Smart Snack Food Items List
USDA’s Smart Snack Guidelines are the national standards for snacks sold or provided to K-12 students during the school day. This list contains items that meet either the Smart Snack guidelines or our district specific guidelines, but is not all inclusive. All food items must be purchased items that contain the nutrition and ingredient label. If you are not sure if the proposed food item fits Smart Snacks Guidelines, feel free to use the online calculator located at https://foodplanner.healthiergeneration.org/calculator/. Our district-specific guidelines for meals and snacks brought in on designated days are as follows:
Nutrient Snack Entreé
Calories ≤ 350 calories ≤ 650 calories
Sodium ≤ 480 mg sodium ≤ 700 mg sodium
Total Fat ≤ 14 g total fat (or ≤ 35% of calories) ≤ 25 g total fat (or ≤ 35% of calories)
Saturated Fat < 10% of calories < 10% of calories
Added Sugar ≤ 20 g added sugar ≤ 30 g added sugar (or ≤ 35% of (or ≤ 35% of calories) calories) Entreés or snacks must meet 4 of the 5 district-specific guidelines.
Applesauce/Fruit Cups/Fruit Snacks ● Individual fruit cups in water or natural Nuts/Seeds 100% juice ● Whole natural almonds ● Dried fruit with no added sugar ● Original sunflower seeds ● Fresh fruit ● Pumpkin seeds ● Freeze dried fruit ● Pistachios ● Applesauce cups - no sugar added ● Planters Single Serve Cashews or Peanuts ● Mott’s fruit snacks
Cookies/Cakes/Crackers Chips/Pretzels/Popcorn/Corn Nuts ● Special K Cracker Chips - individual bags ● Corn Nuts ● Rice Krispie Treats ● 94% Fat free butter popcorn ● Nabisco 100 calorie packs ● Chex Mix snack mix ● Kashi Soft Baked Cookies - all flavors ● Baked Doritos ● BelVita Soft Baked Cookies ● Baked Cheetos ● Honey Maid Graham Crackers ● Baked Lay’s potato chips - any flavor ● Honey Maid Grahamfuls - all flavors ● Baked Lays ruffles potato chips ● Honey Maid Lil’ Squares ● Quaker Popped Rice snacks - only apple & ● Teddy Grahams chocolate ● Nabisco Triscuits - all flavors ● Quaker Rice Cakes - all flavors ● Nabisco Wheat Thins ● Tostitos Baked Tortilla Scoops ● Nabisco Wheat Thins Toasted Chips
● Cascadian Farms Organic Chewy Granola Bar - Fruit & Nut bar Pastries/Bagels ● CLIF Kid Zbar ● Kellogg’s Pop Tarts - low fat (1 pastry) - ● LUNA Fiber bar brown sugar or strawberry ● Great Value Crunch Oats & Honey bar ● Kellogg’s Pop Tarts Oatmeal Delights - all ● Kashi Chewy Granola bars flavors ● Quaker 90 Calorie Chewy Granola bar ● Sara Lee’s Soft & Smooth Mini Bagels - ● Quaker 25% Less Sugar Chewy Granola whole grain or cinnamon bar ● Thomas Bagel Thins ● Quaker Chewy Granola bar
Cereal/Breakfast Bars Drinks ● Kashi Soft Baked Cereal Bars - Ripe ● Water - no added artificial sweetener and/or Strawberry caffeine ● Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Bars - all flavors ● 100% Juice - individual pouches ● Kellogg’s Special K Bar ● V8 Fusion individual pouches - all flavors ● Quaker Oatmeal To Go ● Capri Sun Fruit Waves 100% Juice - all ● Quaker Soft Baked Bars flavors ● Quaker Variety Pack Bars ● Capri Sun Super V Fruit & Vegetable Drink ● Sunbelt Fruit & Grain Cereal bar - Blueberry ● Capri Sun 100% Juice pouches - all flavors ● Sunbelt Crunchy Oats & Honey Granola bars Yogurt/Cheese/Smoothies ● Chobani non-fat, low-fat and tube yogurt - Ice Cream/Frozen Novelties all flavors ● Blue Bunny Sweet Freedom No Sugar ● Danimals Yogurt Smoothies Added Fudge Lites ● Oikos Fruit on the Bottom - non-Fat ● Blue Bell Fruit Bars ● Cool Squeeze Squeezable Yogurt ● Dryer’s No Sugar Added Fruit Bars ● Dannon Light & Fit Yogurt ● Dryer’s Outshine Fruit Bars and Coconut ● Light string cheese Water ● Low-fat yogurt ● Fruttare Fruit Bars ● Greek non-fat and lite yogurt ● Fudgsicle Fat Free No Sugar Added ● The Laughing Cow Babybel Cheese ● Fudgsicle 100 Calorie Bar ● The Laughing Cow Light Cheese wedges- ● Healthy Choice Premium Fudge Bar all flavors ● Simple Truth Greek Yogurt Frozen Bars ● Yoplait Yogurt - Greek and GoGurt - all ● Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches, Bars, flavors and Cones ● Swiss Miss Fudge Bars 97% Fat Free ● TCBY Frozen Yogurt On The Go Granola Bars ● Weight Watchers Fudge Bars ● Natural Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bar ● Otter Pops 100% Juice Fast Freeze Juice ● Nature Valley Crunch Granola Bar Bars