Does everyone pack an ice-pack in their kids lunch boxes, am I a cruel mother????

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I cannot be the only one. I read about how you all mollycoddle your kids with frozen juice, ice-packs and the like.

Mine get a simple sandwich, yoghurt, fruit and sports bottle of water, take it or leave it.

Go on report me

is there meat in the sandwich?

yup, i use ice packs

I was thinking the same thing. Never had ice packs etc in my day.... Lukewarm ribena and curling cheese and pickle sandwiches never did me any harm growing up....

Yup, I always put an ice pack in - chicken sandwich in this heat sitting in a hot corridor for 4 hours without an ice pack - recipe for a nasty bout of something or other, I reckon. I wouldn't buy a sandwich in shop that had been kept in those conditions so I wouldn't expect my kids to eat one.

Oh god! Go on report me too then,you might as well,I don't do anything right according to the MN 'rules'lately.

don't use them.

do I look bovvered?

Mine get a frozen frube! And i freeze a drink but it doesnt fit in the lunch box.

No, we like nice, warm sandwiches in our house. My absolute favourite is cheese and tomato, left in a nice warm place for several hours. Mmmmmm....

My ds has never had an ice pack in his packed lunch. He has never complained and never had food poisoning.

only started using them recently when i realised everyone else was.

It's never occured to me either. although my ds has had frozen yoghurts this week to keep things cool and his lunchbag is a coolbag....

Yes, I want all your names and addresses so I can report you to the Packed Lunch Department of Social Services asap. I don't care what you do with your sandwiches - but yes I do put icepacks in mine I also pack a picnic with loads of ice packs.

I don't put them in if the sandwich isn't meat or fish but I do if it is

Those packed lunches sit in a warm classroom for hours and I wouldn't be happy with meat that had been left in those conditions.

Plus, warm drinks are horrible - much nicer cold.

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i went to a school that was packed lunches only, we never, none of us, had a chilled lunch and I do not know of one case of food poisoning in 300 children in 7 years.

Well in my day (Monty Pythonesque reminiscence alert) we didn't even have packed lunches. I used to walk around a mile home all alone and have non ice-packed warm curly sandwiches left for me at home by my mum (who was at work), then walk back. I was 8 or 9.

Yes, I do the pack thing now though for mine...if I remember that is. I try and steer clear of warm yogurts though - they look like potential vomit time bombs to me

you were probably all eating dripping sandwiches and chocolate biscuits

yep, I do - two actually. Weighs a ton! Warm sandwiches = upset stomach IMO but do carry on as you were, I'm not judging !!!!

Only if they're having meat or fish sandwiches - otherwise I just keep the cool bag in the fridge with packed lunch in overnight.

I often put in frozen tinned fruit or frozen chicken/meatballs, and wait for it to defrost by lunchtime.

No icepacks here either. But supposedly the lunch bag is a cool bag too. dd says it's still all ok by 12.

The cool bag appears to be enough, no problems yet.

(Mind you we also don't have a fridge at ALL, justa chest freezer, so most things are warm friendly)

Yep, I do, bought a pack of three little ones from Woolies picnic section, pink, blue and orange. I have two girls and a boy - they insist on having them in now. As the ice packs are only small they don't weigh much and are probably defrosted by lunchtime, but make me feel better.

NO I DONT!

But i have tyo at the summer playschemes as they insist

I put a frozen frube into the box with the sandwich which I reckon does the same thing. Please don't make me give DS2 something else he could lose