Snack-tember!
In September 2025, we’ll be celebrating… Snack-tember!
The aim of Snack-tember is to help children and young people (aged 5-16 years) make and choose healthier, more sustainable snacks.
We’ll be providing information, activity ideas, recipes, posters and other exciting materials to help children and young people explore their current snacking choices, and learn about, make and try new snack options!
What is Snack-tember all about?
We want to improve children and young people’s knowledge, skills, confidence and motivation, so that they can make and choose healthier, more sustainable snacks.
Throughout September 2025, we will be helping children and young people to:
- Explore better snacking
- Try new snacks
- Make their own healthy snacks
We'll have a range of resources for those teaching, or working with, children and young people aged 5-16 years. These will include, activity ideas, recipes, posters and lots more!
Our aim is to help children and young people choose and make snacks that have:
- MORE vegetables and fruit
- MORE wholegrains, beans and pulses
- LESS saturated fat, salt and sugars
These are key contributors to healthier, more sustainable snacking!
Register for Snack-tember to access ALL the resources.
What’s available?
Flyer: Help promote Snack-tember by sharing the flyer with your networks.
Posters: Display the three posters to show that you are taking part in Snack-tember:
- Snack better this September – Promotes the month and shares the key actions – Explore, Try and Make. Ideal for displaying in entrances and corridors.
- What makes a better snack? – Explains better snacks and gives examples. Great for displaying in classrooms and canteens, where young people can take a look.
- What we are doing this September – Fill in this poster to share what you have planned for Snack-tember!
Recipe videos
Take a look at our recipe videos which show young people making and tasting our five ‘hero’ snack recipes:
- Fruit and oat bites
- Homemade popcorn
- Paprika tortilla chips and spring onion dip
- Pizza muffins - Coming soon!
- Beany dip and crunchy veg - Coming soon!
Written versions of our hero recipes, for use in school or at home, can be found below.
Take a look at our Snack-tember guide for caterers. Try some of the suggestions as part of your breaktime snack offer in September. Use the What we are doing this September poster to shout about what you are doing! Let your schools know you’re involved by sharing the Snack-tember flyer with them.
Parents and carers
We’ve put together some snack ideas and tips for parent/carers of school-aged children. Take a look at our Parent/carer snacking guide. Schools – share this information with your pupils’ parents/carers!
Our three Snack-tember posters and flyer are available in Welsh. We’re busy translating the five hero recipes too. Look out for the recipes and other Welsh language resources, arriving in July.
Who’s involved?
We’ve been working with our friends at Veg Power to align campaigns, so we can amplify the healthier snacking message!
If you would still like to access Healthy Eating Week resources, you are welcome to use our resources from last year, which can be found here.
Those working with children and young people aged 3-16 years may like to use some of the free resources on our education website, Food - a fact of life.