Packed Lunches for School

tattooed_lady

Is this the one?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=256155&highlight=lunch

jackk_2

I love the laptop lunches, but i'm sure my son would lose the insides within a week :rolleyes: . I think i'll have a look around and see what i can put together myself.

Jackie x

Chell

free4440273 wrote: »

for snacks during break-time those Goodies bars by Organix are really good ('NO JUNK PROMISE' also). There's a lot of new varieties also now. Agreed, they are not particularly cheap but very healthy.

Sometimes Home Bargains has some of their products really cheap. The most recent was the crisps for 10p.

Farm Foods also sell them cheaper than the bigger supermarkets.

mummysaver

Just wanted to say thanks for the ideas!

ds has had cheese and pickle sarnies almost every day since he started school, that'll be 10 years worth, eek! Occasionally he's branched out into other things, but these are the tried and tested fave, he doesn't seem too bothered about variety, just quantity!

To whoever mentioned choc spread in a tiny pot with some fruit to dip into it, thank you, will be doing this for dd3 as a treat, she can't eat a lot of choc, but really really loves choc spread, bless her! Found a teeny tiny pot of shippams chicken paste so will use that for it, paste will go into dd1's sarnies, she loves the stuff!

Chell

I've just put some dough in the bread maker and am going to do some little cheese topped rolls with perhaps some peppers or mushrooms on top. Morrisons sell bread like this which DS loves but it always looks so stodgy.

I am going to freeze them then I can defrost them daily for a ready made sandwich.

sammy_kaye18

Have to say im reading this with interest.

My little boy doesnt liek ham/meat in general so am having a few issues wiht what to give him in sandwiches - jam is about all he'll have happily. His school aslo has the no sweets rule and hes not a big crisp eater - maybe one every few weeks will he have a bag of crisps.

So far I have decided to put in

a roll filled with jam as i know he'll eat it
the little flask filled with very diluted squash
a little tupperware tub filled with cheese chunks or grated cheese
a yoghurt or small sugar free jelly (again homemade)
maybe some cut up carrot/cucumber sticks in another pot
maybe as a treat a few slices of buttered malt loaf

hmmmmm..............think i need ot go find ideas -

Angelraesunshine

well the freezer is now stocked up with fairy cakes, i am going to buy some themos flasks in october i think so they can have soups in the winter,

Just have to make the brownies and flapjacks to freeze and that should then cover me for 3 weeks -month. Need to go to asda and buy the cereal and fruit bars my lot love them forgot when i was there last week.

problem i am having is that my eldest 9 is now going fussy so won't eat ham or mini sausages or certain cheeses like babybels so has become a pain for the 3 lunches i have to make i can't do them all the same anymore grrr

roll on wednesday as this rate they will of eaten all the lunchbox food and i will have to start again

BigMummaF

I bought a whoopsied pork shoulder joint in MrA one week, then a turkey thigh joint another & dug out a gammon joint from the freezer. All three have been roasted, sliced & bagged up for the freezer to use for cold cuts.

At a rough estimate, the gammon & turkey has worked out to a very reasonable 71.4p per 100g, & that allows for the cooking & packaging materials too. I'm fortunate that me muvva has an electric slicer, but at these sorts of savings I would be seriously thinking of investing in one of my own.

Shortie

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

My little boy doesnt liek ham/meat in general so am having a few issues wiht what to give him in sandwiches

Sammy, would your little boy eat bananas in a sandwich? My eldest (5) can't get enough of peanut butter and banana sandwiches at the moment, and wondered if 'nana was something he'd eat?

Cornishpixie_2

Perhaps cheese spread or marmite. You used to be able to buy a pure fruit spread in a tub, I also make my own humous, but thats better on toast. I also bake biscuits with plain chocolate in , blackberry muffins , cheese & courgette scones, currants/ raisens, HM gingerbread men. Collect small boxes(raisens) when they are given them and put some in from larger bag, ditto crisps ocassionally, cherry tomato's, carrot batons, also raisens and choc chips from larger bag. HTH:D