After school snacks

When we used to actually collect GS from school, he would look forward to helping himself to two Haribos from a bag we kept in the car. Credit to him, he never took more than two. Now he walks home on his own and because DD is not home until 6.30, when she cooks, I will usually provide a small sandwich or similar to bridge the gap.

I don't take anything for them but they usually have a snack once they get home. SiL used to complain if they had a snack because GS1 wouldn't eat dinner, but he didn't eat dinner anyway (ASD) and I continually pointed out that small children have small stomachs and it was a long time to wait for dinner with no food. Common sense won and now they have a snack and eat a proper dinner later. Even GS1 is eating - as long as it comes from his very short list of acceptable food!

It's common at my DGCs school, and I take them a snack if picking them up.
School dinner is at 12 o'clock and dinner at home won't be until 6pm, so I think a small (and usually healthy) snack is a very good idea at 3.30. Otherwise, it would be nearly 6 hours without food, which I think is a long time for lively, active young children. My DGS is as thin as a rake, so it certainly doesn't seem to be doing him any harm.

My grandchildren take packed lunches to school - a sandwich or wrap (chicken, ham or cheese), 2 pieces of fruit, a yoghurt, and sometimes a small bag of crisps. They have toast when they get in from school and a cooked meal at about 6pm.

A lot of parents give their children quick, convenient snacks of sweets and junk food either because that's what they themselves eat, or because they like an easy option.

Not in our DGS school, haven’t seen any foodstuff at all being handed out by parents/grandparents but will now keep an eagle eye out silverlining.
We used to have a milk and biscuit snack with our own DC
Once home, but DGC like juice and a biscuit.
Going home by myself when at primary school I would buy penny sweets when I had any pennies to spend, if not I would spend a bit of my busfare on them and walk further.

I have on occasion gone to collect DGC from school, and while some parents did have snacks for their children at the school gate. I do not think it was universal or even the majority. The school intake is divided between children from a deprived council estate and children from comfortably off professional families.