Divide Packaged Snacks for Lunches

My kids are always begging for those packaged dessert snacks like Oreos and such for their school lunches. For a long time I usually said no because a box of 6-10 packages would run up to $6.00 and they were so high calorie (6 Oreos in a package, for example - that's 3 servings!).

This year, I started purchasing a regular size package of Oreos for $2.98 and dividing them up into the snack size Ziploc baggies. At 2 cookies a serving, I get 14 Oreo "snacks" at half the cost. I do the same with crackers and anything else that you might by "snack" packs of - even Tupperware containers of pudding. They only get one "snack" a day and I rotate through different types of snacks to keep lunches interesting.