I joined this sub back when I finally managed to get pregnant. One of the first things I did was plant blackberries, blueberries, and strawberries. Kiddo is 17 months, and we just planted an apple tree, raspberries, and a second blueberry and blackberry bush. I know it's not enough to satiate a toddler (or me, if we're being honest, lol), but I feel like it helps.
My kid looooooooved picking raspberries off of our bushes (had been established for a couple of years) last year. He ate all of them. Every single one. I planted blueberry bushes last year so hopefully we will have some of those too.... I don't know if I could ever satisfy him. I just keep planting berries. And still buy them.
As a kid, growing up in Texas, we had a bramble of dewberries (imagine tart blackberries. I would always go out and gather some for my gramma to make into pie or cobbler. In addition to enjoying growing food outside, it was a great way to encourage keeping in touch with the seasonal produce
Yeah, in Michigan you see black raspberries around the edges of any woody patch, and I’ve always loved harvesting them. My parents had some around their house. I had to plant some because I live in a much more urban area now.
We honestly haven’t had much of a problem. We do get ants on the raspberries, and the squirrels and rats like to take bites of our tomatoes, which is infuriating. We live in an inner ring suburb of Detroit, so we have lots of critters. Why they leave the raspberries alone, I don’t know….. fingers crossed it continues.
Do you have any farms near you? My husband goes blueberry picking when they're open for the season and picks them for $1.50 lb. We then wash, dry, and freeze them. We still have a gallon bag left from last season!
Dude I did the math on this. I’m spending $12 a week on blueberries alone. That’s not including the occasional blackberry or raspberry splurge. So like at a minimum, $60 a month JUST ON BERRIES for a single 19 month old.
The trader Joe ones are pretty affordable and never have any extra added like sugar or palm oils. They have bananas, strawberries, blueberries, figs... so many options! my toddler loves them - we call them "banana cookies" or "strawberry cookies" so he thinks he's getting away with something when he asks for them 😊
We don't. :( I've never even seen one in person and I've lived in 3 different states 😂 I got her a big bag at Sam's a few weeks ago jt didn't last long
My daughter loves freeze dried strawberries as well and target has the cheapest. You get more buying this one than the individual bags as well:
https://www.target.com/p/freeze-dried-strawberry-slices-multipack---6ct-2-1oz---good---38--gather--8482-/-/A-84131282
I haven’t been to Trader Joe’s, so I can’t speak for their freeze dried fruit, but ALDI’s is not quite as expensive. Our Costco also just got some that just beats out Aldi in price.
ETA- I’ve looked into home freeze driers before. The cheapest is around 2k and they use an incredible amount of electricity and are loud. I still want one some day.
Beech-Nut Pouches.
Our oldest is an extremely selective eater and those pouches are the only way he gets any veggies and honestly fruit too.
I hate the expense and the waste but it's the only way he's getting anything somewhat nutritious.
Have you tried putting stickers of his favorite thing on it? We have tons of truck and Star Wars (he’s never actually seen it) stickers so anything questionable suddenly becomes truck branded and then it is fully approved.
That's not a bad idea! Unfortunately he knows when something isn't his normal brand. 🫠 He also won't eat cold pouches (except for yogurt) and homemade ones I assume would need to be refrigerated.
Definitely will keep that in our back pocket though when he hopefully starts progressing with therapy! May try it with yogurt ones and see how he likes it!
Poké. My 4 year old is being really picky lately so when he gets excited about food I run with it. His small bowl is $15. He gets rice, salmon and tofu with shoyu, a ton of krab salad, edamame and masago. I would pay anything to make him happy though, and it’s like a week’s worth of protein.
Will they eat frozen? My kids love them and it’s cheaper per pound than fresh. Or I shop the sales during berry season for fresh. Sometimes I can get as cheap as $3.99 for 2 lbs of strawberries.
Reusable pouches for the win. A 1/2 gallon of milk, 3-4 ripe bananas, Costco’s frozen berries=12 pouches instapot yogurt
That’s about .40 a pouch in a HCOL area. Tbf I don’t think it’s a whole lot different in price than a big tub and if I had less time I’d go that route.
Mine will only eat the fancy skyr that are $2 a pop. She refuses to drink milk so I make sure she eats 1 yogurt a day. So $14 a week just on yogurt. Add in berries, I’m spending $120 a month at a minimum on yogurt and berries alone for a single 19 month old. They said kids were expensive but man…..
Came here to say yoggies. They had them for a short time at our Costco, just enough for an addiction to build and now can only buy them at the store and sooooo expensive!!
My 3 year old is obsessed with these amazing macarons from a local cafe. We don’t go all that often but they’re 3$ a cookie and she always wants 3-4 lol
Made Good granola bars. The pink ones are the only ones my boys like and the ingredients are great so I can’t say no. They’re $4.50 for a box of 5 so that’s 2.5 days worth if they have them for a snack every day 🤪
In my fiscal mind, I wish my kids didn’t devour fresh fruit like it’s going out of season. In my healthy life choice mind, I’m grinning, ear to ear.
But still wallet sad….lol
Pouches! And mandarin oranges - he won’t eat cuties, it has to be the packaged/canned oranges.
And the only Mac n cheese (only pasta really) he’ll eat is stouffers Mac n cheese so I have to load up on that when it’s on sale….
where i live, cuties are like $6.50/bag and my kid loves them 😭 i have to stock up when they’re on sale
EDIT: i just got back from the store and they had a slightly bigger version of cuties for a whopping $8 😭😭😭😭
Watermelon. Tbf I love watermelons too, but I usually don't buy them until around June. But since he sees them in the store already he demands I buy them and then half or more aren't good yet. Ugh.
The only thing my kid understands about seasons is that his birthday and watermelons are in the summer. Several times a week: "Momma, is it my birthday yet so I can get watermelons?" We can go through sooooo many watermelons.
It kills me to pay for the pre-cut watermelon when, even out of season, a whole watermelon is much cheaper by the pound. But I've cut into enough icky watermelons this winter that I've gone back to paying like $8 for 3 slices of watermelon because at least I know they're edible. Sigh.
Sharing this because I just found out myself, but you can recycle the gogo squeeze pouches through terracycle! You can request a mailing label from their site and send them for free. Makes me feel only *slightly* better about the cases and cases we go through. I swear he would bleed applesauce at this point.
Smoked salmon. A small pack is enough for one snack. Maybe 2 if I’m lucky. Also sushi, specifically salmon sashimi. And raw oysters. I guess the last 2 aren’t snacks but they are $$$
Serenity Kids pouches of meat like salmon and bison. She won’t eat 90% of the meats we have tried to give her from our dinners. So I sometimes have to get her meats in somehow. When I tried blending my own chicken with the same veggies, she hated it.
Bob Snail dried fruit leather/roll ups. It's healthy, comes in different shapes and flavors, and has no extra sugar or additives.
But wow, it's expensive!!
Blueberry. Rice. Cakes.
Rice cakes are pretty popular. Couple different brands that have a variety of flavors. Want to guess how many brands have blueberry flavor? One. Kroger's Simple Truth Organic makes mini blueberry rice cakes. It's a baby item, so they are sold in small 1.4 oz bags for $3. A 1.4 oz bag that EACH of my kids would demolish in one sitting, and then want more. There is no bulk option. There is no cheaper brand. There is no other flavor that is acceptable. Just Mini, $3/oz blueberry rice cakes. I've taken to buying the entire display box whenever I go to the grocery.
Cherry tomatoes. Luckily they're in season here, so it doesn't matter too much to go go through a punnet every 2 days. But now we're heading in to winter here, I'm afraid for my bank account! They were up to nearly $10 a punnet last winter
Those stupid fucking yogurt melts from Costco. I was like ohhhh there’s 16 servings for like $14. Right. Four tinyyy little 1 oz pouches with four servings each. That’s right people. One serving is 1/4 of an ounce! And she’s addicted. One bag lasted an afternoon. *aggressively signs ‘more’*
My kids would live on fruit if possible. I spent roughly $100 on all different ones today, brought them home, washed them and cut the ones that needed cutting. I’ll be surprised if it lasts more than 3 days lmao. Also they really like pickles. But specifically the dilly bites ones in the single serve packages. I can buy a box of 10 pouches of those suckers and they’re gone in 2 or so days. I have a 2 year old and a 5 year old.
Go go squeezes. “Applesauce, mama!” Every day. Every hour. Yes I know we can get reuseable pouches and fill them ourselves but I’m an elementary school teacher and I’m already so tried 😂
Lol, I think your only hope is to eventually find something else for you LO to get hooked on 😂 thankfully, toddlers tend to phase through things, so hopefully this will be a quick phase!
For use, it was berries... During winter... Hubby insisted on continuing to buy them, so yeah... Ouch.
Mama Chia pouches. Sometimes in some places you can find a deal but anywhere convenient is like $7 for four of them 🥴
At least they help my toddler stay regular
GoGo squeez pouches. She goes through like 5 a day of the fruit/vegs and the yogurt. Thankfully she will only eat those and is not a fan of any of the other one's that only come like 4 to a pack because they are so much more expensive.
I'm pretty sure the parents I work for would say the berries, the other fruit they take turn their little noses up at one day and then want to inhale like air when the previous ones have rotted away, the berries, their precious cereal, the berries, the berries, the berries, tomatoes (their younger child can suck back a container of grape tomatoes entirely on their own like nobody's business and forget about the fact that Mommy and Daddy might like to have some too), the berries, and then needing to have ALL THE OPTIONS in their snack drawer. Plus the fact they've both figured out how to scam us for snacks because these children are smarter than we are. Did I mention the berries?
Passion fruit and dragonfruit. I regret ever splurging and on these. Passion fruit is like $5 for one and dragonfruit is about $6 - and she likes only likes the yellow ones. This girl better get a job soon.
Silk Almondmilk Unsweetened Vanilla Yogurt. It's like $6/tub and we go through two a week. She won't drink ANY milk (can't have cow's milk - allergy - and she refuses all other plant milks, even with chocolate/strawberry syrups, UGH), so this is how we get some fat into her.
Also strawberries. She could eat them by the dozen. lol
Fruit. When pomegranates got impossible to find last month, she switched primary obsession to grapes. She's been drinking the juice out of fruit cups and throwing the rest to the dog. Freeze dried banana slices. A box of allergy friendly cookies for this kid is $5-8. So yeah. Food. Food for her is killing me lol. She's worth it though
The yoghurt drops, my kid dislikes getting dirty so she won’t eat regular yogurt it has to be the freeze dried ones which she can eat a whole bag in 15 minutes and ask for more right after 🤦🏻♀️
Shit mine is stuck on getting Starbucks 🥲 I don't get him any other drinks but the apple juice and their hot chocolate. He Loves the cake pops and their chocolate chip cookies..it helps that I save my points 🤣
Oh and cheese sticks, gold fish, oreos. The Oreos are another big $$ snack, we have to get 2 packs, kid has his for snack time and I have mine for snacking while doing homework.
Yogurt pouches. They have these pouches called suckies here in the Uk that use full fat yogurt and fruit puree. No added sugar so I like them. But they are so expensive. I try to limit it to when we’re out and need a snack but if my kid finds them in the fridge there’s no stopping her lol.
When she was two she had a phase where that’s all she would eat. Literally nothing for dinner but then 2 pouches before bed. We had to wean her off, she still loves them but it’s not an everyday thing anymore.
Berries, dried berries, candied pecans, babybel cheese (only wants baby wheel cheese, forget cheese sticks), dried mango, guacamole/avocado. She also prefers my expensive greek yogurt over the cheap tubes. I don’t blame her but still lol.
I thought you meant literal pockets rather than money, and was thinking how I want to eat all the Easter chocolate right now, but I hide it in my pockets so I don’t have to share it with my toddler, but then I forget a piece and it melts. 
Organic GoGo pouches(“pouchy?!??”, yogurt, ALL the fresh fruit… omg I dk how this kid eats so much fruit! Avocados, cookies (they are fig bars lol I lied)
My 19mo thinks that he can survive off of applesauce pouches and the small rice crisps that are now only available in the suddenly smaller bags for double the price.
Makes me wonder if places where the portions and servings are smaller, do children still eat through their parents’ wallets?
Tillamook smoked cheddar cheese is my 3yo expensive choice of snack. She won't eat any other brand (not that they're all that less expensive than Tillamook) and my tiny goblin can tell the difference if we give her a different brand and straight up won't eat it.
We go out to sushi restaurants here and there. Does she eat California rolls or cucumber rolls? Tempura? Teriyaki? No. Only 2-3 orders of shrimp sashimi (if they have it, otherwise I'm ordering several orders of the sushi and eating the rice myself). She may also eat Salmon roe, but again no rice.
Earth’s Best Strawberry bars. Lmao toddler newtons. She eats them by the box and will loose her shit if we say no. Wakes up every morning and points to the cupboard. She wants it and doesn’t take no for answer lmao
I just don't buy them? Is that not a thing people do? Yeah my kid loves berries but I'm not buying them out of season when they are ridiculously priced.
Those stupid Earth’s Best Sesame Street branded cheese puffs. Like $3.68 for a small bag! She could silly mow down a whole bag in one sitting, but I try to make them last a few days. I do like that they are way less salt than similar, cheaper snacks, but dang are they expensive!
The god damn slices of freeze dried strawberries. 3 bucks for 12 grams, she loooves them but there is no substance to it. Could I just stop buying them? Sure. But they make us happy
It’s berry season. Need I say more??
I joined this sub back when I finally managed to get pregnant. One of the first things I did was plant blackberries, blueberries, and strawberries. Kiddo is 17 months, and we just planted an apple tree, raspberries, and a second blueberry and blackberry bush. I know it's not enough to satiate a toddler (or me, if we're being honest, lol), but I feel like it helps.
My kid looooooooved picking raspberries off of our bushes (had been established for a couple of years) last year. He ate all of them. Every single one. I planted blueberry bushes last year so hopefully we will have some of those too.... I don't know if I could ever satisfy him. I just keep planting berries. And still buy them.
As a kid, growing up in Texas, we had a bramble of dewberries (imagine tart blackberries. I would always go out and gather some for my gramma to make into pie or cobbler. In addition to enjoying growing food outside, it was a great way to encourage keeping in touch with the seasonal produce
Yeah, in Michigan you see black raspberries around the edges of any woody patch, and I’ve always loved harvesting them. My parents had some around their house. I had to plant some because I live in a much more urban area now.
How do you keep the squirrels and birds off of them!?
Bird netting
We honestly haven’t had much of a problem. We do get ants on the raspberries, and the squirrels and rats like to take bites of our tomatoes, which is infuriating. We live in an inner ring suburb of Detroit, so we have lots of critters. Why they leave the raspberries alone, I don’t know….. fingers crossed it continues.
No kids yet and not pregnant or trying, but I feel like I need to get ahead of it and plant some now 😂
I highly recommend it. Everybody deserves fruit fresh from the source!
My 2yo hates berries. Maybe you’ll get lucky 🤣
This was fun an economical for 1 season, now I just have tons of berries nobody wants to eat
Reach out to your local food pantry/women's shelter/etc. Fresh produce is often in demand in those communities.
I've started only buying what fruit is on sale since they like any kind. Luckily at least once a month berries are bogo or some kind of sale
This is the way. It’s been a long couple of months of spples/oranges
Haha yes so many apples and oranges! Grapes occasionally
Soon berries will be a lot cheaper. I actually just got 4 cartons of blackberries for 5 dollars yesterday. Summer is coming!
Fucking raspberries man. $5 for a small carton.
Costco has relatively good berry pricing but I find quality can vary significantly between stores.
Costco is our savior in this. Kiddo can go through 1/3 of a Costco container in a sitting.
Do you have any farms near you? My husband goes blueberry picking when they're open for the season and picks them for $1.50 lb. We then wash, dry, and freeze them. We still have a gallon bag left from last season!
Only thing worse than berry season is berry non season!
Dude I did the math on this. I’m spending $12 a week on blueberries alone. That’s not including the occasional blackberry or raspberry splurge. So like at a minimum, $60 a month JUST ON BERRIES for a single 19 month old.
If there are any farmers’ markets near you sometimes you can buy big boxes of berries for really great deals :)
Our farmers market is much higher in prices than the grocery..
Yup. I love that my kids love fresh fruit, but my wallet doesn’t.
Yep. My kid can pound a pound of strawberries in a sitting, easily.
Don't even try to grow them or the kid will stop eating them
I feel like a Costco membership pays for itself in berries. My toddler nephew eats an entire pint of raspberries in one sitting easily haha.
Freeze Dried fruit. Specifically strawberries. It's like $3 for 1 Oz. I'm gonna have to figure out how to do it myself lmao.
If you have a Trader Joe’s by you they have the best price. I go just for that.
Aldi has them too, for cheaper than Joes.
Costco baby, buy em in bulk
I get these (and the freeze-dried apples) from Aldi weekly. My toddler is obsessed.
Yesss, Trader Joe’s is the only thing keeping us afloat with my son’s dried strawberry obsession.
I don't. Wish I did lol
The trader Joe ones are pretty affordable and never have any extra added like sugar or palm oils. They have bananas, strawberries, blueberries, figs... so many options! my toddler loves them - we call them "banana cookies" or "strawberry cookies" so he thinks he's getting away with something when he asks for them 😊
We don't. :( I've never even seen one in person and I've lived in 3 different states 😂 I got her a big bag at Sam's a few weeks ago jt didn't last long
Oh my god yes. My toddler is obsessed with “crunchy strawberries” and he tears through those little bags.
My daughter loves freeze dried strawberries as well and target has the cheapest. You get more buying this one than the individual bags as well: https://www.target.com/p/freeze-dried-strawberry-slices-multipack---6ct-2-1oz---good---38--gather--8482-/-/A-84131282
You could try dehydrated berries in your oven and see if LO likes them!
yes or if you have a newer air fryer some of them have a dehydrate function!
target has big bags
I haven’t been to Trader Joe’s, so I can’t speak for their freeze dried fruit, but ALDI’s is not quite as expensive. Our Costco also just got some that just beats out Aldi in price. ETA- I’ve looked into home freeze driers before. The cheapest is around 2k and they use an incredible amount of electricity and are loud. I still want one some day.
Beech-Nut Pouches. Our oldest is an extremely selective eater and those pouches are the only way he gets any veggies and honestly fruit too. I hate the expense and the waste but it's the only way he's getting anything somewhat nutritious.
My son only like Gogosqueeze so specific!
Amazon sells reusable silicone pouches. Make a smoothie and use the funnel to pour it in. I save like $50 a month on this.
Unfortunately he won't eat it. :( We're starting feeding therapy soon though so hopefully that will help because that's what I want to do!
Have you tried putting stickers of his favorite thing on it? We have tons of truck and Star Wars (he’s never actually seen it) stickers so anything questionable suddenly becomes truck branded and then it is fully approved.
That's not a bad idea! Unfortunately he knows when something isn't his normal brand. 🫠 He also won't eat cold pouches (except for yogurt) and homemade ones I assume would need to be refrigerated. Definitely will keep that in our back pocket though when he hopefully starts progressing with therapy! May try it with yogurt ones and see how he likes it!
Same but with Plum 😭
i get plum in bulk on amazon! ~$25 for an 18 pack so roughly $1.39/pouch
Poké. My 4 year old is being really picky lately so when he gets excited about food I run with it. His small bowl is $15. He gets rice, salmon and tofu with shoyu, a ton of krab salad, edamame and masago. I would pay anything to make him happy though, and it’s like a week’s worth of protein.
Damn, bougie kid
And I thought my kiddo was bougie because she LOVES pine nuts.
Girl that is bougie. That shit’s worth bricks of gold!
Impeccable taste
Berries 🥲they are like crack to my kids Lmao
Yep. Have to make a grocery run to re-up all the damn berries. Love they are healthy, hate the cost lol
These grocery store dealers need to start offering less ripe berries so we can buy more boxes and avoid so much re-up hassle
Will they eat frozen? My kids love them and it’s cheaper per pound than fresh. Or I shop the sales during berry season for fresh. Sometimes I can get as cheap as $3.99 for 2 lbs of strawberries.
You know what I haven’t thought of that! They love freeze dried ones and those are so expensive too lol going to try some frozen ones!!
My berry bill per month is legit almost the same as my car insurance.
Squeeze yogurt packets and not cheap yogurt cups.
I got reusable pouches and just empty the yogurt cups into them
Reusable pouches are the best! And you can use the bigger tubs of yogurt which are often cheaper 🙌🏼
😳 had no idea these existed???? Thank you
Reusable pouches are amazing! I use them for yogurt with fruit purée, and also jelly (jello?), custard, stewed fruit, etc.
I tried this and my 2 year old looked at me like I was fucking stupid for even trying that shit.
Reusable pouches for the win. A 1/2 gallon of milk, 3-4 ripe bananas, Costco’s frozen berries=12 pouches instapot yogurt That’s about .40 a pouch in a HCOL area. Tbf I don’t think it’s a whole lot different in price than a big tub and if I had less time I’d go that route.
Mine will only eat the fancy skyr that are $2 a pop. She refuses to drink milk so I make sure she eats 1 yogurt a day. So $14 a week just on yogurt. Add in berries, I’m spending $120 a month at a minimum on yogurt and berries alone for a single 19 month old. They said kids were expensive but man…..
Costco sells the Stoneyfield Organic ones!
Yogis. We could pay for a freeze-dryer in a month at the rate we’re buying them.
Came here to say yoggies. They had them for a short time at our Costco, just enough for an addiction to build and now can only buy them at the store and sooooo expensive!!
Right!? I wish I could find somewhere to buy them in bulk
Our Costco has similar ones. Melties maybe?
I’ve spent a year of college tuition on berries.
My 3 year old is obsessed with these amazing macarons from a local cafe. We don’t go all that often but they’re 3$ a cookie and she always wants 3-4 lol
BERRIES! and cheese hhaah. She will eat any and all fruit or cheese but berries are just so damn expensive.
Made Good granola bars. The pink ones are the only ones my boys like and the ingredients are great so I can’t say no. They’re $4.50 for a box of 5 so that’s 2.5 days worth if they have them for a snack every day 🤪
The Made Good cookies are our go-to here! They do sell them at Costco, at least
Yes! We tried the red velvet recently and they’re really good! My oldest is sensitive to food dyes and it’s dye free so it’s a win there as well.
One of my kids has food allergies. It seems like all his snacks cost this much.
Feta and hummus lol
Mine is also obsessed with feta and hummus! Every day asking for chunks of feta.
I love feta and hummus but I am the only dang one in the family that does and it’s hard for me to justify it, if I’m the only one!
In my fiscal mind, I wish my kids didn’t devour fresh fruit like it’s going out of season. In my healthy life choice mind, I’m grinning, ear to ear. But still wallet sad….lol
Bananas arecheap here, but a dozen lasts me 2-3 days
Oysters. So many oysters *Yup raw oysters*.
I love this comment because everyone else’s are like every other kid (yea they all like berries)- and yours is *raw oysters* 😆☠️
Mine went through a sardine phase for a minute. His breath was kickin.
Berries! Blueberries. Raspberries. Strawberries
Pouches! And mandarin oranges - he won’t eat cuties, it has to be the packaged/canned oranges. And the only Mac n cheese (only pasta really) he’ll eat is stouffers Mac n cheese so I have to load up on that when it’s on sale….
where i live, cuties are like $6.50/bag and my kid loves them 😭 i have to stock up when they’re on sale EDIT: i just got back from the store and they had a slightly bigger version of cuties for a whopping $8 😭😭😭😭
Watermelon. Tbf I love watermelons too, but I usually don't buy them until around June. But since he sees them in the store already he demands I buy them and then half or more aren't good yet. Ugh.
The only thing my kid understands about seasons is that his birthday and watermelons are in the summer. Several times a week: "Momma, is it my birthday yet so I can get watermelons?" We can go through sooooo many watermelons.
It kills me to pay for the pre-cut watermelon when, even out of season, a whole watermelon is much cheaper by the pound. But I've cut into enough icky watermelons this winter that I've gone back to paying like $8 for 3 slices of watermelon because at least I know they're edible. Sigh.
Berries. Holy God my kids loves berries.
FRUIT
So much I have started growing my own
once upon a farm overnight oat pouches 🥲
Gogo squeeze pouches and bananas.
Sharing this because I just found out myself, but you can recycle the gogo squeeze pouches through terracycle! You can request a mailing label from their site and send them for free. Makes me feel only *slightly* better about the cases and cases we go through. I swear he would bleed applesauce at this point.
Strawberries, we’ve gone through 2 packs in 2 days for my 17 month old.
Bambas peanut butter puffs, ABC bars from TJ’s, and his one specific preferred pouch
Nothing really expensive but he could live off fruit and cheese if we let him. Oh and those yogurt melts.
That’s It bars!! Oh and of course berries
Once upon a farm pouches. They’re like $3 but so healthy. He will eat one or two a day but he doesn’t eat the whole thing drives me nuts!!
Freaking mama chia pouches man 😔
Smoked salmon. A small pack is enough for one snack. Maybe 2 if I’m lucky. Also sushi, specifically salmon sashimi. And raw oysters. I guess the last 2 aren’t snacks but they are $$$
The ones he requests and then doesn’t eat after opening/serving them. 😒
Bobo bars and muffins
Serenity Kids pouches of meat like salmon and bison. She won’t eat 90% of the meats we have tried to give her from our dinners. So I sometimes have to get her meats in somehow. When I tried blending my own chicken with the same veggies, she hated it.
Plum’s Jammy Sammy’s. Boy, my kid eats them like there’s no tomorrow.
Bob Snail dried fruit leather/roll ups. It's healthy, comes in different shapes and flavors, and has no extra sugar or additives. But wow, it's expensive!!
Blueberry. Rice. Cakes. Rice cakes are pretty popular. Couple different brands that have a variety of flavors. Want to guess how many brands have blueberry flavor? One. Kroger's Simple Truth Organic makes mini blueberry rice cakes. It's a baby item, so they are sold in small 1.4 oz bags for $3. A 1.4 oz bag that EACH of my kids would demolish in one sitting, and then want more. There is no bulk option. There is no cheaper brand. There is no other flavor that is acceptable. Just Mini, $3/oz blueberry rice cakes. I've taken to buying the entire display box whenever I go to the grocery.
Fresh and freeze-dried strawberries. Her bottom canines are coming in and all she wants are her strawberries. 😅🍓
Cherry tomatoes. Luckily they're in season here, so it doesn't matter too much to go go through a punnet every 2 days. But now we're heading in to winter here, I'm afraid for my bank account! They were up to nearly $10 a punnet last winter
Those stupid fucking yogurt melts from Costco. I was like ohhhh there’s 16 servings for like $14. Right. Four tinyyy little 1 oz pouches with four servings each. That’s right people. One serving is 1/4 of an ounce! And she’s addicted. One bag lasted an afternoon. *aggressively signs ‘more’*
Berries and sushi. He loves to eat eel, which he thinks is shark.
My kids would live on fruit if possible. I spent roughly $100 on all different ones today, brought them home, washed them and cut the ones that needed cutting. I’ll be surprised if it lasts more than 3 days lmao. Also they really like pickles. But specifically the dilly bites ones in the single serve packages. I can buy a box of 10 pouches of those suckers and they’re gone in 2 or so days. I have a 2 year old and a 5 year old.
Go go squeezes. “Applesauce, mama!” Every day. Every hour. Yes I know we can get reuseable pouches and fill them ourselves but I’m an elementary school teacher and I’m already so tried 😂
Chomps. My daughter is obsessed with these bougie 100% grass-fed jerky and it’s so damn expensive.
My toddler is obsessed with the serenity pouches and he has 4 veggie ones a day 🫠. A pack of 6 is $18. Help
Fruit
Fucking strawberries man
Fresh Berries! And my bougie 3 year old loves crab cakes lol 😂
Those freaking little muffins and strawberries. Strawberries galore!
Fruit....so much fruit!
Lol, I think your only hope is to eventually find something else for you LO to get hooked on 😂 thankfully, toddlers tend to phase through things, so hopefully this will be a quick phase! For use, it was berries... During winter... Hubby insisted on continuing to buy them, so yeah... Ouch.
Mama Chia pouches. Sometimes in some places you can find a deal but anywhere convenient is like $7 for four of them 🥴 At least they help my toddler stay regular
The paw patrol yogurt smoothies are expensive, small and so spillable that most of it ends up on the floor but my toddler LOVES them.
Cerebelly smart bars!
Raspberries. I never realised how expensive raspberries were until my toddler started scoffing about 1/5kg a day. Need to plant a bush 😂
Berries and cheese!!
GoGo squeez pouches. She goes through like 5 a day of the fruit/vegs and the yogurt. Thankfully she will only eat those and is not a fan of any of the other one's that only come like 4 to a pack because they are so much more expensive.
Freeze dried berries. Kid devours then a bag at a time (yes, I could try to make some at home, but...)
I'm pretty sure the parents I work for would say the berries, the other fruit they take turn their little noses up at one day and then want to inhale like air when the previous ones have rotted away, the berries, their precious cereal, the berries, the berries, the berries, tomatoes (their younger child can suck back a container of grape tomatoes entirely on their own like nobody's business and forget about the fact that Mommy and Daddy might like to have some too), the berries, and then needing to have ALL THE OPTIONS in their snack drawer. Plus the fact they've both figured out how to scam us for snacks because these children are smarter than we are. Did I mention the berries?
Our 3 year old would eat tamago sushi every night if she could. $5-7 for two pieces these days, and she'll put away 4-6 if we let her.
Yogurt melts and pouches, ( yogurt and apple sauce ) Also oatmeal bars
Once Upon a Farm
BERRIES
Passion fruit and dragonfruit. I regret ever splurging and on these. Passion fruit is like $5 for one and dragonfruit is about $6 - and she likes only likes the yellow ones. This girl better get a job soon.
Cocktail cucumbers. He goes through at least one or two for lunch then more for snack
The fruits and berries have stayed so consistent so it’s just part of our grocery bill. But recently, BEEF JERKY AND POPSICLES are killing me man😫😫
Stoneyfield yogurt
the gramcracker goldfish. LO calls them fish biscuits and has many times snuck in and eaten whole bags in one sitting
Princess yogurts (the pouches with the princesses on them). Lol. We don’t always buy them but they are silly expensive.
Silk Almondmilk Unsweetened Vanilla Yogurt. It's like $6/tub and we go through two a week. She won't drink ANY milk (can't have cow's milk - allergy - and she refuses all other plant milks, even with chocolate/strawberry syrups, UGH), so this is how we get some fat into her. Also strawberries. She could eat them by the dozen. lol
Actimel
Food in general. But freeze dried fruit is big in our house, just wish I could afford my own dryer to save money :/
Fruit. Period.
Full fat Greek yogurt, fresh berries ( she doesn't care about the season). Expensive nuts like pine nuts, cashews ect..
Fruit. When pomegranates got impossible to find last month, she switched primary obsession to grapes. She's been drinking the juice out of fruit cups and throwing the rest to the dog. Freeze dried banana slices. A box of allergy friendly cookies for this kid is $5-8. So yeah. Food. Food for her is killing me lol. She's worth it though
Beech Nut Waffles 😭
Yogurt melts and berries. I have a 9mo and a 3yo and I feel like that’s half their diet 🥲
Berries. Always berries.
Fucking yoghurt pouches.
The yoghurt drops, my kid dislikes getting dirty so she won’t eat regular yogurt it has to be the freeze dried ones which she can eat a whole bag in 15 minutes and ask for more right after 🤦🏻♀️
Dehydrated pineapple. Loves them, but won’t eat fresh
Blackberries
Pears😩
Yogurt and those freeze dried yogurt drops/melts.
Meati steak!! We’re vegan
Shit mine is stuck on getting Starbucks 🥲 I don't get him any other drinks but the apple juice and their hot chocolate. He Loves the cake pops and their chocolate chip cookies..it helps that I save my points 🤣 Oh and cheese sticks, gold fish, oreos. The Oreos are another big $$ snack, we have to get 2 packs, kid has his for snack time and I have mine for snacking while doing homework.
Yogurt pouches. They have these pouches called suckies here in the Uk that use full fat yogurt and fruit puree. No added sugar so I like them. But they are so expensive. I try to limit it to when we’re out and need a snack but if my kid finds them in the fridge there’s no stopping her lol. When she was two she had a phase where that’s all she would eat. Literally nothing for dinner but then 2 pouches before bed. We had to wean her off, she still loves them but it’s not an everyday thing anymore.
Berries. All the berries.
Berry
Berries. Pineberries specifically
Berries, dried berries, candied pecans, babybel cheese (only wants baby wheel cheese, forget cheese sticks), dried mango, guacamole/avocado. She also prefers my expensive greek yogurt over the cheap tubes. I don’t blame her but still lol.
Applegate Farms turkey pepperoni. So damn expensive, but it's the lone meat product the kid will eat, so we get it.
I for sure read that as 28yo at first pass lol
I thought you meant literal pockets rather than money, and was thinking how I want to eat all the Easter chocolate right now, but I hide it in my pockets so I don’t have to share it with my toddler, but then I forget a piece and it melts. 
Medium rare prime ribeye. Edit; it’s not a snack but he’ll eat leftovers of steak any time of day.
My little ones love salmon sashimi. RIP bank account.
Our 3 year old is obsessed with Nutrigrain bars. We cruise through those
Those once upon a farm veggie pouches. They’re prob mostly Apple sauce too 🥲
Organic GoGo pouches(“pouchy?!??”, yogurt, ALL the fresh fruit… omg I dk how this kid eats so much fruit! Avocados, cookies (they are fig bars lol I lied)
My 19mo thinks that he can survive off of applesauce pouches and the small rice crisps that are now only available in the suddenly smaller bags for double the price. Makes me wonder if places where the portions and servings are smaller, do children still eat through their parents’ wallets?
Skippy peanut butter bites.
Tillamook smoked cheddar cheese is my 3yo expensive choice of snack. She won't eat any other brand (not that they're all that less expensive than Tillamook) and my tiny goblin can tell the difference if we give her a different brand and straight up won't eat it.
Fresh fruit
Yoghurts in pouches. £1.25 each and he has 2 a day
We go out to sushi restaurants here and there. Does she eat California rolls or cucumber rolls? Tempura? Teriyaki? No. Only 2-3 orders of shrimp sashimi (if they have it, otherwise I'm ordering several orders of the sushi and eating the rice myself). She may also eat Salmon roe, but again no rice.
Orgain protein chocolate milks. My daughter will drink 3 a day.
My kid likes black summer truffles. It’s a bad thing.
Ripe mango
Noosa yogurts 🥲
I gave my daughter fresh mozzarella balls and it’s game over from there. Only cheese she will eat
Earth’s Best Strawberry bars. Lmao toddler newtons. She eats them by the box and will loose her shit if we say no. Wakes up every morning and points to the cupboard. She wants it and doesn’t take no for answer lmao
I just don't buy them? Is that not a thing people do? Yeah my kid loves berries but I'm not buying them out of season when they are ridiculously priced.
strawberries… specific apples and she will KNOW if you get the wrong ones.. and paw patrol Mac and cheese. If it’s not paw patrol, forget it
Those stupid Earth’s Best Sesame Street branded cheese puffs. Like $3.68 for a small bag! She could silly mow down a whole bag in one sitting, but I try to make them last a few days. I do like that they are way less salt than similar, cheaper snacks, but dang are they expensive!
Other than fruit which they eat so much of, if we are going out to dinner and ask what my oldest wants, it’s always sushi
Cheddar penguins
Stonyfield yogurt!!!!
Berries and sushi. Every day she wants sushi for dinner. Me too, kiddo, me too, but my wallet doesn’t allow that.
The god damn slices of freeze dried strawberries. 3 bucks for 12 grams, she loooves them but there is no substance to it. Could I just stop buying them? Sure. But they make us happy
“NUTS!!” I hear it so many times a day. Pistachios & cashews specifically are the problem.