Lunchboxes, what do you out in yours?

[FateLovesTheFearless]

My two boys are due to start full time nursery at the end of august and I need to provide lunches. I was planning a juice carton, sandwiches, fruit, yogurt. Probably get boring every day though so just wondered what other things I could do to alternate!

Wraps, hummus, carrot/cucumber sticks, dried fruit, crackers, variety of fruits (inc berries etc), rice cakes?

Buy a few small cutters, and some plastic picks (like cocktail sticks but not sharp) and some silicon individual baking cups, google bento boxes, and have great deals of fun.

Doesn't have to be massively faffy, obviously it's as much work as you want it to be, and not really for a rushed morning, but I did them for mine once a week or so and it became great fun.

For a tiny sized person, you could probably do, for instance, a cup half full of raisins, then overlap mandarin segments and top with a strawberry, a couple of pb&j sandwiches on wholemeal cut with a flower shaped cutter, a stack of cheese cut with variable sized cutters, and a juice box.

Again, I repeat, you'd need time on your hands or extreme practice to do this too regularly, but as a once a week "ooh" moment I'd recommend it.

Does your nursary heat up food? Mine does, so that helps.

Today DD (18 months) has peanut butter sandwich, grapes, yoghurt with fruit on top, half orange, half banana, some crackers and cheese and some left over pancake with a little bit of jam and cream cheese.

She always has sandwiches - fillings we use are peanut butter, vegemite, laughing cow cheese, grated cheese.

I normally have a bit of baking - muffins, date loaf, pancakes/piklets etc. She also likes rice crackers with peanut butter.

I tend to avoid fruit like apples as she prefers to eat a whole one with me eating the skin off and cut up apple goes brown.

Oh yeah, in a couple of months when she really cares I will do sandwiches in different shapes - that way she hopefully wont care what she has inside them...