# Apples, quartered and cored with 1 tsp. peanut butter on each quarter
Why not just serve the apple plain. They don’t usually require any sweetening and with all the different types available why change a food?
# Bananas sliced in half and spread with peanut butter
they are so sweet already they are telling people with diabetes to avoid them. So why add the peanut butter unless you are trying to make someone gain weight due to health issues.
# Bread or toast cut into quarters and spread with jelly, jam, peanut butter, spiced honey or honey butter
For a young child this would constitute a meal not a snack. Many times we came home for lunch from school and this was lunch along with in winter soup or summer a glass of milk.

# Crackers spread with peanut butter and jelly or jam
Instead of adding the stuff on top. buy some of those fancy flavoured chips. penquins, fish, cheddar or sour creme and onion chips. keep them in small bags with one serving per bag. chips won’t be soggy if left out for snack time and everyone can grab their own flavour like.

Beef jerky this is so loaded in salt and this is why they sell it in bars. makes you drink more beer.
alternative would be a slice of cold meat wrapped in a lettuce leaf with a piece of cheese. a bit more work but less sodium. Jerky is a life long snack and the sodium is bad in doses that high.

# Veggies with ranch dressing
# Celery sticks, spread with peanut butter
add the celery to the vegetables with the dip. use cheeze whiz instead of the peanut butter or better yet some hard cheese they can place in the celery.

For breakfast if your little ones want the sugar cereals buy one box and a bigger box of plain cereal like rice krispies or special K and mix them. You get about 2 boxes of cereal and only a small amount of it is sweetened but little ones don’t really notice the difference once they are out of the store. They only know mom gave in on this one. Nobody wins nobody loses but the bill is down.

I think I have said it here before but my sons when they were little called soda crackers cookies. they went to granny’s once and she said do you want a cookie. Well yes so she brought out these chocolate covered monstrosities and the boys turned them down. The oldest went to the cupboard and explained that the crackers were real cookies. Granny was arguing with a 4 year old when he said that “granny you are a granny and mom is a mommy and she knows better what little children like. these are cookies. those are for dessert.” That was the way it was in our house. sugary stuff was for the table after you ate what was on your plate.
I like your list I just think if you keep it simpler it would be more healthy and just as interesting for little ones to enjoy.

My husband is diabetic almost to the point of insulin shots so he has become more conscious of what he eats.
We have fish and chicken a lot served in different ways and that substituts for pork which he can’t eat often.
He loves fish and chips well anything deep fried.
I serve this but instead of the thick batter on it I make a tempura batter just enough of batter to keep him happy and less fattening and also it cooks faster than the traditional he gets less fat in his diet.
I have found that steaming fish he likes, so I steam fish sometmes in broth sometimes in flavoured water (dill, salt and pepper) and sometime in white wine if I have a bottle almost finished in the fridge or if I want a glass myself. Can’t use his as it is red wine which he drinks to keep his circulation going better.
I steam those small already peeled carrots and he loves those. eats them raw as well. If I peel carrots he refuses them. I think it is a mind set. His mother cooked everything until it was dead and ready for buriel.
Those small potatoes that you can buy all year long now he likes them but big potatoes must be whipped. but the little ones I can serve as is or flatten them top with a cheese and broiled after they have been cooked are late night snacks instead of chips. From 7 bags of chips a week we are down to about 4 a months.
In the past year he has gone from 260 down to 220. he is still loosing which is good.
Me I have stopped since I can’t walk far without almost falling down so he drives me when I have to go out.
Pain in the butt that but what can I do.
Keep working at it and don’t get frustrated. I have been doing this for 36 years and will do it forever just to keep him healthy and active until old age takes us. Hopefully together.

My dad, however, is 65 and will hardly eat MANY things. They do not eat in nice restaurants. It is hamburger joints. Nice for them is “Logan’s Roadhouse” where he will have grilled chicken or a hamburger. He eats pancakes, hot dogs, soup, spaghetti, spam (?!?!), and pbj’s. He won’t touch ham or pizza with a ten foot pole. We have pizza, he eats something else. Bless her heart, my mom just doesn’t hardly cook anymore and I can’t blame her. They eat out daily, sometimes twice a day at the places he will eat. Oh, and if my dad isn’t autistic (like my son) I will eat my shoe. He has never been diagnosed, but they are EXACTLY alike in personality and temperment.