Brown Bag Lunch Sweet Snacks

Brown Bag Lunch Sweet Snacks

Snacks are an American tradition, just like apple pie and baseball. After you’ve eaten all the good stuff in your lunch, it is time to have a sweet treat. Snacks don’t even actually have to be sweet, but they are something that we like to eat and they act as a reward for having a healthy lunch.

Brown bag lunches have been home to all types of snacks from lollipops to candy bars to chips and cheese puffs. Now, we aren’t advocating eating a bunch of junk food, but a bag of greasy chips every now and then won’t hurt anyone. The key is to consume everything in moderation.

So, let’s get down to the snacks. The food industry has embraced the idea of making snacks more agreeable with a healthy diet. Even chips have taken on a new tack by baking them and adding spicy flavors to make them taste good.

Nowadays, you can find just about any type of snack in a 100 calorie pack. If you want to taste a few Oreo cookies or some M&M’s, one of these packs gives you the taste without adding too many extra calories. Regular and baked chips and crackers come in these types of packs as well.

Candy bars are not a bad choice for a snack. They come in bite size pieces. One piece at lunch won’t ruin their appetite at lunch or later on at dinner. That goes for kids and you too. Actually eating a bit of dark chocolate every day provides more benefits for the body than they do fattening calories. Keep in mind that sweets such as these should probably be saved as a special surprise every once in awhile, not every day.

Kids and adults are less likely to overeat when snacks are eaten throughout the day. Try adding a small candy bar, a bag of chips, some popcorn, or other goodies in your brown bag lunches. Bringing a snack means that you won’t be tempted to buy anything out of a vending machine, which not only hard on the wallet, but more tempting and harder on the body as well.

Homemade snacks are good because you already know the ingredients inside. Make a batch of brownies, chocolate chip cookies, or muffins and keep them on hand for brown bag lunches. Stores sell plastic snack bags that are the right size for homemade snacks. You can even bake some mini cookies to make the kids think they are getting a ton of good stuff, even though you know it’s no more than 2 or 3 of the regular sized cookies.

What are your favorite snacks? Include them in your lunch and your kid’s brown bag lunch. Snacking prevents overeating at meal time and it’s tasty too. Snacks are essential to a well-rounded brown bag lunch. To save money, buy a value pack of different snacks from the store and dole them out as needed