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Bridge the gap between lunch and dinner with this healthy and colorful after school cheese board! Filled with fruits, veggies, meats, and cheeses, your kids will be happy campers after school!
If kids are really hungry, then they’ll eat what is put in front of them. So, if they are ravenous beasts at 3:30 pm when we walk through the door (ahem…my kids!), I’ll serve this kid-friendly Cheese Board covered in fruits, vegetables, crackers, meats, and an array of cheeses. It’s easy to throw together in a pinch, can be changed based on what you have in the fridge, and is completely nutritious.
Kid-Friendly Cheese Board
Back to school is upon us! The school supplies are bought, new school clothes are all hung in the closet and we (mainly me!) are raring to go! Along with new school lunch ideas and the structured yet busy schedule is figuring out how to get kids from the school pickup line to dinner time without getting hangry, killing each other, or spoiling their appetites completely before dinner hits. That is why something like an After School Cheese Board is the ticket to healthy snacking to keep big appetites at bay, while still offering lots of nutritious options to choose from.
Use What You Have
For this specific cheese board, I used what I had on hand (carrots, tomatoes, salami, grapes, etc..) and then opened up several cheese snack bars to slice in half to fit better on the plantain chips and crackers. It isn’t a recipe per say, but more of an idea you can use this school year to bridge the gap between lunch and dinner.
Here are some other ideas :
- berries
- kiwi
- banana slices
- celery
- a small bowl of hummus for dipping
- trail mix
- zucchini
- oranges
More Snack Ideas for your Kids!
Below is a printable guide on how to make your own After School Cheese Board.
Have a great day, friends!
After School Cheese Board
Ingredients
- 8 Borden® Cheese Snack bars in any preferred flavor
- 1 sliced salami salami sticks, pepperoni, ham, turkey, any other meats
- 1 plantain chips goldfish crackers, water crackers, soda crackers, pita chips, baguette, etc..
- 1 apple slices
- 1 grapes
- 8 strawberries
- 2 mandarin oranges
- 1 cucumber
- 24 carrots
- 1 peppers
- 3 celery
- 24 grape tomatoes
Instructions
- Line a cookie sheet, cutting board or serving platter with parchment paper.
- Unwrap Borden® Cheese Snack Bars and slice in half. Place in the middle of the board.
- Arrange the remaining ingredients around the cheese and serve.
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I love this idea! I’ve started doing this for my daughter and she eats it up! My high school son also grazes on it. Big hit!
I love this idea for after school snack. Thank you for sharing.
Looks so good! I could eat this everyday! We do this probably once a week for lunch or a snack. But there are some delicious things are here that I will need to try!
I love this idea! With the age range of my kiddos (18-8) this would be a great help (and would work great on Sundays for a pre-church or post-church snack too!!)
I love this idea. I have three sons who come home everyday and they are starving! This would be great for them to come home to.
I love this idea!
I love these simple ideas for after school snacks…these look delicious and cant hurt they are healthy too 🙂
Thank you for all that you do!
Great idea! If you put the health choices out, they will eat it!
This was very useful. Thank you
This now a staple in my home everyone loves it. The kids love to snack. It saves me time since it’s always available and stocked and I don’t feel guilty about them snacking, since the snacks are healthy
I loved this spread! What a great idea for snacks in between meals.
Great ideas!
Oh, what a good idea to include plantain chips. Love it!
This looks so satisfying. I am not a mom I just love following you, your family, and your recipes. But I am going to make this for myself and my friends. You’re awesome.
Tried this the other day…big hit with the family!
Need all the “back” ideas🤷🏼♀️❤️
Love this because I feel like I get like this int afternoon sense I really don’t eat such a big lunch. This is going to be great for ya toddler sense he is a snacked.
Thank you for these!! My kiddo already seems to be getting bored of the same old after school snacks 🍌🍓🥨
Yum! This looks amazing! My kiddos are always hungry after school and to be honest so am I. This is a snack I wouldn’t feel bad about giving them. Plus the leftovers could last for a couple of days. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I love a good snack board! Can’t wait to do this with my son- he’s only 19 months old and eats everything in sight. Can’t imagine what it will be like when he is school age. Gotta keep that hanger at bay 🙂