This is such a stupid question - but, lunches?!

[MsEllany]

What do your tweens and teens eat for lunch? I’m not going to be able to afford lunch in school every day for my Y7 twins at £2.20 a day each, but they are not allowed crisps or chocolate. I know when I was at school only the absolute sad cases took a lunch box - I had a Philadelphia sandwich in my blazer pocket and topped up with stuff from the tuck shop!

In primary it wasn’t too strict so they had a sandwich, yoghurt (like a frube one), crisps and a flapjack bar of some description.

I’ll do similar but wondering if anyone has any bright ideas. They won’t eat raw veg and fruit tends to come home uneaten, but I’ll try again!

(They’re boys, I’m sure this makes no difference but I’m SO paranoid about setting them up for bullying!)

TIA.

Sorry - meant to say the main lunch in flask is about £1-1.50. With snack etc it's about the same as school dinners.

Sandwich or wrap in foil (to be screwed up and put in blazer pocket to bring home) plus crisps and cereal bar. All eaten at morning break (11am) as lunch break is too busy.
No lunchbox in secondary! Mine had designated area to eat outside then move on.

And always a really substantial snack for when they get home, although for mine that's the same as in primary

Sometimes an apple goes back and forth for a week... I'm an optimist
I put it in a pie over the weekend

@Paranoidmarvin

I am baffled that a secondary school has a food policy like that. How do they even police it ? I assume they must have to sit in the lunch hall for their lunch?

Literally have no idea, it seems totally crazy to me too!

Lunch box with a sandwich, some veg sticks, a piece of fruit and a treat eg a penguin/Goodies bar.

Worked in loads of secondary schools. Nobody polices the lunch boxes and plenty do take their own in. The only time it would draw attention is if they we're taking multipacks of crisps and chocolate in and selling them to other kids. That's happened a few times with the more entrepreneurial types.