to think this is a perfectly good sized lunch?

[FenellaFellorick]

For my 15 and 16 year old sons?
(If not a very healthy one but that's not my question )

Ham and cheese salad sandwich, a frube and a wafer bar.

I am doing the next 2 weeks packed lunches for the freezer and this is being hotly contested in my house right now

Ah, if weight is a worry light snacks like cucumber chunks or popcorn (pineapple, berries) are great as they satisfy your need to pop food into your mouth without having too many calories.

Ok, am speaking as a nurse working in a high school here: firstly a big yuk to frozen sarnies, even frozen bread rolls go soggy when defrosted without a filling in!
Secondly, I would hazzard a guess that your boys will have either scoffed the lot by break or thrown the lot in the bin - yes mums, alot of them do. I especially expect the single frube to be discarded through sheer embarassment .. picture the scene people.... not gonna happen!
some girls at this age are often found to skip meals& snacks during school day, the majority of older boys however, eat tons. I've seen some who come at 10:30 claiming illness & they list off what they've eaten which makes my job easy 'well if you've managed to eat all that lot then there's not much wrong with you, now waddle back to maths'
So in short, this ain't gonna touch the sides!
Lastly - no reason they shouldn't get used to doing their own, preparation for uni and or married life 'n' all that

Speck - frozen bread is fine. I've been freezing bread rolls and loaves for years. I think I'd have noticed if they were soggy and "yuk".

Speck have you actually read the thread?

My eldest has a ta with him and my youngest is flanked by two who also carry a walkie talkie to call for back-up in the event he kicks off. Their support staff would let me know if they weren't eating their food.
They are happy with the taste of theirfood
They enjoy their frubes.
Their support staff would not let them throw things.
Marriage and an independant adulthood are not in their likely future.

I wonder if the Pope makes his own lunches?

Seconded, Maryz.

Sorry but could I just ask again why they can't make their own lunch?! Why, Fenella, why?! For the love of god, why?!

Why can't they make their own lunch?
Why can't they make their own lunch?
Why can't they make their own lunch?

Oh why. :(

yanbu I think it's enough

Well I'm coming into this thread waay late.

I have 14 year old boy and girl twins. My son is taller than my me. My daughter isn't.

That would be a decent lunch for both of them. My daughter would probably share the sandwich with her friend.

Neither of them have special needs as such (although my daughter has dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalulia ) but regardless of that fact I would be quite happy to do them a "pack up". Because it's not really that hard, and I'm their mum so I don't mind.

I really fancy a sandwich now.

I shouldn't laugh. Thank you genuinely to everyone who took the time to reply, whether they read the full thread or not. Its a long one.

Nearly 300 posts about a sandwich. I love it

I want a sarnie too. And a frube!

Speck - you may be a nurse but you don't know much about being coeliac if you think bread shouldn't be frozen. Coeliac fresh bread prescriptions arrive in massive batches of 8 loaves. If you didn't freeze it you'd have to eat mouldy bread all month, or chuck it out on day 3 (gf bread also goes stale way faster).

Freezing is fine. Not. An. Issue.

If I were a bit more creative, I'd turn the thread into a country and western song with Why can't they make their own lunch? as the chorus.

You can all come round to mine. My freezer's full of em

Brilliant idea, Gabilan. Although in my mind the song, "Why Can't They Make Their Own Lunch" is set to the tune of On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At.

It could work. We need to shoe-horn a Frube in there somewhere. And the pope. The mind boggles.