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?

And just to add when I was at secondary school NO ONE would take in a packed lunch, maybe a pack of crisps or something (or a clinged sandwich strategically hidden in a blazer pocket for furtive lesson eating) so I'm amazed at all the teens on here having a full on lunch made for them that they presumably eat!

btfly - my teenage DS doesn't like 'wasting time' queuing up for school meals - and from what I hear at secondary school they are not particularly healthy - I guess you can choose the 'fruit and salad' options but whenever my DS does take the money for a school meal he just seems to buy a baguette or similar.

And unless you are providing danish style packed lunches - I never understand the argument that a packed lunch is expensive. My DS took a packed lunch today - six slices of hovis bread made into three sandwiches - cheese/peanut butter/choc spread (not all together) and one banana - nothing is bought specially for packed lunches, it is just stuff we have round the house. If he has a school lunch I give him £2.50 - I know which is cheaper. .

@FeliciaJollygoodfellow PM-Ing it now so I don't spam the thread with a massive long recipe. My mum says she has changed the cooking time, and that's where I went wrong!

Thank you!

No lunch box police at our school!
They have different everyday.

DD9
Half a cheese & naice ham wrap
Two cherry tomatoes
Actimel drink yoghurt
Pot of custard
Iced gems
1 mini scotch egg
Soreen banana loaf
Chicken bites
Orange squash

DS7
Chicken bites
Pain au chocolat
Raisins
Grapes
Mini cheddars
2 mini scotch eggs
Pot of custard
Black currant squash.

Snack in there too.

Felicia - I agree - I cannot imagine a teenager taking a tupperware box to school full of chopped fruit/healthy snacks/wraps etc. For a while my teenager liked a Ginsters pasty (£1) for his 'packed lunch'. .

No point taking a picture. She has dry pitta bread, crisps, and a satsuma which enjoys travelling back and forth to school every day, and I eat the squashed remnants on a Friday. Then I replace it with a new travelling satsuma Monday morning.

Occasionally I put something different in and she ends up eating nothing.

Today mine had:
-cheese pesto sandwich on brown bread
-frube

• orange club biscuit or crisps (they choose)
• a piece of fruit

-watered down fruit juice

Some days the frube is a handful of nuts, or a piece of cheese, or hummus and carrot/breadsticks but the rest is pretty typical.

Breakfast is a carb-fest. Our veg eating is focused on after school/dinner.

I have found as my DC got older they eat less at dinner time as they would rather go and play

Packed lunches used to have something cheese based, yogurt, sandwich, fruit and drink

Now one only has sandwich fruit and drink. The other has sandwich fruit drink and yogurt or cheese thing

Have other people found this too? They would eat it all in reception but this year have downsized (year 3+4)

Today DC1 and DC2 are on school dinners, and preschool DC3 has:

Cold pasta and peas
Leftover pigs in blankets
Apple juice
Frube

He doesn't eat well from a packed lunch so "what he will eat" is more important than "super balanced". He's eaten well last night and this morning, and no doubt will eat well this evening, so just needs topping up at lunchtime.

Well, I feel virtuous though I wouldn't have yesterday!

Tomato and lentil soup in a thermos, small wholemeal roll (buttered), stewed rhubarb and greek yoghurt, and a small pile of grapes.

We home ed so no lunch box but I often do a lunch box type of lunch for them. Tends to be a wrap/bagel/muffin pizza/pitta with veg sticks, some cheese or chicken breast or ham, a couple of portions fruit, sometimes a yogurt or a little cake a biscuit or they share a pack of quavers or skips.

Today DS (9) has:

Wholemeal Pitta with ham
Baked cracker crisps
Pepperami (for snack time)
Pear
Bear yo-yo (apple)
Apple capri sun

DS is lactose intolerant and even though he can tolerate a little lactose as a treat (a bit of chocolate, a yoghurt etc) I don't put anything that could be vaguely connected with dairy in his lunchbox because school confiscates anything 'dairy' (which means they took away scotch eggs once because 'eggs are dairy' ffs, they removed a soya yoghurt too, because 'he shouldn't have yoghurt Ms Borrocks') and doesn't trust me to know what my child can and can't have.

The whole reason he had to go on packed lunches was because even though I went through the ingredients list of every item they used in the kitchen and let them know what they could and couldn't give him on a chart they provided me with they still mucked it up and either told him he couldn't have something he could and then gave him stuff that made him ill. And yes I know they have a lot of kids to deal with, but the kitchen manager asked me to do the chart for them, then her staff had the nerve to tell me they ignored the chart because they knew better! Resulting in my child being sent home with D&V caused by the kitchen staff. Packed lunches are sooo much easier!

Today bottomless pit of a 9-year-old had:

Bottle of water (primarily for flipping....)
Tiger roll with egg mayo filling
Pot of mango cubes
Small pack of Nakd raisins
Babybel
Packet of salt and vinegar rice cakes (which he prefers to crisps)

He used to leave a lot of his lunch but this year he has been hoovering up every morsel.

DS (10) today took; wrap with Lancashire cheese, houmous, lettuce cucumber and tomato; banana; yoghurt pouch; Tunnocks caramel wafer; and 200ml carton of orange juice.

The Tunnocks isn't great, but he's got three of his five a day.

DD(17) has the same minus the yoghurt (too babyish).

Too late for photos but the standard for DS (9) is main (usually sandwich/roll but sometimes cheese and crackers or similar), 1 portion veg, 1 portion fruit, 1 treat (crisps/biscuit/fruit snack etc). Water to drink, or sometimes he likes a bottle of no added sugar flavoured milk. Sometimes I'll sling in an extra thing like a mini Babybel if he's going through a growth spurt but recently he's been complaining of having too much so I've been keeping it to 4 items.

Today was Quorn ham and cheese seeded roll, cucumber slices, grapes and a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer.

DC aged 13 & 12, took tagliatelle and beef stroganoff (last nights leftovers), yoghurt, packet of lunch box biscuits, individual wrapped chocolate brioche bun and drink.

Sometimes I give them fruit they prefer grapes, sliced apples and kiwis etc. One refuses to eat bananas or any fruit that requires peeling eg tangerines.

They're old enough to sort out their lunches themselves.

And their school allows them use of microwave so I've long stopped filling up thermos lunchboxes they take their food in microwave safe boxes.

Child 1 Cheese and cucumber wrap
Grapes
Actimel
Penguin
Carrots and houmous

Child 2 Ham sandwich
Cheese slices
Sausage roll
Penguin
Crisps

Spot the fruit and veg refuser!!!!! Both have water.

My 13 year old son refuses school dinners. Today he had:
Ham and cheese wrap
Packet of crisps
Pepperami
Drink
Up until very recently he used to take a yogurt too but as they aren't allowed to bin packaging he won't have one anymore as it makes a mess in his box. His words not mine.

Frankly, I'd be far to embarrassed. DS(15) is the only one that takes a packed lunch - and it generally consists of peanut butter sandwiches on white bread, a sausage roll and a rice krispies square.

Nothing else gets eaten - when at primary school I used to put in fruit/veg for show, but it was never eaten.

I do force feed him vegetables at home though. He'd live on ketchup sandwiches if he could

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Mine used to have a wrap with cheese, ham or chicken.
Cheese if not in the wrap
Two lots of fruit
Bread sticks or crackers
Olives
Water.

DS on school dinners but snack box contains a babybell cheese and some pomegranate seeds.

Usually has either cheese or breadsticks with fruit. Sometimes has cucumber and olives.

DS does love most fruit and veg though so that helps (also have a teen who refuses all fruit and veg so just gets school dinners and snacks).

Both dc have the same today.

Ham,tomato,cucumber wrap
Carrot sticks
Satsuma
Frube
Cheese string
Penguin
They have similar most days,changing the filling of the wrap or maybe taking a pasta instead.on Fridays they also take some sort of cake aswel.

Todays offerings for 14 year old is BLT on 50/50 (it is the only sandwich she will eat in her packing), a pack of mini cheddars, two chocolate digestive biscuit bars, a fruit winder, and a mini pack of love hearts. Normally it is the BLT, a packet of crisps, two choc digestive bars and an apple or pear (which ALWAYS comes home again). Her diet is poor but it is the only way to get food into her so given a choice of junk or nothing (she often skips breakfast as well) then junk it is. I would sooner she ate something, anything.

DD2 is is just turned two and not in childcare, she generally has pitta bread, olives, houmous, cheese, cucumber sticks and fruit or scrambled egg on toast with olives (the girl would live on them and them alone given half a chance!) and fruit.