Kids Summertime Snacking Wearing You OUT? Try this Kids Snack Station Hack (Using Shoe Organizer!)

Tired of hearing “Mo-om, what can I EAT??”  I feel like in the summer time this is ESPECIALLY bad – how is it kids eat 10X more food in the summer than during the school year??   Whatever it is, they’re suddenly digging around for snacks constantly.

 The good news is – this Kids Snack Station is going to make your life soooo much easier! 

Normally my kids want snacks three times a day:

• Morning – a granola bar because we’re running late, or to take for snack-time at school
• After school – the moment they walk in they’re about to DIE of hunger
• After Dinner

And in the summer it’s just – oh  – about every 45 minutes.

Every time they come to ask I have to go through all the options we have and where they’re located… guys it wears me OUT!  So I decided to put together this Kids’ Snack Station and we all LOVE it 🙂

Kids Snack Station

 

 

All you need to hold your snacks is a hanging shoe organizer with clear-front pockets like this one here.  (Or mesh pockets like this one has work great too!) I got this one at Target – I like the extra big front pockets at the bottom for stashing chips and whatnot.

I put tons of healthy snack options in our organizer – including nuts, fruit, popcorn, Clif bars, fruit cups, applesauce and beef jerky.  For some reason they seem more WAY excited to eat a banana or a fruit pouch when it comes out of a pocket (what’s up with that?).

 

 

Since I took these pictures, they’ve cleaned out a couple of my pockets and I’ve already refilled them with bags of pretzels and little snack-portions of trail mix.

It’s super easy to keep up with and it gives ME healthy options when I’m running out the door as well!

 

*Adapted from this build-your-own-lunch station we loved over on Hip2Save!

Also check out these posts for more back to school lunch ideas:

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