Easter Gift Guide - Slammers Snacks

Spring has sprung, and with it comes the opportunity to clean out the clutter in your lunchbox and refuel with the right nutrition to power through homework and after-school sports.  

Packed with organic, vegetables, and superfoods, Slammers Snacks by Kids Gourmet are a fun, easily digestible alternative to sugary snacks, bars, and chips normally geared towards kids.  Slammers come in seven different fruity flavors that introduce kids to mango, acai, yumberry, kiwi, and pomegranate.  Not only do Slammers taste great, but they’re a good source of essential vitamins and minerals to keep kids in tip-top shape.

For additional kid-approved lunch packing tips, I would love to put you in touch with Sarah Remmer. Sarah is a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist with a specialty in babies, toddlers and kids. Sarah's passion is teaching parents how to raise healthy, happy and adventurous eaters right from day one.

My Thoughts

Spring is the perfect time to think about health snacks.  Slammers Snacks are the perfect alternative to candy in Easter Baskets! These tasty pouches are loaded  with only good things, like fruits, vegetables, and  ancient grains and come in a variety of tasty flavors. They taste great and they're good for you! Plus, they are made with organic ingredients! Here is a little about each one.

Amped This is one of our favorites so far. It combines apples, strawberries, cherries, and Chia. The sweet fruits disguise the healthy Chia that I would never get my younger kids to eat normally.  Some of the other flavors we enjoy include:

Pomegranate Grape Crush - As the name suggests, this super-fruit smoothie blends pomegranates and grapes, but there is also a healthy portion of apples and bananas. Each pouch is a full serving of fruit.

Awesome - This one blends bananas, apples, blueberries, strawberries, beets, acai, and amaranth. Again, the fruits cover up the flavors that most young children may be opposed to. This way they get some veggies too!

Watermelon Kiwi Burst - This one is made with apples, bananas, kiwi, and watermelon, and is a sweet treat kids are sure to enjoy.

Chill'n - Finally, get a healthy dose of apples, bananas, blueberries, butternut squash, greek yogurt, and yumberry. The yogurt blend make this one my teen daughter's favorite.

Slammers come in fun pouches that are perfect to store in your lunch box so you always have them when you're on the go. We tried a variety of flavors, and they were a huge hit. My kids range in age from six to seventeen and they all enjoyed the Slammers Snacks. For the little ones, it's fun to squeeze. The older kids love the sporty designs. This lets them enjoy them without being embarrassed by "babyish" characters. Whether you hand them out during spring and summer activities or stick them in lunch bags, Slammers Snacks are the perfect treat for any occasion.

To learn more about Slammers Snacks and all the fantastic flavors they offer or to find a location near that sells them, be sure to visit their website or follow them via social media. 

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Book Review : The Best Homemade Kids' Snacks on the Planet

Product was received for free in exchange for an honest review.

If you're a parent or a caregiver, you know that kids are hungry all the time. And while you want to give them the best, snack time can be a true test. How do you avoid the convenient-but-unhealthy storebought treats and instead provide something that not only tastes good, but is good for them them too?

With The Best Homemade Kids' Snacks on the Planet, you'll find more than 200+ great ideas for solving the snack conundrum. Recipes and ideas you can whip up in minutes, without fuss in the kitchen, or fuss from your kid! So whether you're packing snacks for your purse, the school bag, the sports bag, or the can't-make-it-until-dinner whining hour, you'll find quick and healthy ideas everyone in your family will love, including:

• Fun fruity dips! - getting our kids to eat more fruit can be difficult, why not combine the art of dipping that kids tend to love, with naturally healthy fruit!
• Popsicles galore! - popsicles isn't about pouring fruit juice inside a mold, with these 5 fun popsicle ideas you can feed your kids a healthy snack. 
• No-bake treats: let's turn the oven on and heat up the house! -said no mom ever. With these delicious no-bake treats whipping up a nutritious snack is a breeze.

My thoughts:

The best kid's snack book by far.  Since there are over two hundred snack recipes, there is something every should like in this book. Great book for kids parties.

the  step by step directions are so simple to read and understand, even your kids can help with reading and understanding them.  Just about every ingredient needed for these snacks can be bought in your local grocery store.  There are also colorful pictures of what some of the healthy snacks will look like.  There is even a chapter on mini meals.  So this takes the place of fast foods, and is one hundred percent healthier.  There are eight different chapter of all of good healthy snacks, mini meals, fruit and veggie snacks, no-bake bites and dips, baked bites, re-imagined classics, super smoothies and drinks and frozen delights and special treats.

The Feedback chart in the back of the book is great.  Gives kids and adults a chance to rate the snacks, etc up to five starts.  They get to write the date it was made, put notes about the snack and answer yes or no if they would make it again.

I have made over five of these snacks in this book with my eleven and eight year old, and they loved everyone of them.  We made Fresh Fruit Toaster Pastries, Strawberry Shortcakes and Oatmeal Raisin Cookie dough Bites to name a few.  We plan on making many more recipes from this book.