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

Hiya
was enjoying this thread becuase my two dds have the same lunches daily, but also I work in an infant school as a lunchtime supervisory assistant (we used to call them dinner ladies!!!) We have about 5 children who are severley allergic to pb, and one to all types of seeds, ie sesame, seeds in fruit etc. We are all made aware of who they are but in a hall with 200 kids all eating it is far safer to just ban it. I also have friends with allergic children and it is so scary going out to eat with them or to parties etc.
Thanks for some great lunch ideas.

pita bread with different fillings like tuna and swetcorn and grated carrots and beans, homemade cheese and ham croissants (also nice with salami) and pasta salads. To drink she has an innocent smoothie and then a piece of fruit.

Do you all put an ice pack in the lunch boxes at this time of year, or only in summer? I find it makes everything a bit wet so haven't been bothering.

I put savoury bits in one tupaware dish and desert, ie fruit etc in another tupaware ish, both within the lunch box and underneath the tuppaware I put two slimline ice packs, even at this time of year yes.

I try to vary the ds's lunchboxes but they tend not to eat it if it doesn't look like a sandwich! One day I put a lovely ripe apricot into ds2's lunchbox and he said, "Mammy, I didn't eat that orange-apple thing!" Completely unadventurous, I'm afraid.

1 ham butty ( 2 slices of bread for the youngeruns 4 for the older)

1 choco biscuit tesco own.
1 piece of fruit usually an apple
1 bottle of water - refillable from tap when they get home.
1 bag of crisp.

Ours aren't allowed choccy bickies and crisps, school policy.

Sandwich
Drink
Cereal bar
Mini sausage roll or them egg things (forgot the name)
Raisins or mixed dried fruit (dd2 always returns the dried fruit)
Fruit (dd1 always returns fresh fruit)
Yoghurt

Ds is too young for his lunch pack - 10 months!
Thought Id share what I use to have in my lunch pack at school -

4 cheese sandwiches!

Never ate crisps, fizzy or chocs!

cheese and ham sandwhich on brown bread
nectarine or strawberries
snall handful of crisps or prawn crackers i.e. not a whole bag
square of chocolate
homemade cupcake or a bought chocolate biscuit

Sandwiches (wholemeal bread with jam, marmalade or cheese on)
Carton of pure orange/apple
Box of raisins
Tub of grapes or tub of cheese
Apple/banana/orange
Mini blueberry muffin (chocolate one if feeling generous)
Mini jaffa cakes
Mini jammie dodgers
2 finger kitkat

I'm stuck in a rut too but they don't seem to mind! Everything I look at is full of crap - even cereal bars are full of rubbish. Yes, I know I give them the odd jaffa cake or jammie dodger anyway!

Also,

low fat crisps
Strawberries in a pot

Never bother with an ice pack, summer or winter. Don't see the point. Sandwich made that morning is not going to off by lunchtime.

I make 3 lunchboxes every morning and often wonder about being adventurous but the boys never like it. Include:
ham or cheese sandwich or roll
fresh fruit (they know they have to eat this if they want a choccie biccie the next day)
choccie biccie (KitKat eg)
peperami
cheesstring or bits of cheese
Frubes
cucumber or pepper
scotch eggs or hard boiled eggs
drink - usually NAS squash

It's not that it'll go off Crunchie, put ewwwww and ick to warm fruit and warm cream cheese sarnie, or slightly warm, sweaty bits of cheddar & cucumber or scotch eggs etc. makes me gag to think back to my own lunch box when I was a kid. Open it up and get that whiff of slightly sweaty food and sandwiches wrapped tight in cling film, uggghhhhhh, that actually made me retch at my desk!!!!

I always use an icepack - -ds1 has a youghurt every day

Lottie insists on a 'dodur' (youghurt) every day too. And that's another ick to warm fromage frais. That's just wrong!

sandwich - ham or promite or jam or honey
fruit - usually apple or banana or grapes
piece of cheese
pancake or muffin - usually homemade banana/apple
plain popcorn or crackers
yoghurt - dd never eats it but I keep trying
salami stick
hard boiled egg
tinned spaghetti or baked beans in container
flavoured milk popper or juice popper

dd's school has a fruit/vege break every morning where each child has to eat a piece of fruit or vege nothing else. The school provides a drink of plain milk. Then have two other lunch breaks.

sandyballs - I use an icepack with every lunch. I put the icepack inside a resealable plastic sandwich bag, so it doesn't leak inside the lunchbox as the ice melts.