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Sponsored: Inexpensive Snack Ideas For Teens

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Sponsored: Inexpensive Snack Ideas For Teens

Question: I need some inexpensive snack ideas for my teens that they can make on their own...

 

Answer:

Here are 10 ideas:

• DIY trail mix. Buy some different cereals, nuts, mini chocolate chips, mix them together and put a couple of scoops into small containers or plastic bags that can be stored in the panty.

• Cheese sticks or cubes

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• Greek yogurt or yogurt tubes

• Mini cottage cheese with fruit

• Hard boiled eggs

• Snack bars made with nut butters

• Crunchy vegetables like radishes, carrots, sweet and snap peas, broccoli, celery, cucumber and dip

• Peanuts

• A bowl of cereal (pick one that has less than 10g of sugar and 3 or more grams of fiber) and milk

• Rice cake with peanut or almond butter

Leah McGrath, RDN, LDN

Ingles Markets Corporate Dietitian

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