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?

My two (4 and 6) ) have packed lunches every day. I always pack very similar....today is

Ham sandwich on 50/50 bread
Aldi version of a frube yoghurt
Small box of raisins
Babybel
Pot of yellow peppers and baby tomatoes
Apple
Orange

That includes two snacks for morning and afternoon breaks. Usually eat the apple and orange as those break time snacks. Lunchbox ALWAYS comes back empty!

Oh and they take a flask of orange squash which they're allowed to refill with water as the day goes on.

Excuse the messy background. Ham salad sandwich. Dd2 yogurt with blueberries and strawberries (the blueberries are frozen, not used them before, hope they're ok). Also added a small tub of Philly to dd1s for her carrots.

Pretty typical packed lunch for my 7 year old DD. Chicken wrap, yogurt tube, frozen tub has strawberries in, a treat item and a drink.

Drink is not always a carton, more often than not it's a water bottle filled with diluting juice and wrap/roll/sandwich is always either cheese, chicken or ham, fruit also varies every day as does the treat... Not always chocolate, can vary from biscuit, small chocolate, cake, crisps but nothing too big.

Pretty much the same as yesterday, about three triangles of the sandwiches will get eaten, the little sausages, flapjack and frube will also go. He will eat half the berries. Usually he will polish off the one left over sandwich, carrot sticks and berries after school while we do his homework but it's Friday so no homework tonight, they will just go in the bin, or I'll eat the berries.

I'm glad that a lot of you guys give ham sandwiches on a regular basis, DS has packed lunch 3 times per week and it's always ham and cucumber he asks for, I'm always worried when I see on here or the news or whatever about the dangers of eating too much ham but I'd rather that than nothing. I don't feel too bad that I'm not in a minority.

I've also put a cream egg in there for his playtime snack, he always gets a little treat in Friday.

This is what the one-year-old's getting today. Fromage frais and grapes same as yesterday cos he loves them. Sweet potato pasty and weird carrot biscuit that went a bit wrong and he probably won't eat.

Four and six year olds have:
Ham and mayo wrap or sandwich
Yogurt
Grapes
Bottle of water (never touched really)

On a friday they get crisps and squash as a treat. Maybe a fruit yoyo or a biscuit.

My daughter has cheese sandwich, yoghart, bannana, satsuma, apple and barney bear today. The fruit changes about as well in week and will swap with grapes and blueberries to and likes rasberries or starwberries in summer as well.

No picture either.
Yesterday was sandwich thin with quorn slices in
small pot of salad (which came home, untouched)
small pot of popcorn (ditto)
pot of fresh fruit, cubed
packet of plain crisps
tube yogurt
drink of water

12 year old this mornig... Wholemeal roll with cheese and lettuce; mini screen (wrapped in cling film because I was going it eat it but it's banana ); a frube; a plum; a tangerine and an apple for his bag (in case he feels hungry later). This is more than he'd usually have as this is my fat child, but he has two different sporting activities this afternoon and I don't want him eatig hungry and manipulating his friends for food :)

School is really strict about what they can and can't take. Today both boys have hummus and wholemeal pitta, ds1 has a babybel, black currant and a banana, ds2 had water, yoghurt and a pear. Ds1 likes taking pasta salad and couscous, ds2 would have ham wraps or peanut butter sandwiches every day
We get letters about how many sugar cubes were in their lunch, that can only take 1 treat, treats are plain biscuits, cake, cordial/drinks, cereal bars and crisps. No chocolate biscuits allowed, they can gave a mini pork pie or sausage roll but not big ones, yet sausage roll is on the school dinner menu

9yo has a wrap with either cheese & salad, or humous & salad.
plus a couple of pieces of fruit.

Sometimes I do greek yogurt with a passion fruit or some chopped pineapple but haven't done that for a while now.

Maybe a yoyo bear once a week.

We've recently bought a Thermos for hot food and some days she will have a veggie pasta, or leftover paella or something like that.

9 yo pretty much takes the same lunch every day.:
Hummous wrap in ww tortilla or ham sandwich on ww bread
Yogurt tube
Small bag of Popcorn or pretzels
Apple
Small cake or penguin bar

16 year old- who knows! She gets £3 a day and took a small twirl out the cupboard.
12 year old- 4 crackers, cheese, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, banana, a bag of crisps bottle of juice.
6 year old- spiced cous cous, cracker and cheese, pepper and cucumber sticks, blueberries and pineapple, frube and a mini jammy dodger.
4 year old- half a pastrami sandwich, cucumber, pepper and carrot sticks, a cracker and cheese, blueberries and pineapple, frube and mini jammy dodger.
Frubes are not the norm but they were reduced to 15p. The crackers the little ones have are small about the size of a big cheddar and I cut the cheese into a round to go onto it. 12 year old has cream crackers.

DS is 5 and all of last year in reception he had a ham sandwich (white/brown bread) babybel, cucumber, Apple and a small apple/orange juice. Now he hardly ever eats his lunch and I've tried lots of different things. This week he has had a small part baked roll (dry) mini cheese dinosaur, yoghurt lolly, apple and a drink.

Today...
Ham sandwich on brown bread
Squeezy Yogurt
Cucumber slices
Pepperami
Satsuma

DS is 8 and this is pretty standard for him.

Inspired by this thread I just went and bought a Capri sun for fifty cents in central Paris. I don't even have kids.

I had a pot noodle and loads of aspirin (headache).

It intrigues and interests me how so many of our DCs lunches are so very very similar. A few variations like pasties and the bolognese in a flask which is an idea I'm going to pinch. Not to hijack the thread, but what did people have growing up? I had every single day for years ham sandwich, 1 piece of fruit and a pack of crisps.

I find these sorts of articles really interesting.

www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/what-school-lunches-look-like-in-20-countries-arou?utm_term=.wfZPwVLn1#.hpK563DOx

DC aged 13 has a wholemeal bread sandwich/wrap/roll with either cheese and marmite or ham & lettuce.An apple and clementine, a penguin or similar. Crisps on Friday only.

DC aged 16 is veggie and has a wholemeal roll/sandwich with either humous/peanut butter or cheese. Eats her fruit at home.

Dd packed lunch today.the sandwich is tuna and sweetcorn.

Nursery packed lunch today for my 4 year old. It covers lunch and two snacks. Standard for lunch actually, she has very similar at home too.

Pate sandwich, one slice whole grain bread folded in half
Banana
Satsuma
Cereal bar
Babybel cheese
Carrot sticks
Cherry tomatoes
Water

DD (6) had salami sandwich, apple, Cheese Strings, a ginger nut and a bottle of water. That's v typical - I normally do sandwich, something proteiny so cheese or egg, a piece of fruit or veg, and a treaty thing like a biscuit or crisps. Occasionally she takes pasta salad or something like that. She moves at a snail's pace so if I put in yogurt as well she'd still be eating when lessons started...

I was surprised how many referred to the Danish example as similar to a U.K. one ...
Clearly not going on the above ..
DD6
Cheese sandwich normally in brown
Chopped up grapes with blueberries or whatever we have.
Small yogurt
Mini chedders
Water