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I wasn't sure where to post this question! In Real Learning Elizabeth mentions that instead of desserts everyday she started serving different types of foods for tea time. Now, I was wondering if you could give some examples of some of your snacks, and I'd love to hear everyone else's favorite tea time treats.
Do you consider this a snack time, also? Healthy foods to give an energy boost, or this is special treat time?
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Dear Jenn,
We like little sandwiches cut into shapes; cheese and crackers; pumpkin bread with cream cheese; pumpkin pudding (a breakfast food from Sunlight Cafe); devilled eggs, mini-hamburgers (Costco); and popcorn.
This is definitely a snack time--more like a second lunch for us.
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Arg, I just lost my reply. Anyway, I was just going to say that we rarely do sweets at tea time because it really is a hearty snack in our house. We always have sliced fruit along with cheese and crackers, graham crackers, popcorn, sometimes a sweet bread, stuff like that. I love Elizabeth's mini-hamburger idea and will put them on my Costco list! My kiddos really need the mini meal at this hour (3pm at our house) to make it through the afternoon, but sometimes I'll put out some m&ms or hershey kisses or something small and sweet for after the snack.
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We used to have the cookies & cakes until I finally figured out that my youngest ds doesn't do well w/ sugar.
Now, tea time is fruit, sandwiches cut in shapes w/ cookie cutters, cold cuts, cheeses, wheat thins, veggies & dip .... foods to help them make it until dinner.
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I just picked up Honest Pretzels by Mollie Katzen at the library yesterday after seeing Elizabeth refer to it in one of her posts and there are lots of recipes in there that would be perfect for tea time. Corn muffins, "smart" cookies, sandwich ideas, homemade tortillas, little pizzas, pretzels, dips, etc. The recipes are geared towards young cooks--age 8 & up--but younger children could definitely participate with supervision. The same author also produced Pretend Soup which is geared towards younger cooks.
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Today's teatime treat was a veggie platter--sugar snap peas, baby carrots and broccoli with red pepper hummus and regular boring hummus. Everyone is full and happy as we head back to the atrium for our second round today. Dinner will be late so teatime was a real necessity.
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Do you make your own hummus? I haven't done that yet...I've found Trader Joe's has the tastiest hummus, plain or otherwise. Inexpensive, too.
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I do sometimes. This time I bought it at Wegman's--never shop there while hungry 
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