Healthy crisps and yoghurts for lunch boxes

[Rosetip]

Hi,
Have never posted her before but hopefully it's the right place.
My 5 year old son wants to switch from school dinners to packed lunches after half term.
All his friends seems to have crisps and I think I will have to decant a few into a container to keep him happy. I don't really eat crisps myself so can anyone recommend a healthy type eg baked/low fat/low salt etc?
Also I would really like small petite filous size yoghurts made of natural/Greek yoghurt rather than the very sugary ones on the market, however all the pots that I see seem to be for adults and very large. Any suggestions?
Thanks

organix , made from maize and baked, and rachels yogurts are organic natural fruit filled.

may have to decant the rachel ones too, havent seen anything like that small

Hi, it's difficult isn't it? When my ds started school he said everyone had crisps and so I relented and gave him the toddler 'goodies' range from Organix until he came home one day and said no-one else had these sort of crisps.

I said OK perhaps have crisps on one day only but this has been forgotton and he never takes crisps. Incidentally, it seems hardly any other children take crisps either - he is in year 1.

As for yoghurts, he doesn't take them in his lunch box but there are some yeo valley organic squeezy youghurts on the market although they are probably still sugary.

Yeo Valley do nice yoghurts. Better than the Petit Filous and the likes.

Crisps, go with Organix ones. You can get them at the supermarket.
What about a box of raisins or dried fruit?

Kettle bakes or kettle curls are made predominently from lentil flour & are baked. Low in calories, sugar, fat & saturates, but not particularly low in salt unfortunately (although may be slightly more so than other crisps?) Can buy them in multi packs in Waitrose.

mmm, crisps...

I buy big packs of those vegetable crisps and put them in small containers for DS (5) - one bag last ages.

DS's food is generally all home made and we don't used much salt in day to day cooking so I am unconcerned about the salt content of these.

I think if you are going for healthier crisps you need the ones made from potatoes, not the sort of mashed up and reconstituted stuff.

We are big fans of the Yeo Valley organic squeezy tube yoghurts. One thing I have found is that yoghurts tend to get a bit shaken around in their lunchbox and can often splatter when they open (I feel like one of those forensic investigators sometimes looking at DS's unfirm!) - tubes are also much better on this front.

I don't know what they are fried in, but what about the shake and salt packets - but take the salt packet out?

I have started buying these as we don't use salt on vegetables/pasta etc and now find 'normal' crisps very salty.

You can buy big bags of apple crisps from Waitrose and also bags of mixed carrot/parsnip/beetroot crisps which are lovely (can't remember whether they have a lot of added salt though?).

DP bought some Walkers Bakers today which are oven baked crisps rather than fried ones. Haven't tried them yet thugh so can't comment on taste.

The only downside with tubes is if they have to be opened by a dinner lady's scissors those scissors won't necessarily have been scrubbed clean after opening someone else's pepperami.

i tell mine cirsps are fo friday
iwhth choc spread sarnies
the rets ofthe time no

I give the occasional marmite rice cake or a few crisps and I do give petit filo because they like them and they don't get any other sugar.

Walkers potato heads are lower in fat, and are available in "naked" flavour - which means unsalted. You may have to search them out though as I haven't seen them for a little while.

I like the unsalted crisps, I think they taste great and are only potatoes and veg oil

can get them from most supermarkets, in a large pack, I think they are Kettle chips?

how about a nice plain non sweetened yoghurt, maybe one of the creamy 'greek' ones, and some dried fruit to go with it?

btw all crisps are carcinogenic

sorry, but they are....

everything causes cancer these days

It's the high temperatures they fry them at - the oils change into something nasty, they did a study of it.

I'm not sure they're supposed to have crisps at my DD's school for lunch but she tells me they all do so occasionally I give her a packet of Walkers Prawn cocktail (her fave) and don't worry about it. If you give them to him once a week, he'll see it as a treat and you needn't worry about how healthy they are if it's not every day.

Yes, 'damage limitation' and 'moderation in all things' are good food mottos i think [finishes bumper pack of crisps and runs fingers round inside for grease-soaked crumbs]

Pom Bears , weve given these since both over 9months

oh, read that as porn bears !

Another vote for Organix Goodies or Pom Bear crisps as both are far lower in salt and not greasy yucky things.

As for yogurts, it's difficult as so many seem to be sugary. My DDs love Yeo Valley fat free vanilla which comes in a big pot and is not too sweet at all - we use it mainly as a good base for smoothies. Downside, you would have to decant it as I haven't seen it in small pots.

I bought a range of baked/low salt/fat crisps today including Walkers.

Yoghurts are harder- why can't they just do child size natural/Greek pots?