Guest Author - Alissa Moy
When learning the letters A-Z, snack ideas can be challenging. Teachers and parents of preschoolers can often think of several snacks to represent each letter, but not a week's worth. However, here is a list of just that- a snack for each day of the school week for each letter of the alphabet! Have fun!
A- apple slices, applesauce, apricots, animal crackers and apple juice.
B- bagels (mini) with blueberry cream cheese, bananas, bugles, bread with blackberry jam and bean salad (as in 3 bean salad).
C- carrots sticks, celery sticks, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate milk and candy corn.
D- doughnuts, dip with vegetables, dates, Doritos and deviled eggs.
E- edamame, eclairs, elbow macaroni, enchilladas and English muffins with spread.
F- funnel cakes, figs, Fruit Loops cereal, fruit salad and frozen yogurt.
G- grapes, granola bars, grapefruit slices, gingersnaps and grape juice.
H- hummus with crackers, honeydew melon, hashbrowns, honey on biscuits and hearts of palm salad.
I- ice cream cups, iceberg lettuce salad cups, iced tea (decaf), Irish Soda Bread and Italian bread.
J- jellybeans, jelly sandwiches, juice (Juicy Juice), jicama sticks with dip, and Jello.
K- kiwi, key lime pie, Kix cereal, kumquats and Kit-Kats.
L- lemonade, licorice, ladyfingers, linguine and lychees.
M- marshmallows, macadamia nuts, moonpies, macaroni and cheese, and matzo.
N- nut mix, nectarines, naan bread, Nutterbutter cookies and nachos.
O- olive tray, orange slices, onion rings, oatmeal cookies and Oreos.
P- popcorn, potato chips, pretzels, pumpkin pie and plums.
Q- quiche, quinoa, quince fruit, quesadilla and Quaker oatmeal.
R- raspberries, raisins, ravioli, rye bread and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.
S- saltines crackers, sunflower seeds, salsa and chips, Skittles and strawberries.
T- tuna fish, tomatoes, tangerines, tortilla chips and Trix cereal.
U- udon noodles, upside down cake, unsalted pretzels, unleavened bread and Uncle Ben's Rice (maybe make a rice pudding).
V- vanilla wafers, vinegerette dressing on salad, vegetable medley, Velveeta shells and cheese and V-8 juice.
W- watermelon, water chestnuts, watercress sandwiches, walnuts and waffles.
X- candy kisses (xxxx's), x shaped bread sticks (use the refrigerated dough to make and bake), X-mas Cookies (explain how the X is short for X-mas in slang), X Cheetos (X and O shapes) or soft pretzels shaped and baked into x's, and cereal mix that ends with x- Chex, Trix, Kix and Crispix.
Y- yogurt, Yogos, yams, Yoo-Hoo, Yodels, and yellow squash.
Z- zebra cakes, zucchini, ziti, zepole, and Zingers cakes.
