How to choose your child's snack bag?

The snack bag is a small piece of luggage from early childhood. Designed to carry baby meals such as toast for schoolchildren, it offers children the opportunity to eat outside the house. Like the schoolbag or backpack, it is now part of the school supplies recommended in kindergarten and primary school. But how to choose it? In this article, we help you define your child's daily needs in terms of nutrition and mobility, and identify their aesthetic tastes. You will also find a selection of the best models of lunch bags for children – isothermal or not – acclaimed for the year 2022. After these few lines, the choice of the snack bag for your child will be only a formality ...

Why equip your child with a snack bag?

The lunch bag is now part of the essential supplies for children's daily lives. From kindergarten to primary school, it has become an indispensable baggage. Clever, it contributes to your child's healthy diet by offering a space spacious enough to hold a dairy, a grain product and a fruit. With him, your child will have energy to spare throughout the day!

At the nursery or at the nanny, the snack bag accompanies your child everywhere

After a few months, the baby diaper bag gives way to the snack bag during days at the nursery or at the nanny's. Space-saving, it is convenient to carry only your child's meal. A meal that you will have taken care to choose to fully meet the needs of your cherub in terms of nutrition.

An appreciable supply for schoolchildren

As soon as you enter kindergarten, the snack bag becomes, like the schoolbag, a necessary supply. Indeed, if you want your child to take a lunch or snack to school, it is wise to invest in a luggage dedicated to transporting food. Thus, you separate school supplies from your child's meal and avoid possible inconveniences related to leaks or other overflows of food or drink.

The primary school reserves the same welcome for the lunch bag. Always close to schoolchildren, it offers them the possibility of a healthy energy comfort guaranteeing a good concentration even at the end of the day.

A durable picnic bag too fun

But the snack bag is also the companion of family picnic days at the park or beach! Adorned with a waterproof fabric (inside and outside), the bag ensures the safety of your child's meal in all circumstances. On the occasion of an excursion or in a summer camp, your child will be happy to take his lunch bag.

Reusable to infinity, the snack bag contributes to the preservation of the environment. Durable, it will accompany your child on a daily basis for several years by fully fulfilling his functions. No more aluminum foil and daily waste: the snack bag makes its little environmental revolution!

Which meal bag for your child?

To answer this question, you need to define your child's needs in terms of appetite, use, comfort and taste. To help you, here are some food for thought:

• Avoid a generously sized lunch bag if your child has a bird's appetite or is of low build;
• prefer an insulated bag for hot meals or cold snacks;
• Opt for a bag with shoulder strap if your child has to travel with his meal;
• Opt for a snack bag that meets your child's aesthetic criteria.

The ability of the bag to taste

The first question to ask yourself about choosing the best snack bag for your child is the capacity of the bag. What do you want to place concretely in the lunch bag? To answer it as accurately as possible, it is wise to ask yourself the following questions:

• Is my child a small or good eater?
• What types of meals will fit in the snack bag?
• Will the snack bag have to contain a drink?
• How many pockets should be provided to place cutlery and/or a small towel?

By imagining the dimensions of the ideal snack for your child, you will see more clearly and can opt for the right bag size.

The choice of an insulated bag

More and more, lunch bags for children are adorned with materials inherent to the good preservation of food. It is important to be attentive to the coatings used to make such luggage according to the use you want to make of it. Indeed, choosing an insulated snack bag for your child will ensure snacks at the right temperature that will preserve the flavors and participate in the gluttony of each meal.

A waterproof bag

The snack bag is dressed in fully waterproof fabric, a sturdy beading material that is easy to clean. This fabric offers two advantages:

•         any leaks are limited inside the bag;
•         The outside is not afraid of rainy weather.

A luggage that preserves heat or cold

Because it's unpleasant (and sometimes dangerous!) to eat frozen toast or enjoy hot yogurt, be sure to buy an insulated snack bag for your child. That is to say, a bag capable of retaining the heat of a dish, the warmth of a cake like the cold of a dairy product. This device improves tasting by preserving flavors at the same time as it protects the development of possible bacteria. That is, it promotes appetite and protects health.

Getting around with a snack bag

You should choose a lunch bag that will adapt to your child's mobility. Will a handle or handles be enough or is it better to consider a bag with shoulder strap? It all depends on how your child will use it.

Prefer the bag without shoulder strap if you want to place it in a schoolbag or backpack to carry only one piece of luggage. On the other hand, adopt a snack bag with a shoulder strap if you do not want to place the meal among the school supplies or if your child only has a snack bag to take with you for the day. The adjustable shoulder strap will allow you to carry the lunch bag lightly, on the shoulder or crossed, while keeping your hands free.

The attractiveness of the model

The final decision will be up to your child! Today, among the many Children's lunch bags Available on the market, you must find the one that will match not only all your criteria – which you have defined before – but also the tastes of your child.

Some will prefer a rectangular snack bag, others will dwell on a particular color or print. Do not hesitate to browse the offers concerning these lunch bags for children.

The best snack bags for kids

Among the top Snack bags On the market, we have selected the crème de la crème. Certainly, the ideal snack bag for your child is necessarily in one of these three models!

Les Déglingos snack bag for the little ones

How not to crack in front of these colorful meal bags with removable shoulder strap. Made of soft and waterproof fabric, the Les Déglingos snack bag is an isothermal bag that has the function of maintaining the right temperature of food. It is perfect for carrying a bottle, a meal or a small snack.

Its completely crazy animal look is fun and makes children react! This bag requires all the practical and aesthetic qualities of the ideal snack bag for your little one.

License snack bags are still popular with kindergarten and primary school children

Children have an unwavering cult for fictional characters they see on television or discover in books. Then all the objects bearing the effigy of these heroes become a source of attraction. That's why the license snack bag has the coast with young schoolchildren.

Triumphant over the Snack bags girl or on the Boy snack bags, the world of licensing opens its doors to you. Does your daughter love Frozen, Minnie or Hello Kitty? Is your boy a fan of Cars or superheroes such as Spiderman or Bakugan? Opt for a snack bag representing these animation figures! Do not even try to guide your children in their choice: let them choose the model that suits them!

The Kipling cooler bag: a snack bag for everyone

The rolls of lunch bags is undoubtedly the Kipling insulated lunch bag. With it you choose a light waterproof bag of high quality, a small luggage with intense colors and original patterns. Equipped with two handles, an adjustable shoulder strap (and detachable if necessary) and the famous little mascot monkey of the brand, your child will enjoy taking it every day.

You are now ready to take up the challenge: acquire the ideal snack bag for your little one. To do this, do not hesitate to discover the wide choice of meal bags available online or in store with your child. 

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