Does hot cross bun in child’s lunchbox replace sandwich?

[meaniemaybe]

DC normally has cheese roll, fruit, veg sticks, crisps, pack of little biscuits. Tomorrow I propose replacing cheese roll with buttered HXB and chunk of cheese. DH thinks replace biscuits with HXB.

Who IBU?

It would replace the biscuits for me, but it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things! A day of hot cross bun instead of a sandwich isn’t going to harm him.

It's really not a lot of food. Both my children (age 5 and 2) would have a sandwich, fruit, yogurt, cucumber, tomatoes, cheese stick and maybe a few baked crisps or a Biscuit. They eat piles of salad every day.

I'd take out the sandwich. It's bready bit cakey. The sweet bit is irrelevant. A jam sandwich is sweet. It's still a sandwich.

You are right!

It's one lunch over Easter. You'd think OP plans to give it as lunch every day with some of the responses.

Good Friday only

Absoloutly fine…. And if the school comment on it I’d be surprised if they dare with what they are serving up in the canteen if anything like our school !

I don't give biscuits as a regular lunch but a one off hot cross bun is a sub for a sandwich (bready element) and biscuit (sugary element).
I might add extra cucumbers or whatever veg you give for more fibre to fill them up.

Bless your children. Mine didn't/don't eat this much. At that age they managed a small pot of yoghurt and half a cheese sandwich maybe 2 sticks of 2inch long cucumber sticks.
Clearly children have different appetites.

I would put in the hx bun and cheese but also maybe some bread sticks and veg instead of both the sandwich and the biscuits. So it's still a mix of sweet and savoury but not excessively sweet/bready but with plenty of carbs and veg.

There’d be mutiny if I just sent a sandwich and a piece of fruit!

I'd replace with the sandwich but then I'd probably also replace the biscuits as they are more 'treaty' aren't they? Unless it's going to be buttered with cheese inside.

It’s bread so it replaces the sandwich. It might be sweet but it’s bread.

Surely it replaces the sandwich because its bread essentially

It’s holiday club so they don’t check lunchbox contents

You'd all hate me, I make cheese sandwiches and bacon butties using hot cross buns at this time of year. It's only for Easter, after all 🐽

Sounds fine to replace the roll to me.

You can't give a sandwich and a hot cross bun 😆 too much bread.

We put marmite in ours as replacements for sandwiches!

I cant decide if I'm disgusted or impressed

These threads always do! It's like a 'who eats less' competition.

Doesn't everyone then?

I’ve been taking a hot cross bun, with cheese to work for lunch. I take crudités too- for balance.

I have them for breakfast, class them as bread 🤷🏽‍♀️

You can do what you want or listen to the competitive health fanatics of Mumsnet.

A hot cross bun is basically cake?! Good god, what a sad little life, Jane

Revolting! I don't think I have ever had a hot cross bun in my life but to RUIN cheese by putting it in there? Really is this like a self flagellation thing?

It's really not a lot of food. Both my children (age 5 and 2) would have a sandwich, fruit, yogurt, cucumber, tomatoes, cheese stick and maybe a few baked crisps or a Biscuit. They eat piles of salad every day.

Piles of salad? Only on MN 😂