Hello!
 
I wanted to bring up some simple meals and snacks to send with your kids! If I don’t send nutritious snacks and drinks with the girls, they will end up going to a gas station and spending money they don’t need to on junk food, so I like to prepare as much as possible.
 
Something we always have on hand and the kids like is cheese sticks and summer sausage or beef sticks.  Anything Made with eggs and boiled eggs are another one we always have around since we have chickens!  We make our venison sausage every year at deer hunting and they enjoy it and it is a great snack!  Sometimes I will make sourdough crackers, although they only last a day in our house and I haven’t figured out a longer storage solution where they stay nice and crisp for a longer period of time, so if you have any tricks with that, send me an email.  But really…., they probably wouldn’t last that long anyway…they gobble them up quick!
 
We have an abundance of plums and apples on our apple trees right now, so apples and peanut butter is another good snack.  I also like to buy cuties/clementines to keep on hand because they seem to last a little longer than berries.  Frozen grapes are another fabulous snack that my kids love!  Any kind of fruit, but these seem to be our go to that last the longest.  Watermelon is a cheaper fruit and stored correctly can last for a few weeks!  We really try to eat seasonally if at all possible, so this time of the year, we tend to have more fruit and less during the winter here.  
 
We love to make sourdough bread and bagels, and that is a great thing to pack for lunches with ham or turkey and cheese.  I try to stay away from things they have to heat up, but it has been very handy to have little thermoses if they want to take soup, chilli, or hotdishes because it stays warm for quite some time.
Breakfast muffins and sweet breads are super easy to make in big batches and keep in the freezer and  yogurt, berries and granola are some other favorites that my kids enjoy and simple to pack.
 
We also can at least 150 quarts of pickles, so that is a super snack that travels well and everyone loves!  Olives are another good food to add.
 
I could talk about this all day, but you really just need to prepare if you want to save money because otherwise you will spend money on expensive convenience snacks that are unhealthy and cost you so much more!  If you want more recipes, I have just added the blog on my website and will be adding more and more simple recipes for you to help you save money that are nutritious so you feel confident giving your family quality foods at a low price.  Go to claimingsimplicity.com and check it out!  I will be adding more recipes soon that you can use with your garden produce!  
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