What do you feed your kids when you are out in town?

[gemmiegoatlegs]

My ds aged 3 will eat most things but absolutely begs for a Sausage Roll from greggs when we are out. now my 14 month dd likes them too! I don't mind them eating pastry goods occassionally but oh the crumbs in my pushchair...bane of my life!

Just wondering what other families feed your kids when you're out and about?

PY I am not remotely about sausage rolls or chips. I know my child eats well the majority of the time, so two carefully raised fingers at the people who turn up their noses at my son's pastry

Colditz, I prob wouldn't be if I didn't come on MN tbh!

bakers oven in tonbridge kent too

We usually take sandwiches if we're to be out all day. We have lunch boxes and fill them with sarnies, olives, tomatoes, cucumber etc, with maybe a treat thrown in (although try not to keep choc and crisps in house, as they are too tempting). Also, bananas if we have some in.

If we get caught short, we'll try and buy some sandwiches. If they've had a meal already and are just peckish, they sometimes get crisps, but try to limit these for obvious reasons.

I take raisins and a drink of water with us and might buy a bag of crisps - we don't keep crisps in the house, I want her to see crisps as a "treat" food, not an every day one. Don't tend to buy meals out because she won't sit in a high chair for more than 30 seconds! Providing she has had a good runaround on the park first, she will usually sit in her buggy nibbling crisps for half an hour or so while I do some shopping.

I take raisins and a drink of water with us and might buy a bag of crisps - we don't keep crisps in the house, I want her to see crisps as a "treat" food, not an every day one. Don't tend to buy meals out because she won't sit in a high chair for more than 30 seconds! Providing she has had a good runaround on the park first, she will usually sit in her buggy nibbling crisps for half an hour or so while I do some shopping.

I take raisins and a drink of water with us and might buy a bag of crisps - we don't keep crisps in the house, I want her to see crisps as a "treat" food, not an every day one. Don't tend to buy meals out because she won't sit in a high chair for more than 30 seconds! Providing she has had a good runaround on the park first, she will usually sit in her buggy nibbling crisps for half an hour or so while I do some shopping.

er, a banana. If its lunch time we go to a cafe/pub/wherever and he has what everyone else is having. If he doesn't like it, tough. But then again I am a mean mummy.

I shouldn't be pleased my daughter throws a strop but in a perverse way I am when we go past the Fruitsticks stand and she starts demanding some fruit - I really want mango & kiwi NOWWWWW!!

(If you haven't seen Fruitsticks, it is chunks of fruit on a stick - does what it says on the label - for a quid.)

Better than a Millie's cookie for about the same price (who am I kidding - I'd have the cookie every time....)

I have to take special food with me for ds2 as he has multiple food allergies, so am often found with a small cool bag with some ham or chicken and his bread, spread a banana, raisins or some tru-free biscuits.

peanut butter or marmite sarny, raisins, drink fruit bars, homemade banana or date muffins (keep stock in freezer) - ds almost always has lunch on the go. He is the most boring eater on the planet so there is little variation unfortunately.

tend to eat in cafes, but snacks on the run are
those bags of mini-ryvitas
cheesy oatcakes
berry oatcakes
plain oatcakes
fruit
mini-banana muffins if we've made them day before etc

It depends. Quite often we'll go to M&S cafe, or just pick up sandwiches in M&S or Boots. Sometimes we'll go to Subway. If we want a bigger meal we'll go to Frankie & Benny's or TGI Friday or something like that.

It all depends how long we're in town for & which town we're in!

houmous and pitta bread(mini ones from M&S)
Falafel(M&S)
feta cheese
olives
Humzingers
Pasta with spinage pinenuts and parmesan with basil dressing (this is dd favourite from m&s)

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Sometimes go to Greggs and they have a sausage roll or ham and cheese bake of pizza slice or something.

If i just have one of them then I buy a tuna wrap or sandwich from Aldi (cheap and lovely) and we share that.

i do honestly give dd1/2 and 3 sausage rolls mcd's when out and also friut shoots. i have no shame
how on earth can a poor kid go round in a buggy with a bowl of fruit or salad? it would go every where at least i can just brush the crumbs out of her buggy !!!

oh yes and grggs , love it

Where does everyone live within such easy reach of big branches of M&S with cafes?

We don't eat 'on the run' at all, unless we've gone somewhere and purposefully taken a picnic. If we're just out and about in town, we live so near town we'll just go home for a snack or lunch or whatever. Even when the kids were tiny it was the same, we would eat at home rather than have them munching in the pushchair. It's just become a habit, so my 3 have never expected to eat while out and about, unless we've set out to go out for a meal.

If we eat out in or near our home town it's because we've taken a definite decision to go out and eat - for us it's often the cafe at our local garden centre, it's lovely.

For a day out in another town we will either take a picnic or have a drink and very light meal/snack somewhere like M&S where it's half-decent food. Or a nice cafe if we find one wherever we're visiting.

I always have the following in my bag for bribes and to shut up moaning in the car:

raisins
rice cakes
bread sticks
juice

but if we are out and about and they need food rather than a snack, we do MacDonalds, Pizza Express or Pret.

Junk food.

i made dd a picnic which she munched through whilst i pushed her into town today..if im in a rush its burger king for us

sausage rolls or sandwiches and fruit shoots or apple juice
I am a shit mother who doesn't have the mental capacity to also police every single piece of food, when I don't think they are that bad IN MODERATION

I have enough trouble getting washed and finding clothes and trying not to hate myself too much