MN Test: can you really judge character by the contents of a lunchbox?

[Blu]

For the first time ever, i have to make DS a packed lunch for a school trip. He knows the rules are no sweets, nuts, fizzy drinks and glass bottles. Between us we have planned what to have.
Knowing what you do (or think you do) of me - what will be in DS's packed lunch on Thursday?

You can be as detailed as you think necessary to prove your point!

oh, and the school have asked that it be in a carrier bag that can be thrown away afterwards so that they don't lug it round, not an actual lunchbox.

PMSL @ "genius, a lunchbox that is made up entirely of MN in-jokes."

How cool would that be

Damn Blu. Now I have to go to bed wondering about the contents of your boys lunchbox. Thank you and goodnight. x

Bugger it - I'm off to read my book any way. I'll check the thread tomorrow.

haven't read the whole thread but MI's second post is one of the funniest things I have seen on mn.

I think Blu's ds' lunchbox will have a cheese sarnie, cold sausages, cherry toms, apple and a fairy cake. or may be two cakes so he can share.

hang on... why is Spidermama going to bed at 9.30???

Ok, last minute attempt at to steal the prize with:

cheese and pickle roll
hummus and carrot and cucumber sticks
crisps
grapes
carton of juice
and a flapjack

Ooh, I think you're off the mark with pickle. Did I just say that?

Pickle was a bit out of left field, helsy, but I suspect there are going to be one or two surprises for us when the contents are revealed.

Can we get Peter Snow in now with a big lunchboxometer or something?

Carton of organic juice
Vegemite sandwich
Apple or banana
2 x Organix gingerbread men

Or

pork pie
Bag of Wotsits
Carton of Ribena
Cheese strings

maybe a mixture of the 2

Well if we think there are going to be one or two surprises - a vanilla flavoured frube will be in there, and a mini picnic egg

I did go off to read my book, but had unfinished business and my heart wasn't in it

Oh right, well if we're allowed two goes I'm having:

Greggs sausage roll
Quavers multi-pack
Sunny D (plastic bottle, obviously)
Two Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
A bag of Skittles hidden inside a paper bag
Large pack of maltesers (ditto)

Am I close?

panda pop instead of the sunny D

Desperate last ditch attempt:

thermos of soup?

wedges of frittata?

Cheese and ham Lunchables?

sushi??????

roasted mediterranean veg and cous cous
olives
parma ham
cream bun
elderflower cordial
?

ham sandwich (with crusts cut off?)
carton of juice
apple
carrots
a muffin/cake
and possibly a cheese thing (babybel)

Don't need a wee any more, just PMSL at HMC's unfinished business. I've just rushed upstairs and am palpably disappointed that Blu's not finished her flipping dinner yet.

Sorry, just realised this didn't start out as a joke

Must read OP in future. Sorry Blu

I think it did!

Ta daaaa!- I am back from my dinner (pork and pepper kebabs, watercress and tomato salad, glass of macon villages)..

OK.

DS's first idea was
Salami Sandwich
An apple
Apple juice.

This surprised me as he will not normally eat an apple. But tells me he eats apples and mange touts from the fruit basket in his classroom (a Lambeth state primary)

It is now:
1 salami sandwich (will be teso 'finest' ready sliced - not cut to order in a deli, or bright pink)
1 Avocado sandwich
(bread for both will be some variety of supernmarket brown - bakery section if bought by me, sainsbury's ready sliced SOrganic if bught by dp. Butter - Lurpak)
1 chicken leg (free range but not organic this time - that's what was in the shopping dp brought home)
1 apple
1 cake of some sort (flapjack is a good idea)
1 carton of juice.

The bag will be a small white paper carrier (extra point there, Racer!) re-cycled from my pile of saved bags, because a plastic carrier will drag ion the floor when carried by him. Also easier to pack without things getting squashed - and easier to write his name on. IHeartEnid - extra point for spotting the relevance of the disposability of everything - no spoons, little pots, etc.

I am sure this is too much food. I was dithering about crisps (they would be Walkers ready salted - though I do have a soft spot for Pom Bears - extra point, Helsy!), as everyone else will have a packet, but as DS is prone to talk rather than eat, I want him to have filling stuff to see him through the afternoon.
Also, if I don't get round to roasting the chicken leg or dp forgets (I am working til midnight Wednesday night) the chicken leg could well be replaced with a babybel (exrta points all round).

I did wonder about an Innocent Smoothie carton (natch, Tamum), but they're not really thirst quenching, are they?

Sadly BoyBlu will not eat carrot batons (tho' he has said he will try them with hoummous), grapes, cherry toms, bananas, raisins, olives or chardonnay.

I am now wondering about taking more cakes for him to share, tamum's idea...no, too complicated!

Mercy - it was tongue in cheek, certainly!

Bravo, nice choice

Phew, that's a weight off my mind.

Blu, I bow to the thought and detail you put into your response, acknowledging the points made by contributors and giving reasons for non-inclusion of some items. It matched, I think, the care put into the guesses.

By the way, that's b*y loads, he'll leave half of it.

'night.

Ok! It's just hard to tell sometimes

Agree with not taking carrier bag - they are useless for young children. I have just put the food in a little backpack which is easier for them.

our headteacher reminded us recently that school is a healthy zone (or some such buzz-word) and she had been shocked to recently discover a lunch box with 6 dough-nuts in it and nothing else