Healthy Snacks for Summer

The summer is full of activities: camp, pool, museums, hikes, road trips. When your day is jam-packed, you want to be prepared with delicious, nutrition-packed snacks so you and the kids can quickly refuel and get right back to it!

Catherine McCord from healthy family food blog, Weelicious, knows all about keeping two kids satiated on a busy day. “I try to make a bunch of snack recipes (some which are easy to freeze) to make sure I’ve got tons of choices,” she says. “When you have a few favorites ready to go it makes summer-time snacking that much easier and healthier.” True that!

10 recipes and the containers that love them

To get in the most fun this summer, she shares her top 10 on-the-go summer snacks with us and her preferred containers for carrying each one. After 8 years as a parent, it seems she's road-tested every single one! "What would a mother do without really incredible containers for those lunches and snacks you pack throughout the year?" asks Catherine. See her picks below. Plus enter a $500 Snack Gear Giveaway!

1. "Sure, you can pack a sandwich in these adorable LunchSkins reusable bags, but they're also great for granola bars!"

2. "Pack some Red Bell Pepper Hummus in the Trio Stainless Steel Food Container along with pretzels and sugar snap peas for dipping."

3. "U-Konserve nesting trio food containers will keep your Everything Kale Chips from getting squished so you can enjoy these crunchy goodies all day long."

4. "Innobaby Keepin' Fresh containers are great for toting along your favorite sushi sandwiches. These are a great sandwich for little hands to hold!"

5, 6.  "Use Snack Taxi Organic Reusable Snack Bags in each color to store Dried Cherry Seed Crisps, Wheat Germ Parmesan Crackers, and more!"

7. "Wean Green Glass Lunch Bowls were practically made to hold nutrient-packed Nature Cookies. They are the perfect size and shape to hold just a few for a super healthy treat!"

8. "Everything is better on a stick, and U-Konserve To-Go container will help store any number of these tasty Vegetarian Sandwiches on a Stick."

9. "Banana Quinoa Rice Pudding can be stored in a leakproof LunchBots container for breakfast, snack, or even dessert on the go!"

10. "Pack up all of your on-the-go summer snacks, with Sunflower Butter Bran Muffins for dessert, in one of these beautiful lunch bags from SoYoung, and add a sweat-free ice pack for those extra hot summer days!"

Giveaway

To stay energized on-the-go, enter for a chance to win $250 worth of reusable snack gear for homemade summer snacks. Plus the lucky winner will get a $250 cash donation! Enter below. Giveaway ends at midnight CT May 26, 2015. View Official Rules.