to think this is a perfectly good sized lunch?

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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

Teenagers eat more than adults - they're growing. How about fruit yoyos or something if they won't eat 'real' fruit? Or a flapjack?

I think that is fine, my DP would eat similar maybe less just the roll.

My dd's would not manage all that.

Nowhere near enough. As for freezing sandwiches that's rank. If you tried to serve me a sandwich that had been frozen you'd be wearing it I'm afraid!

I'm astounded at the amount some children have in their lunch boxes.

I'd never freeze prepared rolls or sandwiches, bread that has been frozen isn't nice, you can't put salad in and they take all of 30s to make in the morning.

I'm astounded too. My son's packed lunch throughout primary school was one peanut butter sandwich (two slices of thick sliced wholemeal bread, bit of Flora, thick spreading of peanut butter), one Penguin biscuit, one apple and a bottle of water or sometimes a small carton of apple juice. He ate it all, as far as I knew, and was not ravenous at home time. He was perfectly healthy and active, and is now 21 and 6' tall. He never had the huge appetite that so many people here seem to assume all children and teenagers have.

I used to go on school trips with the class as a parent helper and saw first hand that many, many children with huge packed lunches did not eat all, or even most of, the most nutritious bits, ie the sandwich and the fruit. They ate the crisps and the biscuits and left the rest.

Do people eat 2 rolls?

Err,yes, my 14 year old ds does every day! Doesn't have lunch until 1.45pm so he's ravenous by then, plus a banana or apple, biscuit and some grapes not a pick on him as he plays tons of sport.

I'm also astounded (I have a low astonishment threshold) at all the people dissing frozen bread and rolls! I routinely freeze bread and never notice any difference.

This actually seems like a big lunch to me (depending on the size of the roll).
My teenage son (18 now) usually has a sandwich and a packet of crisps for his lunch. He's never been a big eater though.
It's usually just one sandwich/roll with one other thing plus a drink in our house.
I wouldn't freeze sandwiches either. Bread is fine in the freezer but I would defrost it first before making the sandwich. Frozen sandwiches reminds me of Icelands and their party selection.

I'm generally just astounded at the number of people who are astounded by mundane things!

I've actually now got a permanently dislocated jaw as a result of reading all this stuff!

All these kids/teens who eat 3 times the amount in the OP, how do they find the time?

I've found that Warburtons white toastie bread is the best for freezing/ defrosting without going weird.

Warburtons white toastie bread is full of preservatives and can barely be given the name of bread!

I am always amazed by people who confuse RTFT with RTFT

Ie I haven't RTFT as opposed to RTFT

Hint: read can be prounounced "red" or "reed"

I used to have this discussion with my mum. She wasn't particularly physically active (very busy but not much physical stuff) and had a small appetite. I was cycling at least 10 miles a day, walking the dogs and working at a stables, so hard physical work. I made my own lunch and often did the shopping for it but otherwise the conversation would go like this: Me: I can't find much for lunch, do I need to go out and get stuff?

Mum: No, look, there are these oat bars

Me: OK, and what do I eat after 10am?

Mum: the oat bars are quite filling

Me: no. 3 donuts eaten in quick succession are filling. An oat crunchy bar is not going to touch the sides

People vary a lot and teenage boys do seem to have hollow legs.

Never mind if their lunch isn't substantial enough!

Fast forward 10 or 15 years and you lovely DIL's will be on here moaning that their DH's are incapable of making their own sandwiches because their darling Mil has always done it for them.

That looks like a small lunch for a teenaged boy. I eat more than that for lunch and I'm a middle aged woman (never been overweight).

Op, I know you said that your sons don't like fruit but if you put some fruit into the lunch bag they will probably eat it if they are hungry enough!

Lucy the OP explained why her boys aren't making their own lunches - it's on page 2 if you're showing 25 messages per page.

I would LOVE to have a dil to complain about my sons. I would make her sandwiches too if she wanted.

However, the future for my children will not likely include a wife. Or children.Or a high flying career. Or a mortgage.

My eldest can look forward to a flat probably if he gets sw to come in and make sure everything's ok. My youngest will live his entire adult life in a group home with 24/7 support.

That of course was completely irrelevant to my question, which was a simple gathering of views on lunch size, so there was no reason at all to explain it in my op since I wasn't seeking opinions on whether I should make their lunches but you can never tell what people are going to ask, so I've answered everything that's been asked.

I make my dh's sandwiches every day for work and he fills up the car as I loathe doing it. We're both quite capable of doing it ourselves it's just nice to do things for other people.

That is not enough for a 14-15 year old. My ten year old eats more than that!

He has a wrap with chicken or ham
Two lots of fruit - one fresh, one dried
Cheese item
Frube
Crackers/crisps once a week/mini pack of biscuits etc
Olives

Yogurt, babyish?

My DD won't drink milk, DS won't eat pot yogurt. If they have the odd frube I'm happy. Frubes freeze well too.