Packed lunch in secondary school.

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My son has started taking packed lunch .

It seems so processed . 😳

What do you put in your secondary age lunch

My 13 year old makes her own

Changes..sometimes chicken,flatbread with avocado,sometimes pasta or soup or shitty white bread and plastic ham 😂😂😂😂

I always had very basic
Wrap or sandwich - usually either ham/chicken and lettuce (definitely not egg or tuna - it doesn't age well!)
Crisps - chipsticks or quavers
A couple of pieces of portable fruit
Sliced cucumber/pepper
Frube
Chocolate biscuit (Penguin/Oreos/Blue Ribbond
Babybel
Flavoured Water

I am aware I ate like a six year old though

Ds has

Cheese wrap or cheese sandwich
Tomatoes
Pepper
Rice cakes
Biscuit
Smoothie

Soup or beans in a flask

Tub of chicken salad or pasta salad

Bread roll with various fillings

Cheese and oatcakes

Plus fruit / veg sticks, rice cakes, raisins etc

Well he won't eat the sandwiches I make him so a snack attack a yogurt\or some other snack and drink it pisses me off because I put money on his account but the only at half an hour for lun c h for the entire school! and he doesn't have time to buy his lunch

A ham wrap
Carrot and cucumber sticks
A chocolate biscuit or similar
A carton of fruit juice

Wholemeal ham with cold meat or houmous
Water
Fruit
Biscuit or crisps.

Wholemeal wrap that should say

He also makes his own now. We still make his primary school age brother’s.

Ham/cheese sandwich
Crisps
Orange juice
Biscuits
Banana/apple/grapes
More often than not it's only the sandwich and juice that don't come home again....

Mine took sandwich ( thick brown bread ) with whatever they fancied that morning, crisps, yogurt, I used to back a lot so some sort of cake and a banana just about every day for there entire school life

Thank you for your replies.

Both of my secondary age DC take a packed lunch consisting of :

Sandwich/Wrap/Flatbread and filling
Crisps
Rice cake bar
Small pack of oat cakes
Couple of pieces of fruit
Bottle of water

Sandwich, yogurt, cakes, piece of fruit and a drink. Sometimes DS has sausage roll instead of sandwich.

Ham wrap or sausage roll, grapes, biscuit item, yazoo strawberry milk- dd

Sandwich, grapes/strawberries, biscuit item, flavoured water - ds

Does noone do stuff like me?

Baked Salmon or Tuna and noodles
Quinoa salads
Giant coucous salads
Tuna pasta

So many ham wraps. Am I making my DS a freak?

@JC4PMPLZ personally I wouldn’t give fish because of the smell. Mine do sometimes have spinach and pine nut pasta salad. They don’t like cous cous.

Mine wouldn't eat fish or cous cous. Don't think I've ever had quinoa tbh.

My Ds eats his standing up outside 🙄. So it has to be finger food .

I am trying to balance what he will eat with healthy food . He often eats the heathier stuff at home after school

Marmite on white bread - nothing that smells, especially not the horror of fish! satsumas, brioche, blue riband, penguin, crisps, that kind of easy to transport stuff, no bananas, flask of coffee.

DD makes her own. Though when I say ‘makes’ ... bagel thin with a cheese slice (proper cheese at least, not processed) and no butter, packet of hula hoops, one or two sweet things. The alternative is probably a slice of pizza bought at break time when the queues are actually manageable.

She is ribbed, I think affectionately, about her devotion to the cheese bagel.

My dss take a sandwich, usually ham and lettuce with mayo, a piece of fruit, a choc biscuit and a packet of crisps. Not great but not awful and I make sure they have lots of veg at tea time.

My DS only gets 30 minutes for lunch and wants something he can eat quickly as he wants to go and play football. I usually do a wrap or sandwich, crisps, fruit, biscuit, yoghurt and a drink.

Am I making my DS a freak?
Of course not!!! Just different kids have different palattes, thats all!

Sandwich fillings (use 50/50 brown rolls) - tuna or egg mayo (make enough to last 5 days), salmon and cream cheese, mackerel pate, cheddar and tomato, occasionally jam. Some cherry tomatoes/sliced cucumber/peppers. A banana and satsuma or grapes. Then a cereal bar/sesame bar or one of those packs of dried fruit & seeds. Crisps only once a week, maybe popcorn once too.
Am going to think about the pasta/cous cous salads, think they'd be popular.