Thread: Packed lunches

When DD1 is back at school, she'll now be getting packed lunches. Apart from the odd one here and there, like for holiday club, I haven't really done these before. So I'm looking for ideas on what to put in them. When I was at school, it was sandwich, crisps, chocolate bar, apple and a drink, but I guess they're not allowed anything that is considered junk or drinks anymore. So help! I've thought of:

• Sandwich
• Carrot sticks
• Cereal bar
• Raisins
• Fruit

But after that I'm a bit stuck and it doesn't seem enough for her!

Yoghurt
Baby bel or similar

You can get all sorts of cereal bar things
MT loves the go ahead yoghurt bars

mine take a carton of apple juice

When Erin has packed lunch she has a
sandwich
yoghurt tube so she doesn't need a spoon
piece of cheese
fruit
possibly a go ahead bar or something
packet of crisps (ready salted not too bad)


I can remmeber taking a flask of soup in to school when I was in secondary. WHat about a pasta salad type thing- pasta, mayo, ham/chicken/tuna, sweetcorn

crackers with cheese or jam
sandwiches
babybels etc
yoghurts
little bit of choccy (fun size etc)
chewy cereal bar
fruit / raisins
drink
cold pasta salad
tortilla wraps instead of sandwich

along those lines. my kids are so fussy it drives me mental.

dd use to be a nightmare on packed lunches yet at home she'll eat pretty much everything

tended to be a wholemeal sandwich with jam or ham
fruit juice
cereal bar
raisins

if i gave her more she'd never eat it.

hey, I have the "my child is a fussy eater" mantle, don't you lot try to hi jack it!

Oh no, Tilly's right! MT wins hands down. My girls have packed lunches. I have snack thermos pots and they have pasta and sauce or curry and rice or stir fry during the cold weather. Wraps and sandwiches or salads during warmer weather then usual fruit, sugar free jelly, cheese, yogurt etc..

wraps and cheese & biscuits win hands down in my house, along with the occasional rice pudding pot as a treat. they're really strict at ds1's school they get quite upset if any crisps go in.

Crisps are only allowed on fridays here... which makes me feel like I am living in '1984' but anyway I make sarnies or salads and they take a fork. I have a friend who has a bento flask and she sends hot stuff in every day in the winter.