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 don't take lunchboxes to school, but do have packed teas at dance.

This week those have consisted of:
ham and pitta (instead of sarnie)
cucumber sticks and carrot sticks
bread sticks (instead of crisps)
small pot of humous (except dd1 who wont look at any dips without a sour face!)
a babybel
pot of fresh fruit including grapes/apple/pear/satsuma/pineapple
a small chocolate biscuit OR a small packet (think 10p) haribo starmix
a bottle of water
a frube

I like them to have lots of small finger food type things that it takes them longer to eat. And I'm TRYING to get them out of unhealthy tuck shop and too much crap.

They like the veg sticks and humous the best it has to be said!

Well half the foods on that list I wouldn't consider to be good options anyway . Chorizo is salt and fat , as is pastrami . Couscous is pasta,smoked salmon is now often artificially smoked and full of yuck same as highly salted smoked cheese, homemade muffin is still prob full of sugar and cold minted lamb is simply revolting .
But where's the issue ? My kids eat amazingly well but I won't win me any mates to yell about it . It's effing dull in my opinion. And it seems to be a female issue , you don't hear men boasting about kale chips and broad bean pâté .

And we bang on about it loads and yet our generation are the feeders and fattie !

Mine will (used to) eat most of those things at home but never in a lunchbox. They had a sarnie (white bread usually with marmite) a piece of fruit, bag of crisps and maybe a yoghurt.

Now they are teenagers! Today DS1 put in his lunch box: a marmite sarnie, a Satsuma (for my benefit lol its still there now) a bag of randoms, a mini areo, a mini pack of smarties and a sausage roll!!!! (all left over from a childs party yesterday) oh and a packet of crisps.

Ham or cheese sandwich, yogurt, fruit pot (will not eat unpureed fruit AAARRGH) and orange juice. Maybe some nuts or another half sandwich for break.

Smoked salmon is likely to be a texture thing rather than a taste thing LyingWitch, unless you hate all things smoked, even bacon

Its kinda slimy and oily, but in a good way, if you like it, and a bad way if you don't.

You could try cooking small bits of it (this is where trimmings come in handy) in a white wine sauce pasta jobby.

Or avoid bankrupsy and never get stuck into the stuff in the first place.

Same goes for cocaine, heroin, ketamine, online bingo, etc.

CorusKate that's the list of approved foods that we were given by Wolloton Hall (National Trust) where the trip was to, so I took it as gospel!

What is the point of this thread?

I've said it before on these threads

Standard lunchbox fare should be

Sandwich, crisps, chocolate biscuit and piece of fruit.

This is what we had in my day and as long as you ate it in the right order nobody cared.

I'm asking what is the point of this thread, not any other thread. I don't "get" it (seems to be a favourite Mumsnet phrase of the moment).

Excellent point, Tatty...

Yes, I think it's texture. I don't like it. In the same way that I don't like mushrooms or roasted peppers because they're slimey too.

I love bacon, cooked salmon and most other grown-up things. I just can't help feeling shame when I see and hear of children eating smoked salmon. They'd look askance at me dipping a fishfinger in ketchup, I'm sure.

Not a single one of my 5 DCs have ever had in their lunchbags any one of those items.

Actually, they have had the odd bagel, with ham or peanut butter or maybe a slice of cheese.

They have a sandwich most days. Or leftover pizza or mac and cheese. Plus some sort of sugary treat and a drink of water. No juice, no milk, no squash. No fruit or veg or yogurt.

DD3 used to like mayonnaise sandwiches. She never ate the bread, just licked the mayo off but it had to come in a sandwich.

Come to think of it, they have had cold fish fingers too, in burger buns. They can nuke things in the kitchen in school.

No point sending food they won't eat.

I do wonder why people put 'homemade' this, 'homemade' that on some threads.
I am just jealous 'coz I ain't the world's best cook

Is this the third lunch box thread?

Fuckinel!

Hummus - yes
Cous cous - yes occasionally
Fruit - yes

Usually ham sandwiches or wraps, plus fruit or carrot sticks and hummus or maybe a pasta or cous cous salad for a change. DD2 loves olives and feta

DS aged 15 has no school lunch :( He won't use his account to buy food and if I send pack up it comes back uneaten and he then demolishes whats still ok of it straight away. So I stopped making it. He's OK with going hungry all day as he would rather that than eat at school where he feels under scrutiny. (He has SN). Other than extreme cases where there is obvious neglect, I don't think it is for school to dictate pack ups or other parents come to think of it. Everyone should feed their kids what they want to feed them.

Paste sandwich, packet of crisp, yogurt and a penguin bar. That was what we had when we were at school. No idea what I'll send with DS.

Today at home he had chicken nuggets , melon, cheese and carrots....

ahh salmon paste sandwiches ... that takes me back ...

Chicken and ham actually :)

smoked salmon trimmings are cheapish in asda. well given that a very little can go a long way. otherwise it would be cheese and pickle everyday.