ideas for pack lunches please

[ComeOVeneer]

DD starts school next week and will be taking packed lunches. Other than a traditional lunch of sandwiches/fruit etc what else do you give your children to take for lunch? The thought of sandwiches day after day bores me rigid (and I'm not even the one who is going to be eating them).

Tortilla's
roll's
little boxes of salads/fruit salads
baguettes
pasta salads

do you mean rolls
not roll's

Come on then cod what about your ideas?

...and thanks Charleesunnysunsun for your suggestions.

fruit flakes
from tesco
a samll container of cripss ocasionally
himous and crakers ( ds2 only)
wraps with bacona dn philly

dips
crackers

read somewhere that some people get these medicine boxes with a million compartments and put sticks of carrot/celery/bread/etc in the compartments and also a tub of dip

dont know wht the child would make of it tho

DS1 has been taking:

1 kids size bagel with ham
1 hot cross bun
1 apple
1 banana
1 humzinger
1 small box of raisins
1 banana

He's only 4.9 years bless him! Yesterday he said he couldn't finish his lunch as he didn't have time!!

hovis cracker things (shaped like a loaf of bread) with maybe some low fat cheese spread and poss a smidge of marmite

yoghurt covered dried apricots

carrot sticks, strips of red, yellow, orange peppers, mange tout, baby corn, long strips of cucumber and a dip, or not. Dip can be houmus, tarasamalata or avocado

strips of homemade pizza

cold homemade chicken nuggets

sandwicjes cut out into shapes using pastry cutter.
One side white the other brown if you kids is funny about brown bread???

i dont give my girls low fat stuff (like the cheese spread you mentioned TC)

i always give them the full fat stuff

what do others do? genuinely interested

a little homemade fruit salad, a couple of grapes cut in half, some peach sliced up and afew strawberries cut in half, some sliced apple

instead of crips that vegetable crisps, bits of beetroot and sweet potato that have made crisp like.

a fruit bar. Sainsburys do these fab ones with pinaple and coconut, really sweet and have a pic of spider man on the front. Bit expensive but nice. Cut in half as they probably won't eat a whole one and they'll last longer so cheaper that way.

Is rice salad a bad idea? I know you can get bad food posioning from off rice.

I started buying lower fat stuff where the option looks healthier NP. Don't do it with everything. But with cream cheese, I'll eat it too and would buy low fat for me so rather than buy 2 different things...

TC, waht do you do about butter? i give the girls butter but have flora myself

i can never decide whts best

Morrisons are doing BOGOF on Fruit Flakes ATM which both my boys love.

DS1 has taken pizza and mini sausages today and half a bag of fruit flakes and a banana and juice.

Yesterday (which was his first day) he took a cheese and salami sandwich, apple, yog and cake.

He eats sooooooo slowly he only had time for the sandwich!

I hope he speeds up today!!

We all use Olivia spread.
If she's having cream cheese spread, or the like, on something though I don't bother with it.

ok

thanks

My ds likes lots of little different bits in little tupperwares. Alternatives to bread sarnies might be:

• Wraps with tuna, sweetcorn and mayo
• french bread with chunks of cheese
• pitta bread with grated cheese and carrot and mayo
• Bagel with cream cheese and salmon

These also go down well with my ds

• Cubes of cheese and grapes mixed together
• Fruit kebab - lots of little chunks of fruit on small skewer wrapped in foil
• Sometimes do soup in a little thermos with a roll (often when teeth wobbly!)
• Slices of soreen with butter
• Toasted pumpkin seeds and pistachios if your school allows them
• cubes of fruit in apple juice with a cocktail stick to skewer them with
• cold nut loaf (we don't eat meat but I guess some cold meat would be equivalent) with chutney in a little pot
• a few squares of good quality chocolate in a foil parcel

Wish he would eat pasta salad.