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?

Used to take a sandwich and some sliced fruit in a small lunchbox. Sometimes I bought pretzels or just a wholemeal bun at a bakery and she'd tear bits of the bun and eat it quite happily. Sometimes a sausage.

Until I got paranoid through MN, I gave them sausage rolls. now I give them sarnies or home made pasties which they spit at people, thereby ingesting zilch

I can't go into town without my 6 year old swearing that she is 'starving', so I have to have something to stop her having really expensive rest stops.

I always have an apple (not as squidgy as bananas), a small carton of juice, a little box of raisins and some rice crackers (my toddler loves them and they take ages for her to eat). I also buy sugar free lollies at the supermarket and have a couple in the bottom of my bag for a special treat.

We don't have any fast food places in town (I live in the 1950s) and my daughter doesn't like pasties (or Greggs* Dummies as they're known around here), so I have to plan ahead. In every other area of life I am a disaster.

*Big northern bakery chain

Bananas - but generally I prefare to leave the kids at home and do groc shop etc on my own, atleast that way I tend to remember things like milk and bread. If I HAVE to take them then I just make sure they are fed before we leave then that old "I'm starving" argument just doesen't stand up he he!!

I usually take theirs with me, clingfilmed onto their plates - partly because I can't guarantee being somewhere that serves suitable food for them, and partly because I am a tightwad. I take pretty much what they would eat at home - sarnies/pasta/rice cakes, ham/cheese/chicken, some fruit/veg to munch, maybe a fruit bar/some raisins, or a flapjack. I usually buy their drinks out, because it gets a bit warm in the bag - but if I'm going a long way I take a bottle of water/some juice.

Blimey @ you lot!

I have long since stopped taking snacks out and about, except to swim lessons where DS2 has to sit for an hour, then I take a pot of raisins and an apple or two each.

If ew are out all day I'll take a picnic; if we were just in town to shop (! not a thing we do that often, but say for shoes or similar), well, they've had breakfast, and I guess they'd have lunch somewhere.

Your bags must all be groaning with this food you carry about

I always take a drink (usually water) and various healthy snacks (cereal bars, fresh or dried fruit, sandwiches) when ever we go out to avoid the temptation of buying any old thing when the hungry tears come on!!

I always take a goody bag out with me of healthy stuff (wholemeal sandwiches, carrot sticks, cucumber, mango, rice cakes, water) as DD tends to graze all day.

If I buy anything when we're out it'll be a smoothie or fruit salad. No M&S here .

I tell you, when I fly home I'm going to lie prostrate in front of the Kingston one for several minutes and promise never to leave it again. Then I'm going to go in and spend obscene amounts of money on everything.