To just not send in a packed lunch?

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Unpackedlunch · 19/12/2023 09:35

Ds is 3, started at a preschool in September. All fine, except it’s a packed lunch and ds doesn’t eat it. Every time he goes I send him with a sandwich, fruit and crisps and every time he comes back with the crisps eaten and nothing else.

I definitely don’t want to be That Parent and the staff are lovely and I don’t want to risk antagonising them, but I can’t see the point of wasting food. It’s also one more thing to do and I know it doesn’t take long but that’s not the point. Would it really be unreasonable to just not bother? It looks neglectful I know but equally what’s the point of sending in food for the sake of it?

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Seeline · 19/12/2023 09:38

Can you send something different?
Cheese and crackers
Cold pasta and chicken
A small roll with some cocktail sausages
Some carrot sticks and cucumber
A yogurt

Jelly0naplate · 19/12/2023 09:37

YABU, it's more than the food, it's the sitting down as a group to eat and social skills etc
And you never know he may just starting eating the sarnie and other bits at some point sat with the others. He won't have that opportunity if you don't send the lunch.

Packed lunches don't have to mean sandwiches, try and mis it up with bits of stuff he does like, even if that's cold chicken nuggets or similar.

Hipnotised · 19/12/2023 09:37

Try some other foods? Pasta, sushi, wraps- there must be something he likes.

Crisps are not a good choice.

FloweryName · 19/12/2023 09:37

He will never learn to eat his sandwich at nursery if he isn’t given a
sandwich to eat at nursery.

Jacfrost · 19/12/2023 09:37

Of course you can't send him in with no lunch 🤣

Sirzy · 19/12/2023 09:37

Why not just change it to things that he will eat?

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