What do you put in you childs pack lunch??

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About to go shopping and need some ideas please for ds pack lunch

Mine just have a box of raisins, two sandwiches, a yoghurt and a cake. Grapes if they haven't eaten them all!
As long as it can be eaten quickly they don't seem to mind.

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mini cocktail sausages sprinkled with sesame seeds before cooking

Dairylea cheese spread (OR Dairylea slices)on crackers (Cod recommended that on another thread and my dd's love them)

mini baby bell cheese, fromage frais

mini pasta shapes, cucumber cherry tomatoes and tuna mixed with a little salad dressing or cream

Sandwich wraps filled with egg mayo and cress, chicken and lettuce and mayonaisse

Also do fairly processed things which I wouldnt normally give them like pepperami sticks and those little mini picnic eggs.

Anyway you've probably already gone shopping

DD has lots of the things mentioned on this thread, but also likes string cheese and yoghurt in tubes/pouches. Also sometimes give her fruit bars/cereal bars/granola bars.

Humzingers are a big hit in our house - nice alternative to raisins and useful if child refusing to eat fresh fruit (not perfect replacement but better than no fruit at all)
DD loves lemony couscous with chickpeas and cucumber (leftovers from midweek meal). I put it in a plastic tub with spoon and some mini pitta pockets to fill/play with.

Just bought a food flask from Asda so hoping to give DD1 some warm food as days are getting colder. Not sure what yet as don?t want her to burn herself, just thought it would make a nice change. I thought about a pasta soup? Any ideas? Do you think it is a bit dangerous for little ones? Is food ok in one if only warm rather than boiling hot from a bacteria point of concern?

They don't allow flasks at my DD's school. She gets bored so easily with the normal sandwich/crisps/yoghurt packed lunch. I buy them lunchables too for something different but I am not a good cook so would not have a clue how to make something nutritious myself

She doesn't like sausage rolls or pork pies or anything like that either!!!

unfortunately dd1 insists on the same packed lunch eeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvery day. Peanut butter and cucumber on brown, a tub of fruit (grapes and plums atm), a cereal bar and a peperami. And water.

no deviations allowed.

Baked beans, beef stew, potatoe & leek soup

Fruit flakes, fresh fruit, yoghurts

pancakes, crumpets, potato cakes

Enid - dd's favourite sandwich is peanut butter too...just like your dd. However, her school has forbidden peanut butter (or any nuts in packed lunches) due to a very few children having nut allergies. Suppose they're trying to prevent the slim chance of children "sharing" lunches....so peanut butter is now a weekend only treat at our house.

she'd starve

such a bummer as alternatives (ham,marmite) just are not as nutritious

cant they supervise the very allergic kids?

Enid - I wish DD would have the same thing everyday, would save money I would think!!!! She just gets bored so easily and then tells me she doesn't like them when I know she does but is just bored.

Enid - I think it would be easy to supervise too, but evidently it's not a responsibility they're willing to take on.

ENID some children are VERY alergic....

there was a girl in my school who went into anaphalactic shock when her arm touched the table where a snickers bad had been. (she was 17!)

If a child is allergic as her, (as many are) just coming into contact with a crumb COULD be enough to kill them which is why they dont take the risk!

sorry snickers BAR!

It's not sharing lunches that's the problem, it's a child eating something like a peanut butter sandwich, getting nut oils on their hands and faces and then that transferring on an allergic child or onto something they then touch. It's not a matter of 'supervision' It doesn't take much I'm afraid. I've mentioned it on other threads, but a little boy in our school (which is nut free) ended up in intensive care after touching playing cards in July that had last been used at christmas by people eating pistachio nuts. He'd never had a reaction that serious before.

I'm not trying to be preachy, I just want you to understand that having a nut ban because of allergies isn't the school being lazy or trying to inconvience you. It really can be a matter of life or death.

Will retreat back to light hearted stuff now!

yes my friends DS is allergic like that. He has to carry an epi pen everywhere with him. Friend is totally paranoid whenever he goes anywhere.

I was on a plane once and the air hostess said they weren't serviing peanuts on the plane because they had someone who was severly allergic to them and if anyone had brought any on board could they inform them.

cream cheese and bread sticks dipper things
cold slices of pizza
mini scotch eggs
cucumber
bits of cheddar cut up
cherry toms
carrs water biscuits
cold toast and marmite
fruit salad of watermelon, grapes, apple, nectarines
bananas
carrot cake
carrots sticks
fruit smoothies
raisins
dried apricots covered in yoghurt
cold homemade chcken nuggets

Thomcat - what do you put in your homemade chicken nuggets? Obviously chicken - derr! but what else? mine always seem a bit bland.

What do I out in DSs' luchboxes? DS1 has a buttered roll or sandwich as he doesn't like any sandwich fillings (wierd child, must get it from his father) and DS2 has ham/chicken/any sort of cold cooked meat. Then they both have fruit (grapes, apple, banana, satuma) yoghurt, fruit juice, little cake or penguin or something similar.

earlybird allergies are not just about sharing lunches. Some allergic children will react just by being "breathed" on by someone who has eaten peanut butter. When you can smell peanut butter it means the protein is released in the air - whammo allergic reaction. The risk also includes children who eat peanut butter then touch a book or playground equipment may leave residue and then the allertic child comes along - whammo allergic reaction. I have a ds (2) who is peanut allergic and the very thought of this brings me to tears. I fully understand the frustration of not being allowed peanut butter as this was my dds absolute favourite. We obviously can't have any nut products in our house so I would purchase her a pb sandwich at school. The school has now banned pb due to an allergic child there so my dd now misses out all around. Put yourself in my place and think about what it would be like to send your child to school everyday and hope to hell he stays safe and comes home. Would you hand a child poison to drink???? My child would probably have a better chance of surviving if you did!!!!!!!!!!

oh no the threads dead! I was enjoying that, some good ideas.

coathanger - i mince up chicken breasts and add garlic and cheddar cheese.

Just back from Sainsburys and other things I bought for L's lunch box were:

Fruit in jelly
flapjacks
jam tarts

As it's Xmas there ae loads of party food bits and there is a 3 for 2 deal so got some:
mini burger and buns
mini cheese and onion pasties
sesame prawn toast

They will all work well if you cook quickly in the morning before school. Kids always eat their food cold anyway, well mine does, by the time she's finished saying 'is 'ot, is 'ot' and started to eat by the end of it everything is stone cold, so no harm in starting that way!

I had no idea the potential allergic reaction to peanut butter was so severe.

Ta for that Thomcat Will chuck some garlic in next time!