12 year old having no fibre at school

[PhilomenaButterfly]

DD 12 this week has just started secondary school, she has free school breakfast and school dinners. Since she started she's had no fibre at school. Today has been her first school breakfast so I don't know what she's had, but for lunch every day she's just had a sandwich and flavoured milk.

Surely I can't fit a day's intake of fibre into one meal? We've already discussed choosing a sandwich with some salad in and a piece of fruit, but I'm not there to make sure she does it.

Any suggestions to up her fibre intake would be gratefully received.

If she's got a tiny appetite then extra fibre is just going to fill her up more quickly. It's not a nutrient- its main function is to help move food through the digestive tract,and too much can stop the absorption of some nutrients eg calcium and iron.

Obviously she does need some fibre, but I'd be more concerned about getting her to eat more food. She'll increasingly start making her own choices,good and bad. She may do this despite knowing all about healthy choices. Theory and practice don't always match when you're a teenager.

Trewser she walks to school and back, and does PE, when she was at primary school she used to run around with DS2 before school, and she swims.

lilypips I don't check how many grams she has daily, it looked like no fibre at all to me.

I've decided to leave her to it, she knows what to do if she gets constipated.