Packed lunch ideas for school beyond sandwiches and wraps

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I am looking for some ideas other than sandwiches and wraps for the kids to take to school. One is in highschool and is quite picky and the other one eats anything but crisps and chocolate has been banned.
What are you making for your kids this term?

Egg bites, mini pasties, hummus & veg, soup in a flask, pasta salad,

My kids liked hummus and veggies, pasta or rice salads, sushi, crackers and cheese or cold meats, hot flask with soup or bean chilli

My ds likes home made tzatziki and warm wholemeal pittas. They have a toaster in the 6th form common room. Or sausage rolls or scotch eggs and tomatoes,

Flasks of thick soup in winter with crusty bread.

Mini frittatas made in muffin tins you can freeze them and they will have defrosted by lunch time, pate or hummus with crackers and crudites, pasta or couscous or quinoa or noodle salads, anything in pastry eg some left over curry to make samosa type things, pasties, small quiches, a selection of "picky bits" or anti pasti/tapas. In the winter soup or stew or pasta in sauce or beans and sausages in a flask.

Some greats ideas thanks.

Mine liked hot food in a food flask. Noodles, leftover pasta, etc

I tend to like batch making the "main" element of packed lunches and freezing them in portions so that it's quicker to sort out and they can have more variety that way. Popular with my two are savoury muffins with cheese and whatever veg I had that needed using up, pitta pizzas, frittata, I make a pizza focaccia topped with cherry tomatoes and grated cheese or just things like cooked sausages, falafel and hummus etc.

As well as the usual sandwich/wraps mine quite like leftover pasta/pasta bake in a thermos or a big chunk of foccacia with snack pots of mozzarella and tomatoes.

Dd is currently having hot pots, casseroles and chilli’s. I wish she’d just eat a sandwich as chopping veg at 7am is not the good life!

Are you able to do suitable portions of your DC's favourite meals and label them and the night before take them out the freezer and then make sure they are hot in the morning.? You then wouldn't need to be prepping in the morning.

I like a bento type approach so lots of small things, a carb, a protein, a fruit, a veg and maybe a bit more.

So hummus with pita or veg sticks.
Rice balls / arancini.
Easy to eat veg / salad so cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices.
Hard boiled egg - ready shelled otherwise it will stink the place out.
Pasta salad.
Cous cous.
Ham / cheese / chicken.

Samosas
Cornish Pasty
Individual quiche

leftover fritatas
we mix whatever is left over from dinner (gravy and all) with egg and bake in muffin cases.
you can freeze them. but in our house they are usually taken as lunch for school/uni or snack the next day.

Vegetable samosas are easy and healthy. I put them in my son's lunchbox at least once a week.