She won't eat half and half or brown/wholemeal bread. She likes white bread, seeded bread and granary bread. White bread is most affordable. Outside of school she only drinks milk, water or fresh apple/orange juice but likes to take a juice drink to school like her friends.
Although she's only 11, she is enormous (height wise, she's very slim) and is already starving when she comes home from school, so I am not cutting anything out or giving her food she won't eat.
We don't have sweets, biscuits, cordial or desserts (except for once a week). After school she snacks on baked beans, bananas, plain yogurt and whatever she forages from the garden - although atm the only thing ready to eat is herbs and spring cabbage, which she doesn't like. She's waiting for the cherries, brambles, strawberries and pears to grow. She's also growing strawberries indoors so she can have them year round. Her sister is attempting to grow cucumbers but they aren't going well.
She does sometimes ask for ham and cheese sandwiches, which I give her but obviously it's more expensive than the chocolate spread, so if she asks for chocolate spread, she gets it. Lettuce sandwiches were a thing at one point
. She also got those. Atm it is chocolate spread but she occasionally asks for cheese and onion.
Her favourite lunch when I can afford it is homemade vegetable curry and rice (which she eats cold), or pasta in tomato sauce with tuna and spring onion, cherries or blueberries and strawberries, plain yogurt, apple juice, cheese cubes and doritos.
When we have pears ready and berries and I can stop buying enough bananas and apples to keep a small country going for a month, I will use the money I save to make her veg curry or buy tuna for her pasta.