Lunch bag: what do you put in?

[dikkertjedap]

Would welcome any suggestions. Could you please also mention for which age - as my dd is 4.5. Thanks.

sure there was a thread about this yesterday but when mine was a littley she got: ham sandwich or cheese sandwich, apple or satsuma or few grapes, juice box, and on fridays a little choc bar eg figer of fudge, tiny cadburys choc etc, little thing only.

sometimes gave her pasta with pesto instead of sandwich.

food

seriously, why don't you look at the food topic as there are loads of similar threads with lots of ideas

there are also lots of books on the subject which should give you a starting point

Thanks. Don't think I need a book. Will try to find yesterday's thread.

i actually did use a couple of books when she was a little older to help me think of interesting food!

lunchboxes by Jennifer Joyce is the best and I still use some of the recipes (youngest now 11).

Do parents really agonise over this sort of thing?

A butty, a biscuit/cake, a piece of fruit, a bottle of squash.

What did your mother give you to take to school?

whatever they like to eat

sandwich - usually ham, marmite or chesese; yogurt or occasionally mouse/jelly; piece of fruit or veg; bottle of water and something extra -all sorts either savoury: hard-boiled egg, mini cheddars, falafel, sausage roll, scotch egg etc or sweet: piece of cake, yogurt coated raisins, chocolate crispie bar, biscuit etc

HTH
LCN

We do
A sandwich (2 pieces of bread now but used to be 1 in his first term in YR) with ham, tuna or fish paste
a piece of fruit
a penguin bar type thing
a frube
a carton of juice or water

Check what the school allows too.

Our school for example won't allow nuts cause of allergies so no peanut butter or ceral bars.

ALso a lot of schools frown on choc bars and crisps. Apparently.

I do school lunches but when I need to do a pack up for day out, typically it is 2 x ham rolls, cherry toms, cucumber, carrot sticks; apple, grapes, raspberries; flapjack; water.

I bought thermal flasks so that at least twice a week mine can get something warm to eat. Usually is left over shepherds' pie, pasta or soup. Add some fruit and a pot of yoghurt and I'm happy - they don't seem to mind either.