25+ Real Food Snacks Ready in 5 Minutes or Less

Great ideas for real food snacks that don’t take a lot of time to prepare! 5 minutes is all it takes and you can serve healthy delicious snacks that won’t break the budget! Be sure to check out 24+ best hiking snacks (easy, healthy, family-friendly) and 25+ best snacks for road trips.

Every year when school is in session.. if you’re like me, you could always use a few more ideas for quick breakfasts, healthy school lunches, and simple snacks to keep the kids satisfied until dinner time.

I love the convenience of packaged snack foods but, even the more expensive “healthy” versions of packaged snacks often contain flavors and additives I don’t want to feed to my kids.

It just makes sense to give them healthier and more affordable snacks instead…especially when they only take 5 minutes or less to make!

25+ Frugal Real Food Snacks in 5 Minutes or Less

I’ve divided this list of frugal real food snacks into 3 categories based on prep time:

1. Zero Prep Snacks
2. Snacks Ready in 5 Minutes or Less
3. Make-Ahead Snacks

I personally draw from the Zero Prep list most days, but I try to mix in a few of the other ideas from time to time to keep things interesting and fun for the kids.

Zero Prep Real Food Snacks

• Fresh or dried fruit
• Raw veggies
• Raw or dry roasted nuts/seeds
• Hummus + pita (assuming the hummus is already made, but if not, it can be in 5 minutes)
• Nut/seed butter on a spoon (homemade nut/seed butter)
• Sliced cheese

Real Food Snacks Ready in 5 Minutes or Less

• Healthy Apple Nacho Recipe (pictured above)
• Smoothies (Orange Pineapple Green Smoothie pictured above)
• Healthy 5 min Ranch Dip for raw veggies
• Air-popped popcorn
• Fruit and yogurt parfaits
• Ants on a log
• Healthy Banana Split
• Trail mix (any mixture of nuts, dried fruit, popcorn, oats, flaked coconut, healthy cereal, etc.)
• 5 Minute Chocolate Hummus
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Hummus
• Cheese toast
• PB&J fold over

Make-Ahead Snacks

• Sweet and Salty Energy Bites (pictured at top)
• Fruit and Veggie Popsicles (pictured at top)
• Easy Homemade Cheez Its (pictured at top)
• No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Granola Bars (pictured above)
• Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Snack Bars
• Homemade Applesauce – plain, cinnamon, and mixed berry
• Easy Probiotic Fermented Carrots
• Homemade Fruit Leather & Fruit Roll Ups
• Homemade Lunchables

More Snack Ideas

• Homemade Cracker Recipe
• Healthier Candied Pecans
• How to Make Yogurt
• Homemade Honey Roasted Almonds

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