packed lunch inspiration

[frazzled74]

dd and ds are very bored with their packed lunches and ds is barely eating his so i need some ideas please,
at the moment they have sandwich (marmite/peanut butter etc) fresh fruit(apple,kiwi,banana)dried fruit, some baby tomatos and a frube plus a penguin or other choc biscuit. I think dd would really like a bento style lunch but dont really know where to start so would love ideas, ds is very fussy so he is more difficult,help please x

DD is superfussy, she takes plain pasta, spring rolls, samosas, pies (either meat or cheese) and one sandwich. This is her weeks menu and suits her.
She isn't allowed nuts at her school, so we make a tray of flapjacks and she takes a square or two in every day. She also has a handful of crisps and some grapes or tinned fruit. I know it isn't the healthiest diet in the world, but she will eat it.

Hi Frazzled - ohhhh p[acked lunches are such a paion aren't they!

Here are a few of the thigns I do incase any of them inspire you, nothing amazing here but sometimes it sparks off an idea for you doens't it, so I'll be watching this thread for some new ideas too.

I do a little tupperware box inside the lunch box and fill with all or some of a varity of the following:
bits of cucumber, slices of cheddar cheese, some breadsticks, few strips of red, yellow & orange peppers, maybe a small pot of homous. Chicken drumsticks that I cook myself the night befoew and remove the skin from them. The odd home cooked bit of sausage cut up into bite sized pieces. Olives. Hovis crackers, etc, that sort of thing.

Then I';d include a little pot of fruit salad, so a few slices of kiwi, bluberries, raspberries but only if firm cos they can go squish and yucky, strawberries, grapes, satsuma broken up into pieces etc etc.

And a youghurt.

Or I might make soem strewed apple, make loads of it and freeze in small portions. Sometimes I mix in some natural yoghurt.

Little tubs of pasta with a home made vegetable/tomato sauce.

Pitta pockets filled with grated carrot and cheese.

I buy those fruit/nut/seed bars and pop them in there sometimes.

Little pots of ricepudding?

Dried fruit such as apricots and raisins.

Include a smoothie in a small lidded beaker or you could buy those Ella kitchen ones?

Ohhh see I'm inspired to make some flapjacks already, thank you

Popcorn (plain done in the micowave in a pyrex dish) is v. popular here at the mo. Also they like cold pizza, wraps, quiche with a fork, homemade sausage rolls, boiled eggs to shell, cold baked beans, cottage cheese and a spoon, smoked mackerel pieces, cheese and biscuits, mixed bean salad, tuna sweetcorn and mayo pasta, marmite and cheese pastry pinwheels.

some good ideas thanks, i need to invest in some little tupperware boxes i think to put inside their fabric lunchbags. keep the ideas coming though, ds is bound not to like anything listed so far1

Just thought of another, DD likes rice salad (with peas only) and cous cous without anything in. She'll occasionally take a chicken nugget (home made before anyone shouts about nipples and eyelids) with her too.