With the new school year almost here, I’m stocking up on my boys’ favourite lunch meals and snacks. Luckily for me, they both like fairly basic, easy-to-find items like fruit cups and ham sandwiches. And of course, no lunch is complete without a Hunt’s Snack Pack pudding cup in my boys’ minds! Zackary favours butterscotch and Benjamin prefers chocolate, but both of them agree that Snack Pack pudding is delicious!
The only thing my boys didn’t love about Snack Pack is how hard the pudding cups were to open. Zackary could generally get the lid off eventually, though he sometimes made a mess in the process. Benjamin never could manage to pull off the lids and had to have me, or else a teacher, do it for him. But now that’s changed with the brand new Snack Pack EZO lids!
We received three tasty flavours of Snack Pack pudding cups with EZO easy open lids so that we could experience the difference for ourselves. And my boys were only too happy to help out with the test since they got to eat chocolate pudding at the end of it! Both boys pulled off the lids independently with no effort, something that was impressive even for Zackary, but especially so for Benjamin!
Because the cups used to be quite hard to open, my youngest son would often bring his pudding home from school and eat it for an after-school snack after I opened it for him. And since my son was one in a class of twenty children, I could certainly understand why. As much as the teachers at our school are willing to help, there are so many kids that Benjamin’s teacher might very well run out of time before being able to open his pudding cup.
Now that he can open it himself, I feel even better about including Snack Pack in his lunch since I know I’m not inconveniencing an already-busy teacher when I do. And in addition to being less messy, these lids help younger children foster a sense of independence too! Best of all, since the pudding cups are made with skim milk, I can feel good about adding them to the lunchbox.
The easy open lids are available on a huge assortment of favourite Snack Pack pudding and gelatine flavours including Chocolate, Vanilla, Ice Cream Sandwich, Lemon Meringue, Strawberry/Orange, Cherry/Lemon Lime, Toffee Caramel, Chocolate/Butterscotch and more! Look for the blue Easy Open Lid tab on your child’s favourite Hunt’s Snack Pack flavours and discover the convenience of the EZO lids for yourself!
Victoria Ess says
I’ll have to check out those new lids! I also struggled with them!
Cheryl says
My son says he has had to use his teeth! I know it’s bad and I tell him that, hopefully he can manage these new lids
Karla Sceviour says
Yum,I love Hunts Snack Packs,the banana ones are my fav.
Erika E says
My son likes finding these in his lunch. I’d like to try the Lemon Meringue for myself.
Lynda Cook says
This is great to know, some of them were very hard to remove the top and for the young ones just impossible, it’s nice to know they can open their own pudding now!!
salexis says
Always looking for packed lunch ideas! Thank You!!!
nicolthepickle says
These make it so much easier. How many times have you been splatted by pudding?.. me too.
angela m says
These would be great for my youngest who started school.
ruth moreira-lozon says
i LOVE these pudding packs. never mind sending them for the kids, they fit perfectly in mommy’s purse too 🙂
Stephanie LaPlante says
I absolutely love my pudding cups!
Holly MacRitchie says
This would be very helpful for my youngest child!
Florence C says
My grandchildren love these.
Heidi c. says
I am glad that these are easier to open.
ellen chevarie says
thank goodness.what took them so long? i am happy about this.i usually make pudding by box and then put in these small containers with lids that were easy to take off for younger ones.i also kept the ready sanck oack ones for home.have not seen yet.(bought have not bought any new packs yet) going to go looking this weekend shopping trip.
Judy Cowan says
We buy these all the time, glad to hear that they are now easier to open!
Michelle Stevens says
My son loves these 🙂
Amy Lovell says
Super cool! We ocasionally buy these as a special treat in our house
Mike Gismondi says
I’ll be sure to get these!
donna snugglebuns dufresne says
i have to get these lids my little has such a hard time at school opening her snacks this would help so much thank you for sharing
Silvia D says
love the easy open on the pudding cups! no more struggles at school!
Debbie W says
Snack packs are great any time, and they are always on sale.
Autumn says
I’m glad somebody though of this.. I remember the struggle! 🙂
Jamie hall says
Love the hunts snack packs
David Swim says
This would be very helpful
Wanda Tracey says
This is great news.I am very happy to hear this.They are such great snacks but nearly impossible for a child to open
KEY says
The new lids sound great.
Doris H says
We buy these all the time…so delicious!
Laurie P says
yep, definitely an improvement 🙂
Ana S says
I bought these already! Way less mess and they’re very tasty.
Tramond Roper says
Pudding is good.
Krista M says
These EZO lids are going to be a big relief to the lunchroom supervision staff at my kids schools! They have enough to worry about without opening kids pudding containers. This is a great idea, making kids more independent.
Dream24 says
It’s ridiculous how much effort it takes to open up a container for a snack! If adults have a hard time, most certainly kids do too. Great that there are EZO lids like this to make it easier to open containers.
Brenda Penton says
I buy these regularly for my son for school because of how easy they are to open. He has motor skill issues and struggles with other brand lids.
Jeannie says
I love that they are less messy and easy to open! My kids can open these ones by themselves
Carol M says
Great that they are easy to open.
Tammy Dalley says
I love Hunts puddings, vanilla is my favorite
JaimeeM says
snack packs are so affordable and my son loves them!