What did you put in your child's lunchbox today?

[SparklingRivers]

Mine had a ham cheese and cucumber pitta bread with some cherry tomatoes next to it, yogurt, fridge raiders, crisps and apple.

Thought doing a random day like today would get a wider range of ideas than just asking suggestions.

Cheese sandwich, crisps, apple, banana, Penguin biscuit, stick of cheese. One child had a jam sandwich instead of cheese, one had Fridge Raiders and one had a cheese dippers. Sometimes one child takes samosas or falafels instead of a sandwich. Two of my kids are autistic so are quite rigid in their eating so this is basically what they stick to.

A salami and spinach wholewheat wrap
an apple
a snack-pack of iced gems
a packet of space raiders

Not exactly what I’d choose him to eat for packed lunch, but it’s the end of the ‘grocery shop week’ for us and he only wants easy-to-grab sandwiches/wraps so he can walk around with his friends eating.

1. Cheese sandwich, cucumber, grapes, little pack of biscuits.

2. Ham sandwich, cucumber, little pack of biscuits.

Ours are allowed a sweet treat but not crisps. 2) doesn’t eat much at lunchtime. Both have a limited range of sandwich fillings, especially once peanut butter is out of the equation. Easiest to give them what I know they’ll eat.

One of those Dahl pouches from merchant gourmet - heat it up for 2 mins and then I put it in a Tupperware with some cooked chicken, obvs he eats it cold
clementine
juice carton
yoghurt
2 x energy ball things he made from the Jamie Oliver series with mango and coconut in.

Used to be hummus and pitta or cheese and pickle sangers but he’s become really interested in food and wants to have different things 🤷‍♀️ (DS9, in year 5)

Cheese sandwich, a couple of cucumber slices and some carrot sticks, some apple pieces, a handful of blueberries and a flapjack - all her choices. Year 2, currently in the middle of a growth spurt so eating lots.

Wholemeal cheese wrap
Cucumber
Sweetcorn
Small pack of crisps
A leftover sausage from dinner last night
Apple

Chicken sandwich
Raisins
Cucumber
Babybel
Juice carton
Custard cream biscuits

Year 7 DD to cover snack time & lunch:

Pesto pasta with chicken
Kiwi, strawberries & grapes
Crisps
Rice cakes
Yo yo
Oreo snack pack

Chicken pasta salad, carrot sticks and a cereal bars (which is technically for snack but often eats it for lunch).

A tuna and cucumber sandwich, Hula Hoops, a Gold Bar, a sausage roll and some blueberries. I also hid some jelly beans in there as that’s our game.

It doesn’t seem a lot but he’s been bringing half home.

DS is 5 and a restrictive eater. He will eat fruit and a bit of hidden veg at home but not at school so we always send him in with things we know he will eat. He generally eats most of his lunch and snack. He does have the hot school dinner 2 or 3 times a week.

Today he had:
Snack box: 2 fig rolls, organic banana oaty bar, box of raisins
Lunch box: ham wrap, half a bag of Quavers, yoghurt, slice of fruit bread.

Mine has dinners but has a lunchbox when he gets home as a snack.

Will probably do:

Ham & cheese/pepperoni & cheese roll
Marmite & cheese pastry scroll
Ritz crackers/oatcake with peanut butter
Apple or satsuma
Cucumber & pepper sticks

He’ll either have a bit of banana bread with it or have that after his tea with some watermelon.

DS 10 - ham sandwich, babybel, melon, cucumber, and piece of banana bread
(protein bar, peanut butter sandwich and cheddars for post swimming ‘snack’ but left in sealed swimming bag at childminders for the day)
DD 7 - ham sandwich, crisps, melon, cucumber and banana bread. Think she put in an apple for breakfast as well.
I make the sandwiches, they chose the rest. One fruit and one vegetable is compulsory.

Bottle of water
2 plain crackers
2 Jammie dodgers
pack of ready salted crisps

dealing with ASD and ARFID so not ideal nutritionally but the dietician told us to change how we view foods and not to have good or bad things but see all just as units of energy

Pizza, a green salad and a kit kat for teen DD.

This is great, I need inspiration. Reception mum here so a bit clueless.

Today I went for pasta salad, cucumber and olives, babybel and crackers, a pear and one of those zombie dried fruit bars - looking forward to see how much comes home.

A packet of chocolate digestives, 2 packets of crisps and a can of Heineken. A couple of fags to finish.

Ham and cream cheese wrap, popcorn, piece of cheddar cheese and some blueberries and strawberries.

10 year old DD-

toasted bagel with cream cheese and pepperoni slices
snack bar
carrot slices, cucumber slices and cherry tomatoes
slice of cake
grapes
yoghurt

Pizza rolls, which I make from ready rolled pastry topped with tomato puree and grated cheese. Roll it up length ways and cut into wheels. Bake in oven.

Then just standard lunch box stuff. Mine is a restricted eater and it's a challenge to find acceptable things. I make the pizza rolls or sometimes pretzel bites or cheese straws as sandwiches are a big no. As is pasta/rice/leftovers of any sort.

14 year old DD has
1 kiwi
grapes
cucumber sticks
carrot sticks
chicken tikka sandwich on white bread
bottle of water

Mostly the same each day but may swap the chicken tikka sandwich for a chicken wrap with lettuce and ranch.

she takes a bag of popcorn for breakfast time and will sometimes buy a pineapple or watermelon pot from the canteen at break too

Marmite sandwich
Skips
Cucumber sticks
2x frubes
Fruit winder

Cheese sandwich (granary bread)
Lentil crisps
Cucumber and carrot sticks and hummous
Flapjack
Clonakilty live yoghurt- good for the gut.

Tomorrow will be leftover pasta bake from tonight's dinner- I have weird children that love cold leftovers- one had cold stew once. I only have myself to blame if the school think I'm neglecting them.

How are you getting past the lunch police with some of these? My child isn’t allowed crisps or biscuits or cake or sweets or cereal bars 🤷🏻‍♀️

No lunchbox police at our school. Special school so they are used to kids having what they will eat rather than a model diet. Only rules are no nuts.