What do you put it in packed lunches?

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My kids have always had school dinners, but when they go back next week the school aren’t providing them. So we have to send packed lunches. I have no clue. How much do you send? What do you send? What do you send it in?

One of my kids will eat everything I send, even if it’s too much. The other is a slow, picky and variable eater, who may well eat nothing. Both primary age.

I hate packed lunches. Mine goes off things in a weekly basis. It's like whack a mole finding stuff he likes. Hot food flask with pasta is a godsend though.

What have they been having for lunch at home?

Mine takes either a plain ham sandwich, plain ham wrap, or crackers and cheese.

Then fruit, crisps or Lidl mini cheddars, and a bun she's helped make.

Sometimes a frube type yogurt, sometimes not. And, occasionally, a fruit winder thing.

Usually a carton of juice because she doesn't drink much at school but will drink a full carton.

All goes in a Sistema lunch box with three compartments. & all put together by herself as she's more likely to eat it that way.

Plain ham wrap
Carton of apple juice
Cherry tomatoes
Yoghurt or a chocolate mousse, pot of joy type thing
Flapjack
Crisps
Apple

Pretty much the same every day.

Occasionally, if I’ve not got enough food in we will stop at the bakers and he gets a sausage roll or similar.

Thanks everyone At home they often have something warm, like a cheese toastie or a hot falafel wrap or leftovers from the night before. Then maybe snack a jacks or crisps or fruit or cherry tomatoes. It varies. But I think they need more food when they’re at school because they’re more active and also can’t just grab a snack if they need it?

I've completely forgotten!!! I know I use the sistema quaddie so now I just need to work out what I put in the compartments!!!

Ps: shamelessly placemarking for ideas!

Peanut butter sandwich or cheddar cheese wrap or crusty roll with cream cheese
Apple
Cucumber. cherry tomatoes, pepper
Crisps or crackers or cereal bar (usually eaten at break time I think)
Sometimes some dried apricots, raisins etc.

The apple always comes home and gets eaten after school. DD is 9 and has a great appetite but they don't get much time for lunch.

DS is 11 and not a fan of sandwiches. He gets soup, tomato pasta or veg couscous in a flask, or sometimes a crusty buttered roll in place of the sandwich.

htpps:www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4179017-Childrens-Packed-Lunches-What-Do-You-Include-in-Your-Dcs.

I started this thread yesterday. You'll probably find it useful too.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4179017-Childrens-Packed-Lunches-What-Do-You-Include-in-Your-Dcs.

I started this thread yesterday. You'll probably find it useful too.

Hopefully that will work.

Following for more ideas !
I’m in Ireland so it’s always packed lunches . I give 8 year old dd

Some kind of sandwich - ham sandwich/ ham roll/ plain roll, wrap with cheese / ham, ham sandwich, crackers with butter , sometimes a frankfurter with a bun and a sachet of ketchup

Fruit- pot of berries and a banana or a tub of melon and an apple etc

Some kind of yogurt - yo yo frube, yogurt pot

Some snack type food- covered raisins/ pretzels / cheese cubes/ tuc cracker / rice cake etc

There are no nuts allowed and also no crisps, choc, sweets,

For my nearly three year old - tub of fruit, jam sandwich and a yogurt

Jam sandwich
Small yoghurt/frube
Packet of crisps or a kitkat
Grapes or a satsuma
Handful of cheese crackers

Then an apple for morning break

Our standard is:

A sandwich (cheese or ham, nutella on a Friday)
A piece of fruit
Something else savory (e.g. cheese string if ham sandwich or cold sausage if cheese sandwich, possibly crisps but not every day)
Something sweet (like a mini roll or a club biscuit)
A drink

Food flasks are fab if you have the time to set it up in the morning and someone will help your 8 yo to open it if it sticks (they sometimes get vacuum sealed as the food cools a tiny bit).
Otherwise:

1. sandwich/wrap/flatbread (I've recently discovered the folded ones in Tesco and you literally just bung stuff into the middle: so easy!) with protein and veg in. Meat, cheese, cream cheese, fish and salad etc.
2. A mini pot of pasta salad and a spork
3. A piece of fruit
4. A cube/piece/string of cheese
5. Water, juice or milk ( if you can find plain UHT in small cartons)

Sometimes she gets 2 flatbreads and then a little salad of tomatoes and mozzarella instead of the pasta.

And a muffin or biscuit that usually gets eaten at break.

Cheddar and courgette savoury muffins or a cheese/marmite sandwich.
Nutri grain bar or similar
Grapes
Cucumber sticks
Crackers

They seem happy with never changing this! If I have the inclincation I sometimes make mini quiches instead of the muffins.

A sandwich usually ham or cheese, or cheese and crackers
A piece of cheese, cheese string type thing (if no cheese sandwich)
Cucumber or pepper strips
A piece of fruit
Crisps for break time
Something sweet (a mini roll or snack sized chocolate bar)