9 Packable Nutrient Dense School Snacks

School snack time can be both nourishing and quick prep with these great packable snack ideas! I have a bit of a love hate relationship with school snack time. On the one hand, a school morning is really long for those little guys in preschool and early elementary school. Most of them have breakfast quite early and to make it from 7:30am until noon or so without eating is a long time to go without re-fueling. Even if those little ones are eating a nice nutrient dense breakfast, going 5 hours without eating isn’t going to work for growing bodies. On the other hand…I have had my share of bringing home a preschooler that hardly eats their noon time lunch because they had a school time snack. So in the last few years of having little ones in preschool and early elementary school, I have come up with a happy medium method to snack time that keeps the kids fueled to make it through the morning, as well as nourish them with something you can feel good about. My goal in feeding little kids has always been “make every bite count”. Every meal and snack has a purpose. That might 

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