Kids On the Go

Football, school, jui jitsu, church, time with friends, time with family, how exactly do some parents get it all done and still get dinner on the table each night?

This past year has introduced me to this thing called extracurricular activities and let me tell you, our life has been turned upside down and spun around with regards to dinner time and eating meals together.

If you've been reading this blog for long at all, you already know that my kids are vegetable lovers. We keep boxes of vegetables in the refrigerator, prepped and ready for snacking. My boys know that whenever they're hungry, they're welcome to pull out the vegetables, along with some ranch dip, and snack away.

However, as we enter our eighth year of homeschooling, this is the first season of our lives when we are on the go almost every day. The activities and the faster pace of life combine to make it a little less simple to choose healthier snack options when we aren't home.

In the past, we might have had an activity to go to a couple times a week. This year, my oldest and youngest sons are in jui jitsu and my middle son is playing football. That adds up to 5 days a week at one sport or another. 

In addition to that, we're participating in a school co-op that means leaving the house nice and early one day a week. The kids are loving every last bit of it, but this mama has really been struggling with finding a new routine and figuring out meals and snack options both for on the go and for much later at night than we are accustomed to eating. 

Here are five of our Favorite Snacks On the Go:

Pretzels with cheese sticks

Apples with peanut butter

Salami sticks

Crackers and cheese wedges

Carrot sticks and hummus 

Muffins