To ask for summer holiday lunch ideas for kids!!

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No idea how to feed them for 6 weeks without repeating meals massively and living off a lot of sandwiches. One is quite picky and loves beige food, the other is a bit more adventurous.
At weekends we tend to grab food out and about or they will have sandwiches, wraps, lots of 'picky lunches' (so cold meat, cheese, fruit etc) as we tend to have our main hot meal in the evening. But I don't think these will cut it for 6 weeks. Any ideas gratefully received.

Exactly. Sandwiches, fruit, yoghurt repeat. Nothing wrong with that.

We don’t go for that much variety at lunch times! Life is too short and the kids are too picky!

one thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet that my eldest likes is savoury pancakes! He always has his with ham and cheese but again loads of options for fillings.

This weeks lunched for my teens are
Toastie with what ever filling is available,
Mini all day breakfast (bacon, sausage, beans, hash browns and eggs)
Chicken baguette
Fish finger sandwiches
cheese/meat Sandwiches
Pitta Pizza
Potatoe Waffle and chilli
Jacket potato with leftovers (whatever we have from tea night before).
They'll add fruit, yoghurts, salad depending on how hungry they are.

Check out websites like Tesco, Asda and aldi for recipes. I also get a lot of Inspiration from gousto, I just look at the recipes and replicate them rather than buy a box

So helpful. Thank you all. Beige child doesn't like eggs otherwise we'd be living off omelettes and scrambled eggs over the hols. I might buy some of those frozen jacket potatoes as they can be microwaved quickly and are still nice.

Sandwiches
wraps
toasties
Jacket potato’s are quick if you have a microwave
soup, make a big homemade one each week and freeze some to rotate flavour each week
omelettes, scrambled egg , dippy egg
make homemade sausage rolls with the kids
ditto homemade pizza could do pitta or on a wrap
make an big tomato sauce and freeze in portions for pasta, add whatever meat veg you’ve got in the fridge
filo pastry-make pasty, tarts etc
leftovers from the night before? I turn chilli into burritos, fill wraps with curry and toast. Leftover Sunday dinner meat with ready made mash and gravy for ease
homemade lunchables

I always have frozen veg and cucumber etc so they will get a portion of that as well as some fruit, and of course a beige meal goes down a treat as well

If they like a little spice a red lentil dahl is very easy to make and they can dip in a pitta or naan or chapati.

OP just bake them next time the oven is on and freeze them. Much cheaper.

We mostly have sandwiches with some salad and fruit, plus crisps/nuts/dried fruit/yoghurt/biscuit or cake etc depending on how hungry.

I don't see what's wrong with loads of sandwiches personally, we just mix up the fillings e.g. : Quorn slices, large variety of soft and hard cheeses, boiled egg, peanut butter and banana...

Otherwise occasionally we may have a tin of soup with toast / microwave frozen waffles with baked beans and cheese on top / baked beans or refried beans on toast / eggy bread/ dippy eggs and toast/ cheese and crackers/ veg or cheese and onion pasty, or veggie sausage roll.

Fish finger pittas always went down well here. Add some iceberg and grated cheese and whatever sauce they like. Swap for sausage or tuna or leftover meat.

Tuna and pasta always used to go down well on holidays.

Just buy a bag of potatoes, baked then all up and then freeze them. Much cheaper!