Sacrament Snacks

I think I just answered my own question with the sacrilege that is the title of this post. There should be no such thing as a Sacrament meeting snack, that is, unless you are a kid. In many a mind, mine included, keeping a child quiet trumps the irreverence of bringing food into a sacred meeting place. So the question I raise is what is the appropriate food? Cheerios and their cousins Fruit Loops and Captain Crunch seem acceptable to the majority. However, these cereals are pesky when the baby dumps the baggy. Cheerios especially tend to roll in all directions and inevitably find their way under Andy's dressy loafers before I can pick them up. This leaves us with a million crumbs to retrieve with frantic, guilty fingers because, surprise, my enormous church bag cannot hold a Dirt Devil.

I've tried Tic Tacs. They're fine until they're half eaten and the leftovers in the plastic container make a loud rattle.

Last Sunday I had a brilliant solution. I packed fresh blueberries. They're healthy, tiny, don't crunch, don't rattle and don't crumble. If they fall victim to a loafer, burberry tends to repel their mush which is easy to get with a wipe.

So why when I pulled them out to give to the kids did I get looked at in the same way I would if I'd pulled out a double decker chocolate ice cream cone in the middle of Sacrament meeting? Help me out here...was I totally out of line? What other options are out there? Cheerios are not working for me.