Alternative to school bars/humzingers??

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Just wondered as DS1 (4) will be starting school in January and I intend on giving him packed lunches. Was going to include a piece of fruit and a school bar/humzinger as well as a roll,carrot sticks, etc.

However, he has now decided he hates school bars as they are not smooth enough (?) and he can't stand Humzingers!

As I am loathe to give him a chocolate bar as a replacement I thought 'just add more fruit'.

However, is there a 'healthy bar' type of thing that I could give him?

BTW, he has also gone off raisins....

Tx

What's a school bar? Are they cereal/muesli bars?

No, they are fruit bars as well, so very similar to humzingers.

Anyone with any suggestions?

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Ah, bananas. Now, he could eat those all day. But I do worry about the 'effects' of that? How many bananas is too many bananas?

Good suggestion about the crackers. Maybe I could try him on rice cakes...although he will only eat the chocolate flavoured ones at the moment..

little boxes of raisins? Yoghurt?

Compo, nope, he hates both. Used to eat both up until the age of 18 months. Now just refuses. I wouldn't mind, but he eats things like olives (but after the recent thread, maybe I should refrain from giving him olives if he wants to blend in

In the same section of the supermarket as the school bars there are various other dried-fruit type snacks. Little bags of dried fruit bits, or yoghurt-coated dried fruit bits. Can't remember what they're called. And little boxes of dried apricot etc (that should counteract your bananas!).

Cheese straws?

The cheese-flavoured rice cakes taste like Whotsits.

Sliced sweet pepper? The organic ones taste nice.

Dried apple rings are yummy (I get them from Holland & Barrett).

tbh I would only give him a tiny lunch to start with as they don't have much time to eat it

half a sandwich, some carrot sticks, a babybel and a little cake?

Olives?

Ummm. Little pot of houmous and some breadsticks?

Ooo, thanks fruitful. Dries apple rings sound lovely and he really loves apples.

And I also forgot about the cheese rice cakes.

I knew MN would come up with some alternatives

nooooooooo not rice cakes

lots of chewing, hardly any energy at the end of it

sorry, ditto apple rings

Enid, how long do they have for lunch, then? I am really out of touch!

well all schools are different

but ours is small and the tinies have to eat before the big'uns. And they have to eat everything apparently. dd1 (and she was not alone) struggled in the first terms to eat everything, I used to give her loads

I think they get given a piece of fruit or veg in the first couple of years (at break time)

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my DS likes the Baby Organix cereal bars - and he's very fussy

if you think rice cakes would go down well, how about the organix ones. they do apple ones and orange ones too. You can put a few in a bag or pot...