what do you put in your kids lunch box's

[cheeseandonion]

dd is starting packed lunches soon so need some insperation please

Usually sandwich - wrap or pitta pocket with tuna mayo, chicken salad, ham & cheese etc. A yoghurt - big tip: buy a packet of plastic teaspoons from a cash and carry, and then it doesn't matter if they don't bring them home. An apple or tangerine, and usually a "treat" thing - crisps, cereal bar, kit-kat. But their lunchbox includes their playpiece too. Hope this helps.

sandwiches: cheese and pickle,
cheese and tomatoe,
ham and pickle,
tuna, mayo, sweetcorn

Fillers: scotch eggs
rice cakes
carrot slices
little box raisins
yoghurt

Fruit: strawberries, grapes, apple, banana, pear, orange

These are the sort of things my son likes to have, as a general rule 1 sandwich, 1 apple, box raisins, scotch egg, little pot of grapes or strawberries, and a bottle of water!

I have one you can divide in two with a thin layer on the top and a deep one underneath. Always chop up some fruit to fill the bottom layer and then brown bread sandwiches on the top.

I find it difficult to vary it much, a lot of things she just won't eat. Just picked up some unsalted cashew nuts from a health food store today. Sometimes give her some of those, cereal bar (health food store again not the sugary ones), sometimes a bit of dry cereal to snack on (without milk) in a little extra box inside the lunchbox. Mine likes pumpkin seeds, sultanas, dried apricots, sesame seed crackers, rice cakes. Maybe a sausage or some meatballs if I have some left over from the night before.

Generally don't feel very inspired TBH

Mine likes yoghurt drinks but not regularly

The all time favourite for both of my kids is cold pizza.

DD's school prefers it if you dont put a yogurt in packed lunches. They apparently have a problem with lunch boxes leaking half eaten yogurt on the floor. Why they cant make sure the kids put them in the bin and be done with it I dont know!

cold pizza if a fav with mine. fruit. cheese. raisins. flapjacks.

That reminds me, if you do pack a yoghurt, wrap it in a plastic bag. Sometimes they burst (don't know what causes it, dropping the lunchbox on the floor maybe) and ooze all over the lunch and then obviously nothing gets eaten.

Sandwich, Wrap, Bran Flakes Roll - filled with Tuna and sweetcorn, ham and salad, chicken and salad, Egg and cress.

Yoghurt.

Either fruit or veg. Today was apple, tommorow will be carrot batons.

Little cubes of cheese.

Drink - water, or fruit juice

frubes are better (if thinking about yoghurt) they can just suck them - are on the expensive side though

haven't done them yet but DS1 wants hummous, carrot and cucumber sticks, bread sticks, some cubes of cheese, roll and butter and a banana - that is honestly his favourite food. He would eat it at all mealtimes if I let him!

I don't know if anyone else is bothered by this but compared to my old lunchbox from school (late 70s, red Snoopy design and I still have it!) the actual boxes are rubbish.

Those squishy bags would do just that, the plastic boxes don't seem to fit much and for the life of me I can't find a decent mini size thermos that doesn't look like something my granny would love! My Snoopy one, which I can't use as with dts it would end up in a fight over who gets it, was great for soup and the like during winter and I had hoped to do the same for dts.

Anyone found anything decent?

Oh and to not completely hijack your thread cheeseandonion, as well as the sandwiches, rolls etc I also bake something on the Sunday. This week it is flapjacks, wrapped in greaseproof paper. Next week it will be apple and cinnamon muffins. I choose recipes where the food doesn't need to be eaten all at once, the flapjacks can be kept for up to 2 weeks although they will be done by Wednesday if dh doesn't stop eating the damn things. I use a book aimed at children cooking it for themselves thus utilising child labour. (Not really, they are only 4 1/2 so it would be more work for me if I did let them loose without supervision.)

Ham or cheese or egg sandwich in wholemeal bread

Piece of fruit

Yoghurt (yes, completely agree with plastic spoons!)

Bottle of water

Home made cake/bic/flapjack

20p for "tuck" at playtime - they only do healthy tuck, so it'll be cheese n bics, fruit, rice cakes etc

dd(14) normally does her own ,but as it's her first day back tomorrow I made it(halo for me then)
She always has a cheese/red pepper/lettuce wrap,apple,banana/cherry tomatoes and fruit juice.

TwoIfBySea,
I bought some of those small plastic containers divided into different parts which are actually meant for tools I think and use those as lunchboxes. Wouldn't be any good for soup though - thermas flask?

fruit, sandwiches (usually pitta or crusty roll as my kids moan at 'soft bread'), yoghurt, sometimes a tuna pasta salad in a little tupperware thingy, cubes of cheese, cheese and baby toms on sticks, mozzarella sliced and a drizzle of olive oil, again in little pot, sometimes cookies , home made or shop, slices of pizza, slices of Spanish tortilla or quiche, home-made cheese pasty things, cheese straws. Erm probably loads of crap which needs to be used up in the fridge eg bits of cold chicken, hard boiled eggs.

Not all at once, obviously