In today’s sweets-filled world, limiting your kids’ sugar intake can feel like an uphill battle! Get a leg up with this list of 50 simple snack ideas with low-to-no sugar. Keep it on hand (print it here) to always have something healthy ready to feed your little ones.
Thanks for checking out our low-sugar snack ideas! Most of the pictures & ideas for these snacks come from our meal plans. With proper kitchen tools, kids can help make these snacks! Right now we have over 866 snack recipes (and over 3000 total recipes) for healthy meal ideas.
In the list below, you’ll see that we added the grams of sugar next to each food. But keep in mind that some sugars occur naturally. So the 2 grams of sugar in your kids’ snow pea snack doesn’t count toward their suggested 25-gram daily limit. Only added sugars count toward the recommended limit, and many labels now differentiate between added sugars and naturally-occuring ones.
Our calculations represent an average serving, and some may depend on the brand you buy. For example, our bread has 1 gram of sugar per slice, but if you purchase a brand with 3 grams of sugar, obviously your total will be a bit different.
50 Low Sugar Snacks for Kids
- Celery and Cheese = 1 gram
- Hummus and Veggies = 0 grams
- Almond butter and Celery = 1 gram
- String Cheese = 0 grams
- Chickpeas = 0 grams
- Pistachios = 2 grams for one ounce
- Popcorn= 0 grams
- Pretzels = 0 grams
- Potato Wedges = 2 grams (half a potato)
- Guacamole and Pita wedges
- Olive, Cheese & Carrot Tiger sticks = 1 gram (one ounce)
- Cucumber Sandwiches = 1 gram
- Carrots and Ranch = 1 gram (2 TBL of ranch)
- Finger Salad = 0 g
- Deviled Eggs 1 gram
- Zucchini Chips = 3 grams (per zucchini)
- Quesadilla = 1 gram
- Snow Peas = 2 gram (per raw cup)
- Trail mix = 3 grams per 1/2 cup (qualifier- nuts and seeds only, not dried fruit and chocolate)
- Avocado Hummus = 0 grams sugar
- Kale chips = 0 gram
- Spiced pumpkin seeds <1 gram sugar
- Cauliflower popcorn = 2 grams (1 cup)
- Toast with egg and avocado = 1 gram (per slice)
- Pepper poppers= 4 grams sugar
- Homemade fish crackers <1
- Salad skewers <1 gram (qualifier- the veggie skewers only
- Edamame = 3 grams (1 cup)
- Caprese bite sized snack = 3 grams
- Cauliflower dipper = 2 grams
- Arugula pesto 2 grams
- Jicama fries 2 grams (1 cup)
- Tomato avocado cups 1 gram
- Yogurt cheese and cucumbers Ummm.. this one is a mistake- when I calculated it, it ended up being 9 grams of sugar per serving. So, I added an extra one at the end, so you still have 50!!
- Cheesy broccoli bites 1 gram sugar
- Cucumber cups here : 1 gram Zucchini sticks 3 grams
- Zucchini sticks 3 grams
- Parmesan fries 2 grams
- Baked onion rings 2.5grms or half an onions worth
- Guacamole cones 0 grams (sugar free)
- Carrots and laughing cow 3 grams
- Tomato Parmesan Bake 1 gram
- Grape Tomato & Pretzel Tree = 1 gram
- Pepper nachos 0 grams
- Cherry Tomato bugs 2 grams
- Pea hummus = 2 grams
- Sweet potato chips 2.5 (for half a sweet potato worth)
- Peppers and goat cheese 0 grams
- Sail boat (or hard boiled egg) 0 grams
- Turkey roll up = 0 grams (turkey, mustard, and carrot sticks)
- Sugar snap pea boats 2 grams
Enjoy! Have a NEW snack every day for the next 6 weeks.
