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

Yep meat in the sarnie, ham or chicken Cheap wafer thin c**p too Along with a fruit shoot and crisps

pelvicfloor NO we aren't all giving them ice-packs, read this thread

I have never known anyone get food poisoning from warm sarnies FFS, did we have little ice packs and cute frozen frubes??? No we did not. I had a cheese sandwich or ham sandwich every day, a pack of crisps to make the all important cheese/crisp or ham/crisp combo, water to drink and some sort of fruit and or yoghurt. I probably had peanuts too when I was a kid. Did I starve, no, did I get ill from food poisoning no. Why are we making sure our little babies are protected so much.

I'll have to do a new thread to find out who makes the sandwiches, and what age are your kids. My 7 year old did hrs and her sisters today, teh 5 year old does her own sometimes too. I am thinking by about 8 they should be doing their own every day. I haven't got time to faff about if I can help it

mine had pate today aswell

Ice packs. Wow! Doesn't that mean you'd also need some sort of specialised padded lunchbag? Bugger that.

have taken to freezing the juice box- it defrosts by lunch and keeps the reat of the food coldish. Also make the sandwich with frozen bread sometimes .
Have lovely memeories of drinking curdled milk that sat in the classroom all morning by the radiator-this was when you got milk at school before maggie thatcher ( the milk snatcher ) came along.

I always use an icepack but because the waether was so hot I decided to freeze the apple juice as well.

Picked up a very grumpy boy fom school - mummmy my drink was frozen at lunchtime and I couldn't drink it - oops

It was defrosted by the end of school though and was buusy dripping out of the lunchbox all over the playground

Never have until a few weeks ago, when the weather started to get REALLY hot, and I thought how disguting warm fruit juice and hot frubes must be!! DD1 happened to have a lunch box which is designed for an ice-pack, with a little net bag to house it in in the lid, whereas DS's is just a bog standard plastic one, so I think dd gets the better deal as it stays frozen longer!!

I give cheese so not as much need for ice packs, but the comment about 300 children never being affected in 7 yrs, what no upset stomachs at all by anyone you wouldn't know what caused it anyway.

yes even i do

COD HOW VERY DARE YOU!!!!!!

I agree that we didn't have ice packs etc in our day, but now it'll be me picking up the pieces when the kids are vomitting from warm ham sandwiches.

I'd love mine to do the lunches, but the oldest one has school lunches and the younger two have packed lunch at nursery, but are only 4 & 3 - a bit too young yet.

no i dont but i have recently started (monday) making his drink bottle the night before and putting it in the freezer so that it slowly melts during the day and it keeps everything cold by lunchtime.

see even me

Not convinced by colditz's argument that 300 children over a 7 year period in her school never had a chilled lunch and never had food poisoning - what, not a single case of D&V in 7 years? Must have been the healthiest children ever!

I refute the assertion that putting an ice pack in a packed lunch is indicative of the present day trend towards wrapping our kids up in cotton wool. I think we do wrap our kids up in cotton wool, to a certain extent, but I really don't think this is an example of it.

To go back to my previous point: I don't think any of you would buy a sandwich which you knew had been kept on a warm shelf for 4 hours - and Environmental Health would come down like a ton of bricks on a retailer which did sell sandwiches stored in that manner.

Yes, he'd probably be fine with limp, warm butties at school - but for the sake of five steps from my worktop to the freezer in the morning I'll play it safe.

i freeze her juice

if i remember

agree agree Marthamoo - It's not so much mollycoddling them it's just a bit kinder. Warm yogurt - YUCK, how disgusting. It cost a few quid to get the ice packs for lunch and a few seconds to put one in, in the morning. The old "well it never did me any harm" argument is a bit lame. It's not a case of doing harm it's just that if it's available (which it wasn't then) then why not use it.

Exactly, katierocket - I never had a car seat, my parents smoked round me from me being a newborn, and we had chips every night: there's a lot of things that I don't try and emulate from my own childhood Definitely wasn't molly-coddled...

I think it's just called progress isn't it.