Snacks are essential for a day of running around on the beach, but packing them comes with a unique set of challenges. No one wants something soggy, sandy, or half-melted, so we’ve rounded up a few favorite recipes ready for your beach bag.
Greek Salad Skewers
EatingWell skewers briny feta and sun-kissed cherry tomatoes to make a portable Greek salad! Add a dipping sauce or marinate the feta in a lemony vinaigrette for infused flavor all in one. The skewers can be made ahead of time and stored in a tightly sealed container to be beach-ready.
Sweet and Spicy Crackers
Discover your new favorite snack with this recipe from Half-Baked Harvest! It adds some flair—and serious amounts of flavor—to the classic Ritz cracker. You just toss the snack-time staple in a buttery mixture of herbs and spices sweetened by brown sugar, bake for 20 minutes, and voilà! A familiar but brand-new sweet, salty, savory, and smoky snack!
Snack Jars with Gold Dip
Veggies with dip is a standard snack, but this twist on the classic shared by The Simple Green makes it more portable (in adorable jars!) and more flavorful by spiking the peanut butter base with fresh ginger, honey, and turmeric for a golden treat! Feel free to swap in the nut butter of your choice.
Cacio e Pepe Popcorn
This gussied-up popcorn from Goodtaste is a simple but wholly satisfying snack. Cacio e pepe, meaning “cheese and pepper” in Italian, are the flavors that turn up the wow factor here—along with Parmesan, we recommend pecorino for its sharp bite and freshly ground peppercorns for their zing. Don’t have a bag of popcorn kernels on hand? You can use your favorite microwave popcorn instead.
Roasted Everything Bagel Chickpeas
Roasted garbanzo beans are a fabulous go-to snack because they’re easy to make, easy to transport, and deliver a salty, crunchy dose of protein and fiber with every bite. Plus, they’re super adaptable to seasonings of all sorts, like in this recipe from Running in a Skirt, which finishes the chickpeas with a sprinkling of everything bagel spice.
Homemade M&M Granola Bars
Want a better bar? Make it yourself! These chewy granola bars from I Heart Eating create the perfect mix of salty and sweet thanks to the toothsome combination of oats, peanut butter, and mini M&M’s. They’re great for tossing in your beach tote—just store them in the freezer overnight, then pack them when you’re leaving the house. They should be perfectly defrosted by the time you’re ready for a snack.
Sweet & Salty Snack Mix
Bring out your inner child for a day of beach play with this fun snack mix by Recipes from a Pantry. We love the pop of color the M&M’s bring to this salty-sweet mix of Cheerios, pretzels, and mini marshmallows, but feel free to experiment with any other ingredients you already have on hand.
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