Energy bites to fuel kids between meals 

Deirdre Doyle of the Cool Food School has ideas for after-school snacks to keep children's hunger at bay, at least until dinner time.

The return to school brings back the after-school snack demands. With children often arriving home starving and grumpy — or maybe that’s just my pair — it can be a tricky time of the day. 

Despite all your hard work at the crack of dawn assembling a carefully balanced lunchbox, they may not have had time to eat all its contents (or — being fussy — they just might have ignored it).