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

my 4 year old eats three frubes in one go. they seem a bit babyish for teens??

I'd lob in some fruit and/or a yoghurt or cereal bar as well, if I'd had that lunch as a teen I've have come home starved!

To all the people saying they should be making their own lunches- Ha! Very funny. My teenagers can't find their arse with both hands- if they were responsible for their own packed lunches they'd have crisps and redbull every day! OP- I think it's fine. Just bung in a baby bel on the day too

I freeze sandwiches so YANBU on that aspect, My dh and dc never notice any difference between frozen and unfrozen sarnies.

However, I'd make my DS 2 sandwiches. :)

Inspace - that's how they learn to look after themselves. Yes at
First they pack utter shite but they quickly learn actually parents do know what they are chatting about. Even the sn sons had to learn. Yes it took years, there was lots of faff and mess but like everything else thAt took years was worth it.. Yes there was a few adaptations that had to be made with knifes but it's all a learning curve.

Forgive me if I'm being a bit of a weirdo for noticing this and apologies if I've missed any mention of coeliacs etc (haven't time to read whole thread) but why are you giving them wheat/gluten free wafers when they appear to be eating normal (wheat) bread? Also agree with everyone else that this is not enough for growing lads but surely they could pick up some fruit and crisps themselves. Don't mean to be harsh, just curious.

That would be perfect for my DS's aged 23, 16 and 12.

It would also be perfect for me and DH.

I suppose you should really be asking your sons this question as it's their lunch.

They aren't gluten rolls. They're glutafin bread rolls that they get on prescription.

bloodyteenagers you are of course right. Sigh.

Ugh bold fail. Sigh.

would you like me to chop up a frog and put its arse in your lunchbox

Surely that's enough?! I can't believe how much posters/poster's kids eat

I can only compare to my teenage brother (thin as a rake). He would devour at least two sandwiches like that. It wouldn't even touch the sides for him.

He went to a very sporty school and carried an extremely heavy bag of books around all day. That lunch wouldn't have kept him going.

My 15yo is a lazy toerag, does little sport (good job he has to walk to train station, at least) and it suffice for him, but he'd come home grumpy. My 15yo would eat zero for lunch if we didn't make it for him, too,and actually put it in his bag. (Did I mention the lazy toerag bit?). I'd say add a cold sausage roll to that lot or 5 biscuits.

13yo: would not touch it all day (does make own lunch, trades some of it away or uses it to schmooze friends) and would only scoff some of it on the bus on way home.

Fair enough. They look pretty good for GF.

Hugh lol with frogs butt comment. Fruit smoothie or yogurt drink thingy instead of frube - bigger so more filling

My DC are gluten free as well (coeliac, like yours I'm guessing from the prescription comment). The rolls look good for gf, I might try them out - always looking for improvements. We use (buy) Warburtons sandwich thins which are quite good and not crumbly like most gf sandwich bread. but probably a bit too small for teens, you'd have to use a whole packet each time which would be incredibly expensive.

I'd put in an Eat Natural (if nuts are allowed) or a pumpkin 9 bar (which is nut free) or a Bobbly Bite bar (also nut free). They're all gf. I'd also put in a boiled egg for DC1 who'd eat it (DC2 wouldn't). I also sometimes get those Cathedral City mini cheeses - little single portion blocks of cheese in wrappers which are great as a lunchbox extra.

I wouldn't bother putting in 2 gf sandwiches as I think 1 is dry enough for any human to manage without losing all their saliva in the attempt. I might put some Eskal gf crackers in with some cheese (they are truly yummy).

Oh, I put cold sausages in too sometimes - gf sausages obviously. I have not found any gf sausage rolls anywhere convenient to buy them. Ever. Wish I could!

More than enough for me!

I am stunned by how much people eat btw!

For me, yes that would be fine. For my 14, nearly 15 year old, that wouldn't be enough.

I'd want a bag of crisps and a banana with that too.

But YANBU, it'll do them right enough and if they want more they can sort extras themselves.

That would be a perfectly fine lunch for me (naice yoghurt instead of frube though) but wouldn't touch the sides for my active, skinny-as-they-come 11yo though. A typical lunch for her might be ham sarnie, packet of crisps, some grated cheese, flapjack, maybe something extra like a yoghurt or bit of hummus, and two pieces of fruit (although one piece of fruit and crisps eaten in break).

Why aren't people freezing rolls? In packed lunch days I used to but a massive bag of rolls and make them up as ham or cheese then freeze. Put them in lunch box and by lunch they are fresh and ready to eat. Perfect for busy mornings. Also freezing frubes acts like a ice thingy you put in cool bags. By lunch they are also ready to eat and avoids warm yoghurt (yuk).

Doesn't look much for a teen though.

Meant to say that would be enough for me.

Just read a poster saying her 4 yo eats 4 frubes... huh? Why would you let a 4 year old eat 4 frubes?

That would do my 7 year old. My teens would eat that x3 each