to show you these pictures of Danish children's packed lunches?

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I've followed a few of the lunchbox threads and thought it might be of interest to mumsnet to see what is allowed and typically given to young children here in Denmark in schools and kindergardens. I am a member of a closed facebook group where Danish mothers share ideas on packed lunches. The photos below are a typical sample of what is given to children from 3+ years up. The food shown would be enough for lunch and a mid afternoon snack. Happy to answer questions about what is shown.

chips, goddarnit

Are you expecting us to bow down to your superiorly healthy packed lunches because all we can manage is a fruitshoot, greggs sausgae roll and a family sized choc bar? News flash, those packed lunches look very similar to what I make every day without the cancer inducing processed meat.Except of course, mine appear normal without the magazine photo ready look going on.

Who on earth has time to do lunchboxes like this?!

@crispbutty They worship lasagne, pizza, and meatballs.

Well, I enjoyed the pictures, because I'm nosy. I have no desire to make sweeping judgements of all Danes or all Brits as a result of this thread

I just like having a nose.

@Lucy7400 not my lunches. Just posted for interest. There has been a lot of debate about the pros and cons of such lunchboxes. Please don't assume to second guess my intentions.

@HoldMeCloserTonyDanza precisely.

I'm not impressed.

Where's the rugbrød?

What is with all the rye bread hate It's awesome stuff! The darker and the denser the better...

We should do a REAL mner packed lunch thread

With pictures I mean

I have an Italian buffet night on my list so that sorts that one.

The Chinese night was voted as one of their favourites last year too.

Puddings were a bit hit and miss. They all loved cake (I did apple strudel a few times) but they didn't like custard, and jelly got left too.

Wally is there a higher number of chocking incidents and deaths?

I'm actually pretty anal about food and cutting, I actually know a little girl who died when she was 20 months old after choking on a piece of chocolate in a Dubai supermarket so that plays on my mind a lot.... I was even cutting my youngest dd's raisin in half till she was about 20 months

Even now when my oldest dd 14 is eating grapes I make her bite into it and never put the whole thing in her mouth,

@Ingelise see photo 1, it has flower shaped sandwiches that are made of ryebread (rugbroed)

These are not 'typical' lunches. They are staged for the purpose of FB. I am sure there is a UK version showing exactly the same thing.

It would be interesting to see the same lunch boxes at the end of the school day.

Why is everybody so oversensitive?

You don't have to feel bad because your kids don't eat fish pate. You don't have to feel smug because your kids don't eat rye bread.

It literally does not matter at all. Nobody cares. Nobody is handing out medals here!

I attended school in three different countries as a child and the food in each was totally different. I'm not British and the food my children eat at school is not at all what I'm used to.

I find minor/major cultural differences like this fascinating (probably because I've had no choice but to adapt to so many of them in my life). So thanks for sharing OP. Anybody who wants to share more, I'd love to see!

@Crispbutty for puddings you could try ready made meringues and fruit and icecream? And they love something called droemkager (dreamcake). You can make that as huge traybakes but leave off the custard. pancakes with jam and icing sugar? And I reckon they'd eat chocolate mousse?

Yeah, well this is my 63 month old DDs packed lunch sooo....

Thankyou :) I'm taking notes here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2838101-AIBU-to-ask-to-see-your-dcs-REAL-packed-lunches?watched=1

@Miserylovescompany2 my kids always have some veggies left. I put in a 'sacrificial goat' so that when they come home they get to eat some, but not all of the veggies left. Then they can have a biscuit if they want afterwards. But I'm not Danish, so that's just my experience.

Don't most 16 year olds have haribo for lunch?

It would be interesting to see the same lunch boxes at the end of the school day.

I know what you're implying but I think you're wrong. Children with parents crazy enough to photograph packed lunches and put them on FB will learn v quickly to throw away all the uneaten and unwanted fruit rather than risking tantrums when the fruit/lovingly cut into flower shaped sandwiches come home!

Sponge