10 year old boys- pack lunch

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What would you give them? DS1 is nearly 10 and he is a wee bit fussy about the things he will eat cold, but suggestions welcome.

A roll. Definitely a roll. No dainty sandwiches. Nothing chopped up in a bag. Rolls are man food.

I love a crusty baguette sliced lengthways filled with ham, tomatoes and mayo or wholegrain mustard.

The more choice of filling in the roll i.e. cheese, ham and salad the less he'll have to have in the lunchbox. Then add an apple and/or crisps. I'm guessing he doesn't want a box of tuna pasta, chopped up carrots in a wee bag, and a strawberry yoghurt with a spoon his mum popped in......

He needs one giant roll

Ask him. If he only wants the same thing every day I think thats fine. He'll get variety in breakfast and dinner.

I need to get out more.

fg, have you started on the gin already?

I used to like cold jacket spuds.

No

I'm guessing he doesn't want a box of tuna pasta, chopped up carrots in a wee bag, and a strawberry yoghurt with a spoon his mum popped in......

Definatly

Cold spuds, he wouldn't go for. He loves crusty baguettes but only the white ones

Can I hijack, what about a snack for a non fruit eating boy? I think if he has another nutri grain, he'll turn into one.

Mine has a ham sandwich or roll, a cereal bar and a bag of crisps

He won't take fruit and veg and isn't allowed sweet stuff. Sometimes try and get his to take soem cheese sticks or a box of raisins but generally find them uneaten.

He is a boring boy when it comes to food

and he won't drink juice so only takes water

A cold hard-boiled egg?

every day for the past 5 years my 10-yr-old has had a combination of:
Ham sandwich (brown bread, philly cheese instead of butter as he doesn't like butter)
Salami in baguette (with philly)
Orange Juice
A yoghurt
a home-made bun/brownie/muffin/flapjack
strawberries, apples, raspberries blackberries
crisps

That is it. That's what he wants, that's what he eats. snore.....

slices of cold pizza?

what about warm food in one of those snack flask things?

Wow! That sounds quite varied!! My ds (8) had a cheese sandwich/roll since P1. He's now P5 and now has school dinners - most of the time I suspect he has a cheese roll.....except when it's toasties and he has a cheese toastie. Or baked potato, when he favours the cheese filling.

SLices of cold Spanish tortilla?

Thanks for the ideas. I try not to give him crisps daily, but by the end of the year it normally has increased to daily... its filling him I find hard

he does quite like spanish tortilla and cold pizza

mine did once get me all excited by requesting cold pizza. But then wouldn't eat it. Sometimes I give him cold chicken and some bread. He prefers that to a 'proper' snadwich
I try and limit crisps to once a week but it is hard isn't it?

I do those root vegetable crisps for DS - they fulfil his crisp-liking and my vegetable-liking. (Buy a big bag and dole them out in smaller packs rather than buying small bags which are v expensive).

May try those Anchovy - the beetroot ones would freak him out but I may give parsnip and sweet potato a try

mmmmmmm - could jsut eat some now

Surprisingly, DS lurves the beetroot ones.

They are very yummy. I don't think they are the high point of fitness foods, but I don't think they are the low point either.

Other than that, its a cheese and ham sandwich every day chez Anchovy.