lunch box !!

[linconlass]

Was unsure wether to put this in health or not but as it invloves parent issue then put here !!I do a lunch box of sandwiches and tupperware pots of stuff like fruit,cucumber,.DD does not like sandwhich with salad on.
invariabley all the fruit or box of cucumber comes back and all the treat stuff eg flapjack gets eaten!! day after day!! tried withdraw treat s-still veg not eaten despite it being liked at home.is it because they get pressure not to eat at school ?- im at loss how to get some veggie or fruit down when at school!! have resorted to fruit in jelly in pots, homemade, but dont want to start buying the little pots of fruit or jelly as feel expensive and add to landpile of pots as there wd be only so many of the things i cd re use!!!aaahh.any tips...?

I personally would not stress about it, offer fruit/veg but if it's not eaten at school then offer it as an after school snack.

If I turn up at the school gates with a nice bananna or juicey apple mine will always eat it.

Give a bit more veg at tea time and some for breakfast, maybe super if you have super and she will be fine.

Also remember all the other ways they can get 5 a day , juice and dried fruit etc.

Have same problem myself. Have now given up providing fruit etc in lunchbag. Just give reasonably healthy stuff I know will be eaten and they get extra fruit and veg at breakfast/dinner/supper. The waste was annoying me.

I have this problem with DD 10, she says the healthy stuff is embarrassing because nobody else has it, even her friend who isn't allowed chocolate or crisps doesn't have it.
I have resorted to an innocent smoothie and a fruit yoghurt and her having fruit or veg for a snack when she gets home rather than the hot cross bun or fruit cake DS gets.

Our primary school encourages healthy lunchboxes which helps. they have banned chocolate and crisps apart from once a month on a friday.

As there is no kitchen all children have to take packed lunches my dcs reception/yr2 take.

Sandwich, cheese, yougart, piece of fruit, home made fruit flapjack and a drink.

With them getting a piece of fruit at the 2 break times aswell its easy to get there 5 a day into them. Also im a mean mummy and if there piece of fruit comes back un eaten then they dont get the flapjack the next day.

It does help having the school supporting healthy eating as theres no peer pressure on what to bring as they are all eating very much the same. Also the kids love teh one day a month they can bring in something a unhealthy.

Just give it to them after school as a snack.

It doesn't matter when they eat fruit and veg does it?

Mine love rice and pasta in their lunch boxes instead of sandwiches mix veg in there they bring a plastic fork with them

Mine have mini-thermos which I put stir-fry or pasta dishes in each morning (more work for me but they prefer it to sandwiches) - I can stick veggies in there.

I hate the schools bloody dictating what you can and cannot eat! Bloody mad.

Our school has a 'healthy snack' policy which allows crisps! Yet if any kid is found to have even a small amount of chocolate (contains more nutrients than crisps), the teachers get really cross with them. These same teachers supervise snack time whilst eating chocolate themselves.

Echo what others have said. It is fairly easy to give them two portions at breakfast alone. (e.g. my dds have diluted pure juice, plus banana sliced on cereal)

Would your dd be more amenable if she could choose the fruit sometimes? e.g. my dd1 (6) will be very fussy about fruit, but on a typical week might have a small bag of dried apricots one day, grapes a couple of days etc etc. Little boxes of raisins sometimes or (only on offer) smoothies in cartons.

We also buy big tins of pineapple in juice, she enjoys "cooking" - just putting portions into little pots with lids that we have already! I let her drink the juice separately in a glass at home.