Packed Lunches for School

pigpen

Mine love having a box of 'bits' salad/egg/cheese/ham etc and a pitta bread so they can build their own. they have taken a box of pasta salad with tuna and veggies before too.. they liked that.. just stuffed it in a tupperware type box and off they went. Savoury rice they liked. sausages rolls and cheese straws.. HM of course! they go down well. Cooked mini sausages.. they ask for those all the time.

I put min a box of mixed fruit in too sometimes.. apple slices, grapes, strawberries etc.. cereal bar, flapjacks are good.. just like porridge if you convince yourself properly!.. and HM ones you can add dried fruit too!

cream crackers and slices of cheese!!.. they are a favourite!

Don't forget the fork as well though for some of these!

Luna69

THanks ha√e just got back to this post now, been away, so will check out those links. Thanks pigpen too, some good ideas. Just takes some thought really doesnt' it. DD went off to school today with some tuna and sweetcorn pasta, cucumber, carrot and pepper sticks, couple of cracker biscuits, an apple and a homemade cookie. Not bad for day one! lol

Squidgy

My daughter started off having packed lunches, but now she prefers school dinners (thank you Jamie Oliver!). When I used to do her a pack she would often have prawn skewers - just raw prawns threaded onto a skewer and grilled.

Check with your school though cos there is bound to be things she can't take. At ours they are not allowed crisps (limited to one or two bags a week), chocolate/sweets or fizzy drinks.

Other things my daughter liked were crackers and cheese, sausages, pork pie etc

Hope this helps.

Squidgy

pigpen

The schools cannot tell you what you can and cannot put in your childs lunch.. they cannot even offer advice on what to oput in as they are not trained.

The school nurse can advise what is best to put in a lunch but even so.. if you stick with the everything in moderation they can go sing!

Ours was after 'banning' chocolate anythings.. which I stood against.. chocolate is healthy and it is good for you but only in moderation...

Fizzy drinks aren't advisable as they may explode if they swing their lunch around..which does happen.. yoghurts are a bit volatile too.. eg when my daughter whalloped someone with her lunch box on the way to the hall she ended up eating yoghurt covered everything when it exploded.

I'd put crisps in every day.. rebel that I am!!

The school staff are not permitted too look in lunches even.. sometimes they do get delusions though and need reminding of their position!! .. Even the head!

touch*my*food*feel*myfork

Hi
My 7 years old son has gone back to packed lunches this week and already i am struggling to think of 'good' things to put in.
He will eat just about anything, but is not so keen on sandwiches and then if so only has butter inside.
What can i replace the 'sandwiches and crisps' section with that would be different.
Many thanks

MadMonkey

Mine do not like sandwiches and for tomorrow they have:

Ds - 4 x ritz crackers, 4 slices of wafer thing ham rolled up, grapes, tube yoghurt, 1 jaffa cake.

Dd - 4 ritz crackers with cheese, grapes jaffa cake.

It does not look or sound a lot BUT kids do not need huge portions (can you tell i watched "too fat to toddle!!").

If mine have any more than that they do not eat it.

We also have banana chips, yoghurt coated raisins, dried apricots, raisin pancakes, brioche rolls.

Olliebeak

Some home-made cheese straws in a small tupperwar box.

Some crudites (cruditays (?) lol) - breadsticks/carrot sticks/cucumber sticks/red pepper strips with a small pot of dip/hummous etc.

A sandwich doesn't have to be two full slices of bread with filling. Maybe one slice of bread would be enough for him and then cut into small triangels/squares so he isn't too over-faced with the amount of bread.

Does he like small cocktail sausages? How about a couple of those in a small tub? Cherry tomatoes - my grandkids raid my fridge for those!

hennagirl

Wraps, cold pizza slice, pasta salad, layered salad with cheese or tuna, have even given cold chick nuggets (home made of course!), pasty. For crisps, I have told my kids that for school and regular days, crisps are out - they are holiday time treats. Occasionally I might give tortilla chips.

This is balanced out with including 'healthier biscuits' eg digestive or fig roll, cake or yoghurt. I always try to include two fruits so that when they come out of school, they can snack on one of these if left. Also for something crunchy, how about bread sticks/cheese straws or crackers.

blitz

I use to do mine sandwiches most days, but they hardly touched them, so now I do
Monday: Banana loaf, small crackers with cheese,HM honey yoghurt

Tuesday: chicken,ham or cheese salad wrap,mixed fruit,rice pudding

Wednes: sandwiches (now that im varying their lunches they do eat a sandwich once a week. crisps, banana or apple muffin

Thursday: fruit loaf, cheese biscuits(which the kids make themselves), Honey yoghurt.

Friday: They have pizza,chips,beans & a pudding at school.

Always with a fruit juice or milkshake drink.


Other things they may have are tubs of sultanas, slightly spicy chicken pieces. Flapjacks.

ebaybaby

Blitz, would you care to share your recipe for cheese biscuits and honey yoghurt?
They sound gorge!!!!