School packed lunches?

[ALdc]

My neighbour left her DDs packed lunch in the hall yesterday, it was open and full of empties but it appears that she gives her Dairylea dunkables, frubes, crisps and a choc biscuit for lunch.

What do you all give your DC for packed lunch? I give a sandwich either ham or cheese, DS will not eat anything else, a baby bel, apple or orange juice, piece of fruit and a packet of crisps or cake bar/biscuit.

DD1 has cress sandwich on wholemeal bread
Piece of cheese or Babybel
Piece of fruit
Digestive biscuit
Water

DD2 and 3 have similar (but they normally choose more interesting sandwich fillings)but they usually have school dinner.

Ham sandwich, sometimes pasta salad
2 satsumas and pot of grapes
drink
milky way
crisps

DS2 has taken cheese and crackers the last couple of days which he normally does not do but quite happy for him to use up the cheese

Ham or cheese sandwiches on wholemeal bread.
Yoghurt.
Piece of fruit.
Homemade cake if I've made one (prob one in every three weeks). Other times I might put a small portion of raisins, or cherry tomatoes and cucumber chunks.
Fruit juice or sometimes squash.
Crisps as a treat on Fridays if they've been good.

They have to take a snack for morning break. dd takes a banana and ds takes a cereal bar, normally the kind made with fruit and yoghurt in.

Food and a drink

You sound like you may be judging a wee bit.

Actually I love my food, like reading about it, looking at it, shopping for it, cooking it etc. For some reason I have not managed to pass this on to my DS - he is very fussy. I am genuinely interested in what others are eating.

When I say I put a piece of fruit in DS's lunch box I mean a Satsuma because that is the only fruit he will eat. Amazed that some of you are managing to get your kids to eat little side salads etc. I wish.

ds has frubes

Sounds like a skin complaint

Are they [whisper] bad ?

Yes they are bad in that DS invariably comes home with yoghurt all down his top if he has them so I stick to petit filou and a spoon.

Mine won't touch fruit so his lunchbox looks a bit sad really - sandwich - either marmite or ham (on brown though ), juice, cake, sometimes crisps and cereal bar.

Anyone got any new ideas would be gratefully received - although I don't hold out a lot of hope cos he usually refuses to try new things!!

He does however take carrot for his morning snack so not ALL bad!!!

From next week mine are having the Scolacrest ones!! WoHooo! No more making packed lunches for me.

On a daily basis GS takes sandwiches, fruit and or carrot/tomatoes/cucumber (depending on his mood), juice.
Except one day a week when he takes a bag of crisps instead of the fruit.

Oh sorry - and ha has been known to take a yoghurt in place of the fruit - but never eats it all and puts the unfinished pot back in his lunch bag - NOT NICE!!

For pre-school my dd has: Ham & cucumber sandwich, carrot sticks, raw mushroom (she loves them), pot of mixed fruit- today had a strawberry, some grapes and couple of cherries, babybel and a fromage frais.

Mine invariably have:

a sandwich - dd1 (secondary) usually peanut butter; dd2 (primary) usually soft cheese - occasional variety here for dd2 but rarely for dd1 (although she will occasionally put up with cashew butter for a change)

a satsuma and some grapes

carrot sticks or sugar snap peas or baby corn

a (gasp) frube, frozen, because it helps to keep the other stuff cold

sometimes a cereal bar or biscuit

Juice or water.

Occasionally they have a pot of yoghurt with raspberries instead of a frube. They never have crisps or chocolate but very occasionally have a small muffin or brioche or something.

filled roll - ham, cheese or marmite
baby rice cakes or dry cereal
fromage frais or frube or cheese
carton of juice or milkshake
flapjack or cereal bar or humzinger
a piece of fruit, which travels back and forth each day until DH takes pity on it and eats it himself [hmmm]

No chocolate, cakes, crisps or bicuits, not because I an anti - just prefer them to have a treat after school when I can scoff it as well.

I've been doing sandwiches or wraps with ham cheese and pickle for DD this week (her fave filling).

A yoghurt - yeo valley or little rachels.

carrot/peppers or Grapes (cut in half )

Raisins

Huge flask of water.

A variation ona theme every day:

Sandwich/wrap/pitta Marmite/cheese/ham
Cue/peppers/brocolli/carrot
Carton of juice pineapple/apple/smoothie
Humzinger
Cheese string
Flapjack/rice cakes/gingerbread man/homemade fairy cake

They take a peice of fruit for morning break and then ahve the school fruit in the afternoon. He usually takes strawbs/rasps and raisins or an apple.

Must admit I am a bit at less desirable packed lunches but know I should not be as my childs isn't the benchmark or anything

Something like this every day to take to CMs:

Ham/salami/turkey breast/cream cheese sandwich
bottle of water
Humzinger/Raisins/dried fruit
Babybel or other cheese
2 x fruits - Apple, grapes, kiwi, satsuma, strawberries, banana, blackberries (depends what's in season)
Bag of organix crisps
Yoghurt/Fromage Frais
Muffin/Brioche/Cereal bar or homemade flapjack

I have been adding carrot stick /cucumber sticks, but they keep on coming back. We will get there one day!

ChippyMinton - I like your thinking about no choc in lunch boxes in order that you get some too!!

DS has a huge lunch considering he's only 3, I don't know where he puts it as he's quite skinny.

Chicken/turkey/ham/sausage sandwich with a little mayo or avocado on wholemeal bread (thinking about changing to white occasionally as his fibre intake is v. high)
Juice carton/Innocent carton/yoghurt drink
Pot of fromage frais or yoghurt
Couple of small gingerbread men/plain biscuits/slice of fruit cake
Humzinger/raisins/dried fruit "crisps"
Chunk of raw carrot or cucumber (cucumber is usually only nibbled at)

When I pack it up the night before it seems an adult portion to me, but usually all that comes back is a quarter of a sandwich.

My 2 won't eat fruit at school. SO that, couple with Ds2's food diary for a week must have the school thinking I'm a bad mother.
This week DS1 has had Ham and cucumber snadwiches, A frube, a drink, a packet of crisps or a choclate biscuit. I also put an apple in every day, which he won't eat, but then when he gets home, will eat it
DS2 has ham and coleslaw sandwiches, yoghurt raisins, a frube, a choc biscuit and yesterday and today he has some cucumber sticks in a pot, which he ate yesterday. Oh, and a drink of course