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

Sandwiches don't always get eaten, so my DS will have a tub of hummus with cucumber/pepper or pesto pasta. He's also been known to have a prawn salad if we have leftover prawns or sometimes a 'picky lunch' chunks of cheese, slices of ham, cherry toms etc.
Always a yoghurt/frube and fruit of some description, a drink and a cereal bar.
Never crisps, chocolate or biscuits.

Yes we stopped regular ham/sausages/pork pies on the advice of our friend who is an oncologist.

This is hilarious op I was thinking exactly the same prior to your update. However if you had worded it differently by asking what people thought of your kids lunch you would of got jumped on by the cous cous and avocado squad!!!

Why then on a previous lunch box type thread was the mother roundly condemned for giving her DC just what we have demonstrated here to be an entirely normal lunch

Not sure which thread but if it was the one where the TA was commenting on the lunch it was sandwich, crisps, 2 chocolate things and a possibly a yogurt.
Not really a typical lunch if your taking this thread as evidence.

Sandwich - ham or chicken
Cucumber/pepper sticks
Grapes/melon
Cheerios/banana flapjack/half bag of hula hoops
Sometimes cocktail sausages or sausage roll

My dd insists on the same thing every day...sandwich, veg sticks and something sweet like a mini cake, biscuit bar.

Ds hates sandwiches so I give him cooked chicken, veg sticks, breadsticks, cake/biscuit and an apple which he never eats and stays in the lunch box all week!

DD has
A small portion of Pasta / pesto
Yogurt tube
Drink (flavoured water)
Mini Soreen loaf
Box raisins / apricots

Sometimes a bagel with chicken or tuna mayo, sometimes crisps.

Her School has a no nuts policy and no fizzy drinks, sweets or chocolate bars (unless it has a biscuit base like a Penguin ).

People who add up the sugar in fruit have massive food issues and there is no point talking to them about it!

I don't pack kids yoghurt these days, they are kind of crummy but that is not why. The why is once you've seen and smelt the carnage of a yoghurt in a roughly handled lunch bag; exploded all over the kids lunch before they even ate it.

Grim.

Mine get:
Sandwich tuna/ham/cheese
Cut up fruit, usually grapes strawberry and melon kind of combo
Cucumber/tomatoes
Mini-pepperami or similar.
Popcorn/mini cheddars etc

Too much processed meat probably but not the end of the world.

DS(7) has:
Roll with cheese/tuna/chicken/ham
Yoghurt drink or squeezy yoghurt
Cheese string or cubes of cheese
Rice cakes or popcorn
Chopped up fruit apple/pear/grapes/strawberries

Sometimes he has a pepperami/cold meats/cocktail sausages and sometimes sliced pepper/cucumber/tomatoes instead of fruit. Occasionally I’ll stick a boiled egg in if I’ve got some that need using up.

Mine have dinners but they have a packed tea before brownies. They have ham sandwiches, rice pudding, tub of blueberries or some soft fruit, maybe a cheese string. Water and cucumber sticks

3 and 5 year old here:

Ham or chicken bread roll
Cucumber sticks
Blue ribbon
Soreen
Packet of crisps
Apple
Strawberries
3 year old will have a banana as well.

Water to drink or if we're on holiday Capri Sun as a treat to encourage them to drink more.

They have nursery/school dinner, so these pack ups are for picnic days out with us, which are usually very active walking/biking type days.

They'll eat the lot and more if I'd let them, but th

DD1 (6yo) gets:

A cheese and marmite sandwich (two slices of bread)
A mini babybel
A portion of veg (cucumber, pepper, carrots etc)
A portion of fruit (or possibly another portion of veg if my fruit bowl is looking manky)
Something sweet - a small pack of mini jammy dodgers, a fruit winder, something similar.

She doesn't eat yogurt, is very picky with her sandwich fillings and the school doesn't allow crisps. So her packed lunch lacks variety somewhat!

Mine have
Sandwich, wrap or bagel with chicken, cheese, salmon or tuna and a bit of salad it.
A piece of fruit
A biscuit snack type thing like kit kat or penguin

That’s all they want.

Cardboard with a skim of axle grease.
I small piece of sugar-free rubber.
A 1" piece of unwaxed dental floss.
All the water they can drink - I know it sounds indulgent, but that's the kinda gal I am.

Actually, whatever they are prepared to eat. This means something similar to OP for DS1 and a buttered pancake in lieu of the sandwich for DS2. It's that or starvation!

I always try and do a full gamut of the food groups. So ham sandwich; cheese dippers; yogurt, a fuit and vegetable sticks plus a treaty type thing- wotsits or chocolate buttons.

Sometimes I get a bit of variety in and last week DS1 ate a wrap with cream cheese and grated cheese which was amazingly versatile for him.

Whats I know! Which is why I put it in chat and asked the question, rather than invited criticism.

There are some seriously odd folk about when it comes to feeding ones DC!

I agree OP - I genuinely couldn't give a rats what people put in their kids lunchboxes.

My two have school dinners but schools been out since 30 June and now they're at summer camp I have to do a packed lunch each day.

Generally:
pasta or sandwich,
packet of crisps,
cereal bar
Snack pack (jello pot)
Mini sausages
Boiled egg

Not bothered about sugar content or lack of fruit or veg, fruit is eye watering lot expensive here and goes off very fast as it's too hot, and DS2 will only eat a banana at home under supervision.

Meh, I make them eat mountains of broccoli at dinner and hide zucchini in everything...

Ds has disordered eating. His packed lunch is generally his biggest meal of the day he takes the same every day -

A croissant
A pack of ready salted crisps (Asda’s own)
A bag of apple slices.
A bottle of strawberry water.

Cheese sandwich.
Two pieces of fruit - apple and peach
Mixed salad.

My DC insists on taking a packed lunch despite claiming not to like most stuff that normally goes in a packed lunch. I hate making packed lunch.
She has a sandwich (previously would only eat the supermarket tuna mayo sandwich filler, now doesn't like that anymore, has just discovered chicken pieces that come in a range of flavours), or snack pots of hummus with bread sticks and cucumber and pepper sticks (won't eat the pepper or cucumber but I continue to put them in anyway), tuna pasta salad (just pasta and peas with tuna and mayo stirred in when cold)
a pot of fruit or a banana
2 biscuits
crisps very rarely (once every 2-3 weeks and not always a full pack
carton of apple or pineapple juice

School doesn't police packed lunches at all except no nuts, so DC constantly complains that her friends all get chocolate spread sandwiches and crisps and 3 chocolate bars at a time and it's not fair that I don't let her have the same.

I limit it to 2 sweet things. I really couldn't give a stuff about counting sugar in carrots but yeah, I wouldn't serve fruit and yoghurt and a cereal bar in the same meal at home, so why put "3 puddings" in their lunch? I don't go round policing other people's lunch choices but this is our system.

It's how it all balances over the day or week that matters though.