in thinking this is a totally suitable lunchbox contents for a 2.5yr old?

[LifeIsButtercream]

I send DD to preschool with a packed lunch - several people have commented that I don't put enough in there (a friend was round once while I was packing it, and I discussed it with someone else - don't ask me how we ended up talking about it!)

Her lunchbox today contained:

• sandwich made with one slice of brown bread and cream cheese
• 3 cherry tomatoes
• matchbox-sized piece of cheese cut into cubes
• carton of watered-down apple juice
• 4 mini Organix gingerbread men (ones from the little bags) - ok one didn't have a head lol!
• packet of raisins
• Innocent smoothie tube
• yogurt

Just to explain - DD is a fruit-fiend, if I had put 4 bananas in there she would have been just as happy - it's hard work to get any carbs or protein into her sometimes! I do vary her lunchbox, and serve her something similar at home (and she rarely eats all of it) - someone commented that I should "chuck a pack of crisps in there to make it into a proper lunch" - in my experience DD would eat a whole pack of crisps, the fruit, and leave the rest........

She is a healthy weight and height.

FearfulYank I do eat some fruit, but try to stick to stuff that has a low imapact on blood sugar levels and only eat it with meals. Grapes = bad, berries = good.

If you are interested I started doing what I do after reading this, I do cut my kids some slack and they are allowed an occasional treat, for me the effect on my mood and body means it is just not worth it.

Ok. I've ordered it and will check it out. Thanks WTWTW . :)

I wonder if people on this thread can actually back up their healthy eating advice with figures. People on this thread have criticised the lunch for having a lack of protein, a lack of fat, too much fat, too much sugar, not enough carbs, too many carbs.

I can't see how a yoghurt, half a cream cheese sandwich and a matchbox size piece of cheese can have more than 20 g of fat in them. How is that too much fat?

Where do people get this stuff from? Who has decided that an adult can't eat more than a matchbox size piece of hard cheese a day? Why?

The packed lunch sounds fine.

DS, who is in reception has..

Ham or cheese sandwich.
Packet of wotsits or salt and vinegar discos.
Squeezy yoghurt.
Pre-cut fruit bag.
A time out bar.

Sounds great to me. It would fill me up, and I'm 24 weeks PG and eating like a pig athlete in training at the moment.

DS1 is 12 and has a sandwich, crisps, breakaway or fruit and a bottle of water. Often he doesn't eat it all and pigs out eats well later at dinner. He is a very very difficult eater (SN involved) and extremely set in his ways. If he'd even consider some of the things that people call junk I'd think we were onto a winner. OP your child's lunch is your business not anyone else's.