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.

Mine took the same boring ham sandwiches every single day. That was their choice.

I just added different fruits/yoghurts to mix it up a bit.

Lots of kids have the same meal every day, it's fine. I worry more about if they eat enough.

It's only one meal out of three anyway.

Mine were more interested in getting back outside to play.

If he eats a varied diet for the other meals, having the same sandwich every day won't hurt him.

You’ve kidnapped my DS, haven’t you??

I’ve concluded that although I’m bored rigid with his lunch variation, he obviously isn’t.

I circulate the following; white/wholemeal sandwich or roll with chicken, ham or grated cheese. Or a wrap with cheese and tiny chopped tomato or cucumber or chicken. Or for a proper swit-swoo treat cheese AND a slice of ham

I stick in a tiny click box with cherry toms,
Chopped pepper, carrot sticks, grapes, chunks of cucumber, halved strawberries and kiwi or whatever he claims he will eat and doesn’t already feature in the sandwich.

Biscuits are banned but I do put in a small square of home made flapjack or Mary berry energy square. And I mean small - 4cm x 4cm gone in one bite size.

Ds went the whole way through primary school with a rotation of cheese/ham sandwiches, peperami, carrot sticks, cocktail sausages, occasionally cheese and crackers or a sausage roll and grapes and apple (the only fruit he likes). He wouldn’t touch school dinners. Now he’s at secondary, his menu choices amaze me as he tries everything!

DS had ham sandwiches, a yoghurt and a banana everyday throughout primary school .

I had a friend at school who had Marmite sandwiches every single day, for years. One day I asked her if she ever had anything else. She changed it to peanut butter, every single day until she left school.

She always ate them.

Mine have taken a packed lunch pretty much everyday for 12 years (often including holidays where they needed one for Out of School care).

They usually have a sandwich - pretty similar options to what your DS has although they will also eat salami and tuna mayo and DS1 likes mackerel too.

They have two bits of fruit from apple/banana/grapes/cherries/ satsuma/pear etc

a biscuit or muffin or brioche or similar and usually an extra savoury thing such as bits of chicken/sausage rolls/egg bites/cheese and biscuits or melba toast.

Sometimes i do them cheese melted (and maybe salami or peperoni) between two chapatis/wraps then cooled and sliced like pizza or actual cold slices of pizza or a cold cheese and ham toastie.

They are perfectly happy. I'd just go for it OP, he can always get dinners again if he gets bored or can have dinners once or twice a week?

Would your DS eat chicken cous cous for variation?

I generally lothe making sandwiches (from all the sexist sandwich 'jokes' as a teen) but make a lot of wraps in the George Foreman. I throw cream cheese, lettuce, sometimes meat (chicken or ham) with some other greens (spinach/kale/etc) and smother it with cheese. It's like heaven, and I never gave it to my kids but one day they helped themselves to a bite (smelt that cheese) and that was it. Sometimes I put avocado in there if I get them on offer or if I wake up in a good mood.

My kids (and myself) love dipping celery into cream cheese. I usually give a little pot of cream cheese and vegetable sticks (I mix it up, either carrot, pepper, celery, beans, cucumber).

Does your son like bagels? Mine only like them freshly toasted (with more bloomin' cream cheese) but could do to mix up instead of sandwiches?

My kids get wrap/pasta/cous cous, veg and two contrasting bits of fruit.

Mine only ate lettuce sandwiches for her entire primary school time. No school dinners, no protein just lettuce.

She a healthy, normal weight 14 year old now who has progressed to quorn ham sandwiches - with lettuce!

She eats well at home and occasionally will go to the school canteen and eat plain pasta lol.

Nothing wrong with her just limited tastes which are changing as she gets older.

Hi, DD 13 throughout school has spent time on pack lunch and then gone back to dinners, then gone back to pack lunch, chopping & changing -at the moment we are on pack lunches with some cash in the dinner account (much easier to chop and change in high school & if she went with a pack up & it came home uneaten as she had a lunch she could have it for supper) Variation is usually down to friendship group changes. Bagel with ham, carrot & cucumber sticks, home made 'fruit bag' bottle of water, crisps and snack bar. Could be healthier, but could be a lot unhealthier too.

Sounds fine to me. I ate nothing but brown sauce sandwiches for the whole of primary school. Still love them now!

Some people prefer variety and hate eating the same things regularly. And some prefer to eat the same things repeatedly. If you’re the latter you’lll be happy with narrow rotation.

If he gets bored of his sandwiches he could always go wild and try other fillings...

Oh god, brown sauce sandwiches - with crisps. I ate those for a while when saving for our wedding. The brown sauce stopped the bread sticking and I could open and add the crisps "fresh" at lunchtime!

Honestly it's pure MN.
"Your child likes carrots, sure they'll like peppers too"
The OP states her kids only really like sandwiches, and someone suggests giving them chicken cous cous.

DS2 did this. I know some teachers judged. But he was happy. Cheese on wholemeal, an apple, (no pears, bananas, oranges - just apple) crisps and yoghurt and a smoothie every single day throughout primary. He'd still happily live on that if he had to.

I went the whole way through primary (and most of secondary) school on a marmite sandwich, crisps, a frube and a Cadbury’s mini roll and was absolutely fine.

Most schools would throw a fit at this type of lunch nowadays!!!!!!!

*Would your DS eat chicken cous cous for variation?

I generally lothe making sandwiches (from all the sexist sandwich 'jokes' as a teen) but make a lot of wraps in the George Foreman. I throw cream cheese, lettuce, sometimes meat (chicken or ham) with some other greens (spinach/kale/etc) and smother it with cheese. It's like heaven, and I never gave it to my kids but one day they helped themselves to a bite (smelt that cheese) and that was it. Sometimes I put avocado in there if I get them on offer or if I wake up in a good mood.*

I seriously can’t work out whether this post is a joke?

Unless the ds in your title stands for dog shit I’d say it’s fine.

I went through university having a liver sausage sandwich and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps for lunch most days - occasionally I had a salad sandwich instead.And the occasional kit Kat.And a lot of secondary school having a cheese and Bovril sandwich everyday for breakfast.
We always had a proper meal in the evening,I've grown up to be a pretty healthy adult with no nutritional deficiencies!

ds 9 takes wholemeal bread ham sandwich and an apple for lunch, every, single day. Anything else just doesn't get eaten

I eat the same lunch and breakfast every work day. It suits me!

If I eat the same thing every day after a while I never want to see it again.

I have to not eat it for a long time before I stop being sick of it.

I pretty much ate a ham sandwich at school every day for 12 years. It's fine.
I'm doing daily cheese toasties at the moment so there's hope