My affinity for after-work chocolate reminds me of one of my favorite after school snacks that I loved when I was growing up…
Jumbo marshmallows dipped in a tub of chocolate frosting. 
I’m pretty sure my mom didn’t know about that one.
When I asked Ryan about his favorite after school snack, he said he loved splitting open Oreos and spraying whipped cream in the middle before closing them back up and eating them.
Clearly we’re two peas in a pod.
Other favorite after school snacks when I was growing up included:
- Bagel bites
- Leftovers from dinner the night before
- Fruit (typically an apple, grapes or a banana)
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
- Cinnamon toast made with a bit of butter, cinnamon and sugar
- Cheese toast (similar to pizza toast but without the sauce)
After enjoying my snack of the afternoon, Ryan and I leashed up Sadie and hit the pavement for a long walk in the sun.
Dinner
When we arrived home, dinner came together quickly thanks to leftovers from last night’s meal.
BBQ pulled chicken sandwiches with steamed veggies did the trick!
Some more of those peanut butter energy bites also made their way into my mouth…
Yum, yum, eat ‘em up!
Time to head upstairs to spend the next few hours trying to cram 13 days worth of clothing, accessories, shoes and toiletries into an itty bitty suitcase. FUN!
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Just had to comment first since this new post was a nice surprise after I checked the fashion page 🙂 Have so much fun on your trip!!
I miss after school snacks!! I always ate dry cereal after school..my fav!
Oooh! I used to always eat bowls and bowls of cereal!!! cheez its too!! 🙂 The good stuff…only the good stuff.
We need that pb recipe julie!!
ahhh i love cheez its!
pb energy bites recipe will post when i’m in europe! i gotta give you guys SOMETHING while i’m away! 🙂
Oh man, cinnamon toast takes me back! That was totally my after school snack of choice! I think it’s going to have to make a comeback…
Haha, my favorite snacks as a kid were awesome. Favorites included tortillas with melted butter, Triscuits microwaved with tons of shredded cheese, and Nutella and chocolate chip sandwiches. I’m pretty sure my mom didn’t know about those, either…
My after school snacks were always so tasty (not so much healthy). I loved thin mints during girl scout cookie season!
we would freeze thin mints and crumble them on top of ice cream! SO good!
Oh the days of after school snacks. I always went for Cheetos or Dunkaroos – such a healthy child, I know! 🙂
DUNKAROOS!!!!!
OMG looooooved dunkaroos! Especially the ones with the rainbow chip-looking frosting 🙂
LOVE DUNKAROOS. Seriously, what a great creation.
I love after “school” (work) snacks! I normally have a handful of nuts or yogurt! Perfect to stop me from being ravenous in the kitchen before dinner 😉
Good luck packing…. you can do it!!!!!
I love an after work snack!! I’m still eating some of the same old snacks – goldfish, pretzels and (now baked) cheetos!
Those marshmallows do sound good!
I had weird snacks too but the best was a belgian waffle with applesauce and syrup mm mmm 🙂
have a great night! 🙂
I love having a treat after work — when I was younger I’d always come home and have a bowl of cereal after school.
After school snacks are a neccessity! I love digging into a box of cereal when I get in…my problem then is trying to stop!lol
After school snacks! Oh the memories. Since I am a teacher, I still have after school snacks.. but now its for a pre-workout fuel.. so it is not nearly the same as my childhood after school snacks!
Fruit snacks were definitely a favorite… as were chocolate eclair or strawberry shortcake ice cream bars. Definitely had a great relationship with dunk-a-roos as well 🙂
I used to love those Koala Cookies and Dunkaroos…. clearly I wasn’t the healthiest eater as a child. 😉
Koala Yummies!!! Yes!
Cinnamon toast is the best! I haven’t had that in forever! Bagel bites or hot pockets were winners too. They make me cringe thinking about eating them now though.
Cinnamon toast was a childhood favorite for me!
Good luck packing! 🙂
I used to always eat straight from the fridge when I was growing up! Now, I enjoy a snack on the way home from work – usually a bag of almonds and raisins. Perfect fuel until dinner time!
I definitely had the same cinnamon toast for snack!
I loved cinnamon toast or fruit for snacks. Good luck packing!!
I used to eat the worst (aka best) junk food ever when I was a kid! After school snacks could include: Ring Dings or Yodels dipped in Coolwhip, FunDip, several bowls of cereal, a trip to Dunkin Donuts where I was allowed to get TWO doughnuts- Boston Creme and Glazed Crueller were my personal favorites, Fruit By the Foot, Pop Tarts (blueberry!), Doritos or other various types of chips, candy galore….oh goodness so many more! I think the only reason my heart did not stop as a child was because I was on the local Y swim team, phew!
My house was always known as the location with the best after school snacks by my friends 🙂
I always had cinnamon toast! other favorites included go-gurt and microwaved marshmallows!! they get so big and fluffy 🙂
Haha they get HUGE. I know this b/c my sister loves microwavable s’mores. 🙂
I loved dunkaroos and any type of “fruit snack.” It’s pretty debatable if there was enough fruit in them to warrant being called fruit snacks. Haha.
Hands down…Colby cheese sliced from the cheese log and dip it in apple sauce….
And the go to snack was sliced cheese and Lays Chips smashed together…haha..oh 140 lbs ago and a much healthier look on life i can laugh at my food choices back in the day
It’s scary to think about some of the after school snacks I used to scarf down…
-bagel bites
-cosmic brownies
-zebra cakes
-ritz crackers topped with marinara sauce and sliced kraft cheese (only the white kind)
-Friendly’s individual ice cream sundaes
-Oreos (sort of like Ryan, but I never attempted the whipped cream in the middle!) 😉
Is it bad that I still like nearly everything you listed? 🙂
Nope…cuz I do too 😉
I am impressed u have Easter candy leftover. After giving up chocolate for Lent I accidentally inhaled all of my Easter candy. I’m so excited for the pb energy bites recipe. :D. I wish I could babysit Sadie while u are away :p she seems like she would be the most fun house guest!
New to your post, so thanks for the past blog. Amazing! you guys are going to have a fantastic trip. I’ve been to Florence, Rome and Venice. All 3 are great. Venice was awesome for taking pics, so many wonderful colors. Florence–whole street of gold and jewelry. Lovely place. If interested check this page on my blog http://inspirehealth16.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/hmmm-a-plateau/ the city behind us is Florence. Have a great time.
Suzanne
I don’t know what it is about the grade school years, but I always had lunch, dinner and an afternoon snack that was just another meal. Something about school made me hungry! My favorite snack was definitely peanut butter and jelly or when my dad made grilled cheese and tomato soup 🙂
Um Dunakroos! of course!! Also gushers (2-3 packs, 1 was never enough). And smores poptarts. Of course, pretzels. I’ve always loved those suckers, even in childhood. It’s just that in adulthood, they’ve become a full-on obsession 🙂
Good luck packing!
Bagel bites…I totally remember those!!! Typically I ate cereal as my afterschool snack or sometimes a poptart. Oh to be a kid again! 😉
marshmallows in chocolate frosting sounds like HEAVEN! when i was younger i used to steal the chocolate frosting from the pantry and eat it straight out of the jar and then hide it under my bed.. my mom eventually found my stash after a cleaning spree and was not happy with me.. hahah 😛
You two are too cute! I loved eating Chips Ahoy cookies after school with a big glass of milk!
Peanut butter energy bites!! Recipe soon please?!?! lol, they look delish! I always loved Cinnamon Life cereal after school. I loved that stuff.
I’d go for bagel bites, pizza rolls, pop tarts, or make nachos in the microwave. I was all health 😉 haha.
They always say that one shouldn t eat snacks in order to stay in shape. You re such a mith buster!!
I would snack on cold leftovers, mini muffins and lolipops 🙂 …and popcorn.
I remember always melting a piece of American cheese on a plate in the microwave then scraping it off with a fork. It was soo good when it was a little “overcooked.” Kinda gross but delicious!
My favorite after school snack was the classic combo of oreos topped with peanut butter and milk. Y U M.
Packaged chocolate chips cookies were my favorite snack..and I’m talkin’ 6 in one sitting. I used to get home around 2.30 so I would have ‘lunch’ like spaghetti or pizza and then around 5ish I’d have my cookies/chocolate/popcorn/Pringles…no wonder I was a chubby kid!
The peanut butter energy bites look great! When do we get the recipe? 🙂
good luck with packing! 🙂
My favorite after-school snacks were individual rice pudding cups, Bagel Bites, and peanut butter toast. My love for PB started young!
Speaking of which, do you remember “Skippy Squeeze?” My mom used to buy them for me all the time. They were go-gurt type tubes filled with PB…so good! 😀
I had BBQ pulled chicken chicken for lunch yesterday! Also, I loved bagel bites and pizza bread as after-school snacks!
I loved after school snacks! I used to eat dunkaroos, tastycakes, nachos, fruits and veggies. So many random things! 🙂
Your after school snacks post is cute! I love that ya’ll have such child-like playfull snacks that you share an affinity for. You totally would have enjoyed my recent theme party that Ryan and I hosted. It was an Inner child goes gourmet themed pot-luck. Everyone was asked to create an appetizer based off of their favorite childhood snack. Some of our friends got SUPER creative! I chose PB&J and did a PB&J baked brie wrapped in phyllo dough. One friend did mac n cheese empanadas that were shockingly tasty. Another did bacon wrapped tator tots and another did rice crispie coated chicken bites. There were some others, too, but we all had fun creating great things and re-living our childhood for a night! You would have fun with that theme, I think!
this is such a cool idea!
Chocolate milk was my favorite after school snack. I made myself a huge glass everyday!
There was a point in my life when bagel bites and I were inseparable. I bet they’re still delish, but I haven’t had any in many years… it’s probably for the best!
I am so disturbed by the amount of crap I ate as a kid! I would eat those Handi-Snacks and Pop-Tarts with string cheese as a snack Why string cheese with a strawberry frosted Pop-Tart sounded good to me, I don’t know!
I loved after-school snack time! I used to go to my grandparents house where my awesome grandpa(Poppi) would give me mini marshmallows to dip in peanut butter!
I also occasionally would scoop Cool Whip in an ice cream cone. Aw, and now I have a major sweets craving…
My favorite sounds right up your alley. A big spoonfull of peanut butter dipped in mini chocolate chips out of the freezer (we lived in the desert.) Often double-dipped once the chocolate chips were all gone.
Have you ever had a VitaTop for an after school snack?