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

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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).

Mine have had Hummus and one likes bagels with cream cheese and salmon

apart from that - no they have never had any of it!

DS has a filled roll every day with crisps, fruit and a chocolate biscuit. Sometimes cut up veg and sometimes a yoghurt. He also likes crackers and cheese.

He drinks diluting juice every day.

When DD first started school I gave her hummus and things to dip in to it since she genuinely does love hummus. However, the other kids told her it looked like poo so she asked me to stop sending it

None of the other items on the OP's list made an appearance.

Tomato Soup in a flask - very modern

Genius

Where is that boy ? No doubt even now working out where he can produce plastic lunchbox fruit with minimum overheads .

Laughing wholeheartedly with you two .
Thank You

I have to make a packed lunch for my DGS tomorrow, its the first time for 20 yrs I have done one and I'm scared!

Ds2 has every day peanut butter sandwiches on brown or white bread, raisins, a cereal bar, and some squash. I've tried fruit and it just comes back home bruised. I give him a cake bar on a Friday.

I've tried him on school dinners in the hope that he'll eat more healthily there, but he ends up having cheese sandwiches, so no better and more expensive!

I so wanted to post on that thread for shock value to provide some contrast (DS's lunch may have involved Twirls) but wasn't brave enough .

To be fair, he has had a whole lot of trouble with eating - didn't do it at all for years - so it's a lot about the calories for him.

DS has pork pie, box drink and only in the last week....an apple

(no self-respecting teen will eat a banana in school)

I bought a huge pack of fruit shoots at B and M today, specifically for pack lunches!£2.99 for 18.

What is a spinach cake.

I think all ese kids denied crisps, biscuits etc will rebel and become even more obese than the parents are trying to avoid!

Everything in moderation is my 100 year old granny's mantra and I'm going wi that!

I have never had spinach cake, Twighlightsparkle - but it sounds very Virtuous and Healthy - and I am not at all sure that spinach belongs in a cake.

Ginger and pear muffins sound nice, though...

I don't have kids, but my imaginary kids have cold pizza and chips, leftover from dinner the night before. I stick an apple in there to make it healthy.

My DD will only drink the tears from angels and the yoghurt from virgin goats.

She is lunch box monitor at school and has to remove any chocolate bars, bags of crisps or anything else with any flavour from all the lunch boxes. I give her school lunches where she is allowed to have cake, pudding or biscuits...the irony of it is not lost on me.

Spinach cake sounds boufing. Why...just why

Boufing

Love it!

Haven't heard that for years, we must come from a similar region of the country!

Haha sometimes boufing is the only way to describe something

My dc's school has a lunch box spot check so they can't bring in contraband or it's confiscated and you get a note home!

They're not allowed to have crisps, chocolate, biscuits, sweets, cakes, bars, sugary yogurt type things, squash or anything fizzy.

They usually get: smoothie, wholemeal sandwich, organic yogurt (which costs a fortune), fruit and water.

You're allowed to have white bread but they'd prefer you not to.

On Monday my niece snuck in half an Easter egg and my sister got a call from her teacher!

Bloody nutters!

I'm guilty of that coruskate and often my younger 2 dc don't eat it all, but then they'll finish it off as a snack when they get in.

Dc1&2 are 11 and 12 so always seem hungry...

DD1 usually has chorizo, smoked salmon if she can blag it and either has been known to go in a bagel with cream cheese. She likes hummus, cous cous and guacamole, but they are week end lunch not school.

DD2 likes plain plastic ham sandwiches every day!

Well op, the cous cous and minted lamb you're baulking at was my dd's packed lunch today. The minted lamb was leftover from last night, ds doesn't like it, dh is away with work and it needed eating. It's no different to putting any other leftover meat in a lunchbox or chucking in ham or chicken, it's just what was in. And the cous cous is quick and easy and padded out the salad we also had left over from last night. WTF is wrong with that? It's not exotic or weird or middle class or whatever it is people are implying. It's food and it's all we had in the fridge at the end of the month.

On other days she might very well have a sandwich, some fruit and a yoghurt but that thread asked what she'd had today.

Ignore my crossness, I know you're not really having a go but I'm having a bad day and feel a bit got out to have my dd's lunch highlighted as something comment worthy in another thread. I guess I understand now why a TAAT is frowned upon now.

To hell with it all anyway, the schools that boil my piss are the ones that ban home made cake and the like when their £2.50 hot dinners have chocolate pudding with lashings of custard etc.

WTF etc.