Is this ok for a lunch box?

[TheInvestigator]

I always struggle with lunch boxes for the kids because they prefer things like soup etc but I'm trying!

They are 5 and 7. Is this in the region of OK?

Cheese and lettuce sandwich on wholemeal bread.
Little tub of strawberries.
A rice cake.
Little tub of popcorn (half each of a 63 calorie crisp packet size).
An apple.

Mine get:

A "main" - sandwich, wrap, slice of pizza, homemade savoury muffin etc. Always filled with protein. Sometimes DD1 asks for pasta salad instead.
A dairy - usually yoghurt (and yes it is with an H!!) or sometimes a babybel / cheese string etc.
A fruit
A savoury - popcorn, low cal crisps, cocktail sausages, egg, cucumber, tomatoes etc.

Chocolate treat on Fridays and on after school sports club days I'll chuck in a cereal bar / soreen or similar.

I picked up some sesame rye crispbreads and some pancakes for the kids to try, so can replace the rice cakes with those if they go down well!

I’m always astounded by how little some people put in their children’s lunchboxes and that they don’t have exceptionally hungry children after school tbh. My DC are very tall but definitely not overweight and they would laugh at me if I just put a few breadsticks and vegetables in their lunchboxes.

They get a dairylea dunker, yoghurt, tub of berries/grapes/cucumber/tomatoes/carrot sticks/cheese cubes, piece of fruit, packet of raisins or a bear yo-yo and a packet of crisps or biscuits depending on the day. Still complain that they’re staaaaaarrrrvvvviiiinnngggg after school. We do walk to and from school atm which is a good 3 miles for them (6 for me 🙄) so maybe it’s that.

Have tried giving pots of pasta and they used to have sandwiches but never ate them.

I’m amazed how many ppl are allowed to send in crisps or chocolate, they are not allowed in our lunches at all!! @outpinked mine don’t tend to have too much as they finish school at 1.20 and then go to Afterschool until 3.30 where they get toast and fruit as a snack at half 2.

Children take soup to school and lunchtime staff will help them open it. The issue for me, is could they avoid spilling it?

Yogurt/Yoghurt

Oxford spell it yogurt with yoghurt as an alternative and state that it's from the Turkish yogurt

Chambers spell it yoghurt with yogurt as an alternative and state that it's from the Turkish yoghurt.

So take your pick. In my head it's yoghurt but the branded stuff tends not to have an H now.

My 2 year old takes-

Ham sandwich on one slice of bread
Handful of pea crisps
Box of raisins
A few slices of cheese
Fruit- usually strawberries and grapes
A flapjack bar of mini malt loaf.

He usually eats it all!

Will your five year old be able to eat that much in the short amount of time they have to eat at school, my four year old would struggle to eat that much in the twenty minutes he’s given, a pasta salad and a squeeze yoghurt is all about all he manages or maybe half a wrap and apple slices.

He eats it all; he saves the apple for afternoon reading though (they have story time for the younger ones and independent reading for the older ones directly after lunch and are allowed to eat fruit).

It doesn't take him long to eat a sandwich and soft fruit, yogurt, popcorn doesn't take him long!