What do you put in your DC's packed lunches?

[bigTillyMint]

I was just wondering what you give your older Primary School DC to eat every day. And how much - say one round of sandwiches, etc!
thanks in advance!

when dd1 has packed lunch she would have one round of ham sandwiches and small bunch of grapes

not helpful really as she has the appetite of a bird so not a normal amount I would say lol

One round of sandwiches
Fruit Juice
A piece of fruit or raisens
youghurt
and a pack of crisps, or 2 biscuits.

Oh and often they have a nutri grain cereal bar too.

dd (5) has a ham sandwich made with 2 slices of bread, some sort of yoghurt e.g. a squishy one or one you neeed a spoon for, some fruit e.g. grapes, strawberries and sometimes a small biscuit or a pack of raisins.

a sandwich, a piece of fruit, a drink, and something else like dried apricots, raisins,or carrot sticks or a yoghurt.

Cheese scone
Organix alphabet biscuits
dried mango

Sandwich filled with Tuna ansd sweetcorn, chicken curry, Quorn, Cheese and avocado, Spread cheese, luncheon meat (apparently I am not supposed to according to new health propaganda guidlines ( if cheese I usually skip the dairy)or one of the following:

• Pasta salad with tuna and sweetcorn

-Rice salad with loads of veg. -couscous with cheekpeas -Home made cheese quiche -H M vegetable pasties -H M saussage roll -H M spinach tarts....

Two pieces of fruit

One cereal bar or handfull of dried fruit(raisins, apricots,prunes, cranberries, ,banana chips we found some dried sharon fruit the other day (tesco) they loved it, figs, dates...)

One dairy product (yogurt, mini cheese, cheestring ...)

A bottle of water

"savoycabbage", where do you find dried mango? Dcs would love it!

Mine call it goldfish.......

I get it at sainsburys.

I also give m dd macaroni or spaghetti bolognese in a funtainer

goldfish

Thanks and thanks for the link as DD1 is now asking for soups as well and the flask I have to give her is not a really good one. I have heard that TKmaks(sp?) do some good ones that come woth a spoon.

Thanks everyone!

Gorio, how old are your DC? I'm not sure my DS would go for a salad-type meal, or soup. But DD might!

DS(Y2) has a round of white ham (chicken) sandwiches
Frube
Carrot and celery sticks
HMCake or HM gingerbread man

I always make sure there are at leat 5 things in my DC's lunc box. DS1 is 8 and DD is 5 1/2.

Sandwich with either cheese, ham, turkey breast. I use pittas, wraps, bread rolls, white shop bread and homemade white bread.
2 lots of fruit.
2 puddings - usually homemade muffins/fruit bar or biscuits.
Crisps 1-2 times a week.

AWOL letters there

I also put a bottle of water in and sometimesa yogurt drink.

Do you put the same amount in each lunchbox? DS needs more food than DD as he never sits still!

My DC aged between 5 and 9 have:

1 round of sandwiches or 3 crackers with butter and cheese
1 piece of fruit such as apple, orange, few grapes
1 item of dried fruit such as packet of raisins, 3 dried mango pieces
1 biscuit item or bar of some sort
and then an additional dairy item which alternates between a mini cheese chunk or a frube type of yogurt

We will also usually do crisps or mini rice cakes but if all of the above included then might skip crisps.

There is generally the same amount but just lately I have putting an extra thing in DS's box if it doesn't look much. He won't always take fruit for break time so might put it in his lunch box. He usually eats everything whereas DD doesn't always.

Do anyones DC eat raw veg - DD will, but DS even turns his nose up at carrot sticks. Any other ideas?

Oh yes, I forgot those. They sometimes have cucumber, raw carrot or celery.

dd (9) doesnt eat a huge amount for lunch

either sarnie (one slice bread) with what ever we have in
or pasta salad
or filled pita
or cheese, crackers, little sausages

and
either fruit or something like avocado or olives

and
either home made cake
or biscuit
or flapjack
or some crisps
or other treaty thing

and drink:
cordial
or milkshake
or smoothie.

it mostly gets eaten but sometimes a bit of bread is left behind if she has a sarnie.

The ones in school are 10, 8 and 5. Little (2yo) usually eats the same sort of thing for lunch .

Ours bring their rubbish home which gives useful forensic evidence of actual consumption. We give them:

A round of Best of Both sandwiches with ham or cheese in (which usually come home more or less uneaten). Tuna, egg and beef sandwiches are even more rejected, as is anything with mayo in. Jam sandwiches are requested but never given. We are allegedly evil parents on this basis.

A piece of fruit (which usually also comes home uneaten or with two bites out of it, unless it is strawberries)

A yoghurt with plastic spoon (yoghurt ends up eaten but the remains smeared all over the rejected sandwich or its crusts, as well as the inside of the lunchbox).

A cheese string (devoured completely, packet remaining in lunch box)

A little cake or a couple of biscuits (devoured first, I imagine)

Water or watered down juice in the water bottle (usually most of it is drunk).

Frankly I don't know how they survive on this diet.

DD2 sometimes likes a handful of sugar snap peas in hers.

Dream lunches -
dd1 - small pot of hoummus, pitta, carrot sticks, olives, grapes, choc petit filous, pineapple juice to drink

dd2 - cold sausage cob with cream cheese, grapes, frube, innocent smoothie

Normal lunches -

dd1 - peanut butter on wholemeal bread, dried apricots, tangerine, yoghurt of some sort, orange juice

dd2 - cream cheese and chorizo on whoemeal, dried apricots, tangerine, yoghurt, orange juice