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to think this is a perfectly good sized lunch?

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FenellaFellorick · 06/06/2015 17:54

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

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 Grin

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GlomOfNit · 08/06/2015 23:20

GrinGrinGrin at this thread!

OP, am deeply envious that your boys will eat bread (let alone horrible GF bread). My own son (4, ASD) will not touch the stuff unless it's been woven at home homemade and literally just out of the oven, then he deigns to break a bit of crust off. Sandwiches are terra incognita.

I have no idea if that's enough. I am not your boys. DS2 seems to have issues with regulating his appetite or understanding when he's full or not. I do know that my older son (7) who admittedly seems to be on some sort of Godzilla-like growth spurt, would complain that he was starving after that lot. Grin

FenellaFellorick · 08/06/2015 23:21

Yeah. That probably needs to go Grin

I don't know what it would be like. Their bread is always used up before the end of the month.

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FenellaFellorick · 08/06/2015 23:23

I'll make a sandwich for anyone who writes me a song.

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Maryz · 08/06/2015 23:25

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cleanmachine · 08/06/2015 23:27

Fucking hell. Am I the only one that thinks that's a massive lunch for ops kids? Am shocked at the amount some posters kids ate wolfing down.

My teen ds only has one sarnie (he refuses to take any extras except crisps every so often).

FenellaFellorick · 08/06/2015 23:28

Gluten free pasta is the work of the devil.

Cook it for a second too long and it's gloop .

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MMCQ · 08/06/2015 23:29

What everyone else said. Especially the part about making them do their own sandwiches (with provided ingredients of course).
#controlfreakinkitchenprocurement lol

Maryz · 08/06/2015 23:32

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FenellaFellorick · 08/06/2015 23:33

No.

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Frenchmustard7 · 08/06/2015 23:35

I am going to have to experiment and freeze some sandwiches now Grin

The meal sounds fine. Maybe pack him a couple of bits of fruit - apple/tangerine.

MillionToOneChances · 08/06/2015 23:56

Ooh, ooh, I found tasty gluten free pasta! Miraculous. Not cheap, but nice enough that I'll happily eat it myself rather than cook two separate kinds. I got it from Ocado, but this is it:

www.amazon.co.uk/PACK-Doves-Brown-Penne-BUNDLE/dp/B00V6HO73W/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1433803941&sr=8-3&keywords=Doves+farm+gluten+free+organic+pasta#productDetails

gemima78 · 08/06/2015 23:59

Don't know if anyone's mentioned it but another small portion of protein could really help fill them up, especially as it burns off slower - cheese, boiled eggs and chicken legs are favourite here. I'm another who'll be nicking the frozen sandwiches idea.. Genius!!

sarcod · 09/06/2015 00:02

well i think that is a perfectly fine lunch my son who is 16 may add a pack of small crackers he likes the sunbite ones other than that i think its ok and i still make it for him

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 09/06/2015 00:46

Why are you making their school lunch? (their school lunch?)
You really shouldn't do that every da-ay
They need to learn to do their own (do their own)
They need to learn to do their own..(da da dadada da)

Let them do their own (their own)
Oh let them do their own (their own)
Oh let them do their own. (or they'll grow up feckless)

(On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At was an inspired choice of tune!)

Sandwich to Australia please, but no ham. Grin

Which GF pasta do you use? I can't stand the corn based stuff so have to use Orgran rice and vegetable or rice and millet (the best, least likely to go to mush and has some "bite" to it). You can still get it in some health food shops, or online, but the fecking supermarkets all seem to have gone corn-based, the bastards, when I was over there at Easter. Got really cross, I did!
Dove's farm rice penne is nice but it's brown rice, so I don't know if that would cause issues with your boys - mine both ate it without a murmur (7 and 2) but that's not necessarily indicative!

CheerfulYank · 09/06/2015 03:19

Fenella, I take my hat off to you
You're an absolute star.

I'd add a bit more of...well, whatever they'll eat! :) You have enough battles to fight.

I like Tinkyada gf pasta, for the pp asking for recommendations. I don't know if it's available there though.

CheerfulYank · 09/06/2015 03:22

Fwiw my DS is almost 8 and would probably eat a bit more, since we're talking portion sizes. :) Tomorrow I'll send him to day camp with cheese and crackers, cashews, some veggies and dip, some fruit, and maybe something else if I decided to. Otherwise he has a sandwich, fruit, veg or salad, and a cheese stick or something. Very very occasionally crisps or a cookie.

namechanger456 · 09/06/2015 05:53

I can't believe how many of you think that biscuits and crisps are a vital part of lunch. THAT is setting up bad eating habits.

shinysparklythings · 09/06/2015 06:28

I would say add some fruit, but the veg under the mash incident conveys that wouldn't go down to well!

Teenage kids boys especially eat tons of tat! I'm a teacher and the number of whole multipacks of biscuits that are consumed everyday astonishes me! It's like some of them go to the supermarket and get the best value biscuits/crisps/sweets/huge bars of chocolate and then they share them all out. So even the students that come to school with the nice sensible sized lunches end up eating far more! I think a lot of parents would be very shocked on discovering what their children actually eat at school. Confused

dragonflygirl1 · 09/06/2015 06:38

I would be happy if my 3 ate that for lunch! It would be plenty for them cos they won't carry ANYTHING! I have got them all kinds of stuff over the years and all they take are crisps! Drives me mad and food gets wasted! :-( (I leave for work before they leave for school, 2x16 year olds, 1x14) They would all eat more and healthier stuff when they were younger and my KS1 class's lunches are generally larger than mine! Rolls are fine frozen. What would they make for themselves? I agree they should make it, not you! Maybe swap the bar for something less sugary cos the yoghurt is too and it would make them more hungry mid afternoon? Good luck!

Waltonswatcher · 09/06/2015 06:50

Garafalo gf pasta is amazing. Not cheap but the best. We've tried them all.
No good for packed lunch though, needs eating when cooked.

dansmum · 09/06/2015 06:59

I freeze certain plain meat sandwiches and cake slices so they stay cold in pl. But I AM horrified YOU are still doing their pl's! My ds and dd have been making their own lunches for 3 years now..they are 10 and 12. That way they make as much as they want, made the way they want it. I was fed up of making lunches that were untouched because they had the wrong bread /butter/no butter/ red grapes not green grapes.(the usual foodie foibles) and it taught them some life skills. They are being unreasonable IMHO. If they are moaning about your lunches..let them make their own !!??

Superexcited · 09/06/2015 07:00

I can't believe how many of you think that biscuits and crisps are a vital part of lunch. THAT is setting up bad eating habits.

Crisps and biscuits can be consumed once a day as part of a balanced diet. My son has a small packet of crisps and 2 biscuits in his packed lunch but he also had 2 portions of fresh fruit and a portion of salad. He eats a minimum of 7 pieces of fruit each day and has veg on top of that so I don't see that one pack of crisps and 2 biscuits is leading him to a lifetime of poor eating. He is as fit as a fiddle, slim and very toned.
Certain things that we deem to be healthy are often no better than crisps /biscuits.

PrimalLass · 09/06/2015 07:04

dansmum - RTFT.

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FenellaFellorick · 09/06/2015 07:07

I regularly ask them if they'd like anything else instead.

They like everything to remain the same always for the whole of eternity Grin You'd think they'd be bored of exactly the same lunch, day in, day out but no.

When they had school dinners I am told they had a potato. Every day.

This is clearly an improvement Grin

No, I won't be switching to them making their own packed lunches. If it is about them knowing how to make a sandwich, they do. They can. They will. They have sandwich making skills (although - see 'peanut butter and marshmallow' above!)

Everything they do requires input. It requires me to instruct. To watch. To manage. To direct. To talk and walk them through it until they can manage it with remote supervision (remote supervision is as independent as it gets. It means they are doing it for and by themselves but you are aware of it and ready to step in if required). They have household tasks that they do. I am happy with those. I bring in additional ones as appropriate so that when they transition to adult services they will have a number of relevant skills.

They are currently eating the breakfast they made themselves.

Making sandwiches is a dull task repeated weekly and I just want to do it. Just a simple task I can get out of the way in a way that is easy and quick. For me. Get them in the freezer with minimum hassle and mess. If I was incapacitated for any reason, they would be able to make their sandwiches.

I can't remember who asked if the rolls were the size of a subway. No.

But if you're anything like me, it's hard to visualise inches. (there's a joke in there somewhere Wink ) so I took this.

to think this is a perfectly good sized lunch?
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DownWithThisTypeOfThing · 09/06/2015 07:14

GrinGrin

OP you don't have to keep explaining yourself. A RTFBTT (Read The Fucking Bastard Twatting Thread) will suffice Grin