Kid Didits Vitamin Packed Snacks
My kids love snacks. We have a treat basket inside our pantry filled with various snack options (applesauce, raisins, graham crackers, etc.) and my kids are allowed to choose something from the treat basket or the fruit/veggie basket in the fridge twice a day. My daughter counts the hours until she gets to get something out of the treat basket again. She is one of those kids that grazes all day long. She never eats a ton of food, but she eats often.
I struggle with keeping healthy snack options in our treat basket. Many of the snacks out there for kids are convenient in their individual pouches, but are not always the healthiest. With my daughter being such a grazer, I really have been searching for snack options that will be healthy for her and will supply her with the proper vitamins and nutrients she needs on a daily basis.
This is where Kid Didits enters the picture. Kid Didits are snacks geared toward children between the ages of 6-11 and they are packed with many of the vitamins and nutrients kids need to “meet the demands of their growing bodies”. They come in portable, individual packages and are available in a variety of flavors. Each package contains 100 calories or less and has no artificial preservatives, flavors, no high fructose corn syrup and zero grams of trans fats. This is the kind of snack Moms around the world have been hunting for! I know what you are thinking though… this is all great and sounds perfect, but a snack doesn’t do me any good if the taste factor isn’t there. Well…let me put it this way to you…I know a snack is good when my kids fight over who gets the last package of something. I know it is even better when as an adult, I’m fighting over the last package with them.
Here is a rundown of some of the flavors we tried and our opinions:
- Mini Vanilla Cookies – These were voted as the favorite of the bunch by my kids and I. These are crunchy little morsels packed with a strong vanilla flavor. They are sweet and so tasty.
- Pretzel Launchers – These little pretzel balls would be a great addition to the lunch box or for a treat after school. They are super crunchy and fun to eat.
- Chocolate Vanilla Sundae Bar – This is the only option that none of us cared for. In fact, we each took a bite and threw the rest of it away. With the description and title, I thought for sure this would be my favorite, but it just didn’t do much for us.
- Really Cheesy Crackers – My kids love Cheeze-Its. These star shaped Kid Didits crackers are what I will be giving them instead. They are even better tasting than the Cheeze crackers on the shelves today and the star shapes make them fun to eat.
- Little Dipper Chocolate Cookies – These were so-so in our opinion. They were crunchy and fun, but we thought they were almost too crunchy. With the fun shape, they would be great to dip into pudding or something, but I don’t see us doing that very often.
- Mini Chocolate Cookies – Another favorite. The same as the mini vanilla cookies but packed with a delectable chocolate flavor.
If you are interested in getting your hands on some of these treats that are moving in the right direction health-wise for our children, visit your local Wal-Mart Super Centers. At roughly $3.00 for a container of 6 packages, you’ll find Kid Didits to be a great addition to your snack basket.
[…] August 3, 2007 Kristen on one of Sugar Savvy’s sister sites in the Well-Fed Network, Kids Cuisine, got to these Didits before I did, but I thought I’d share my take on the Chocolate-Vanilla Sundae Bars. Her review gives a great description of exactly what the Didits brand is about. Each serving of the sundae bars (two small bars) contains just 90 calories, 1 gram of saturated fat, and 30% of the recommended daily dose of calcium. […]