Sod it - a thread about a thread - but lunchbox contents - really??!!

[CateBlanket]

Is my child the only one who never has any of the following in her lunchbox:

hummus/hummous
chorizo (have no idea how you pronounce it)
smoked salmon trimmings
a spinach cake
homemade pear and ginger muffin
guacamole
bagel with pastrami & smoked cheese
Cous cous
minted lamb

any kind of fruit, veg or salad

Please tell me that there are MNetters who send their children to school with a cheese sandwich on white bread, a frube and a Penguin?

And squash (the drink not the veg).

[CSIJanner]

Mine only go in with these. Only takes two minutes in the morning...

[elliejjtiny]

That's true about most effort made, least eaten. Macaroni cheese, jacket potatoes and scrambled eggs/beans on toast are my DC's favourite and they will hoover up loads of it, then fruit for pudding. If I try and make an effort with something they won't eat it.

[junkfoodaddict]

I began motherhood with the intention that DS would be 'baby-led weaned' (that DID happen!), would only have fruit or veg as snacks, would NOT be allowed sweets AT ALL until he was school aged and only then on a weekend and would have home-made meals from scratch.

1. Practically impossible when aged 6-9 weeks, he lived in a house without a kitchen roof during one of the worst winters we had! (kitchen extension).
   
2. A dad with a fondness (and PILs) of cakes and home-baking.
   
3. A mum with an addiction to chocolate, pizzas, kebabs and dare I say it, McDs.
   

So aged 2, my DS will eat limited fruit and vegetables but has survived so far on fizzy pop, chocolate until he's spewing it (exaggeration, really!), sweets, LOVES McDs and pizza and generally gorges on junk (mini-junkfoodaddict).
I AM trying again with my original intentions though not as strict on the sweets and chocolate when we eventually have DC2. Though DS does love his junk (as do I), I have found that he does and will eat healthily because nothing has been denied to him therefore he doesn't see the need to 'have it all'.
Oh and my lunch today was; ham and dairylea spread sandwich on brown Jackson bread (best bread ever - though the seeded IS the true best), chocolate mousse, digestive medley and a packet of Walkers stars. I ran out of fruit. (True - honest!)

[MissBetseyTrotwood]

In my home the longer I lovingly prepare something, the less likely they will eat it.

^
This. Exactly. The amount of enjoyment my DCs get from eating anything is inversely proportional to the amount of time I have spent getting it ready.

[cerealqueen]

Not here, sandwich/roll/wrap, no salad, a fruit pot/banana, malt loaf.

I was a toddler group recently and saw a mum with two under fives having a picnic lunch with loads of crudities, homous and home made sushi rice things wrapped in that seaweed stuff. They were eating it too. Then she stood up and I saw she was about 8 months pregnant.

In my home the longer I lovingly prepare something, the less likely they will eat it.

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

Hurrah.

[MissBetseyTrotwood]

Yes it is. When we used to walk past the SAME lunchbox police having a fag break round the back of the school at the end of the day too.

I kept sending them in though. It was like a war of attrition. I won eventually. One day just the foil from around the coin came back. Victory was sweet, I can tell you.

[missuswife]

Mine is too young for school but as a child I had a sandwich, pretzels, fruit and juice box every single day and I turned out fine.

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

My was at Zing's comment btw.

Betsy that's just shit isn't it.

[Lara2]

DS2 ate the same lunch everyday from year R to year 11!!!

[MissBetseyTrotwood]

DM went Quark mad in about 1986. She used to make lentil quiches with it. I alway associate it with Bergerac for some reason.

[MissBetseyTrotwood]

To those non believers in the lunchbox police, I can testify to their existence. DS2 was not allowed to eat the one sodding chocolate coin I'd slipped in as a little treat because he was so damn miserable after Xmas going back to school. Joysuckers.

DS2 went to school with a cream cheese wrap, some crisps in a pot (not allowed to give them the whole bag!) dried mango and sweet banana chips. DS1 went with cheese and pickle wrap, some cherry tomatoes and same amount of crisps. Bit worried they don't have enough food now!

Arf @ mathanxiety 's DD bandying around choc thief accusations.

[starlight1234]

when my son had sandwiches his favourite was Jam

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

I need to move near to and Aldi.
I very badly want one of those flasks.

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

[CateBlanket]

Kissmequick - if your cupboard is so bare maybe the local food bank could help.

and frubes need to be kept in fridge

[ZingWatermelon]

Ams

as long as you don't scoff it out of the packet before paying for it!

[mathanxiety]

Today DD4 sallied forth with a ham sammy, a cereal bar, and a chunk of a white chocolate Easter bunny she partly demolished last night (it had fallen under her bed at Easter and she had been accusing DD3 of eating it until about 8.15 pm yesterday ). Plus a bottle of water.

The bread is called whole wheat bread but it looks and feels like a sliced white loaf.

I got the flasks being discussed in Aldi in the Aisle o' Crap last year! I also got DD2 her university dorm bed extra long fitted sheets and pillowslip set for far less than they were selling elsewhere. Nice purple microfibre, vair stylish. Plus a surprisingly healthy small rosebush.

[Kissmequick123]

My kids would love a penguin, white bread cheese sandwich and a frube but we never really have any of those items in the kitchen cupboards (with the exception of cheese)

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

Love smoked salmon.
I wish I could get the dcs to eat it because it's so convenient to use IMHO.

[NoImSpartacus]

Loving all the people coming on and being honest about what they give their kids in the packed lunches, gives me a warm feeling inside it does. And I'm not referring to the boasters!

[ZingWatermelon]

Quark is fat free cream cheese (type thing) and is actually quite nice.

[NeedAdvice2014]

What is Quark and what do you do with it?

Desertmum originally it was just normal potato but I was trying to add extra veg. Sweet potato does make it sloppier, it holds together better without.

[elliejjtiny]

DS2 has a sandwich on white bread, crisps, banana, yoghurt and pepperami and a fruit shoot. DS1 has the same but more fruit. That's just when they are on school trips though, normally they have school dinners. No lunchbox police here.

[desertmum]

Can you do that without the sweet potato and just use two normal ones Eve 1?