Packed lunch for 3yo

[Katesboy8]

My boy goes to a CM two days a week and I feel bad that he always has the same things in his lunch box! We don’t eat a lot of meat and he can’t take peanut butter. Does this sound ok for his lunches- a cheese sandwich/bagel (50/50 bread), an organix oaty bar and organix crisps, an Ella’s kitchen yoghurt/natural yoghurt, chopped up fruit, chopped up veg, sometimes a boiled egg/quorn sausages or sausage rolls and a little pot of pasta.

I know some kids have utter rubbish in their packed lunches like peperamis and chocolate bars but I also don’t want to seem mean!

Ideas please!

It seems like quite a lot of food. I'd probably do oaty bar or crisps, but not both.

If you want to change things up occasionally maybe you could so some baking together and he could take the result in his lunch box. Keep the fruit/veg varied. Maybe mix up the sandwich filling a bit (egg mayo, tuna, hummus and veg). Could also mix up the bread choice (pitta, wrap etc.). He could maybe take a little jelly as occasional treat. Bit of cheese. Falafel.

He unfortunately won’t eat any other sandwich filing! We have tried falafel too. He sometimes takes a babybel but has gone off this! Also doesn’t like jelly. Will try some baking though, might make him more likely to eat something else!!

These savoury muffins freeze well www.tamingtwins.com/savoury-muffins-recipe/
Savoury flapjacks solidstart.ie/cheesy-carrot-flapjacks/

Well if that's what he likes/he won't eat other things then carry on for the time being. Offer some alternatives in a few months when his tastes might have developed/changed or he might be feeling a bit more adventurous. Nothing wrong with sticking with what he likes for now.

Would he eat egg muffins? Or homemade blueberry muffins, or cucumber sticks and a dip. Id do breadsticks and dip too like cream cheese (Tesco sell mini bags of little breadsticks) or buy the laughing cow dippers. Grapes/orange segments? Or a banana 🍌. Some crackers and a cheese triangle (ask cm to spread)
Can you tell my child has breadsticks/crackers a lot as he won't eat sandwiches 😂

What about jelly pot, or yoghurt tube like frube

DD is nearly 7 and has the same lunch in her lunch box every day. As long as they are getting variety overall and the lunch box is healthy, I don't see the problem. I agree with PP that it seems like a lot though and I'd ditch one of the carb snacks. eg DD has a ham sandwich, a babybel, a yoghurt pot or pouch, fruit and, sometimes, some avocado and/or cucumber chunks.

DS on the other hand has a far more varied diet so his fillings, types of carbs, side things etc all vary massively. He might have a wrap with avocado and cheese one day, a chicken sandwich the next and a cheese and pickle baguette another day. He always has fruit and yoghurt in some form but will have veggie sticks and hummus one day or a salad of lettuce, peppers, cucumber and feta another, or some avocado or some other fruit/vegetable. In winter he quite likes heated up pasta in an insulated pot. I'm planning to test him out on some pasta salads over the summer.

My point is that I wish DD had more variety at lunch but I don't think it's a bad thing that she doesn't. She eats plenty of vegetables and a wide variety of meat/chicken at dinner.

What about some 'love corn'? Vegetables disguised as a crisp-like snack! lovecorn.co.uk/

My 3yr old eats similar things to what you've wrote OP just a lot less quantity-wise, but she is quite petite and always has been. It sounds balanced enough.