What are you going to spend more on/feed your DC during the holidays?

[jenk1]

shopping bill will obv go up a lot,but am looking to cut down.

was thinking of sandwiches crisps fruit for lunches that sort of thing.

Oh I don't think it has to be more expensive necessarily. In fact, should be able to make some savings as its all more leisurely eg dippy eggs for brunch etc.

A big pan of soup would do lunches for several days and would be cheap.

Pitta bread, carrot sticks and homemade hoummus or tsatziki.

Eggy bread.

I'm hoping to save as i wont have to make lunch boxes. Mine have sandwiches for lunch but wont be getting the crisps and yoghurts (just sandwiches and fruit). I'm going to try and keep picnics simple (as they never eat it anyway).

Nurofen.

To clarify, spend more on Nurofen for me, not feed them to the children ....

Mine have packed lunches, ao they will still have something similar for lunch.

lol at nurofen

oh yes forgot about soup i can make a big pan of lentil soup and freeze it.

I don't think the shopping bill will change much. Breakfast and supper will be the same as always and I'll recreate the packed lunch on a plate for midday. Only difference I can see will be the amount of squash we get through!!!

Snacks and drinks. DS is a non-stop eater and can easily demolish a weeks worth of food in 2-3 days.

Can't face 6 weeks of sansdwiches for dinner so have to get a bit inventive about that.

I wii definitely save. Have been paying out £8.50/week for daughters school dinners and probably £5/week for sons packed lunches. Can definitely give them both nutritious lunches for £1-1.50/day. eg beans on wholemeal toast, drink of orange juice, portion of mixed dried fruit. Roughly £1.10, 2 healthy meals.

what we save on food will be spent on gin

LimaCharlie, now you're talking.Hell Yeah

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I've told dd she can only make herself one milkshake a day and one icelolly a day. Other than that I intend to save money, we are eating to the back of the freezer and the cupboard to make sure we eat the stuff that always gets pushed aside.

Endless sarnies would make any packed lunch boring whethr at home or school.

Alternatives to sandwiches for a relatively cheap lunch:
pizza slices
cheese & tomato bread (or similar)
cheese biscuits/crackers/ryvetta with soft cheese
breadsticks & carrot sticks with homous (or other dip)
cheese or beans on toast
soup with bread soldiers/triangles
baked potatoes with beans, tuna/sweetcorn or other topping
savory pancakes
pasta salad
potato salad
various different green salads with different protein (egg, cheese, homous)
veg curry with popadoms

You can give them anything and it doesn't have to cost the earth.

Also alternative to bread for sandwichs = rolls, french stick, bagel, wrap...

Lunch is as boring amd expensive as you make it...

gillybean, your thoughts are my thoughts exactly. our household gets very bored of sandwiches, we never have them when at home.
we do egg, pizza slices, sausage rolls, quiche etc....yum yum yum