Have you ever found yourself on your way somewhere, with your kidlets buckled into their car seats and a song you love playing on the radio, only to have your serenity interrupted by grousing from the backseat by a hungry toddler?
If you spend as much time driving around as I do, then you you know what I’m talking about. The last thing I want to do is stop at a fast food place or convenience store to pick up fries or chips to tide my children over…it sets a bad precedent for staving off hunger pangs with junk food. I try to provide my children with the most nutritious food, and that includes their snacks.
Even when I’m busy.
I recently learned that snacks account for 25% of a child’s daily calories, so I especially want to make sure each bite is deliciously healthy and nutritious. So I made a plan to always be prepared…the snack caddy!
Create A Healthy Snack Caddy
It’s easy to create your own healthy take-along snack caddy. Find a flexible caddy with handles in a size that would easily fit in your car, and still have compartments and pockets large enough to store snacks, drinks, etc. A material that is easy to clean and/or water proof is a plus. You can find them in any baby store(because they are wonderful for organizing in a nursery too).
I filled our snack caddy with a variety of Plum Organics® Mighty snacks, bottled water, wipes and napkins. Since snacking on the go should also be neat, I don’t put anything in it that would require utensils (seems dangerous to be bringing a fork up to your face when the car hits a pothole), so kept it simple with easy to munch on snacks right out of the package.
My sons are enjoying Plum’s Mighty snacks and shakes, and are learning to appreciate a variety of foods from a young age because they offer so much diversity in their blends. From Mighty pouches with essential nutrition blends (like fruit, veggies, quinoa and Greek yogurt), to Mighty bars with chia and yogurt also mixed in with a fruit and veggie, Mighty Sticks whole grain snacks (packets of two cookie-like sticks that are easy to hold for little tots), and Mighty Sips shakes in chocolatelicious and vanillalicious, up to four major food groups are represented in practically every snack and drink- fruits, veggies, grains and protein. The ingredients are both nutritious and organic and provide important vitamins that toddlers need to thrive, as well as fiber, omega-3 ALA and protein.
When children are well fed with nutritious foods, there is no telling what our Mighty ones can do as they go off exploring on adventures.
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