Nice packed lunches for teens

[randonneuse]

Help! I am a good cook. But when it comes to packed lunches, I just like a cheese sandwich and a packet of crisps. This is the source of much mockery in my house, but I really like a cheese sandwich for my packed lunch. Next week, we have a teenage French exchange student staying, and my main obligation seems to be to provide fullsome packed lunches. The programme seems to involve lots of walking and trips, so I expect she will be hungry.

She's only here for a week, so I reckon I can expand my repertoire for a limited time before going back to normal. The only idea I have had is to make a cakey traybake (I like Edd Kimber's One Tin Bakes). Has anyone got some good ideas, bought or homemade, so that our poor student doesn't get hungry and/or bored of my cheese sandwiches?

With an unknown potentially fussy child I’d get in a few kinds of bread and a few options for fillings and put it out for her to assemble herself. Get in several options for crisps, cakes, cut up some veggies and maybe some pots of hummus and let her pick out what she wants.

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I’m surprised tgst no one has commented yet that a French teenager may well not like English hard cheese. I’m z France theyll eat soft cheeses like Brie etc and cheese spread ( la cache qui rit). No cheddar in sight and definitely no pickle…..