**LUNCHBOXES** what tips/ideas do you have

[lovemybed]

dd1 takes a packed lunch to school everyday, im very lucky that she is a healthy little eater (although does not eat great ammounts) can anyone share some ideas to jazz things up a little, we might all benefit from it. some ideas i use are

1- swapping bread for bagels, tortilla wraps etc

2- cutting a kiwi in half and giving a spoon for her to spoon it out like a egg

3- making "fruit kebabs by threading fruit onto a straw and wrapping in foil so it does not get bashed.

i have a selection of small tupperware pots that i use for strawberries, melon etc but would love some ideas from other mums so that she does not get bored of the same things all the time.

i dream of kdis eating fruit

Mine adores chicken pasta salad with peppers and mayonnaise !

Pasta salads, banana, apple, yoghurt/fromage frais, tuna and sweetcorn roll/sandwich, chunks of cheese, raisins, grapes, filled mini pittas, cherry tomatoes, carrot, I make fairy cakes and muffins and dd takes those in sometimes as a treat, soup in a small flask and can't think of more at the moment.

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I am lovely in a lunch-box !

ds gets his knickers in a knot if his lunch varies in any way from the stated and adhered to requirements and has eaten the same things for ages.

Odd vairation - pots of cream cheese and bread sticks, few snack a jack type things, stuff we have 'made' the night before (carrot cake), I sometimes put a chocolate coin in there but that is mainly because there is a strict no chocolate rule and we kind of get a kick out of it.