To be worried about putting ds on sandwiches?

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Ds 9yo wants to take sandwiches to school instead of dinners. I wouldn't mind and it would save me money, but I'm worried about him getting a varied diet at lunch time.

All he wants to eat is cheese or ham sandwiches. I can't think what to give him.

He will eat bread, cheese, ham, chicken, yoghurts (certain ones), cake, crisps, biscuits (not allowed), apples, bananas, carrots, breadsticks and can't think of much else.

Won't eat, tuna, salmon, cold boiled egg, salmon, peppers, tomatoes, hummus, cold pasta, fruit apart from apples and bananas.

I think he's imagining cheese sandwiches and penguin bars everyday which isn't going to happen.

Cheese sandwich, apple, carrots and a yoghurt. It's fine if he has the same every day at lunch, so long as you're cooking varied meals for tea.

My daughter has school dinners and has jacket potato every day! (There is plenty of choices) he might eat the same dinner every day already

That's true I think he does tend to stick to the same things even at school.

Mine has pizza for break and pizza for lunch apparently. So at home he gets very healthy meals. Swings and roundabouts

I don't think there is anything wrong with sending him with a ham/cheese/chicken sandwich every day, with an apple or banana and some carrot sticks.

My child had a cheese and ham sandwich every day at school from Y1 onwards until she got to secondary school this year. She wouldn’t eat anything else and she also had a yoghurt, cereal bar, small cheese and a pepperami every day.

Sandwiches could be swapped for rolls or wraps, although all bread based!

My ds also likes cocktail sausages or sausage rolls sometimes.

Dd likes to have pasta in a flask in her packed lunch

Dd had jacket potato with tuna every day when she was in primary school.
It's done her no harm.
admittedly we get free meals but Tbh, I'd have paid to get rid of the hassle.
I love cooking, I hate hate hate making packed lunches.

I guess so, I'd just have to rotate between cheese ham and chicken.

Me and dh take leftovers but we have microwaves at work, I like knowing that he's at least been offered a variety of foods at school even if he doesn't eat it.

I hate doing sandwiches but he's been on about it for ages and when I worked out the cost it is a few hundred pounds a year, whereas we have food in for sandwiches.

There's nothing wrong with a cheese sandwich and some fruit if that's what he wants.

That's a nice, normal lunch. There's a perfectly satisfactory middle-ground between quinoa bento boxes or a can of Red Bull and a mars bar.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a cheese or ham sandwich, an apple and carrot sticks every day.

Surprised he won't eat peppers when he likes carrots! DS doesn't like green ones but he eats other peppers most days. Also celery and cucumber sticks.

To be honest I think eating anything at school is a good thing. Diet can be more varied at home.

Kids do love their cheese don't they?

I suppose you're all right, I bet a lot of the children are the same, I'm imagining everyone eating all different foods.

DD has a cheese sandwich every day, with some fruit. It's fine.

In my day (and in Ireland where there are no school lunches) every single child brought in a ham or cheese sandwich, an apple, and if very lucky a penguin. Every day for 12 years. No harm done.

Hardly any of mine ever ate their lunch regardless of what I put in it. They survived. If he’ll eat a cheese or ham sandwich and an apple he’ll be fine.

No, I tell a lie, you might get a satsuma instead of an apple around Halloween.

I think when I was at school we had squash and biscuits at break. Lunch was ham sandwich and an animal bar.

we alternate tuna and cheese spread sandwiches

apple or grapes

HE doesn't have that big an appetite so we don't need anything else. I did used to put in either crakers and cheese, crisps, popcorn or a flapjacky thing but it never got eaten (strict rule was sandwich first)

Its fine. Its only 1 of 3 meals, for 39 weeks of the year. Its not their whole diet.

What about a flask for hot food? My dd takes one with things like soup, baked potato, lasagne etc. It's still hot at lunch time and makes a change from sandwiches.

When I was at secondary school, I took a ham or cheese s andwhich, piece of fruit and a biscuit (allowed in those days!) every day for 5 years. My friends took very similar lunches. We were all happy with that and very healthy girls.

I think he'll be fine if you just mix up the cheese/ham/chicken and other bits he likes.

Does it have to be different?

Cheese / ham / chicken sandwich, veg sticks and a piece of fruit every day is fine

"Kids do love their cheese don't they?"

Everyone loves a cheese sandwich