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?

Dd is 2.5 and gets hot lunches but must take on a snack box for morning and afternoon. She gets

Whatever bread we have in with ham or cheese or pate on it
Any Fresh Fruit - sliced
Cucumber or pepper sticks with hummus
A natural yoghurt
A boiled egg
Water to drink

PreNursery daycare really strict. Even fruit yogurt frowned on and any sweets, crisps or chocolate totally forbidden. All the sweets for me.

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Dd refuses to eat school dinners. She's pretty fussy with food and hates potato, which is on the menu almost every day. She also likes that she can eat half her food at break time and the other half at lunch time and has plenty of time to play instead of wasting her time eating lol.

Today my 9 year old has a chicken, pepper and grated carrot wrap, a piece of home made cake, a banana and satsuma. The satsuma will come home for sure and maybe the banana.
He takes medication that affects his appetite so often doesn't eat much at lunchtime. He also has had some severe food aversions and has a relatively limited diet.
Fortunately he is at a supportive understanding school but no school will tell me what to feed my child without fully comprehending his needs.

One has dry mini breadsticks, three cocktail sausages, small fromage frais and some grapes. The other has a ham or cheese sandwich on a small white roll, small packet of mini cheddars or similar, a small fromage frais and an apple. Both have weak squash. They are 4 and 8.

DD (7) has recently started packed lunches after deciding she didn't like school dinners. It's already doing my nut in every morning. Anyway, she has the following:-

• Sandwich (white or brown) with various fillings or sometimes a wrap
• Piece of fruit or 2 plus she has a banana at break
• Few tomatoes/ pieces of cucumber
• Yoghurt
• Sometimes Mini cheddars or breadsticks
• Sometimes homemade brownie or flapjack
• Water to drink

Today my two boys (8 & 9) have gone to school with:

Ham, cheese & tomato roll (white bread)
Frube
Frazzle style crisps (own brand)
Apple
Cereal bar for morning snack
Yogurt covered fruit flakes

They had cheerios and a banana for breakfast. Will have a snack when they get in of brioche/scotch pancake/crumpet etc with fruit.

DS3 is 5 and has the school packed lunch which is always a filled roll, carrot sticks, raisins & a pudding of yogurt/cookie/cake. They get a piece of fruit at lunch. He comes home starving!

DD is fussier, when she goes to preschool she has a yumbox with something like:
Crackers
Cubes of cheese
Raisins
Yogurt
Grapes/strawberries
Cucumber

Again too late for today to take a picture, but my 3.5 yr old DD will take tomorrow -
A marmite or ham sandwich
A yogurt pouch
Mini babybel
A portion of whatever fruit she feels like eating
A cereal bar
Hula hoops
Water

My 3.5yo has a packed lunch for preschool. Usually the same thing, with minor variations. Today was:

• tuna mayo sandwich on white bread
• carrot batons
• little pot of philadelphia
• 'suckies' squeezy yoghurt and fruit pouch
• satsuma
• grapes

She doesn't eat it all, but eats different bits of it each day and then eats the rest as an afternoon snack on the way home.

My DS (3) took to preschool:
A sandwich thin with dairylea filling
A babybel
A pot of blueberries that went out of date yesterday (but look ok I think)
A slightly stale raisin muffin splat thing we made during my 'must try harder be fun' mother and son baking attempt on Monday

I hate the faff of pack lunches. Feel like I'm being judged but no option if he does a full day preschool session.

Tuna mayo sandwich (50/50 bread)

crisps

Chocolate mini roll

Blueberries

I know it's a pretty shit lunch but if she eats it then I'm happy.

Dinner is always home cooked stuff rammed with healthy things.

My 10 year old is ridiculously fussy and takes pretty much the same thing every day :
2 cream crackers with butter
Frube
Pot of grapes / box of raisins / banana
Penguin or packet of crisps
Fruit shoot

Prior to the cream cracker phase, he was taking a plain (unbuttered) roll! , he's refused ever to eat a proper sandwich in his life!! I feel very embarrassed about the unhealthy state of his lunch but at least he eats it and isn't coming home starving!

Innocent Smoothie
Cheese and marmite Thin
Carrot batons
Choc mousse
Dairylea dunker

He also takes additional fruit and water to eat and drink at break.

TBH my 9 year olds packed lunch has become more unhealthy over the years because he has become fussier and I just want him to eat something! I'd love him to eat a school dinner but he doesn't like the look of them.

15yr ol dd had two chicken and stuffing buns, seaweed crisps, mini edam and a peach.
She didn't even take it but ate it when she got home.
She doesn't usually live with me so normally gets £3 a day where she lives and free school meals, she saves the money

Mine is 8 and has a ham wrap, a pot of chopped carrots/cherry tomatoes/cucumber, and a carton of juice, then some combination of 2 or 3 of the following:
Mini breadsticks
A small sausage roll
A packet of hula hoops/mini cheddars/quavers
A piece of fruit
A fruity flapjack
A yoghurt
A couple of oreos or a mini roll or slice of cake (a couple of times a week)

I once put cold cheese and tomato pizza in (because I had run out of stuff to make a sandwich one night and there was a pizza in the freezer); his excitement about this was about on par with the time I took him to EuroDisney.

My 8 yo usually has a brown bread sandwich (cheese and cucumber/ ham etc), a piece of fruit (usually an apple or pear), some raw carrot and cucumber sticks, a Frube and a biscuit. He has a packet of crisps once a week (but no biscuit on rhat day!). Sometimes he has a pasta salad or noodle salad instead of the sandwich. Almost never white bread, never any drink except water.

17 yo DS has the same thing every day and has had for the last 4 years.

2 rounds of ham & cheese sandwiches

Yessssssss

I grew up on Capri suns, tuna sandwiches and cheese and onion crisps. I loved life. Now it's all quinoa and lentil salads (for me, I mean). Fml

DS age 10
wrap with pepperami or chocolate spread sandwich
salad depending what have in - peppers, cucumber, tomatoes
fruit depending what have in - apple, orange or banana (in summer may be strawberries, grapes etc)
little cake e.g. mini roll or malt loaf
crisps if I have them

DS aged 8
as above but would have ham, tuna, peperami or cheese in a wrap or roll.

DS (7) has the same EVERY day

White bread sandwich (no butter) with crappy processed chicken (1 day a week he has Nutella!)
3 x yogurt tubes
Brunch bar
Some peas in pods
Water

His sister has school dinners thank fuck

ds 18
packet of m&ms (he bought himself)
chicken salad and mayo sandwich on wholemeal
crisps
can of coke (he bought himself)
bottle of water
penguin
apple
ds13
chicken salad and mayo sandwich on wholemeal
2 finger kitkat
bottle of water
crisps

6yo gets school lunches (they are free for all p1-3s here). 3yo went to nursery with a granary cheese sandwich, breadsticks, a banana, a yoghurt and a fruit yoyo thingie.

Lots of protein in Nutella. Gotta get that protein.

DD 14 makes her own lunches. 99 days out of 100 she takes:

1. 1 x sandwich or roll, no butter, filling cheshire or wedneslydale cheese & sliced gherkins or picalilli
2. 1 or 2 x carrots peeled but not cut up
3. at least 2 of tangerine / apple / orange
4. some kind of cake or muffin if we have any (usually yes at the start of the week, less likely by Friday . . .)

I have offered to buy other items, but got nowhere! I console myself with the fact that at that age I would take either pickle sandwiches with no cheese or tomato and mayo sandwiches, plus a thermos of instant coffee. Teenagers are strange creatures