what's in your Childs lunchbox?

[FunnysInLaJardin]

So my children have;

ham wrap
yoghurt
cereal bar
apple
mini cheddars or crisps
water

This to me is entirely normal, however some folk seem to disagree.

Straw poll really as to what folk feed their DC for school lunch

Cheese sandwich/wrap
Chicken tikka pieces
Crisps
Fruit (usually berries or a peach)
Cheesestring
Bottle of squash or carton of juice
Flapjack/cookie/cake

Ham sandwich, yoghurt, piece of fruit, small pack of mini breadsticks, fruit shoot hydro style (but supermarket copy)

Not dissimilar to yours op!

2 year old-

Ham sandwich
Slices of cheese
Banana malt loaf
Strawberries
Grapes
Blueberries
A few mini cheddars

Jam sandwich or cheese spread
Cheese string or two
Mini cheddars or wotsits
Grapes or melon pieces (occasionally strawberries)
Chocolate or strawberry milk shake or apple juice or smoothie
A wedge of cucumber (if I remember)
Refillable water bottle

Sometimes fridge raiders or a pepperami or a couple of mini sausage rolls or pork pies too.

Looked like a veggie lunch. My kids definitely aren't veggie.

Cream cheese or tuna wrap
Veg sticks
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Pack of crisps
Fruit
A biscuit / cereal bar
Cocktail sausages

She usually only eats 50% but it's a different 50% each time so we preserve with a big choice to try to make sure it balances out!!

Sandwich/wrap/roll/pitta
Tuna/chicken/pastrami/ham/beef/pork/cheese/hummus/salami with cucumber or lettuce
Or
Pasta salad/couscous/rice salad usually with chicken/falafel/samosa
Or
Homemade pasty or sausage roll
Or
Crackers and cheese

Pot of chopped fruit/pot of chopped veg olives and gherkins

Cheese cubes/baby bel/yoghurt

Bear yo-yo/cheddars/1/2 a bag of crisps/Oreo/jelly/cake/Jaffa cake/gold bar

Chicken wrap
Banana
Yog tube
Cucumber slices/small apple

If we put anything even vaguely treat-ish she eats the treat and ignores the fruit/cucumber. She's 8.

Cheese/tuna mayo/chicken curry mayo/salami & brown sauce/smoked cheese and salami sandwich

Fromage Frais yoghurt

Cereal bar

Apple

Tub of raisins

Dilute squash

This child has recently been diagnosed with add though and the medication for that has caused a loss of appetite so I'm a bit unsure about what to do!

Ds -
12 mini breadsticks
2 Dairlyea triangles
Pouch yoghurt

Dd only has packed lunches on trips. She has
Peanut butter sandwich, wholemeal bread.
Pot of strawberries.
Pot of cucumber and cherry Tom's.
A mini pork pie or scotch egg.
A small packet of popcorn.
Some sort of cheese - cubes/babybel/string.

Oh and a bottle of water!

Son (14) sandwich, apple, mini sausages, biscuit bar and grapes.
Daughter (12) two kinder bueno. It's all she can eat at school.

Bottle of water
Sandwich (usually chicken)
Yoghurt
Berries
Another fruit or veg sticks
And then either crisps or a dip with mini breadsticks or sometimes dried seaweed

Chicken salad wrap
Strawberries/apple/mango
Cheese puffs or yoghurt

Things that bug me in young children's lunch boxes.....
A whole packet of crisps....why???
Those lunchable things.....why?!?
Chocolate spread sandwiches..... why!!!!?
Bloody grapes not cut.
Fruit shoots bring me irrational rage.

I put in-
Sandwich
2 fruits (one is snack)
Chocolate bar
Carton of juice
Yogurt
Cucumber sticks

On my last ever week of lunchbox making! Dd will have peanut butter or cheese sandwiches. Chunk of cucumber/cherry tomatoes, apple, mini malt loaf/cereal bar. Crisps or popcorn.

..... mini sausages/scotch eggs/other mini items depending on what's in the fridge

@sadbones like your style, I confess it's very me 🤣

A round of sandwiches, an apple, a satsuma, a yoghurt, and a packet crisps. Oh and a three bottles of fruit water.

Lucky you GeraniumPink I hate making packed lunches. Don't know why but it's such a chore.

Chicken or cheese sandwich
Yoghurt or cheese string
Sliced cucumber
Fruit such as grapes, strawberries, blueberries or melon.
Once or twice a week instead of yoghurt or cheese string I will put a bag of mini biscuits.

DS7 will have cream cheese and chicken or beef. Sometimes he'll just have cream cheese or occasionally egg. I try and limit ham to once per week at lunch time maybe twice depending on dinner plans. He'll also have half a cucumber, plus 2 or 3 vegetables and a piece of fruit e.g. in broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, sugarsnaps raw. Plus something like 2 babybels or a couple of cheddar sticks (cut from the block) and sometimes boiled eggs (hen or quail if I'm feeling whimsical!)

DD4 will usually have cream cheese with half a cucumber on the side. She's not fond of meat in sandwiches but will eat say the chicken pieces separate to a sandwich. She has similar to DS but will also have a handful of nuts and seeds. She will eat similar veggies to DS but prefers berries, grapes, melon. She's also fond of eating dry cereal like Shreddies or Cheerios.

Both will have things like hummus with breadsticks as a snack between meals.

In my dc school, which is not generally very strict, they are not allowed nuts, chocolate or crisps and only allowed water to drink. So my dc have a sandwich (ham, chicken or cheese) or couscous salad and a plain (rich tea) biscuit or plain rice cake or some cherry tomatoes or if I've something homemade and plain that might be allowed they take that. It is often only half eaten.

I object to this level of policing though because it sanctions processed food: sausage rolls, ham, salami over anything homemade which may have one of the forbidden sins in it but is overall more healthy. Can't do much about the nut ban though which limits nutritional snacks. Just as well it's only a 6 hour day

Dd8
Some form of sandwhich/wrap/pitta bread
Fruit
Yoghurt choob thing,
'Treat' snack so anything from biscuits, mini chedars, packet of popcorn, flapjack, cereal bar or a little muffin etc sometimes mini sausages or other picnic items.