After reading the lunch box school trip conversation

[angela72]

What do you all put in your child's lunch box. My DD is about to start school in September and I am now starting to think about it! I can only get her to eat white bread - but I do buy bakery bread for her sandwiches. All ideas greatly appreciated.

Angela

[KBear]

DD has a granary roll with cheese and cucumber or ham and cucumber, slices of red pepper, four cherry tomatoes, a bottle of water, a cereal bar and a nectarine or grapes or strawberries.

[ChasingRabbits]

I don't cos he is still pre-school.
But what you do is ignore all the sanctomonious crap on here, and give her a reasonably healthy balanced diet.
Have you tried hovis 'best of both' if you want wholemeal? haven't myself but solves the problem.

[Feistybird]

Mine only has packed lunch one day a week, tomorrow it's cream chees and ham bagel, 2 slices of maltloaf with butter, yogurt, pot of strawberries, pot of grapes, a babybel, a treat size choc bar and a drink.

On other days, she gets carrot sticks, cake, breadsticks and so on, but as it's only once a week, I don't need to change the menu too often!

[WideWebWitch]

brown bread sandwich, with peanut butter
apple
smoothie
assorted fruit (strawberries, raspberries, plums, bananas)
organic cereal bar
yoghurt sometimes
water

And chasing rabbits, just because you don't agree doesn't make it 'sanctimonious crap'

[nooka]

What do you give her if you have a cold lunch? I'd go for that as guidance really. My two get a sandwich/roll or pita with ham/chicken/turkey or cheese, a bag of crisps, pot of salad (two or three of carrots/peppers/tomatoes/cucumber), small cake and a couple of fruit and a carton of fruit juice. They are both quite big eaters. Try doing a few picnic type lunches and seeing what she enjoys, and how much she needs. That will also give you an idea of what sort of packaging she can cope with. For example we don't do yogurt because it always ended up everywhere, and they always lost the spoons.

[UberCodofWashingFame]

.....cue another 30 million details of under 10s luncboxes............

[KBear]

Watch out that peanut butter might be banned in schools because of allergies though - you might get a note about that. Shame because so many kids love it but some kids are very allergic.

[Feistybird]

look, it's more interesting than bloody spin cycles!!

[UberCodofWashingFame]

as IF

spin cycles on the table att he G8 this year

[KBear]

piss off then cod

[UberCodofWashingFame]

three points
fixed penalty
( ponders utilty of asbo for a bear)

[Feistybird]

LOL at G8

[Feistybird]

stun-gun the bear

[KBear]

Bears are exempt from ASBOs.

[UberCodofWashingFame]

"anti socal bears order"
fgs

[DumbledoresGirl]

Angela, just give her what you know she will eat. I can't believe anyone worries about other parent's opinions of their children's lunchboxes. Mine now have school dinners but when they ate packed lunches, I used to get cross when they didn't eat it all - and I gave them far less than any of the lists so far posted here. Ds2, particularly, was notorious for not eating his banana ( the only fruit he will eat). I just found all I wanted was for there to be an empty lunchbox at the end of the day so relented and only gave bananas occasionally and compromised at other times with fruit yoghurts.

So that is what I felt was important: that what I prepared got eaten; not what other mums thought of my choices. FWIW most children in the real world seem to eat white bread, crisps and a drink.

[DumbledoresGirl]

oh and I know it should be parents' before the grammar brigade start!

[KBear]

My DD is a big eater, I give her want she likes, just happens to be healthy!

[PanicPants]

best of both, but tell her it's white

[DumbledoresGirl]

Oh yes and mine eat the Kingsmill equivalent of Best of Both.