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).

Gurnie

That made me laugh like an otter. Cheers.

Sandwich or wrap, crisps, chocolate snack bar, baby bel, frube, fruit.

I have never lovingly prepared homemade dips or chopped veg etc, and vegetables do not belong in cakes (apart from carrot cake obv).

I give mine Fruit Shoots people can judge me all they want.

One of the mums at school gets very judgey about play-pieces, she thought my DD was okay having Pom-bears but was horrified by someone else having Choc-dips.

Mine only rarely have sandwiches now but if they do it is

A ham sandwich (not even naice ham) white bread
Dairylea Cheese string
One piece of fruit
Chocolate bar (wagon wheel or something)
Bottle of water

Dd will occasionally have cucumber sticks but not very often.

I love packed lunch threads, they're so boastful.

Mine have sandwich/wrap, frube, piece of fruit, whatever chocolate biscuit/cake was on offer, and either a dairylea dunker/peperami/babybel/mini cheddars.

Occasionally they'll take pasta salad, cheese and crackers or pizza and in winter they take a flask of something hot three times a week.

White bread sandwich, crisps, choc biscuit, fruit and a drink. The fruit usually comes back home.

I was on a thread earlier that specifically asked about homemade snacks (if that's the one you're talking about) so I only mentioned the homemade ones. I also use bought bags of gingerbread men, mini cheddars, crisps, dairylea dippers, babybels, frubes (not all on the same day though)

My dd1 hasn't started school yet, but will in September. She will take a ham/chicken/cheese sandwich. With a piece of cheese, yogurt, crisps and fruit.

Don't know if her school has lunchbox police or not.

I always think I am the only one when I read those threads. If I gave ds anything from the list you have above he would seriously be unimpressed.

Sandwich or wrap on white, with some protein, so that might be ham, cheese, smoked salmon (not trimmings but they love the stuff and I like them to eat it so don't really care about the cost, a couple of slices and I can scoff the rest, no harm done)

Ribena plus. Don't give a shit its full of aspartame (not full of, as you only need a drop to make it sweet, and don't buy the marketing about added vitamins, they are just affordable, the right size, etc)

Sometimes a penguin/tunnocks/gingerbread men minis, sometimes some peppers and cucumbers, or Ryvita minis sour cream and chive flavour

And a fruit without fail, be it a Satsuma (hate peeling them so great for school , grapes, apple, pear, etc.

Our head is a boyatch about some things but not terribly about lunches as we pay for them, and provide them, so she feels not like dictating their contents though lollipops, haribo, full on chocolate etc gets frowned upon (i.e tell your parents we don't encourage that etc etc)

I tried hummus as my son loves it, but it felched itself all over the lunchbox, never again.

Banana skins drive me mad, but they make them take them home.

Don't do frubes. Pathological dislike of the things which always seem to squirt someone.

Anything I can assemble in less than 5 minutes in the morning works for me.

DD6 had hummus with carrot and pepper stick a frube and a plum
DS4 had a cheese roll with an apple and a frube.

Both of them had a beaker with squash.

They finish early and have a proper lunch when they get home and I do dinner when I get in.

They will eat any homemade cake no matter how bland or vegetable filled. I use this to my advantage

They won't eat anything else on the list though, and I'm pretty sure none of the other kids in the class do either.

They do eat lots if fruit and I don't put chocolate biscuits or crisps in their lunch because I don't see the need.

Today ds had a ham and cheese sandwich, a banana, grapes,yoghurt and a bottle of water. His school is pushing for all the kids to have school dinners as it is better for them. Today the school dinner menu was sausage,mash and carrots with cake and custard for pudding. Makes me wonder which is really best....

Ds2 (16) takes 2 Warburtons thins with wafer thin chicken, a cereal bar, a banana (in a banana guard) and a carton of orange juice every day without fail. The others have school lunches,methane goodness.

Yes, me. When dd2 stays packed lunch she'll have a ham sandwich, packet of crisps, little cake (usually weight watchers as they're individually wrapped), yogurt tube, pear or an apple, and orange juice.

My DS gets
roll with chopped pork
Capri sun
Sweetie
Yogurt
and I usually chuck in a bit of fruit knowing full well it'll still be there after school.

DS is picky and not a veggie fan. He gets a ham sandwich, yogurt, piece of cheese (like a babybel) and two pieces of fruit, usually apples. We would send him with a muslie bar, but this is banned (nuts), and chocolate is banned, so he gets one or the other of those when he gets home.

DD is less picky, and will branch out into having salad in her sandwich. The other day she came home and asked if we could include a little pot with cucumber, cheese and cherry tomatoes in. I almost swooned in middle class bliss.

Heh, I've just checked with them whether crisps are allowed. Apparently, yes, the are, and they both lit up with delight at the prospect of getting crisps in their lunch.

My DS is rediculously fussy and has the same lunch 7 days a week.

He has wholemeal bread with either jam, lemon curd, butter or a cheese slice (yes the plastic ones). A small smooth fromage frais (won't eat big ones with lumps), a banana, grapes or raisins with a biscuit and carton of apple juice.

To be honest it's the healthiest meal he eats.

I remember a thread about breakfasts once, I was . Things like salmon and spinach omelettes, slow cooked porridge with organic fruit purée. What's wrong with ready-brek or cornflakes. I've never met children who eat like this!

Cate - when mine were of primary school age, I used to send them in with a ham sandwich (on brown bread, I must admit), a packet of crisps, a penguin biscuit or similar, a flask of squash, and a piece of fruit. The fruit used to come home untouched every day, and I used to wipe the crumbs off and send it back the next day, until it was too battered to get away with this any more.

In fact, I got my first ever mention in the MN Talk Round Up, for suggesting we put plastic fruit in our children's lunchboxes - so the school would see fruit and be happy, and we could just wash it and recirculate it.

They certainly never had any of the things listed in your OP!

Wouldn't mind the recipe for the pear and ginger muffin though?

Oh hello real world

I'm intrigued by the others with secondary school children - will they not eat a pack up then or is it your choice? Dc1 still has a pack up 4/5 days and the other she usually picks a slice of pizza and a pretzel or cookie from the canteen!

Oh and I heard a little boy come out of school roaring to his mum about the sandwich his dad gave him "MUM he gave me ham and salad on my bread so I didn't eat it!", mum replies "well what's wrong with that?" And the little boy shouts "because you said salad is for rabbits and I'm not a rabbit silly" :o

Dd has a bread and butter "sandwich" - she doesn't like fillings. An apple, carrot sticks, a yoghurt and biscuit. Occasionally she will take in leftovers ie lasagne/pasta as they can get them heated up. They get a bowl of soup at school everyday - and sometimes she has 2nd serving and leaves loads of her packed lunch.