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Improvised packed lunch hell, whats the worst lunch you have sent them in with?

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 21:49

OK so I forgot to buy stuff for DS lunch tomorrow and am going with the following - apple, banana, carrot (!), single cocktail sausage, breadstick, rice crispy cake, peanut butter sandwhich? Debating, should I put in a bakewell tart as well? school are a bit sniffy about "healthy" lunches

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belledechocchipcookie · 20/10/2011 21:54

This was planned: 2 Frankfurters in a flask of hot water, 2 presliced hot dog buns with ketchup already on. He was very happy Grin Your lunch sounds great, I wouldn't worry. I think you may be putting too much in there though, a sliced apple, a sandwich, a cake and a drink should be enough unless you have a child with hollow legs.

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 21:58

I know it's too much but I wouldn't normally Grin just overreacting to this pathetic effort and, really, just randomly chucking anything remotely fresh in. Hotdogs sound awesomeSmile

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NoNoNoMYDoIt · 20/10/2011 22:00

are you sure peanut butter sandwich is ok? DS's school is nut free...

BertieBotts · 20/10/2011 22:02

If you chop the carrot up into sticks it will be absolutely unremarkable. (Though DS prefers them whole...) Would go for apple or banana rather than both.

Popbiscuit · 20/10/2011 22:03

That sounds great! Almost all of the food groups represented....
I am very jealous that you are allowed peanut butter; at our school it would be a terrorist act to send it in a lunchbox. My kids LOOOOOVE it and it would be so handy for those days when you're out of ham or whatever.

bibbitybobbitybloodyaxe · 20/10/2011 22:05

I have reserves of Jacobs cream crackers and philadelphia cheese for emergency situations! I have sent the dc in with a sandwich made from 1 and a half slices of bread each, rather than 2 Blush. They often have peanut butter but ours is not a nut free school (even though there are 650+ pupils).

The other day was the first time ever that I did not have any fruit to put in their lunch bags [smug middle class mum emoticon].

thisisyesterday · 20/10/2011 22:06

i once realised that I had run out of bread in the morning.

so i gave ds1 a lump of cake instead (waas the closest thing i had to bread)

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 22:06

Ok will reduce quantityWink a nut free school, shudder, DS addicted to peanut butter. He lies about what they can/can't have? Said his friend brought a "twinky" FFS

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 22:08

Lol ladies! Honestly I never heard of nutfree thing before, guess it's comingAngry

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Trills · 20/10/2011 22:12

If there was no food in the house mum would sometimes go to the shop on the way to school and we would have a sausage roll and a twix.

Mmm. Twix.

Beamur · 20/10/2011 22:15

Sounds ok to me. DD also v partial to a sandwich of rice cakes and peanut butter. Luckily our school not nut free either - my own nut allergy does not include peanuts so we're ok at home too.
I once accidentally mixed up the older kids sandwiches - gave DSS the marmite and DSD something she would not eat - she still goes on about it!! But funnily enough the first time she mentioned it it also brought out the revelation that I, not their Dad had made their packed lunches most days - big news to them both!
DP could give you a run for your money on improvised lunches and cat food (RIP cat) - apparently cats do not appreciate hot dogs.

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25kilopumpkin · 20/10/2011 22:21

Cats are worse...i once tried ours with scrambled egg (on vets recommendationAngry) sheer contempt

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NoNoNoMYDoIt · 20/10/2011 22:22

yes my DD addicted to PNB. she won't eat sandwiches but will eat PNB spread on rice cakes. it is the only thing she will eat in a lunchbox on a picnic. she won't eat any other spread or topping or any other cracker. don't know what i'm going to give her to eat for packed lunch at school. she may have to have school dinners every day if she doesn't start eating something else before she starts!

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25kilopumpkin · 21/10/2011 05:44

Found two actual sausages and packet of puff pastry... Having turnaround moment and going with FRESHLY COOKED HOMEMADE sausage rollsGrin! Round of applause

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Horopu · 21/10/2011 06:08

Very impressed. A couple of weeks ago I sent ds3 (age 5) with hot homemade lasagna, a pot of blueberries and a home made muffin. I was smug all day. Sadly he forgot about the thermos flask of lasagna so just had the other 2 that were in his usual lunchbox. We were both very sad as basagna (as he calls it) is his favourite.

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25kilopumpkin · 21/10/2011 08:46

That's a whole new level Horopu must say v smug about sausage rolls that looked fine...used up rest of pastry with nutella fir breakfast pain au chocolate ( which I have mostly ate myself)

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Horopu · 21/10/2011 09:39

Wow, I'm just off to bed (in NZ) but quite fancy a pain au chocolate myself now.

Lotkinsgonecurly · 21/10/2011 09:43

We're skint at the moment so am just trying to use up whats in the cupboards rather than buying more traditional lunchbox items. We've had days of pasta in a thermos, jam sandwiches if necessary, popcorn and today I gave them jelly. I found 12 packets of jelly in the cupboard. Think I must have been stockpiling for a great invasion of jelly munchers, made it on wednesday evening and forgot to add it to their lunchboxes. So, I stopped off at the school office before lunch and gave them the small tubs of jelly to add to my kids lunchboxes, the office staff thought I was slightly mad.

DamselInDisarray · 21/10/2011 09:55

Sometimes when we've run out of filling, DS1 gets 'wrap surprise'. This is DH's great invention if one wrap inside another one.

I've been known to have to buy a lunchables on the way to school in the past. If you didn't have to order school dinners 2 weeks in advance, I'd just give him money (this is what I used to do when he went to a school with a sensible school dinner system).

Rikalaily · 21/10/2011 10:14

I think most schools only say nut free when they have a student attending with a confirmed nut allergy. My kids school said no nuts because one of my neighbours sons who went there has a peanut allergy, he moved up to highchool in Sept so will double check as my kids love PBJ sandwiches.

I've sent in a sausage roll, carrot batons, half a banana and apple each in a tub with 1 yogurt shared over the top, a handful of prawn crackers and a choc biscuit when we didn't go shopping on the usual day so it was a cupboard raid day.

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25kilopumpkin · 21/10/2011 18:30

DS gets in car and says, I didn't eat the sausage roll Mummy, it will give me chapped lips. I AM GOING TO EXPLODE! Reaching for large glass wine right now...

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wicketkeeper · 22/10/2011 19:30

My mother used to send me in with raisin sandwiches. Surprisingly tasty actually - I was never sure if it was intentional or if she's just run out of cheese. Oh, also tomato ketchup sandwiches.

And DH was once given washing powder sandwiches - but then, his mother had really bad eyesight.

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25kilopumpkin · 22/10/2011 19:54

Lol! My aunt just told me she had a row with her DH and made him PEA sandwiches for work next day as a punishment!

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MadameGazelle · 22/10/2011 20:00

How do you eat lasagne out of a thermos flask Confused

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25kilopumpkin · 22/10/2011 20:37

Ha ha lol! I thought that but then thought do you have to be able to see the layers? No, I suggest...? GrinGrinGrin

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