Freezable after school snack ideas?

Executive Member Joined: Nov 14 2009 Posts: 360

Does anyone have recipes or ideas of snacks that I can make ahead and freeze? I hate making cookies

I was thinking more along the lines of rice krispies treat, granola bars but dont know if they freeze well and if so does anyone have recipes for things like that (other than he standard rice krispies treat)?

TIA!

Diamond Member Joined: Mar 17 2008 Posts: 3554

What makes you hate making cookies? If it's the trouble of balling the dough, you can use a regular cookie recipe but make a log out of it. Bake it (for longer than the recipe calls for), and then slice it into sticks.

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48145

When I went back to work in the city and started making more money, and dd was in high school, I used to get the frozen cookies for her to bake. they had pretzels too.

Muffins are dead easy and freezable.
This is my family's go-to muffin recipe.

Muffins
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Can be blueberry, apple or chocolate chip. Fat free substitutions in parentheses.
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2 c. flour (can use whole wheat for part)
� c. sugar (Splenda)
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp grated lemon or orange peel
� tsp salt
1 c. fresh or frozen blueberries/chocolate chips
� c. water
1/3 c oil (use applesauce instead and only put a splash of oil)
1 egg
1 splash of vanilla
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Heat oven to 400�F. Grease bottoms only of 12 muffin cups or line with paper baking cups. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon peel and salt; mix well. Stir in blueberries/chocolate chips. In a small bowl combine water, oil/applesauce, vanilla and egg; blend well. Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened (any more than that and the muffins will be rubbery). Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake at 400�F for 20-25 min or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from pan. Serve warm. 12 muffins (you can also use a 24 mini muffin tin but you�ll have leftover batter and will have to make a few big ones.
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Apple muffins:
Reduce sugar/Splenda to � cup and add 1 tsp cinnamon to flour. Stir 1 cup finely chopped, peeled apple into dry ingredients. You can also substitute apple juice for the water if you want but it will add calories depending on the juice. Bake at 400�F for 18-22 min.
If you�re out of apples, you can use pears. No one can tell the difference!
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DS1--born Dec. 10, 2009 (Erev Chanukah)
DS2--born Sept. 5, 2011 (6 Elul)

Gold Member Joined: Jan 12 2010 Posts: 2261 Location: US

Gold Member Joined: Jan 12 2010 Posts: 2261 Location: US

Most of the time I let them have packaged snacks like crackers, pretzels, cookies etc. It will be healthy if they have it with an orange or apple.

Diamond Member Joined: Mar 17 2008 Posts: 3554

(Simple1 -- I was thinking that. What's wrong with some fruit? Or something they can make themselves like peanut butter on some ww crackers?

But I tried to answer the OPs implied question anyway.)