Page 6 | Does hot cross bun in child’s lunchbox replace sandwich?

meaniemaybe · 2023-04-10T16:07:36+00:00

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?

MaryShelley1818 · 10/04/2023 21:37

NotAnotherBathBomb · 10/04/2023 18:37

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 😂

For goodness sake grow up!
It was an illustration that they eat a lot of food not that they eat anything fancy. Surely cucumber and tomatoes/carrot/pepper is just bog standard toddler food, it's on virtually all kids menus. They also eat smiley faces, chicken nuggets and cheap sausages if that makes you feel less sneery.

MaryShelley1818 · 10/04/2023 21:43

CheezePleeze · 10/04/2023 19:49

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.

That's a lunch as big as most adults would eat.

Which is fine but it's silly to say 'it's really not a lot of food', just because you're overfeeding your children.

It's the exact same size lunch as lots of children I know eat (lots eat much less too tbf).
They're both extremely fit and active, both very tall and very slim (5yr old skinny as a rake).
Overfeeding couldn't be further from the truth.

MaryShelley1818 · 10/04/2023 21:51

PollyThePixie · 10/04/2023 19:56

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

is that a sandwich with 2 slices of buttered bread plus a substantial filling. Or a much smaller version of one. Then a whole piece of fruit or a few grapes, a whole yoghurt, more than a couple of slices of cucumber and tomato and a decent sized cheese stick.

And what is a pile of salad? Where I live a salad is served with lunch and dinner, you help yourself to it and a pile would be a couple of large helpings picked up with salad tongues or large serving spoons. It would make quite a mound on your plate.

Not that it matters but 2 slices of bread with meat for the 5yr old, one slice for the 2yr old who leaves the crusts. Fruit varies - could be apple/banana/grapes/berries, yogurt is the tiny fromage frais, small cheese, 2yr old eats 3-4 slices of cucumber, 5yr old eats probably 8 slices plus 6-8 Tom's.
Piles of salad I meant they'd happily eat cucumbers/toms/carrots/peppers all day if I didn't stop them - not that I serve them giant bowls of (apparently watery and devoid of nutrients) Caesar or Garden salads which they definitely wouldn't eat.

Honestly only on MN indeed would you get such a frothing angry mob about feeding your kids some bog standard toddler friendly salad vegetables. They also had an Easter Egg for breakfast yesterday - just so the other half of AIBU can join in 🤣🤣

MintyCedric · 10/04/2023 21:58

Why not? I’d imagine they’re pretty good with cheese.

One of my friends at college regularly bought them for lunch filled with butter and cherry tomatoes.

PollyThePixie · 10/04/2023 22:04

MaryShelley1818 · 10/04/2023 21:51

Not that it matters but 2 slices of bread with meat for the 5yr old, one slice for the 2yr old who leaves the crusts. Fruit varies - could be apple/banana/grapes/berries, yogurt is the tiny fromage frais, small cheese, 2yr old eats 3-4 slices of cucumber, 5yr old eats probably 8 slices plus 6-8 Tom's.
Piles of salad I meant they'd happily eat cucumbers/toms/carrots/peppers all day if I didn't stop them - not that I serve them giant bowls of (apparently watery and devoid of nutrients) Caesar or Garden salads which they definitely wouldn't eat.

Honestly only on MN indeed would you get such a frothing angry mob about feeding your kids some bog standard toddler friendly salad vegetables. They also had an Easter Egg for breakfast yesterday - just so the other half of AIBU can join in 🤣🤣

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I was genuinely interested. And it’s as I thought as the granny of many grandchildren with no 2 of them being the same food wise.

Q2C4 · 10/04/2023 23:15

YANBU. I'd swap the HXB with cheese for the sandwich. It's like a cheese sandwich made with fruit bread instead of plain bread.

Mammyloveswine · 10/04/2023 23:17

mum2jakie · 10/04/2023 17:11

It's bready so I would replace the sandwich with it. Unlikely to eat a sandwich and HXB together

This! But id put something savoury to replace the biscuits like the fridge raiders chicken snacks or a boiled egg/scotch egg.

goodkidsmaadhouse · 11/04/2023 00:14

MaryShelley1818 · 10/04/2023 21:43

It's the exact same size lunch as lots of children I know eat (lots eat much less too tbf).
They're both extremely fit and active, both very tall and very slim (5yr old skinny as a rake).
Overfeeding couldn't be further from the truth.

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It didn’t sound like that much food to me. I’m always surprised by how little food people suggest for a packed lunch on here.

MRex · 11/04/2023 07:44

"Eating a sandwich" varies massively in my experience. Some kids have one bite per quarter leaving all the crust and half the filling, plus pick out filling from another, then their parents say they ate two sandwiches. Same with pizza, where they have one bite of slices with nothing but cheese and tomato and the parent says they've eaten it. I make DS eat the whole sandwich with crusts before taking another piece, and pizza loaded with veg he'll eat it all before having another slice, so he "eats" much less, but we aren't chucking full meals in the bin.

Phoebo · 11/04/2023 07:45

I'm sure one day will be fine! And I'm pedantic with what DC eats

Phoebo · 11/04/2023 07:46

Although I wouldn't have the crisps or biscuits

SquidwardBound · 11/04/2023 07:48

Put the cheese on the hot cross bun and it is a sandwich.

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meaniemaybe · 11/04/2023 18:56

Took advice and combined cheese with bun. Holiday club leader told me at pick up that three kids hd HXB with butter and cheese today and it was her favourite combo.

chef’s kiss

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GoodChat · 11/04/2023 19:42

meaniemaybe · 11/04/2023 18:56

Took advice and combined cheese with bun. Holiday club leader told me at pick up that three kids hd HXB with butter and cheese today and it was her favourite combo.

chef’s kiss

The parents probably all got the idea from this thread!

HauntedPencil · 11/04/2023 21:03

I would have said biscuit but cheese with the bun is a perfectly fine lunch

HauntedPencil · 11/04/2023 21:04

I concur with PP that a cheese roll and a HXB is a bit to bappy so one of them is fine.

PollyThePixie · 11/04/2023 22:56

A hard boiled egg on a scone with butter is also delicious.

caringcarer · 12/04/2023 01:14

In my book it's carbs so yes it would replace bread. I'd put a pouch yoghurt, an apple, couple baby bels, carrot sticks and a small pot of houmous with the hot cross bun.