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

merrymouse I also put in fruit that is never eaten at all. It makes me feel better.

Why are they not making their own sandwiches fresh? Surely they are old enough. I think that is enough if you supplement with fruit.

Op for your own sanity it might be a good idea to get this thread closed so people who haven't bothered to read the thread and have missed your multiple sensible explanations for why your sons are not making their own sandwiches won't post asking the same question that has been already answered many many times before.

Ahh, this is the thread that just keeps giving.......

Kerry is a fine example of someone not RTFT

facepalm

Two thoughts.
A) it looks like a perfectly decent lunch to me. Its about what my teen and dh eats.

B) I make our lunches for all because Im the one with time, I do it when Im cooking anyway. And why the hell not. The others know how to make sarnies. They do the washing up and other jobs. Making sandwiches does not diminish me.

This has given me the shudders - (not the sandwich although it would not be enough for my 15 year old ds) but the memory of the sandwiches that my mother froze and gave me every day for 3 years. Eurgh! Ham salad - the bread would have its own 'unique' texture and the salad... boak.
She only stopped when I left primary school and she allowed that I was old enough to make my own lunch!

KerryannDan makes an excellent point. Whyaren't they making their own sandwiches?

Mine have been making their own bread and running a take-away sandwich business for their freinds since they were 4. All organic. And vegan

Fenella you really do need to take a long hard look at yourself.

Will nobody think of the children?

Mine started making their own sandwiches in the womb. It was a right bugger getting the tools and the ingredients in there for them, but I felt I had a duty.

Brian Blessed in MrFeynman's link was the best thing I'd seen for yonks...until you posted that "I can't breathe" link Fenella.

Utterly infectiously hilarious. Thank you.

Gasp that's what a proper mother would do. Anything else is just indulgence

Gasp I think you are being smuggy mcsmug.

I downloaded the Pret a Manger youtube training video and played it daily in the direction of my uterus while ttc.

Either that or Baby Mozart.

MNHQ - PLEASE put this thread in Classics -- as a Masterclass (Mistressclass..??) in keeping your cool with idiots who haven't RTBFTT
OP - I salute you, your boys are very, very lucky

oh Fenella - that link!

You deserve many , some and a caseload of , plus a large (GF of course ) for putting up with the johnny-come-latelys who just won't RTBFTT!

oh Fenella - that link!

You deserve many , some and a caseload of , plus a large (GF of course ) for putting up with the johnny-come-latelys who just won't RTBFTT!

Sorry for double post, MN was having an Ishoo while I was posting.

DS2 is three weeks old now and hasn't made a single packed lunch for himself.

Should I be worried?

CY that is outrageous. He should be making them for himself AND his big brother and sister by now, you slacker!!

I missed any announcement of arrival of your DS2, Cheerful. Congrats!! :)

Fenella, I said up thread I have poorly ribs and it hurts to laugh...that video is as though you have sneaked a secret camera into my house and filmed me on the sofa, it's uncanny...

What does the bt stand for in rtfbtt?

I have definitive proof from the highest authority that freezing sandwiches is An Acceptable Thing To Do...

groceries.iceland.co.uk/iceland-party-24-piece-sandwich-platter/p/55588

I can imagine the orange one pulling them out of the freezer each morning and putting one in his DCs lunchbox...