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

Oh and OP, I'd add some grapes and/or dried fruit too.

OP has a well-honed sense of tolerance and good humour - I'm also in your fanclub, Fenella!

"They trickle feed and graze all day. Proportional to their overall size they have very small stomachs and most of their digestion takes place in the hind gut. They don't, or at least shouldn't, binge eat large amounts. I think you were drawing on the expression "so hungry I could eat a horse". Here endeth the lecture"

Well, you think the wrong thing, then, I was using the well-known English idiom "to eat like a horse". Horses eat much more than people, do so constantly, and are expensive to feed, which is why the saying is used to describe people doing the same thing. Glad I could help. :)

Hey! I started the Fenella fan club WAY back up the thread, guys. Get in line! Not the well-named Iamadaftcoo though. You're barred :)

(and on that note, I don't envy anyone feeding teenage boys)

I don't think I've ever seen an op have to labour an irrelevant point so many times, fen I commend your patience I can't believe you haven't imploded!

Sandwich looks good. Wafer bars and frubes are both small low calorie foods. How about chocolate bar / biscuit and full-fat yoghurt? And fruit if they will eat it. Or if they like the frubes just more than one frube? That's assuming your sons are growing like weeds and dead thin like my teenage boys.

Also life is too short to over stress about food, good luck with keeping them happy.

nah, I don't mind. You never know what's going to interest people or what they're going to want to talk about.

Nobody's calling me names or felt sorry for my kids or anything, everyone's been fairly reasonable, on or off topic.

I sometimes wonder if I am accidentally saying "would you like me to chop up a frog and put its arse in your lunchbox"

OP, have you considered letting them shop for and make their own lunches? I feel sorry your DC, to be honest...

There, is that better, Fenella?

My mum made my lunches at that age and I had no special needs.

I manage to feed five children and I am a great cook.

Who would have thought that I would have turned into a productive adult when my mum made my packed lunches??

I am quite shocked I can make it through the day really.

But Fenella - why aren't they making their own sandwiches?

Squigglyline, you can get gf sausage rolls in the frozen section of Sainsburys.

I buy them for my friends little girl who is coeliac and she loves them!

I'll add another sandwich, maybe a smaller one -no time for 2 large ones maybe?-, and a yogurt or a fruit.

If those are the Glutafin rolls, aren't they part baked and need heating in the oven so that they are edible? I'm a coeliac and would certainly not eat ones that had been frozen and not reheated in an oven. The Newburn bakehouse sandwich thins are nice for sandwiches and so are the wraps (the wraps get reduced in Tesco quite often and freeze well).

Cake is a much needed item for coeliacs, there's nothing like a good gluten free cake with your lunch. ;-)

My son (17) would be happy with a lunch this size......with a drink of something......he's not very active though.......and like me he doesn't like to eat a big meal all at once.....he eats smaller amounts but more often.....
Not all teenage boys eat bucket fulls of food......

My DD2's usual packed lunch is: a nice freshly made sandwich, yogurt, cheese and crackers, biscuit bar, an apple/banana, and a juice drink. She is 7. What you've posted is nowhere near enough for a teenager.

But it's your Sons B.U- they should be making their own bleeding lunches!!

Yes they are. The kids are very happy with how they taste.
I also buy the Tesco 4 white rolls that are £1. 60 because obviously their units don't last the month and they like those rolls best.
I'll be giving the gf recommendations on the thread a go.

And ffs.....the woman makes her sons a packed lunch....so what? I make my sons lunch....I'm making mine and my husbands. He does other chores like take the bin/recycling out (which is more helpful than him making a mess in the kitchen first thing in the morning). He does his own laundry etc.
Way to judge a parent on making a packed lunch lol....

Why can't they make their own lunch?

Just kidding.

Mine have been making quinoa and kale sandwiches on homemade granary bread since they were nursery school aged. Some of you are fecking slackers!