AIBU to ask to see your dcs REAL packed lunches

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Inspired by the other thread ....

Who is brave enough to take the challenge? Who dishes out crisps and penguins?

No judging just out of interest to see what the DC if mners really eat!

Obviously too late today for most, but tomorrow?

Today DD (9) had:

Half a sandwich was choc spread.
An apple
Carrot sticks
2 tube yogurts
Pack of crisps
A smoothie,

She doesnt have packed lunches often.

A sandwich - cheese or tuna - or a couple of brioche rolls
Apple
Water
Fruit wonder
Yogurt raisins
Cheese string
Yogurt tube

DS1 swaps the yogurt raisins, cheese string, and yogurt tube, for a pepparami, babybel, and giant rice cake.

Processed packaged food, but no crisps or chocolate.

Mine takes
Water with squash
Jam sandwich on white bread
1/2 a bag of crisps
Raisens
Aldi groovy bar

Not healthy but has never been questioned. She does take a fruit shoot on occassion. I used to put lots of fruit and veg in but she would never eat it. She does eat 2 x fruit with breakfast and have 2 x veg with dinner everyday but the dinner ladies probably think she has an awful diet! I'm waiting for them to question it but she's really fussy so eating a sandwich in itself is a big deal for me

Ham sandwich (brown) - ate
Breasticks - didn't eat
Cheese string - ate
Strawberries - didn't eat
Kitkat - ate
Water

He's 6 and has packed lunch 2 days a week, one of those he can have a little chocolate bar x

Today mine had

small bread roll ( made with half half rye and white flour, sunflower and pumpkin seeds) with cream cheese
three small dried sausages (like grape size)
Chunk of cheese
raw mangetout
half an apple
dried fruit stick
half stick celery

One ate it all, the other left half the bread and the mangetout (but ate the mangetout later at home). Both also get a mid afternoon snack of bread and fruit. Today was a good day, they both are small eaters and would normally leave some of the fruit or veg.

ps I am the op from the other thread

My almost 8 year old tends to have:
Sandwich or roll- his favourite is egg mayo but will also have cheese/ham/pate
Something like mini cheddars/ cheese savouries
Yoghurt tube
Cheese string/ dairylea dunker
Cereal bar/ mini pack of biscuits
Fruit snack like school bar. I don't bother with real fruit because it always comes home and goes in the bin.

Dd1:

Pitta bread with cream cheese and quorn ham
Apple
Yogurt pouch
Cucumber and cherry tomatoes
babybel

Dd2

Hummus wrap
carrot sticks
Quorn cocktail sausages
cereal bar
Satsuma

Sandwich
Frozen tube of yoghurt (defrosts by lunch)
A banana/slices of apple/carrot sticks
Water

Sandwich or roll
Cucumber
Carrot sticks
frube
Nakd bar

Usually DD has Ham and Cheese sandwich

(And 2 small snack things with that) and 2 small things for morning snack
The small things can be yogurt, babybel, crackers, buttered pancake, jelly pot, biscuit. ..
Only thing school says is nut free , no choc or crisps

DD age 9 for tomorrow has a bag of salted popcorn, smoothie, water, Apple, raisins, pretzels.
DS age 8 has pretzels, smoothie, water, plain mini rice cakes. Won't eat fruit.
Amazed how many have biscuits and chocolate, totally banned in our school along with yogurt and fizzy drinks.

All four have 'home' packed lunches tomorrow as follows:

DS1&2 (8&9yo) -
Tuna mayo & cucumber wrap
Banana
Crisps
Small piece home made cake
Cereal bar (for snack)
Frube
Yogurt raisins

DS1 will eat the lot & still be hungry. DS2 will eat most but not all but God forbid I make their lunches different

DS3 (5) has a yumbox filled with -
Tuna, mayo & cucumber wrap
Grapes
Fruit gummies
Frube
Tiny handful of skips
Piece of cake

DD (3) also has a yumbox with -
Small chicken roll
Cucumber pieces
Strawberries & grapes
Piece of cake
Frube
Raisins

MrsKoala that sounds like neglect if your son really has eaten nothing healthier in 2 years. Unless he has some kind of condition where he cannot accept change...I mean it doesn't look awful but it doesn't look great either!
I think the general lack of effort here is sad, if schools offered the same food every single day as a school dinner you would complain. It's not helpful to never expose your kids to variety in their diet, even if it's minimal. I know you want them to eat but seriously, depressing!

3 cream crackers (he will eat 1.5)
Little pot of humous
Apple
Rice pudding
Water

Ds (7) - has packed lunch 2-3 x per week, pretty much always the same.

I bought a flask last year so now it's pasta bolognaise every packed lunch day (twice a week when I am not working). Plus a yogurt or custard pot. She made some apple and banana muffins earlier in the week so I stuck one in instead of yogurt.

I make bolognaise in bulk and freeze it so it's pretty easy.

I make ham/cream cheese/tuna sandwiches or wraps in the warmer months. Plus yogurt/custard/muffin. Plus some kind of beg like cherry tom, cucumber, carrot.

Packet of crisps/flavoured rice cakes/Caramel bar is for pick up

MrsKoala I get it. DS has ASD and will eat the same exact lunch sometimes for weeks on end. I was bowled over this week when he requested wholewheat pittas - that's new! Everything else in his lunchbox has only changed flavours periodically but the items/brands have been the same for at least the past year. And the items all have to be packed in the same place in his lunchbox each day.

There was a time when he was barely eating at school and only eating Nutella sandwiches at home (aged 5) so now I'm just thrilled he eats more than 2 or 3 foods.

For what it's worth, I'd say that lunch looks absolutely fine and in my experience it's better to put absolutely no pressure on re trying other foods. Keep on feeling no shame.

I'm in Ireland and as far as I am aware pretty much every school here has a healthy eating policy. In my kids school that means no crisps, biscuits, cake, chocolate, no cereal bars or any kind of bar that comes wrapped,no yoghurt except natural yoghurt, no nuts(allergy reasons) only water or milk to drink.

My 7 year old has a kiwi, carrot sticks, a satsuma and 4 crackers with butter. Water to drink.
My 9 year old has a cheese scone, carrot sticks, a satsuma, apple, chicken pieces. Water to drink

They are both quite fussy about what they will eat and these lunch boxes are a result of years of negotiations and food being brought home uneaten.

Ham or chicken wrap
Satsuma/grapes
Carton of orange juice

Oreo on Fridays

They get 15 minutes for lunch. Most of the time they only eat the wrap.

Morning snack is always a couple of biscuits (usually ginger nuts as they're robust and both kids like them or seaweed rice crackers) and then some berries or a sliced apple.

Lunch is either : peanut butter sub roll, chicken fried rice, pasta pesto, mini sausages or vege california rolls

plus: vegetable sticks, a mini flapjack, a babybel.

Only allowed water as a drink in school.

DS(9) has a chicken or tuna half sandwich (on Best of Both), an apple, hummus, salt and vinegar crisps, yoghurt (preferably with granola and chocolate) and a Capri Sun and smoothie/ pure juice.

That covers him for lunch and break.

Mine is well within the bounds of normal according to this thread - Philadelphia sandwich, cucumber and pepper sticks, some fruit and either a Dunker and 2 jaffa cakes or mini cheddars and a yoghurt. She has very weak squash too.

However DD, who is 5, assures me that everyone else's parents send them with 2 Freddo Face yoghurts and a Fruit Shoot Was hoping we has a few years before the "everyone else's parents" started

Only half a sandwich because I make my own bread and it's really filling. I alternate the packet of biscuits with a biscuit I make myself and the fruit depends on what's in the fridge and sometimes it's carrot etc instead of tomatoes with the cheese and a salami stick.

Today's lunches for the nearly 5 and the 7 year old. Plus a flask of water. They both get milk at school.

DC have the same everyday. The roll is just buttered and the sandwich has cheese and jam in it.

DS has one packed lunch a week because he loathes roast dinners, so I pack him a treat, there's no lunchbox police in his school.

White bread sandwich with either ham & cheese, tuna & cucumber or smoked salmon & cream cheese.
Pot of jelly or a biscuit, sometimes even a twix finger
Crisps
Token grapes or carrot sticks (he will not eat this, I do it to make me feel better!)
Capri sun