Another lunch box thread! Hooray! How could I cut down on sugar for dd?

[allhailtheaubergine]

Dd is 5. She is at school from 7.30am to 2pm. They have three snack breaks in a school day. She has a very sweet tooth.

At the moment I send...

9am snack: Yogurt / rice pudding or banana with milk to drink.

11am snack: Cold pasta or rice salad, or a cream cheese wrap, often with a yogurt or yoghurt drink. Water.

1.30pm lunch: Cheese sandwich and an apple or a pear. Water.

I thought I could replace the morning snack with a little pot of porridge with berries? She likes dairy and fruit - sugar.

Any new ideas for me?

[seeker]

Looks ok to me but could her 9.00 snack be all fruit - banana and some grapes with milk, maybe?

[allhailtheaubergine]

It's a lot of fruit. I'm never really sure how much fruit is good. I'm thinking of her teeth more than anything else. She is fit and healthy and slim and active.

[PlumSykes]

My DD is 5 too. She loves little chunks of cheese and a couple of crackers as a snack. Or even just the cheese, if I'm rushed to get it done. Thankfully, I only have to provide 1 a day, not 3!

[allhailtheaubergine]

Yes, 3 is a bit of a faff. I do chunks of cheese sometimes. Cheese and cackers would work for the 11.00 snack maybe. I dunno, it's a minefield. Too salty. Too sugary. Not enough protein. Pfft. In my day I had a marmite sandwich, a penguin biscuit and an orange that I never ever ate. And squash. All in a My Little Pony lunch box.

[seeker]

Don't think there's too much fruit, is there? How about some carrots and gree beans sometimes?

And why not a mqrmite sandwich and a penguin buscuit?

[PlumSykes]

Does she eat hummus? Little pot with some breadsticks/carrots could be good.

[PlumSykes]

Just remembered DD's fave ever snack is little cocktail sausages.

[MrsCog]

How about plain yoghurt (like activia or something) with fruit stired in? Or you could stew fruit and mix that in - that way you can decrease the sugar over time. To be honest, I don't think what you send sounds very bad anyway - depending on what she has at other times. And yes - I am from the plain sandwich, chocolate biscuit and untouched piece of fruit in a my little pony lunchbox era! I think a lot of the hysteria around lunchbox food is way ott!

[allhailtheaubergine]

No to meat. And she doesn't like hummous (fussy blighter - ds eats kilos of the stuff) but I could do philly dip with carrot and cucumber or breadstick battons

[GHAHSTLYGHOULYpants]

raw veg crudites
cream cheese
another type of dip--baba ganoush, guacamole, almond butter?
bread sticks
rice cakes
nut/seed mix in a pot

[allhailtheaubergine]

Maybe I am being a bit over fussy. We had a recent trip to the dentist and I'm all of a tizz about fruit acid and sugar.

[littleducks]

I don't think it is too much fruit. I am assuming you are not in the UK due to the timing but here the children are given free fruit daily and I then put some in lunchbox as well.