We're always cruising sites like One Hungry Mama and Weelicious for healthy snack ideas that fall outside the Holy Trinity of goldfish crackers, raisins, and cheese sticks. But the truth is, when we're flying out the door late for class or a play date (which is most of the time), we need whatever's already packaged and ready-to-eat.

"Most of the very simple, easy-to-travel-with snacks are all carbohydrate-based, cracker-type snacks," says our nutrition expert, Hillary Baron Irwin. "I think it's worth the little bit of extra effort to offer your baby or toddler something healthier, like cooked baby carrots, homemade mini bran muffins, mini sandwiches (made with almond butter and sliced strawberries or soy nut butter and bananas), or a DIY trail mix."

But if you must grab something out of the cabinet and run, Hillary's top snack picks are:

• Annie's Homegrown Whole Wheat Bunnies: Higher in fiber than traditional goldfish crackers.

• HappyBaby Organic Puffs: The organic alternative to Gerber Graduates Puffs.

• Lundberg Salt-Free Brown Rice Cakes: The name says it all.

• Mashups by Revolution Foods: Squeezeable fruit. The Berry flavor is the best (lowest in sugar), followed by Tropical . . . Grape is highest in sugar because of the grape concentrate.

• Terra Chips: Better than regular potato chips (higher in fiber, lower in sodium, and made from vegetables other than potatoes), but they are still chips—not a veggie substitute!

• Just Tomatoes, etc.!: Fruits (raspberries, mangoes, cherries) and vegetables (sliced green onions, tomatoes) are freeze-dried until they become really crunchy. Nothing else is added . . . So the Just Cherries, for example, are just that: cherries.

• O-shaped oat cereal: Cascadian Farms Organic Purely O's are great, as are Cheerios—just be sure to go for the original Cheerios, as the multigrain Cheerios are (surprisingly) higher in sugar.