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What do you put in a packed lunch ?

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Harrysmummysarah1 · 13/01/2013 14:59

My dd 7 is in school and has packed lunch.
Breakfast at about 7:45 is porridge and yoghurt or a banana or one slice of toast and cereal or a banana etc.
For her break at 10:15 I give her a granola bar or a plum or a pear or something.
Her packed lunch is one round sandwiches either Tuna, ham and cheese, egg and ham, cheese and pickle etc. a cheese stick or a yogurt. A piece of fruit and a small treat a Freddo bar etc. only a small choccy.
When she gets home shell have a couple of cocktail sausages or a mini Scoth egg
THen dinner meat and veg slag Bol curry etc etc.
No desert except wweekends
Does that sound a lot?
When I write it down it seems mountain loads?

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Harrysmummysarah1 · 13/01/2013 15:00

On weekends I treat her to dessert. And breakfast is something like egg on toast and grilled bacon and a sausage but then she's so full she doesn't have a mid morning snack.

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DozyDuck · 13/01/2013 15:01

Can I have some slag bol Grin Grin Grin

Harrysmummysarah1 · 13/01/2013 15:02

Also weekends sometimes I make pancakes and she has a glass of choccy milkshake instead of normal milk or orange juice weekdays. I would say that's every other week sometimes every three weeks.

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DozyDuck · 13/01/2013 15:02

I think it sounds fine though Smile

Harrysmummysarah1 · 13/01/2013 15:03

Thanks.
Just wondered what others did :)

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Harrysmummysarah1 · 13/01/2013 15:14

Also anything to make her lunch a bit different what could I do to replace the sarnie. I've added sticks of carrots etc before instead f the fruit which she liked she loves raw carrots.

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Fuzzymum1 · 15/01/2013 15:01

DS normally has cooked dinner at school but gets to choose one day each week when he can have a packed lunch. He normally has cucumber and carrot sticks, breadsticks and some houmous to dip them in or he'll have a sandwich, usually, ham or cheese. Some fruit, either dried or fresh, a yoghurt and sometimes has a penguin, fairy cake or similar.

rrreow · 15/01/2013 17:28

My toddler has similar (although probably slightly smaller quantities). Would also be very interested in this slag bol Grin

rrreow · 15/01/2013 17:29

No choc for my toddler though, but I imagine that's fine for a 7-y-o.

Harrysmummysarah1 · 15/01/2013 20:14

Thanks guys.
It's a special recipe so can't give out details...
Joking... I just realised what I did hahahaha.
My 4 year old has ate a lot today and most days she's pretty average.
Today she's gone through
Breakfast- Porridge with raisins and a banana
Cream cheese and crackers
Grapes
Lunch - one round tuna sarnies on brown bread and left over chicken soup and a yogurt after
A plum
A sliced peach
Dinner- cottage pie and cabbage and peas
A biscuit
! Obviously her portions were normal size for her but she ate and ate today!! It's very unusual for her

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boxoftricks · 15/01/2013 20:20

Like you say, her portions are not going to be adult size, so if she's eating a bit more than usual maybe she's going through a growth spurt? Wait until she's a teen and eating you out of house and home!!

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 15/01/2013 20:23

My 4 year old eats something approaching that on a good day and is skinny, I can count his ribs front and back.

School is tiring for them, so if she is hungry then let her eat. Are you worried that she is eating too much?

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