandwich spreads

HTH's :)

[Dreambeliever]

Scones! they are the latest favourite snack in our house at the moment. i think i put a recipe for tomato and zucchini scones in the thread on additives that jag started :) and you can freeze them for a month which can be helpful.

also, lots of people forget that fruit can be a great snack! and its fairly inexpensive when you buy whats in season. :yes:

we also have a little smoothie every now and then. (might be hard with lactose intolerence). just youghurt and fruit (berry and banana is a hit here) blended up. sometimes add some preservative free juice if its too thick.

hmm...ill have to keep thinking and let you know if i think of more.

good luck. :thumbsup:

[sweetseven]

We had fresh mushrooms last night, and today I've been snacking on carrots.

[Hollywood]

DS doesn't eat morning tea, but his afternoon tea snack is usually one of the following:

Fruit
Homemade muffin and some cows/soy milk
Corn thins with homemade jam or cheese
Sultanas (Woolworths Naytura brand, has no added ingredients)
Homemade popsicles (I make a fruit smoothie then freeze them in my Tupperware Ice Tups)

[Chickadee]

I've started baking again. Sunday afternoon or evening I'll make a snacking cake or loaf (carrot, zuccinni, apple, pumpkin etc) and a dozen oatmeal-apple muffins. Those fill out our lunches and snacks, plus the muffins are my breakfasts on the go.

DD quite likes to use the big rice or corn-puff crackers for an open-face sandwich, instead of bread. Ham and cream cheese, or hummous & ham for your lactose-intolerate DS.

Frozen veg also works for snacks. DD loves sitting down with a bowl of partially thawed peas or leftover corn cut off the cob.

[Just Add Water]

Our little miss is allergic to sugar so the best thing we have for snack for her is baby food or toddler fruit bars... they're cheaper than the other ones, they're all natural and she loves that she can still have a treat. I put the baby desserts into another container for her to take to school and no one knows the difference :)

If you do a search in the general chat area there is a really good thread (I think Jag started it) on additive free food... and there are LOADS of ideas there :)