ok just for a laugh, how different will ours be

[2snowshoes]

than the ones on here

no dig at other thread, but thought it would be a laugh to see how different ours are, if at all.

so if I was sending ddd in with a packed lunch she would have.

sandwiche(jam or grated cheese with tomatoe sauce)
skips or quavers. or the little cheddar biscuits
rolo pudding
cake or chocolate bar.

no fruit as she loves it but struggles to eat it in it's natural state.

Lol, i was thinking about this this morning when i was listening to the radio.

Dd1's packed lunch;

2 cream crackers
mini cheddars or dorito's (cheesy ones)
A frube
A chocolate mini role
Blueberries (if i can afford them)

Dd also struggles to eat fruit (apples and bananas).

I'm always arguing with the school about her lunch, dd1 hardly touches hot food (in the evening) so its important that she eats her lunch even if its not healthy.

School says they can have a small choc bar or crisps (not both) which is why i give her cheddars as they are biscuits surely?

my son takes macaroni cheese in a food flask wish he would take a packed lunch with the amount of flasks he's broken but he'll not entertain the idea.

2 cheese sandwiches
single slice of bread
some ham
2 shortcake biscuits
bottle of water

They'd better not start on me with DS's packed lunch.

DS has food phobia (officially dx'd) and sensory issues with texture. He is slowly expanding list of foods, until a year ago he would refuse all hot food and its been a long slog throughout.

Hummus sandwich on gf bread
Plain crisps (I put them in a container which seems to divert school's attention from them )
Grapes
Watered down pear juice with supplements

Snack - grapes or banana + two rice cakes + water

Every single day...

It's definitely not enough for him - he comes home from school ravenous - but there is no other cold food that he'll eat. And he eats very slowly, so if i just gave him more he wouldn't have time to eat and go out to play.

until very recently dd1 had to take a flask too, as wouldn't eat sandwiches.

dd1 actually eats quite well, but it does seem rather repetitive - she will only eat 4 different main meals (spag bol, curry, sausages, chicken risotto) but I can totally vary the veg i put in. however, at her last school (specialist ASD!) they refused to let her, and she had to struggle with the school meal instead which she couldn't eat- bonkers!

she has started eating sandwiches , but only jam

so today she had:

jam sandwich
box of raisins
banana (she sometimes has pear instead)
crisps (do i get brownie points for them being vegetable crisps - she likes the "red" ones!)
and a seed/health bar, which sounds great but it was choc covered

so, no protein, too many sweet and snack things.

but hey, she ate

DS's 'future' pack lunches will include:

-cut banana wrapped up, or satsumas segments.
-neat squares of ham or cheese sarnies without the crust. (the neater they are the more he is likely to eat them)
-dairylea strips.
-little box of raisins.

DS isn't at school yet, and he eats sooo slowly, and have to be reminded to eat and to sit down constantly. I'm dreading lunchtimes at school.

When DS2 has packed lunch, it consists of: A chocolate spread sandwich ( with you there on that one northern, it's the only sandwich he'll eat), A fruit smoothie (has to be strawberries and raspberries, no other, and he NEVER eats any 'proper/whole fruit'). And a go-ahead squishy bar (not sure what the actual name is!). That's IT. If I even add a packet of crisps (that he'd happily eat at home) in it, he eats nothing and has a meltdown! Although... he DOES eat hummous, I hadn't thought of making a sandwich with it...may try that one!

When DS2 has packed lunch, it consists of: A chocolate spread sandwich ( with you there on that one northern, it's the only sandwich he'll eat), A fruit smoothie (has to be strawberries and raspberries, no other, and he NEVER eats any 'proper/whole fruit'). And a go-ahead squishy bar (not sure what the actual name is!). That's IT. If I even add a packet of crisps (that he'd happily eat at home) in it, he eats nothing and has a meltdown! Although... he DOES eat hummous, I hadn't thought of making a sandwich with it...may try that one!

If it werefor DS3(eats dinners) it would have to be exactly the same as he has every day.hamsarnie on white,crisps, alpro yoghurt, banana or apple (staffpeeland slicefor him), fruit juice
he has a soya drink and fruit for snack. I am vv lucky that he will eat that but it has to be the same or he gets upset.

Never,everwater- people think oh he'll do it if I tell him to becuase he is mildm annered - many a TA has been surprised when he has spat an entire bottle over them.

god yes, with you there, Peachy.

dd1 won't drink water either. She has juice diluted (and we have worked for years to get to the point where we can dilute it)

At her last school (the ASD one...) they thought the same. Unfortunately they thought this at atime when she was allowed to take packed lunches.

They put a cup of water in front of her (because they thought she's go along with it, social group, peer pressure, cipy others etc - hello, autism anyone?!) and she (nicely) refused it, along with not eating. She has also never eaten the main meal she had that day again, narrowing her down form 5 meals to 4 (it was fish pie)

Ds will only eat ham sandwiches (he will eat tuna or even cheese at home but will only tolerate ham sandwiches if served from a lunch box) and leaves the crusts. Carrot batons, grapes or cut up fruit from a bowl, smoothy drink or frube is help with opening. The good thing is that he now eats at least some of it - and his sn school do school lunch which he is also now eating - well on a pasta day anyway! Progress from the ms days of not touching his packed lunch and then crying with hunger all afternoon!

DS1 is crazy about fruit so would overfill any govt. fruit quota - in fact he could fill the quota for the whole school easily.

Lunchbox

Blueberries
Oranges
Apples (red + green)
Blackberries
Raspberries

I have to hide them outside in the snow as he eats them obsessively.

sometimes mine have brown sauce or ketchup sandwiches

Lunchbox for Tom:

sandwich (dunno why cos he won't eat them!)
a pepperami
cheese string
orange or banana
hard boiled egg
crisps
choccy biccy

I actually took him off packed lunches though cos most of it came back untouched. Even his choccy biscuit! Mind you, he throws away most of his school dinner too, according to one of the dinner ladies. No wonder he's starving when he comes home.

Ds has:-

A sandwich. The only fillings he will have are choc spread (surprise!), jam, peanut butter or jam with peanut butter.

An apple and some grapes. The only fruit he will eat since he went off bananas.

A small cake or muffin of some kind. Hopefully a healthy one if I've had time to bake. He will eat soft fruits in muffins!

A couple of those little mini scotch eggs.

Diluted apple juice.

well we have no choice about packed lunches as hot food is not allowed (in DD1s mind) at lunch time

We have

Sandwich with jam or marmite
Youghut in a tube
Apple (not often eaten)
Strawberries
Crisps either skips or wootzits
Juice

an absolutely ghastly mix consisting of:
Dairylea Dunker
Peperami
Packet of squares(crisps)
frube type thing
er that't it. Occasionally a Smoothie drink in a carton. Nothing homemade, nothing healthy, nothing fresh. Lunch box police love her. Not.

that's

DS1 eats quite well within his own limits. I used to pack him

A ham or cheese sandwich with cucumber/tomato
Frusli bar or flapjack bar
Maybe some grapes if we have any
Water, heavily chilled, purely to help keep the sandwich cold.

It got to the point where most of it came home, though, so I signed him up for the free dinners that all primary school kids get locally, even though there were some days with nothing he'd eat.

DS2 is harder. I'll probably be sending him to nursery with a packed lunch while we work on getting DS1 re-introduced to lunchtime (we have him on half days at the moment) and it'll likely be

small dairylea sandwich (he prefers peanut butter, but tough)
Cereal bar, flapjack or small banana (the only fruit he will reliably eat).

ds , slice of ham , slice of cheese , he wont eat bread at all ,

banana
grapes
biscuit that he tends to suck

sometimesiis school dinners but does not eat much as cant chew very good and they often forget to cut it up and they tell him of for using fingers

I can beat you all!!!!

50 ml water flush
150 ml Nutrini Low Engery Multi-fibre
15 ml Calogen
50 ml water flush

the above every 2.5hrs approx in school day

Howzat for an extremely unbalanced diet of 63% of calories from fat!!!

Hahahaha

(sorry, going snow-crazy here)

ahh very like ds's! except he's on nutrini energy and i only put the calogen in morning and night feeds at home cos it needs to stay in the fridge, what do you do with yours?