Packed Lunches for School

morganb

Cream cheese with chopped up red pepper? Guess what I'm having today.

mummysaver

Angelraesunshine wrote: »

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

I got some metal unbreakable flasks for my lot from poundland at the weekend, ideal for soups, or they have the wide necked flasks with spoons in Wilkinsons I think, about £5 or £6. My oldest dd likes to take coffee in hers at the mo, says it warms her up! dd2 and dd3 are having soup, occasionally they had hot choc in flasks last winter.

As far as doing them all the same lunch boxes, have you tried just doing pieces/chunks of cheese, would they all eat these? We have the odd moment when one or other of my four moan about something, but I just put the stuff out and they can put it in their lunchboxes or not, but no good moaning they're hungry if they don't want it!

Today all four of them had ham sarnies (cooked and sliced ham myself - thanks to the tip on another thread, makes it really good value) with hm bread (a lot more filling than bought bread), hm almond and raisin muffins (more like rock cakes as left them in the hot oven to cool!), pot of hm yoghurt with honey stirred in, an apple and a bag of crisps as a treat. ds didn't take the yoghurt as he can't be doing with lots of little pots he says!

I know it all sounds like a lot of hard work being home made, but I do bread every day anyway and I use a breadmaker so it's really just a question of chucking ingredients in it in the morning . The yoghurt is made in a big flask and dd3 has taken over doing this, well until the novelty wears off :rolleyes: Muffins and tray bakes are made en masse and then I wrap and freeze them, so only a case of pulling out of the freezer in the mornings.

Teria

I usually give my daughter (age 5)

• a tub of pasta or rice salad
• grapes, an apple, pear, or satsuma
• cucumber or carrot sticks
• either a fromage frais, or an alpro dessert (or if her dad's done the shopping, a creme caramel!)
• either a few Ritz crackers, or a small veggie "puff"
• something sweet that she's helped to make, we do "monkey bread" and muffins every week, or a cereal bar (aldi have some lovely organic ones)
• 250ml of chocolate oat milk.

Depending on the combination, it's not always the healthiest of packed lunches, but it's an awful lot better than some in her class.

BigMummaF

Talking about slicing joints etc yourself Mummysaver, Lidl's are doing an electric slicer for £29:99 starting 18 Sept.

prettypennies

I bought this slicer from argos a few months back when it was half price

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4228211/Trail/searchtext>MEAT+SLICER.htm

It works pretty well on bread and meat (sometimes drags a little bit at the bottom)

It certainly makes a joint of meat go alot further.

BigMummaF

Ooohhh.....there's a poster on September's Grocery Challenge, who made some cheese topped rolls & they look devine! My lot love them, so guess whose gunna have to try to make them now heeheehee.

mummysaver

BigMummaF - thanks for the slicer tip! I bought an electronic one from Lakeland, I know it's £5 cheaper on Amazon, but I needed it to slice up the ham I'd cooked already! Anyway it's great, def worth the money as it's in daily use for the bread I make, actually means normal sized slices!

I saw those rolls too, they looked delicious, was going to try them as well!

MartialArtMan

Ok so schools over and they're not back for a couple of weeks but I was wondering what you people put in your kids packing up. My two girls have:

Chicken Sandwich
Tesco choc biscuit (like a penguin)
Fruit Flakes
Crisps
To drink one has lucozade and the other has HSM.

Blimey working it out that comes to about £8 EACH a week! Taking into account holidays thats probably about £700 per year just on kids food for school! OMG!

newlywed

Ham and cheese roll
HM Banana choc chip muffin (made when nana's go brown, baked and then frozen )
Apple
Apple juice (aldi or lidl's - cheaper )

Then either low fat crisps or else some mini sausage rolls.

tessie_bear

my son has a tuna sarnie packet or walkers crisps an applle or satsums a cake of some description or a biscuit and a drink i think its funny when u read a how to save money anything and no 1 is make a packed lunch (followed by dont buy coffee buy a flask) as if packed lunches are free....if u do a nice one and dont just slop leftovers in to a bowl they do cost a bit.i find anyhow........home bargains is great for drinks crips biscuits