Just my son's lunch!

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My year 5 son now has packed lunches. He has a variation on this most days, (though today he randomly had left over pasta with lamb).

In your opinion is this the right amount of food for lunch/snack and is it healthy enough or too processed for every day? In the mini wrap it is humous. Sometimes he has two mini wraps. Any ideas welcome! Thanks

Looks about right to me

My Y5 would eat that without the hummus. We'd swap the crisps for Wotsits out of preference and he would probably leave either the apple or the pepperami a couple of days because he wants to get out and play!
You know your own kid.
Some posters on here would have you arrested for it though!

My year 6 child - age 10 - has a pitta bread with cheese and cucumber/ a sandwich with the same, an apple or orange, vegetable sticks (pepper, carrot, tomato), plus two mini brownie bites. If she'd eat a yoghurt I'd give her one, but she doesn't like them 'warm'.

She comes home hungry and has a snack before tea, then eats a good dinner.
My older child has the same at lunch, but rarely finishes it and picks at dinner. I tried giving more but it ended up in the bin.

There's a huge variation in appetites in children (I'm a dinner lady). Is your child hungry, maybe try bread rather than a wrap?

As an adult i wouldn't have a packet of crisps every day

More fool you

@Plumtree391

I can't see what the 'oven baked' thingy is. I know it can't be a cold jacket potato :-).

Hummus is lovely, yum.

It's a packet of crisps!

I put quite a bit in for my year 3, none of it that great though! He has the same for a week or so then changes to another filling etc. At the moment he's having a ham wrap, a pepperami, some cheese cubes, about 10 grapes, a little sausage roll or some hummus and breadsticks, a squeezy yoghurt and if I remember, a 'dessert' like 2 party ring biscuits. I like to put plenty in for lunch and I don't mind if he leaves it, usually he leaves half the wrap but eats the rest.

I wouldn’t ask on here anyway OP.

Soon it’ll be “my son only gets a dry weetabix on special occasions!”

(Quite sure someone actually said that about a ham sandwich once…)

@Plumtree391

I can't see what the 'oven baked' thingy is. I know it can't be a cold jacket potato :-).

Hummus is lovely, yum.

Obviously crisps. Never heard of Walkers?

@bruffin

I really wouldnt ask in here most of the answers are from posters with eating disorders

I also agree with this.... God forbid you give you child anything that nature hasn't 100% produced itself!

Anyone going to pretend they don’t know what crisps are, or is that just limited to quavers?

Looks fine, but it doesn’t look enough to fill a child of that age, school would let you know if it didn’t meet their packed lunch policy.

Looks decent to me, if my DC ate that I’d be happy

@girlmom21

I'd put some cucumber sticks in there or more carrot sticks.

Why? There's carrot sticks already 🙄

Well, does your child eat it all and complain they’re still hungry, or do they leave half of it?

As you’ll see from replies already, some people think you’re practically starving him, some say it’s way too much, and most agree it should be crisps or pepperami and not both cos of the salt.

I think it’s fine, really. If they eat it then carry on!

I don't have an ED but wouldn't give that to my child everyday. Pepperami and crisps are 'treat' items rather than everyday to my mind, particularly given health risks of red meat- I would prefer to give more nutritious red meat rather than something poor quality daily. Maybe put those two items on different days and something else the other three

You’ll get crazy responses here, OP. MN a is a strange place in regards to food.

However, I do agree with PPs that I wouldn’t give my child crisps every day

If you look up yumbox ideas on instagram or childrens packed lunches , you can find lots of ideas . I wish they had been invented when my kids were young, as you can put small amounts of a variety of foods in the compartments .

Boycotting sweet things leads to adults who eat 4 x choc bars a day.
I wasnt allowed chocolate cake sweets as a child and now I have them constantly. Lots of pp are like me.
Moral of tale : dont boycott sweet stuff.

My ds has ham or other sandwich, crisps, piece of fruit, club biscuit and juice.

My yr4 has similar but yesterday I was told it was not enough (by her). I don't think they get enough time to eat more. Plus she leaves all her crusts which would be filling.

@GreyhoundG1rl there are 3 carrot sticks. I'd personally expect a child to eat more veg than that 🤷‍♀️

I'd swap the Pepperami for a chocolate bar, but I'm not the health police. My daughter is in year 7 and takes a ham and cucumber sandwich, bag of crisps/mini cheddars, a chocolate biscuit and a couple of bits of fruit. Her older sister doubles up on the chocolate and misses out the sandwich, but they're at high school and have the freedom of the canteen and the local shop so if they didn't take it, they'd buy it.

Looks fine, I would maybe add one more thing as they might still be hungry. Yogurt or cheese?

furbaby: Obviously crisps. Never heard of Walkers?
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Yes! D'oh .

I broke my reading glasses.

[quote girlmom21]@GreyhoundG1rl there are 3 carrot sticks. I'd personally expect a child to eat more veg than that 🤷‍♀️[/quote]
He has three of his 5 a day in that meal, carrots, houmous and an apple

Is 3 carrot batons = 1 portion?

@bruffin I forgot what hummus was made of. I'm on board now