Do you put ice packs in your kids' lunch boxes?

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Cos I do and my neighbour thought I was bonkers.

yes

no

yes

yes
bought some cute ones from canada over the summer (smily face and ladybug

No.
But in hot weather (Whats that?? ) i freeze the drink and i normally freeze frubes too.

smiley

yes definately. It's out of the fridge from 8.30am until 12.30ish, a health hazard if you don't.

Nope. the kids have got cool bags instead of traditional lunch boxes. They're really good.

ofgs. no i didn't

surprisingly

my kids still live

depends on what they are having. This year I have just used frozen yoghurt pouches after one of the ice packs leaked all over DD's lunch!

When I was at school, my packed lunch was in tupperware box. No ice pack, no insulated lunch bag.

Well, for the first two days of term I did - I bought the poncey little teabag sized ones, thought I was terribly responsible and good (dd's school recommend we do use cool bags and chill food as the room lunches are stored in is HOT) but dd1 climbed a tree in the playground and hid them 'for the birds to make nests with'. Education - priceless and thoroughly surplus to requirements

Back to frozen frubes for us, too.

Lol, toothyboy - when I was at school my lunch was in a Stork tub. Tupperware? Poser

Ah, but did the Stork tub cause your sarnies to sweat in the same way as tupperware, jaynehater?

Yes
(Hi Jaynehater I'm following you about!)

Mmmmm....warm, slightly moist to the touch ham sandwiches, encased in tinfoil that imbedded into the bread in little flecks, along with home made scones that invariably decimated into fragments. I used to pray to be sent to school lunches. Nothing in adult life has equalled the misery of prying open my margarine/ice cream tub and finding my entire lunch, as you say, sweating in one solid clump in the corner, with the odd crumb clinging to the condensation inside.

I think my mum was aiming for the 1977 version of Dairylea Lunchables

So you are, ipanema!

Shall we hold hands, and protect each other?

Most of the time yes.

Thank you, Jaynehater, I have been transported back in time to the 1970s school dinner hall - I can almost taste the slimy cucumber!

And as I rudely entered the thread without answering the original question, ds1 will be starting reception next week; he will have an insulated lunch bag with chilled contents and no ice pack.

Awww, my dd2 started P1 this month. She's not staying for lunch for another 2 weeks - part timer!