to think this is a perfectly good sized lunch?

Never mind if their lunch isn't substantial enough!

Fast forward 10 or 15 years and you lovely DIL's will be on here moaning that their DH's are incapable of making their own sandwiches because their darling Mil has always done it for them.

I used to have this discussion with my mum. She wasn't particularly physically active (very busy but not much physical stuff) and had a small appetite. I was cycling at least 10 miles a day, walking the dogs and working at a stables, so hard physical work. I made my own lunch and often did the shopping for it but otherwise the conversation would go like this: Me: I can't find much for lunch, do I need to go out and get stuff?

Mum: No, look, there are these oat bars

Me: OK, and what do I eat after 10am?

Mum: the oat bars are quite filling

Me: no. 3 donuts eaten in quick succession are filling. An oat crunchy bar is not going to touch the sides

People vary a lot and teenage boys do seem to have hollow legs.

I am always amazed by people who confuse RTFT with RTFT

Ie I haven't RTFT as opposed to RTFT

Hint: read can be prounounced "red" or "reed"

Warburtons white toastie bread is full of preservatives and can barely be given the name of bread!

I've found that Warburtons white toastie bread is the best for freezing/ defrosting without going weird.

All these kids/teens who eat 3 times the amount in the OP, how do they find the time?

I've actually now got a permanently dislocated jaw as a result of reading all this stuff!

I'm generally just astounded at the number of people who are astounded by mundane things!

This actually seems like a big lunch to me (depending on the size of the roll).
My teenage son (18 now) usually has a sandwich and a packet of crisps for his lunch. He's never been a big eater though.
It's usually just one sandwich/roll with one other thing plus a drink in our house.
I wouldn't freeze sandwiches either. Bread is fine in the freezer but I would defrost it first before making the sandwich. Frozen sandwiches reminds me of Icelands and their party selection.

I'm also astounded (I have a low astonishment threshold) at all the people dissing frozen bread and rolls! I routinely freeze bread and never notice any difference.

Do people eat 2 rolls?

Err,yes, my 14 year old ds does every day! Doesn't have lunch until 1.45pm so he's ravenous by then, plus a banana or apple, biscuit and some grapes not a pick on him as he plays tons of sport.

I'm astounded too. My son's packed lunch throughout primary school was one peanut butter sandwich (two slices of thick sliced wholemeal bread, bit of Flora, thick spreading of peanut butter), one Penguin biscuit, one apple and a bottle of water or sometimes a small carton of apple juice. He ate it all, as far as I knew, and was not ravenous at home time. He was perfectly healthy and active, and is now 21 and 6' tall. He never had the huge appetite that so many people here seem to assume all children and teenagers have.

I used to go on school trips with the class as a parent helper and saw first hand that many, many children with huge packed lunches did not eat all, or even most of, the most nutritious bits, ie the sandwich and the fruit. They ate the crisps and the biscuits and left the rest.

I'd never freeze prepared rolls or sandwiches, bread that has been frozen isn't nice, you can't put salad in and they take all of 30s to make in the morning.

I'm astounded at the amount some children have in their lunch boxes.

Nowhere near enough. As for freezing sandwiches that's rank. If you tried to serve me a sandwich that had been frozen you'd be wearing it I'm afraid!

I think that is fine, my DP would eat similar maybe less just the roll.

My dd's would not manage all that.

Teenagers eat more than adults - they're growing. How about fruit yoyos or something if they won't eat 'real' fruit? Or a flapjack?

That would do my 7 year old. My teens would eat that x3 each

Meant to say that would be enough for me.

Just read a poster saying her 4 yo eats 4 frubes... huh? Why would you let a 4 year old eat 4 frubes?

Why aren't people freezing rolls? In packed lunch days I used to but a massive bag of rolls and make them up as ham or cheese then freeze. Put them in lunch box and by lunch they are fresh and ready to eat. Perfect for busy mornings. Also freezing frubes acts like a ice thingy you put in cool bags. By lunch they are also ready to eat and avoids warm yoghurt (yuk).

Doesn't look much for a teen though.

That would be a perfectly fine lunch for me (naice yoghurt instead of frube though) but wouldn't touch the sides for my active, skinny-as-they-come 11yo though. A typical lunch for her might be ham sarnie, packet of crisps, some grated cheese, flapjack, maybe something extra like a yoghurt or bit of hummus, and two pieces of fruit (although one piece of fruit and crisps eaten in break).

I'd want a bag of crisps and a banana with that too.

But YANBU, it'll do them right enough and if they want more they can sort extras themselves.

For me, yes that would be fine. For my 14, nearly 15 year old, that wouldn't be enough.