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Original poster

teenage lunch boxes - seriously you dont expect carrotts sticks at this age?

33 replies

slartybartfast · 22/05/2012 15:37

mine have lotes of bad foods and distinctly lack satsumas, etc.,
sometimes i might do grapes/cherry toms
should i be whipped? thrown fruit at.

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YouveCatToBeKittenMe · 22/05/2012 15:42

I have no idea what mine have in theirs, I only make the sandwiches, they sort the rest. It's probably just chocolate biscuits ...and mayonnaise. DS has copious amounts of mayonnaise with everything. Grin

Original poster
slartybartfast · 22/05/2012 15:42
Grin

good idea kitten

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Original poster
slartybartfast · 22/05/2012 15:43

now that might be a plan to get them out of bed.

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OrmIrian · 22/05/2012 15:43

Sorry but I still police their lunchboxes Grin Two pieces of fruit, a sandwich/quiche/salad and one bit of junk food!

When they get home they raid the cupboards for all the other crap they want to eat anyway so it makes no difference

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slartybartfast · 22/05/2012 15:46

good idea orm, i might up the fruit as they would raid the cupboard anyway.

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Blackcabmum · 22/05/2012 16:07

I can't get mine to eat much at all if anything when at school. If I make it or they do it makes no difference I still find it festering in their rooms or bags. I am not happy about it and have had endless discussions but nothing changes so... eggs/beans on toast with fresh orange juice for breakfast and then lunch when they get home, don't really know what else to do. I don't know where they get their energy from and as for brain food falls on dead ears.
so I will watch this thread with interest as any ideas are welcome.

nickelbabe · 22/05/2012 16:10

my school lunchbox was always:
sandwiches
carton of drink
crisps
chocolate bar/chocolate item
fruit.

in fact, that's how i would make a lunchbox for me now.

Annunziata · 22/05/2012 16:13

I make them: some sort of sandwich with salad, a piece of fruit, sometimes a little pot of pasta or olives, a drink and a small snack. Even though they are old!

Mrsrobertduvall · 22/05/2012 16:14

Mine have made their own lunch since year 5..they take sandwiches, cereal bar or piece of cake and fruit. And water.

GrungeBlobPrimpants · 22/05/2012 17:08

Well I pack fruit but this is counterbalanced by their walk route passing by the town centre & evil temptations of Greggs, Subway, tesco metro and worse. And raiding cupboards when get in.

Any teenager brandishing carrot sticks in the playground is likely to suffer an early emotional death by scathing comments

SecretSquirrels · 22/05/2012 19:13

I gave up trying years ago. I used to put an apple in every day. The same one. It always came back so I wiped it and put in the next day.
Frankly, unless I put what they want in I might as well throw stuff straight in the bin and cut out the trip to school.
I do make them because I pack up for us all together.
Baguette with cheese or nutella or jam.
Crisps.
A chocolate biscuit.
Bottle of flavoured water.

At 4pm they walk in the door and start grazing through the cupboard.

They will eat a good balanced meal in the evening though.

slartybartfast You did right to post this on teens though, elsewhere you would have been accused of being A Bad Mother.

KateF · 22/05/2012 19:16

Today dd had a chicken sandwich, grapes, frube, babybel, choc biscuit, orange juice carton. She drank the juice, ate half the sandwich and the choc biscuit...repeat daily....

aliportico · 22/05/2012 22:19

I do a sandwich, carton of juice, and then 2 out of fruit (fresh or tinned)/cereal bar/cake (generally some homemade attempt at something healthy ish, but I'm not a baker so they're always a bit odd)/crackers/bread sticks/Choc Dip (everyone now sick of them as I bought 360 for 3 quid from one of those out of date websites!). That's for my teenage girls. My 11 year old son is starting to want a bit more.

LynetteScavo · 22/05/2012 22:25

My 13 yo will still eat carrot sticks, although his cucumber sticks came home again today.

I now do;

Sandwiches (all of which came home today Angry
Carton of juice
carrots/cucumber
Fruit (usually comes back)
yogurt (but only a squeezy yogurt as you have to eat it walking around Hmm)
Crisps (if we have any)
cake/brioche/penguin

DameHermione · 22/05/2012 22:25

Teenager? Lunch? Is that not an oxymoron?

RubyFakeNails · 22/05/2012 23:19

Im the worst mother in this area. We've given up on the packed lunches, so yeah I have almost no idea what they eat Blush .

I do know that they can have the biggest lunch in the world but the ransacking of the cupboards is as if they haven't been fed for a week, and whatever they do find they have to combine it with other stuff to make it more junk like.

Last week found ds tucking into a kinder bueno and peanut putter milk shake, made with mainly melted ice cream then peanut butter and jam sandwiches with a layer of cheese and onion crisps! Shock Wtf do they get these ideas?

Original poster
slartybartfast · 23/05/2012 08:41

did pack carrot sticks today Smile
we will see what returns.

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Get0rfMoiLand · 23/05/2012 08:49

I used to chop carrots into sticks for DD when she was little, she told me a few years back that she hated them as she was annoyed she didn't get a kitkat like her friends, and always threw them away. All that bloody carrot chopping at 6am for years on end!

I go through periods where I make sandwiches as I know she uses her dinner money to but crap or go on a macdolands run, but usually I give her 20 quid a week. I am in sandwich mode at the moment (just discovered you can freeze sandwiches) so she gets a sandwich, apple, grapes and some choc or cake.

Get0rfMoiLand · 23/05/2012 08:50

I used to chop carrots into sticks for DD when she was little, she told me a few years back that she hated them as she was annoyed she didn't get a kitkat like her friends, and always threw them away. All that bloody carrot chopping at 6am for years on end!

I go through periods where I make sandwiches as I know she uses her dinner money to but crap or go on a macdolands run, but usually I give her 20 quid a week. I am in sandwich mode at the moment (just discovered you can freeze sandwiches) so she gets a sandwich, apple, grapes and some choc or cake.

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slartybartfast · 23/05/2012 09:12

dd says her friends called her "carrot girl" in primary, but it didnt put her off. thankfully. Grin

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3teenhell · 23/05/2012 09:47

another one here who does make the lunches but the primary one is much healthier.

Teens eat sandwich/ baggette, crisps, choc bar and one piece of fruit with bottle of water.
DS1 eats his, without doubt never known a boy eat so much!
DS2 has stopped getting fruit after i had to throw out new school bag as mushed apple and banna made me boak lots! So he just gets crap really.

Mine like ceral for a snack after school

Listmaker · 23/05/2012 12:44

I like this thread - I don't feel so bad!

My dd (14) used to take a piece of fruit every day but it just came back every day having enjoyed its little trip out so I gave up and tried to enforce fruit when you get in rule but that only succeeds about half the time!

My dd take a sandwich - as in one piece of bread, a chocolate biscuit and sometimes a drinking yogurt type thing and that's it. And often the sandwich isn't eaten.

Then she gets in and raids the cupboards for crisps and cereal bars, bowls of cereal etc and then because she has a stomach the size of a pea when it comes to dinner 2 hours later she hardly eats any of it.....only to start on the snacks again and hour or so later.

She drives me insane..........

Thanks for letting me rant and making me feel I'm not alone Grin

Listmaker · 23/05/2012 12:46

I sometimes think having dinner at about 4.30 would be the only way to get her to eat a decent meal once a day and then she would just snack once later on. But that would mean us eating as a family would only be on weekends and I'd be cooking twice so not keen on that idea......sigh

ToryLovell · 23/05/2012 12:53

Agree with SecretSquirrels that you'd be lynched elsewhere for not making your child eat carrot sticks Grin

Most of DS friends sloped off to the little supermarket near school for a pot noodle at lunchtime until the school withdrew access to the kettles. So now they buy value pasties instead.

Apart from the sporty ones. They buy a banana as well Hmm

RubyFakeNails · 23/05/2012 13:21

You are right, I'd never be able to admit I regularly allow the DCs junk/have no knowledge of what they eat on another board.

Although as this is still mn I do feel compelled to announce my DCs are not morbidly obese (far from it my DD1 is as thin as a rake), and they are both vair sporty so I think that accounts for the need to stuff their faces.