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?

Wrap (plain), Apple, OJ, yoghurt, breadsticks and hm pain au chocolat

Today mine had
Tortilla wrap chicken slices
Kitkat ( 2 finger )
Apples
Satsuma
And a salt and vinegar rice cake
Dd 12 has a thermos of hot choc too ( don't ask ) and ds 14 takes lemon flavoured water.

Today

Chicken and cucumber sandwich
Carrot sticks
Yogurt
Apple
Cheese cubes

My 10 year old daughter usually has a sandwich cut into shapes with cutters, sometimes she will have homemade potato scones instead or soup in her thermos. Then she will have fruit, a carton of fruit juice or soya milk, carrot sticks or slices of pepper and a treat, usually fruit based or homemade.She has recently had to go dairy free and before would of had a small yoghurt as well.

I'm surprised at the quantities of food people give their kids. My kids would be too busy chatting to eat all of that. I give my 11 year old a cheese sandwich and a bag of crisps. If he is lucky he gets a carton of apple juice too.

DD has always had a hot lunch, Dtwins are at secondary so they are also eating at school. They take water and a break time snack in with them (Granola bar, nutrigrain bar, fruit)

Youngest had the following today

-Bottle water (this is sometimes a NAS Capri Sun)

• Ham and lettuce wrap
• Frube
• Mini box raisins
• carrot sticks
• nutella pot with breadstick (like the old school KP choc dips)
• banana

Packed lunches made here every morning. Not in the UK so no school dinners!

The big ones had:
Brown bread sandwiches with piri piri chicken (cut up mini fillets)
Apple and orange
Yoghurt
Crackers with a piece of cheese and a tub of humous
Digestive biscuits
Water

They polished off everything.

Little one in playschool (has SN so is picky) brought:
Banana
Smoothie
Cold pasta
Oat crackers and cheese
Large mint choc rice cake
A slice of toast with butter
Cup of milk

Some eaten, some mushed up inside lunch bag as usual

There's no restrictions on what they can have in their lunchbox at our school
Son 8 is a horrible eater and has same every day.
WM peanut butter sandwich
Apple
Salted popcorn or crisps
Yo-yo bear
Small cake
Smoothie

My DS 1 y/ lunch today was:

Toast
Ham
Cheese
Tomatoes
Ella's kitchen veg crisps
Banana

Other days he has an omelette, beans on toast or jacket potato, pitta bread with avocado, cucumber tomatoes, cheese.

Dinner tonight he'll be having baked cod, mediterrean roast veg, roast potato wedges, and a yoghurt

DD8 today had

1 chicken sandwich on white bread
1 cheese string
1 frube
1 small pot of cucumber
1 chocolate roll

She has pretty much same every day, the sandwich filling and choc bar changes and the cheese string is sometimes a pepperami, sometimes there's a jelly or fruit pot instead of yogurt.
It all always gets eaten.

4 years old
brown bread with either ham, or butter. if with butter, then a babybel or similar
water
apple/carrot/banana (he chooses)
box of raisins or dried apple rings

I work as a lunch supervisor at detest frubes. They're meant to be easy open. If that were true I wouldn't have to keep cutting them open with scissors. Drives me nuts.
DD 9 rarely has packed lunch but when she does she gets

• sandwich with peanut butter/ ham and lettuce/ cheese or a wrap
• packet of crisps
• carrot or cucumber sticks
• a pot of fruit
• the occasional sweet treat like a cookie or small cake

Mine are in secondary but I still make DS's (year 8). He has a sandwich (cheese or smoked salmon usually), with cucumber and/or tomatoes, fruit (usually satsuma) and a couple of plain-ish biscuits and water. Sometimes he has an egg on its own and a marmite sandwich. It's not much but he usually rushes his lunch so he can go to a club or hang with friends. DD in year 10 makes her own lunch which can range from pasta in a pot with pesto, sandwich, falafel and pitta. They always take fruit and sometimes have a choc biscuit too. I cook relatively healthily at home, and buy lower-fat plain crisps as they do like them after school - will eat nuts too but they get home before me so they take from the cupboard.

Mine get

Sometimes lunchables, or snack attack instead of a sandwich. Snack attack they love. Its a wrap, cold meat, cheese string and ketchup [ mine dont like ketchup] They have a yoyo fruit bar and a little chocolate something - could be a penguin. Is that a crime? and an apple or pear which they rarely eat.
For snack its just a pack of crisps.

Im surprised at being allowed peanut butter in school. We have a nut allergy rule in place and no child is encouraged to bring in anything that has nuts in it. Obviously traces of nuts you cant exclude but peanut butter i couldnt give them as it is a nut free school.

I have a fussy eater and he has

Sausage roll
Fridge raiders
Mini chedders
Frube
Cereal bar

DD 8 had

A chicken sandwich on brown bread
Cream crackers
2 satsumas
A handful of raisins
bottle of water

Usually there'd be a small cake and a biscuit instead of the second satsuma but I forgot to buy any cake and DS pinched the biscuits

DS(12)
DD's biscuits (1/2 a pack of shortbread)
A bottle of coke
Chocolate spread sandwiches (brown bread though, that totally makes it better)
A satsuma (that he almost certainly won't eat)

DS normally has school dinners and didn't tell me he needed pack lunch tilI this morning, so I told him to make it himself (trying to teach him to tell me these things as early as possible)

Oh dear, ds1 just informed me that all his friends get a "pudding" or treat and a drink. Now I feel bad.

Fascinating, no "play food" permitted at our school. Mine aged 5 gets

1. Sandwich on wholemeal bread, cheese/ marmite,/ham or smoke salmon pate or pasta salad with homemade pesto, or a homemade cheese scone.
2. Two pieces of fruit (one for snack time) usually orange, apple, pear, melon, grapes, strawberries, sometimes dates, banana.
3. Salad usually two ingredients, either a whole carrot, a whole pepper, big chunk of cucumber and he always gets, tomatoes.

Occasional treats include an un-iced cupcake, oats apple crumble.

Here is a packed lunch I saw at school today: Nestle aero dessert, penguin bar, chocolate rice crispy bar, crisps, 1/2 white bread cucumber sandwich, fruit shoot

What makes me laugh about this is that at BOTH my DCs schools their paid for by the government packed lunch includes a came every single day and when my DD asked for more than one piece of fruit she was told no because she had to eat the cake !!!!

6 year old DS. He has packed lunch once a week (on roast dinner day). He has the same each week:

Ham and mustard white bread sandwich
5 cherry tomatoes
About 2" of cucumber, sliced
Pom bears or picked onion space raiders
Mini pepperami
Frube
Packet of mini ginger bread men biscuits
Jaffa cake bar
Caprisun sun

He also takes an apple for break time.

Floey really?! that lunch would be queried via the pastoral team at our school! It wouldn't be a big thing but a watch would be put on the child (or rather their lunch) and if it was repeated regularly it would then be escalated. Like I said, our school are pretty laid back but that would raise flags.

Today DD1 (8) had white bread roll with ham on it. No butter. A small box of sugar snap peas and a carton of apple juice. She also had water. I've got sick of lifting apples that don't get eaten out of her bag, so didn't bother with it this morning and I knew she wouldn't eat the peas if I added a bag of mini breadsticks.

Tomorrow is cooked sausages left over from tea tonight with carrot sticks and oatcakes.

Sandwich...tuna mayo with lettuce, ham and lettuce or cheese and lettuce.
Fruit
Salad vegetables
Cheese squares
Half a pack of mini cheddars
Yoghurt
Water