Lunch box ideas please!

[Muddlingthroughtoo]

My children are fussy little buggers , does anyone have any healthy ideas for school lunches? Or not just healthy but any different ideas? I'm sure they get sick of ham sandwiches and yoghurts!

[FeedMeAndTellMeImPretty]

Following!

I bought Annabel Karmel's lunchbox book when mine were little but most of the ideas in there are a bit of a faff and still ended up in the bin!

I have bento boxes to make things a bit more interesting, cutting sandwiches into shapes, moulding boiled eggs into shapes, cute little forks for eating tiny pots of cutted up pear etc. It's just so. much. work!

[Muddlingthroughtoo]

Never even thought of boiled eggs! See, helpful already!

[InTheDessert]

Sandwiches - but vary from ham!!! Cheese, egg, tuna, chicken. I even throw in the occasional jam or Marmite. Peanut butter if allowed.
Cucumber, pepper, cherry tomatoes, carrots all chopped up. Maybe with a small dollop of humous or soft cheese.
Cubes of cheese - or babybel / cheese strings if the kids get near the trolly.
Cold chicken drum sticks.
I've got some mini pizzas for tomorrow - supermarket was selling a box of precooked pizzas today.
Crackers, cheese cubes and grapes.
Vary the fruit - grapes, pineapple rings, cored and quartered apples, quartered oranges, satsumas, melon slices, berries.
Mine usually get a cereal bar, as biscuits etc are frowned upon. However home made flapjack didn't get frowned at today, apparently.

[FeedMeAndTellMeImPretty]

And mini packs of everything - I know it's not environmentally friendly but a mini pot of houmous or Philadelphia to dip things in is so much easier than having to rinse out tiny little pots to reuse. I do save the mini pots that come with chutney in from the takeaway but anything I can buy ready done is a lifesaver at 11pm when I'm off to bed and realise I haven't done lunches! I'd also recommend making more sandwiches than you need so you get a day off making them! I made 6 last night for my 3 DCs today and tomorrow so I get a night off! I also put some mini sausage rolls in the oven with dinner so they'll be in the fridge for snacks and lunches over the next few days.

[Muddlingthroughtoo]

Wow, that is really helpful thankyou! X