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6-photo picture collage of granola bar bites, s'more granola bars, amish banana muffins, snickerdoodle bars, white chocolate chip cranberry oatmeal cookies, and Samoa Rice Krispies. Overlaid on the collage are the words "50+ After School Snacks.

50+ After School Snacks

A few cut sweet and salty rice Krispy treats stacked in the middle with single squares of sweet and salty rice Krispy treats surrounding the stack.

Sweet and Salty Rice Krispies

A dinner bowl plate full of no-bake cookie energy bites.

No-Bake Cookie Energy Bites

Stacks of soft and chewy toffee cookies on a wire cooling rack.

Soft and Chewy Toffee Cookies

A banana carrot chocolate chip muffin with the wrapper pealed down sitting on a small plate with chocolate chips scattered around the plate. On the left of the plate are two diagonally placed carrots. Above the plate is a partial banana and to the right is a muffin sitting in a muffin pan.

Banana Carrot Chocolate Chip Muffins

A dark blue Polish pottery bowl with white polka dots with homemade yogurt drizzled with honey and topped with slice strawberries. Two strawberries are in the upper left corner and one in the bottom right corner.

Instant Pot Homemade Yogurt

A a dark blue and white Polish pottery bowl patterned with small circles with a dot in the middle filled with homemade granola.

The Absolute Best Homemade Granola

A dark blue Polish Pottery plate with white polka dots filled with cranberry orange oatmeal cookies and dried cranberries scattered around the plate. A half of an orange is in the upper right corner and bottom left corner.

The Best Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Cookies

A white bowl of churro muddy buddies.

Churro Muddy Buddies

The corner of a 9x13 glass baking dish of Toni's Zucchini Pizza.

Toni’s Zucchini Pizza

A small bowl of cheese sauce sitting on a large Polish pottery platter filled with biscuit pretzel bites.

Easy Biscuit Pretzel Bites

A white polka dotted dark blue plate of square-cut monster cookie bars with m&ms and chocolate chips surrounding the plate.

Monster Cookie Bars

A Poppy Seed loaf bread placed horizontally on a cooling rack with four slices cut from the left end.

Poppy Seed Loaf

A black wire cooling rack with Amish Banana Muffins

Amazing Amish Banana Muffins

A plate full of brown butter oatmeal raisin cookies.

Chewy Brown Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

A close-up of a large baking sheet of hot cross buns frosted with an "X"

Hot Cross Buns

A dark blue plate filled with French Breakfast Puffs with a kitchen towel on the left.

French Breakfast Puffs

Two stacked small plates with five cowboy cookies on top and old-fashioned oats and chocolate chips scattered around the plates.

Cowboy Cookies

A chocolate peanut butter bar with a bite taken out of a corner held above a small plate with a couple of peanut butter bars and the corner of a sheet pan with a peanut butter bar and the handle of a serving spatula.

Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bars

A plate of S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Hershey bar in the upper left corner and mini marshmallows scattered around the plate.

S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies

Little Carmelitas scattered in a group with caramel bits and chocolate chips.

Carmelitas