Boring, but talk to me about this as a packed lunch for a five year old?

[SarahAndQuack]

The five year old is going off on a sport holiday club today. They're asked to bring two sets of snacks and a lunch (but will be home before tea time).

Packed lunch was:

• cheese sandwiches
• two cheese straws
• three snack packs of raisins
• two mini chocolate eggs
• two bottles of 250ml ribena
• two packs of hula hoops.

What do you think?

I am old, but -whatever the quality - the amount of food discussed here really does surprise me. (And, though it's not strictly relevant, when I was young sandwich did NOT have to be accompanied by crisps. When did that start? Genuine question.)

I went to school in the 1970s. I took a packed lunch.This was not common - so far as I know, my mother really had to work hard to arrange. I ate one sandwich (mostly cheese, 2 slices of bread), a club chocolate biscuit and and apple. Until I was 18. When I got home, at around 6-7 pm, there would be a nourishing meal, but not a massive one. Fish pie or similar, with two veg. There might have been pudding as well but I did not like that so I often had plain yougurt - very daring way back then - or another apple instead.

Lookiing back on family photos, I was slim - fairly tall - but definitely not skinny or underfed. The amount I ate was utterly typically for all my friends in sixth-form.

Me too @scottishnames

As a 10/11 year old my packed lunch was
Sandwich - marmite/honey something else low maintenance
An apple or banana
A penguin bar or similar

That was it 🤷🏼‍♀️ the portions discussed on here are huge

It’s not a typical school packed lunch for a sports day. My DS used to have a cheese sandwich, some cucumber and a few nuts when he took a packed lunch to school a couple of years ago. On a full day of sports they’re starving. Though saying that, my DD ate virtually none of hers today because there was something more interesting happening, but she was really hungry when she got in.

Sounds about as unhealthy as my kids lunch today that DH packed but he decided it should be 'full of calories' because they had to make it from lunch until 6pm with nothing.

They had:
1 had jam sandwich the first the other Nutella wrap
Quavers
2 x mini muffin
Grapes
Water

Mine is going to Holiday camp tomorrow. He’s taking:
Cheese and ham wrap,
Pepper and Cucumber pot,
Strawberries and Grapes,
Cocktail Sausages,
Yogurt,
Crisps,
Raisins,
Cereal bar.

It’s not the best and it’s also more than I would send on a normal school day, but I like to send more when he’s got a full day of activity just incase. He knows i want him to eat the fresh stuff first so it doesn’t get wasted and packaged stuff after, he normally obliges!