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 DD (5.5) had:

one 'ants on a log' = celery stick filled with a smear of cream cheese and raisins dotted on the top for 'ants')
1 sm carrot (cut up)
some melon

2 pieces of ham wrapped in lettuce (not sure how much of the lettuce she'll eat)
mini pepperami
cheese string

tub filled with bits of dry things: dried apple, oat cakes, pumpkin seeds, raisins

banana (optional to eat and lunch or keep for after school snack on way home). She picked the banana for this.

...oh yeah, and a small low-sugar yoghurt (Rachel's)

Mine today had:

Wholemeal bread cheese and cucumber sandwich
Bag of twiglets
Red apple
Fruit smoothie
And a fruit winder for snack time.

Dd has packed lunch once a week and has either cottage cheese and pineapple sandwich with white bread or shop bought southern chicken salad wrap, yogurt eg. Froobs, a show clementine which comes home again and goes back in the salad bowl, a treat eg crisps or chocolate biscuit. She does eat fruit and veg at other times

Fruit bowl

Ds7&11 both had:

Seeded batch bread with turkey, rocket & mayo
Satsuma
Frube
Bear yo yo fruit-winder thing
2 Quorn scotch eggs
Water

They both have packed lunch all week and have much the same every day with egg, cheese or turkey for sandwich filling or a rare treat ham (trying to reduce our pork consumption!) plus crisps or a penguin type bar on Friday that they eat after school before a club. I very occasionally buy mini pepperonis or do a big chicken pasta salad.

Out of interest, I was trying to find a less sugary alternative to those frube things that don't cost a fortune - any suggestions? Anything that requires a spoon is out as they've lost too many over the years!

My first son (born 1988) used to have sandwiches, crisps, penguin and squash in one of those beaker things. My second son (who was an extremely fussy eater) used to take a sandwich, fromage frais and a piece of fruit, because the healthy eating thing had started by then. He used to leave everything apart from the fromage frais. He was one of those kids who used to hide his unwanted packed lunch under his bed and I used to find it years weeks later.

Pate sandwiches on brown, with cucumber and tomato. Multigrain crackers with cheddar. Fromage frais pouch. Usually also have a bit of fruit.

@thisgirlrides you can get reusable pouches for yoghurt from Amazon I think

Thanks (& never knew you could tag someone like that )

DS1 made his own and had a linseed and poppyseed wrap with tuna salad and hummus inside, a bottle of water, cucumber and carrot sticks, an apple, a satsuma and a waitrose chocolate brioche thing.

DS2 also made his own packed lunch last night and put in a salt and vinegar crisp sandwich (brown bread), a mini packet of jaffa cakes, a carton of ribena and a banana. Left to his own devices he'd eat far less healthy stuff than DS1 would, but if I put the same sort of things DS1 eats into his lunch box he'll eat it because he's a gannet and will eat anything.

I tend to be flexible when it comes to lunches; as long as they're not mainlining mars bars and coke each lunch time I don't put up too much of a fight.

Didn't have time to post this morning. Wholewheat piada with hummus, falafel, peppers, cucumber, watercress and spring onion.
We (DD, DS & I) also took a pack of Aldi lentil curls each, and an apple.

Tomorrow is boiled egg and avocado with salad and oatcakes. We'll have raspberries with grated dark chocolate and a blob of clotted cream for pudding.

We alternate pudding days and crisp days .

wrap with houmous, red pepper, cucumber, lettuce.
fig roll type biscuits (given to her by a friend yesterday)
apple

YoYo bear for after swimming

Tomorrow my boys have:

Tuna Mayonnaise sandwich (white bread)
Yogurt
Raisins
Cucumber
Cereal Bar
Handful of skips
Grapes
Apple

I was doing pesto pasta this morning (on DD's request - new found passion for pesto) and at the last minute realized pesto = pinenuts = nuts and we have nut ban at school.

So pasta with cheese and broccoli it was then.

And an apple.

DD (8) has a packed lunch today:

Wholemeal tortilla wrap with lettuce and ham (no sauces or butters etc she hates them).
Baby bel
Capri sun black currant water
Pot of grapes and strawberries.

Oh and a pack of those aldi pea snacks for break time, as she is bored of the school tuck shop offering and they aren't allowed real crisps apparently!

Pine nuts are seeds not nuts, so pesto is fine.

Hot pesto pasta and broccoli today.
Sugar snaps and carrot sticks.
Apple.

Apparently yesterdays apple had a bite take out of it and was disgusting and rejected - the little sister had bitten an apple & put it back & I didn't notice.

Dc 9
Wholegrain roll with cheese
Wholegrain roll with jam
Clementine
Grapes
Ready salted crisps
Yoghurt
Slice of Jamaican spice bun
Apple juice
Bottle of water

At his age I used to have 1 jam sandwich on white, a yoghurt and a Club bar with some squash. Ds is so skinny but always hungry. He has a good appetite and isn't fussy at meal times but packed lunches aren't easy because he prefers hot food, but he says the school dinners have no flavour.
Chocolate strictly isn't allowed in packed lunches as part of their healthy lunchvinitiative, it is still on the school lunch menu though.

No photo as I haven't made tomorrow's yet!

Ds always has a sandwich, wholemeal bread with cheese and marmite/ham/peanut butter and jam.
Also a satsuma or similar, a small cake eg. an individual apple pie or some home-made flapjack, some grapes, a banana and a carton of apple juice.

I know someone is going to say something about the peanut butter but he's autistic, there are only six in his class, they are not allowed to eat each other's food and none of them are allergic so the chances of it causing anyone a problem are slim. Of course if one of the class or the staff had a nut allergy we would be informed and comply with a ban.