To ask for summer holiday lunch ideas for kids!!

Just buy a bag of potatoes, baked then all up and then freeze them. Much cheaper!

Tuna and pasta always used to go down well on holidays.

Fish finger pittas always went down well here. Add some iceberg and grated cheese and whatever sauce they like. Swap for sausage or tuna or leftover meat.

We mostly have sandwiches with some salad and fruit, plus crisps/nuts/dried fruit/yoghurt/biscuit or cake etc depending on how hungry.

I don't see what's wrong with loads of sandwiches personally, we just mix up the fillings e.g. : Quorn slices, large variety of soft and hard cheeses, boiled egg, peanut butter and banana...

Otherwise occasionally we may have a tin of soup with toast / microwave frozen waffles with baked beans and cheese on top / baked beans or refried beans on toast / eggy bread/ dippy eggs and toast/ cheese and crackers/ veg or cheese and onion pasty, or veggie sausage roll.

OP just bake them next time the oven is on and freeze them. Much cheaper.

If they like a little spice a red lentil dahl is very easy to make and they can dip in a pitta or naan or chapati.

Sandwiches
wraps
toasties
Jacket potato’s are quick if you have a microwave
soup, make a big homemade one each week and freeze some to rotate flavour each week
omelettes, scrambled egg , dippy egg
make homemade sausage rolls with the kids
ditto homemade pizza could do pitta or on a wrap
make an big tomato sauce and freeze in portions for pasta, add whatever meat veg you’ve got in the fridge
filo pastry-make pasty, tarts etc
leftovers from the night before? I turn chilli into burritos, fill wraps with curry and toast. Leftover Sunday dinner meat with ready made mash and gravy for ease
homemade lunchables

I always have frozen veg and cucumber etc so they will get a portion of that as well as some fruit, and of course a beige meal goes down a treat as well

Check out websites like Tesco, Asda and aldi for recipes. I also get a lot of Inspiration from gousto, I just look at the recipes and replicate them rather than buy a box

This weeks lunched for my teens are
Toastie with what ever filling is available,
Mini all day breakfast (bacon, sausage, beans, hash browns and eggs)
Chicken baguette
Fish finger sandwiches
cheese/meat Sandwiches
Pitta Pizza
Potatoe Waffle and chilli
Jacket potato with leftovers (whatever we have from tea night before).
They'll add fruit, yoghurts, salad depending on how hungry they are.

We don’t go for that much variety at lunch times! Life is too short and the kids are too picky!

one thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet that my eldest likes is savoury pancakes! He always has his with ham and cheese but again loads of options for fillings.

Exactly. Sandwiches, fruit, yoghurt repeat. Nothing wrong with that.

Spanish omelette

Shakshuka

Soup & garlic bread or home made cheese scones

Asian style soup with noodles and left over chicken and some greenery or grated carrots etc

Buddha bowls to use up left over vegetables, chicken, ham, plus any salad items

Croque Monsieur

Soup
Quesadillas
Homemade egg Mcmuffin (English muffin with fried/poached egg and a slice of Red Leicester)
Bacon roll
Sausage in a finger roll
All day breakfast
Sausage rolls/pork pie
Chicken satay
Charcuterie
Pesto pasta
Toasties
Noodles
Greek salad
Scotch eggs
Quiche
Houmous, pitta and crudites
Part baked baguette etc with baked camembert

I just try and vary the carbohydrate/bread type - wraps, baguette, panini, ciabatta, focaccia etc

This is making me feel much more relaxed on the sandwiches front!

Would they eat a Spanish omelette? You can chop up some tinned potatoes or use up leftover roasties, chop some spring onions and pour over 4-6 beaten , seasoned eggs and bake. Add cheese if they like. Cut into squares to serve over a few days.

We do sandwiches mainly, loads of adults have sandwiches everyday at work so I don’t see the issue. Just do lots of different fillings.

You don’t have to be serving up chef quality food. Just rotate wraps, pitta pizza, beans on toast, sandwiches, baked potatoes, soup etc. Maybe if they eat meat, cook up some chicken legs at the start of the week to serve with dips and veg sticks.

Eggs of any sort.
Cheese, biscuits, cucumber and apple.
Hummus
Cottage cheese is an absolute winner with my 3 yr old.
Sausage roll/vegan if passing a Greggs
Tuna is a favourite too- Hackett potato or in a sandwich

Sardine pate sounds delicious!!!

My kids like oat muffins. I might make scones with them too - and then they can have them warmed with butter and jam.

Noodles or fried rice with sweetcorn, peppers and a fried egg. Mine like them spicy with soy sauce.

Grilled cheese or fried egg sandwiches

Jacket potatoes (although I rarely do these as one won’t eat them and I refuse to make separate meals)

Pizza tortillas (wrap with tomato puree, cheese, ham or pepperoni, bit of oregano & pop in the oven until crispy & melty; you can add frozen sweetcorn too and I imagine mushrooms but mine wouldn’t eat those)

Same here! DD4.5 will be having the same lunches as always...

Wrap/roll/sandwich with ham/cheese/tuna and lettuce
Portion of fruit -whatever is in, banana, satsuma, apple, berries
2-3 veggie portions- cucumber/pepper/gherkins/beetroot/sugar snap peas/tomato/carrots etc
Dip of hummus/taramasalata/aioluli/Baba ganoush

Maybe some crisps or biscuits or bit of if cake as well

I had sandwiches for lunch every day as a kid, it's fine!

Your lunches sound fine! Maybe double up on di net quantities sometimes so they can have leftovers?

Mine tend to eat what they have for pack lunch during school.

Pancakes

This.

A lot of the time we're out for the morning/lunch anyway, so take packed lunch, which is pretty much just sandwiches etc...

At home, we'll have baked beans, scrambled eggs, shop bought Spanish omelette, etc.