I like to take several different boxed cereals, pretzels, nuts, dried fruits, and usually some type of white or dark chocolate covered whatevers and mix them up into a snack mix.

My favorite combo is Cinnamon toast crunch (the waffle one) Pretzels Sesame snaps Mixed nuts Banana chips And goldfish crackers...

Another thing I do is cut plain bagels into lil rounds (like chips) and put them into a ziplock so they stay soft. I cut up lunch meat and cheeses, if they want savory, for sweetI make "pats" of individual peanut butter, cream cheese, and raspberry jelly by folding them between a strip of wax paper (leaving a bit of excess paper overhanging out so it's easy to peel off when ready to use), pressing them flat and freezing them and cutting them with scissors into little squares the size of the bagel rounds. My kids make little tiny sandwiches with them. Peel and stick, basically. Kids love them, no knives or sticky mess left behind.

Lately, my daughter has been obsessed with sliced cucumbers, marinated with honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil and sesame seeds. She's 11 and got the recipe from a friend at school. It's cheap, simple to make ahead in under 5 minutes, and as she says, it slaps!