Preparing for a trip with kids can be stressful. However, the snacks don’t have to be! Here are 5 kid approved travel snack recipes that will be easy to take with you. These recipes are super easy to make and can even be customized to add or take out ingredients for those picky eaters.
5 Kid Approved Travel Snack Recipes:
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 large mashed bananas
- 3/5 cups white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup melted butter
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Coat muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Combine bananas, sugar, egg, and melted butter in a large bowl. Fold in flour mixture and mix until smooth.
- Scoop mix into muffin pans.
- Bake in preheated oven 10 to 15 minutes for small muffins, or 25 to 30 minutes for large muffins.
Recipe from All Recipes
In our opinion, the best part of trail mix is that you can customize it however you’d like! Just add or take out any ingredient and control the proportions to your liking. Once you are done, separate in small baggies to make them easy to hand out on your travels.
The best trail mixes tend to have something crunchy, sweet and salty. Here is our suggestion with items to start with.
Ingredients:
- Pretzels
- Peanuts
- Cheerios
- Raisins
- M&Ms
Other ingredient ideas: Chocolate chips, marshmallows, Chex cereal, nuts, popcorn.
Instructions:
- Measure out ingredients.
- Place all ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Mix together.
- Separate in small baggies for travel snacking.
Recipe from iheartnaptime.net
Ingredients:
- 3 cups old fashioned oats
- 2 cups unsweetened puff wheat cereal
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/3 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup honey
- ¼ cup melted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine first 8 ingredients in large bowl.
- In small bowl, combine honey, butter, vanilla. Pour over oat mixture and mix well (until sticky)
- Press into 13×9 baking pan coated with cooking spray.
- Bake in preheated oven for 14-18 minutes or until set.
- Cool on wire rack. Cut bars.
Recipe from tasteofhome.com
Ingredients:
- 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- ½ cup ground flax seeds
- 2 tablespoons honey
Instructions:
- Combine all ingredients in a medium to large bowl.
- Stir to combine.
- Place in refrigerator for 15-30 minutes.
- Roll small bite size balls.
- Store in refrigerator.
Recipe from chefsavvy.com
Ingredients:
- ¼ cup fresh rosemary
- 3 tablespoon Parmesan cheese
- 10 cups popped popcorn
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup melted butter
- ¼ teaspoon ground pepper
Instructions:
- Put rosemary on baking sheet.
- Bake at 300 degrees for 10 minutes or until crisp.
- Chop or crush until fine.
- Place popcorn in large bowl.
- Drizzle with butter and add cheese, salt, pepper and rosemary.
- Toss to coat popcorn.
Recipe from tasteofhome.com
Now that you have 5 kid approved travel snack recipes that are easy to pre-make, you’ll be sure to see some smiles on your kids faces! For your next family trip, be sure to check out Wade Tours one day and multi day trips. We love to see families make memories that last a lifetime on our charter tours.
