Lunch box for 5 1/2 YO

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My DD is year one.

She always has,

sandwich, one slice of wholemeal with cheese/marmite/jam.
Cheese dipper, small Laughing cow type
Cucumber, small pot
humzinger, small dried fruit bar
small yogurt squashem/frube

Variations from the above have, previously, always met with disapproval.

She has complained this morning that all her friends get more, and are still eating when she's finished (she's not a particularly fast eater) and that everyone else gets crisps (which are not allowed AFAIK). She usually eats a good breakfast (cereal, fruit, yogurt)

So, can anyone else tell me what there child takes, for inspiration and to judge if I am sending enough?

Thanks

that sounds like my 5 year old to the T!!! hahah he is a very fussy eater more than the 7 year old and every shop we do im constantly looking at new things for him to try.
i send....
one batch (cheese spread or jam)
banana or apple,
yogurt or yougurt tube
cereal bar
crisps (baked so low fat)

but i vary it now and again, i buy the jacobs crackers that are wrapped indivually in 3's cereal breakfast bars are good... my kids are very fussy and it can get very stressful so i share your concerns... the school they are at they are not allowed anyting containing chocolate not even the cereal bars... anything chocloate is banned and fruit shoots are banned as well!!! kids being in school is stressful enough but you feel you are not doing enough... please share any ideas you get because i would be really interested

dd has:
a 2 slice ham sandwich
some fruit e.g. strawbs, grapes, etc
a drinkable yoghurt or yoghurt and spoon
a mini pack of biscuits e.g. mini cookies, jammie dodgers, etc

MY 5 year old has a sandwichs (3 slices of bread) with ham, cheese, egg, peanut butter, choc spread, marmite or honey.

I buy big packs of dried mix fruit, apricots, apples, seeds and nuts etc. and decant them into small tupperware boxes. Either singly or mixed together.

Fruit,apples, satsumas, clemetines, bananas, grapes, pineapple, kiwi's, blackberries etc.(pick up stuff that has been reduced.) Again either singly or cut up and mixed together and in a small tupperware box with a glug of apple juice.

I buy big tubs of plain yoghurt and decant it into to tupperware boxes again :) and put in some honey or fresh fruit or I buy the frozen fruit when it is on offer and bung in a handful of that, defrosted by lunchtime.

I make cakes and biscuits and fruit breads as well to put in.

He usually has sandwiches and 3 other items plus a water bottle.

The best boxes I have found are the lock and lock ones.

Mine ( DS7 and DD4 ) both have:

• sandwich, normally marmite
• piece of fruit - eg satsuma
• Actimel yoghurt drink

Twice a week they get a homemade treat eg flapjacks or tea loaf. If they are having a growth spurt/say they are hungry that week, they get extra sandwiches and fruit, just more of the same.

I find if I give them any more variety there is stuff not eaten.

My daughter's 5 and in reception - and a good eater! Generally she'll have a wholemeal ham sandwich (two rounds of bread), a pot of grapes, raspberries or strawberries, a Frube, a small pack of biscuits and a carton of apple juice.

Today she also had half a Scotch Egg.

Other times she'll have a chicken drumstick, some salami or chorizo or parma ham, sometimes smoked salmon and olives.