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Ideas for totally fruit free packed lunches.

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Lovewearingjeans · 11/05/2015 09:23

My DS has broken his right arm, and is right handed. The cast goes right up to his armpit and is awkward. He usually has school dinners, but I am thinking that is going to be quite hard one handed, at least to start off with, so I am thinking packed lunches for the next couple of weeks. This is where my problem lies. One of the main reasons he has school dinners is that he will eat most cooked veg, which is great, because he eats zero fruit. His dislike of the flavour is so intense he doesn't like sweets, jellies, yogurt, fruit flavoured ice cream. He also doesn't really like uncooked veg. This means his packed lunches look like the beigest things on Earth. So interesting ideas please. He loves meat, pasta, fish, sweet corn, peas, cooked carrots and broccoli (but I'm not sure if he will eat these cold). One thing that will go down well is cold pasta with tuna or chicken and peas and sweet corn. He is not keen on rice, and as I am trying to make lunch less stressful, I won't be doing this! He does sound incredibly fussy, but really isn't , and I will be cooking a balanced full of veg meal in the evening. He is 9 btw.

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TheMoa · 11/05/2015 09:28

Wraps, pasta salad, ordinary salad, crudites, plain yoghurt, sandwiches, houmous, flapjacks, brioche, cols sausages, quiche...

I can't think of anything I couldn't eat one-handed.

momb · 11/05/2015 09:36

TBH I think you could stick with school dinners as long as someone cuts it up for him.

Alternatively: vanilla or fudge yogurts (do they still do a hazelnut one?), wraps or sandwiches with meat and cheese,
Couscous or pasta with cooked veg and meat or fish in (though not sure if this would be any easier to eat than a school dinner).
flapjacks, carrot cake, ginger snaps.

cdtaylornats · 11/05/2015 09:56

Cous cous or quinoa based salad, with walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts or pine nuts.

Cold salmon or smoked fish.

Cheese is good. Flapjacks. Beef jerky.

A place you might get ideas is graze.com - not to buy but to look at the combinations in some of their snacks.

Lovewearingjeans · 11/05/2015 09:57

Thank you. Have been trying to persuade him that he can't eat his school dinner with his fingers Smile it is made more complicated by having to have his arm elevated on a cushion next to him while he eats.

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TheSpottedZebra · 11/05/2015 12:03

Does he eat eggs? Boiled eggs, or cold Spanish omelette, or Asian - style omelette rolls?

Pies and pasties? Tiny ones, or ones with a non sloppy filling. Cold sausages?

If he likes pasta salad, there's nothing that wrong with just having that all the time. Like you said, he likes it, he eats a good dinner. Plenty of other people eat the same lunch all the time. Have you got a sport, or one of those fork/knife things? They could open up options too.

TheSpottedZebra · 11/05/2015 12:04

Spork not sport.

mousmous · 11/05/2015 12:06

pasta bakes
my dc like pasta bakes in cupcake form: mix pasta/sauce/egg and bake in cupcake cases.
easy to eat one handed and as nutritional as you make it.

LikeASoulWithoutAMind · 11/05/2015 12:08

You can make mini frittata in a muffin tin and add veg to those - just lightly beat eggs and milk together and pour over your choice of veg/cheese/ham etc (lightly oil the tin and cook in the oven at about 180 I think)

Or if someone would help him open it you could send hot food in a food flask?

HangingInAGruffaloStance · 12/05/2015 18:08

Make fish cakes with tinned salmon, mash and frozen peas. Easy to eat one handed!

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