Packed Lunches for School

Suet_4

Hi,

We send no.1 son with his lunch, which is sometimes a huge success and sometimes utter failiure.

contents include - fruit and veg (carrot, peppers, cu - sometimes hidden in the sandwich), try to vary sandwich/wrap/pitta fillings tend to be cheese, ham, tuna mayo, loves prawns but this was a special! cheese and apple, pork/chicken when we have it on Sundays! sausage rolls go down well, pizza slice. Only has cake/geobar if a) its a special day or b) i have run out of everything else, crisps/hoops are a once a term thing or less

Have become very firm recently as he has decided he doesn't like some things on that there is no after school snack until all fruit/veg is eaten. The things that he wont eat at school are pasta salads and soup - I think this is because it takes longer to eat and he's more interested in getting outside.

Drink wise usually give him water, Smoothie when its on offer, or apple juice if I think hes lacking in fruit.

Sue

Penny-Pincher!!

DD has a free school dinner now but up till last September she had things like:

Chicken & rice
chicken & pasta
ham/cheese/marmite sarnies
HM sausage rolls
fruit x 3 (apple, banana and a few raisins)
HM Pizza
Occasional crisps
HM biscuit/cake

I used to buy a reduced loaf (Warburtons or the such reduced to 10p), then make up a batch of cheese, marmite and ham sarnies. Put into seperate bags and freeze them, pulling a round out each morning.

HTH

PP
xx

Skint_Catt

livinginhope wrote: »

I always make up a big pasta salad on a Sunday eve for my kids and DH,I use wholemeal pasta,can of tuna,red onion,orange pepper,grated carrot and anything else that's around to bung in,I then add either mayonnaise or low fat dressing and mix it all up

Ahhhh! Perfect for my lunch next week - thank you! :j

Catt xx

bigpaws23

The contents of dd's box is:

2 or 3 ryvita or rice cakes with butter
a few chunks of cheese and / or a cut up cooked sausage
some yogurt with fruit cut up into it
a dried fruit bar (I buy them in bulk from a food co-op at about 25% of retail price)
a couple of homemade biscuits

I haven't priced it, but it is all organic (apart from ryvitas) and I reckon it costs around or just less than the £1.85

Bigpaws x

patchwork_cat

I try to give my kids some differnet things. Mostly it is just sandwiches beacuse DS won't eat anything else as he gets the mick taken out of him - even tuna sandwiches. Once when he was little he took a homemade pot of strawberry jelly in and was told it looked like blood .

Yesterday my daughter had homemade potato salad - this was just new pots.chopped with dressing and chicken chopped up in it - usually would add veg (peppers, corn spring onions, grated carrot, cherry toms.), but she was running late. Friend told her it was disgusting ( she didn't taste it) just because it wasn't a sandwich.
I give up what is disgusting about potatoes and chicken? My daughter is 9 and son 14

A favourite is any sort of rice or pasta salad.Wraps are fine, but a bit messy.

jennyjelly

Humzingers sound like a fab way of getting fruit into kids, but Waitrose haven't braved the wild south west yet so I can't buy them.

Do you know if Asda/Mr T/Morrisons/Sainsburys/Aldi/Lidl/Somerfield do an equivalent?

Better still, is it possible to make your own? As I've never seen or tasted one I wouldn't know where to start or how they are supposed to turn out.

MUSTBEFUNNY_2

Wraps are good - you can fill them with grated cheese and tomato or ham....pitta too;)

Lydia.42

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

DD has a free school dinner now but up till last September she had things like:

Chicken & rice
chicken & pasta
ham/cheese/marmite sarnies
HM sausage rolls
fruit x 3 (apple, banana and a few raisins)
HM Pizza
Occasional crisps
HM biscuit/cake

I used to buy a reduced loaf (Warburtons or the such reduced to 10p), then make up a batch of cheese, marmite and ham sarnies. Put into seperate bags and freeze them, pulling a round out each morning.


HTH

PP
xx

Fantastic idea - does the sarnie go soggy when it's defrosted, or is it just like normal?

V.Lucky

My son has a ham or marmite and cucumber sandwich (yuK). I bought some little pots from Tesco and he has one filled with carrot sticks/cherry toms/cucumber and the other with either peeled and chopped fruit or yogurt/jelly. He then has either a hm cake or piece of fruit(apple/banana) or small pot of fromage frais.

No crisps or sweeties allowed in lunch boxes in this house (except for the adults lol).

I used to put a tumbler of squash or water but found he wasn't drinking it at all, so now put cartons of either fruit juice (orange and apple from Aldi 79p for 5) or small cartons of long life milk with straws (Moo brand). At least I know he's drinking it, and the juice or milk are better for him than squash.

Would mention my son is only 5 years old, so as they get older I would expect it gets harder.

johanne

jennyjelly wrote: »

Humzingers sound like a fab way of getting fruit into kids, but Waitrose haven't braved the wild south west yet so I can't buy them.

Do you know if Asda/Mr T/Morrisons/Sainsburys/Aldi/Lidl/Somerfield do an equivalent?

Tesco sells them i think, or they did last year when i worked there as they were on my department (baking section)