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CM Club any ideas for healthy tastey sandwich fillers?

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jazee · 29/04/2010 20:38

Hi
I have been asked to provide tea time sandwiches for a 1 year old and 4 year old. What seems to be popular? I have thought of dairylea, marmite, ham,cheese. Is jam [the low sugar one - more fruit] acceptable if other sandwiches offered too. So 3 jam and 3 marmite for example.
Would I offer a few crisps with them?
All this is new to me.
Any other tea time treats? or healthy snacks for mid - afternoon. I would welcome some ideas.

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 29/04/2010 20:51

I wouldn't offer jam or crisps

cheese and cucumber

philadephia and banana sandwich is vair nice

ham and coleslaw

you could do pitta/wrap to ring the changes

snacks - breadsticks, cucumber slices, carrot sticks (maybe not for the baby)and dip, cheese cubes, fruit of course, yoghurt

boiled egg and toast?

I don't do food for my mindees, they bring their own, I just supply snacks

SazzlesA · 29/04/2010 20:56

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navyeyelasH · 29/04/2010 22:11

Use philadelphia/own brand soft cheese rather than dairylea, it's less processed. I wouldn't offer jam but that's mainly my own food snobbery!

One thing to be aware of is that 100% fruit jams usually use low nutrient fruits (all the bad looking stuff that you wouldn't but in a packet) and a ton of fruit juice. So although the sugars are good sugars (as opposed to artificial sugars) jam on regular basis is still pretty sugar-rific.

On top of ones here I also do egg "mayo" (the mayo is a smudge of soft cheese), beans/cheese on toast, various meats like chicken (they love chicken and sweetcorn)/ham/beef/sometimes sausage etc, grated cheddar cheese, hummus, prawn.

Also try rice cakes (mine love Marmite and hard cheese - bleugh!), wraps, pitta, toasted versions, quesadilla etc for variation. I occasionally give crisps but alongside cucumber, carrots, baby tomatoes, pepper, fruit etc and also a crisp that it just potato with no added anything (like kettle crisps).

Omelette, small jacket pots, bagels, eggy bread, egg and soldiers and falafels might also be feasible?

Karoleann · 29/04/2010 22:45

Both mine like boiled egg and tomato (skin taken off and chopped with the egg). Its also really nice for babies too.
I wouldn't be happy with my little ones being given marmite (as its devils food )or jam

ayla99 · 30/04/2010 07:29

Cheddar & marmite toasties, sausage & tomato, fishfingers, tuna & sweetcorn, tuna & philadelphia, philadelphia & ham, egg.

don't have bread every day, have bagels, pitta bread, rolls, tortilla wraps etc

Ask the parent for a list of what they like/dislike at home.

jazee · 30/04/2010 10:33

Thanks everyone
What great ideas. I love all the variations on bread i.e. pitta's, wraps.
Thought of another one... humous. My own kids love it with pitta or bread sticks.
I'm happily planning my menu now - thanks again.

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StarExpat · 30/04/2010 12:31

been lurking here because ds loves sandwiches and I send him with them to cm daily for lunch... he will only eat brown bread (which I don't mind) and pittas seem to be ok with him most of the time (18 months) but he loves peanut butter and I give it to him a few times a week as his sandwich alongside a fruit, piece of cheese and a yogurt. I use the peanut butter &co peanut butter which is made of only peanuts, no sugars or salt or anything extra. It is a very good source of protein....
A few comments have been made about not having that as a choice. Why is that? Really just wondering if I'm missing something.

BoysAreLikeDogs · 30/04/2010 14:09

we have to be vv careful because of allergies hence the caution around peanut butter

StarExpat · 30/04/2010 14:36

I understand that, as a teacher. We aren't even allowed anything with nuts on campus. So far my cm has no nut allergies and they have lunch at home, so ds can have his pb sandwich.

I just thought that it was implied that a peanut butter sandwich was somehow not a healthy sandwich...and I wanted to know why. I'm a bit over - worried about my child's nutrition so if there is something that I have missed about it, I wanted to know.

BoysAreLikeDogs · 30/04/2010 14:38

oh bless you

we are so wary, it can come across as horror instead

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