Ideas for after-school activities, dinner and snacks?

We have many high quality lunch bags with ice packs so I can pack the kids good after school snacks that stay cool all day.

After school and before 3 hrs of dance, dd will eat a half bagel with cream cheese or she likes rice cakes with sliced cheese and an apple. She'll take pretzels or something like that with her by they don't have much time to snack.

When we get home at 7 and I want dinner on the table right away, my go to is quesadillas.

I make a large batch of the no fry refried beans (allrecipes) in my crock pot and freeze the refried beans in small amounts. My kids like this with pinto beans or Black beans.

Then, when I get home I heat a skillet, spread the beans and shredded cheese, add some diced olives and crisp the quesadilla. My girls will eat that with green salad. I keep washed lettuce, chopped veg and homemade dressing in my fridge, so I throw a salad together quickly. If I have time, I pan-fry some chopped veg for in the quesadilla, or maybe open a tin of artichokes and add some feta.

If in a major rush, I wrap everything in the tortilla and heat it in the microwave for a burrito. Kids will eat it either way.

I can wrap other things in a tortilla too, like tuna and cheese or a bunch of veggies with avocado and cheese (we don't eat much meat) and heat in the micro.

My kids like lentil tacos. I make the lentils in 5 min the night before or the day of and I warm them in the micro, we add lettuce, cheese and tomatoes to the shells as well.

My kids like:
Salad bar (I put out green salad and have the fixings ready - they like chick peas, tuna salad, chopped veg, nuts, marinated lentils, couscous)
Pasta (I've precooked it so I just heat it up in some warm water or the micro)
Scrambled eggs

I often add steamed edamame to my meals if I'm looking for extra green and protein.

Good luck! After school activities makes family life so hard!!

Back in the soccer until late years (and there were many of those) I would make whatever dinner I wanted and plop in the crock pot on warm so that it would be all ready to go when got home-that way I wouldn't be tied to only crock pot meals. If I needed pasta or rice as a side, I would start it as soon as we walked in the door and it would be ready by the time everyone got settled.

It worked well for us, and saved me from having the same meals over and over again.

You could also double your recipes when you do have time to cook and freeze the extras to reheat on the busier nights.