Packed Lunches for School

kunekune

My son takes a ham sandwich, a banana and either a cheese string or a frube. Occasionally a sweet treat such as raisins.
My daughter takes a small cucumber sandwich, a small quiche, a frube and an apple or other fruit.

kezlou

Both of my boys tend to have sandwich norm ham/tuna with cheese and salad.
Cucumber or carrot sticks
maybe HM cake or yoghurt
water in a refillable bottle and a piece of fruit.

Other times they might have leftover HM pizza, quiche, but both boys love pasta salad or pitta breads.

Don't tend to buy frubes, cheese strings etc

hth

Penny-Pincher!!

I've just done DD's lunch for tomorrow she's 15 though and 5 foot 8...lol. I have done her:

2 x jam wm rolls
Caramal snack-a-jack
Apple
Chunk cheddar
Sausage Roll
Frozen pure OJ (keeps bag cool)
Blue Ribbon

Thursday she will have:

2 x ham rolls
Sausage Roll (small)
Fruit flakes
Apple
Caramal snack-a-jack
Frozen Apple juice

HTH

PP
xx

rachbc

my son has

roll with either ham, pnb, chicken, tuna crunch
piece of fruit
yog
water
hm cake or packet of crisps

when he was at primary school he took veg sticks too but no chance at high school - he eats them twhen he gets home instead

spike7451

Blimey! Your rr's have it good! All I got was a Haslet or Corned Beef sarnie & an apple...mind you,it was the 70's!

Qaphsiel

Hello

I am looking to try get my children eating healthier and also to try cook as much of their food from scratch as before we use so much prosessed stuff.

Looking forward to next week when they are back at school i am really looking for some ideas and inspiration as to what to put in their packed lunches.

They both like trying new things etc. I was hoping peeps could suggest some quick, easy and tasy pasta dishes ideal for school i could make in advance and stored in the fridge and anything else that you have found your children like.

Thank you for any help

Pink.

Hi Qaphsiel,

This thread has lots of recipes that may help:

pasta salad

And this thread has lots of ideas for school lunchboxes:

back to school packed lunch os ideas?

I'll add your thread to that one once you've had some more replies to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

LJM

mine have sandwiches with whatever fillings we have in or cheese and crackers, they also take little pots with either cherry toms/cucumber/peppers or a mixture with yoghurts drink and maybe as a treat a jelly or homemade biccie or cake

Herbyme

Thanks Qaphsiel for the thread and Pink for the link to prevous thread, it was on my mind too! Have tried to write a 'menu' with a selection of savouries, sweet things, drinks etc, to help ring the changes. I was thinking of:
sausage rolls (home made with ready rolled puff pastry and farm shop sausage meat) - my kids love them - can freeze unbaked and bake a few when I have the oven on
pasties - chicken, cheese n bacon, etc, as above
chunks of cheese
mini-sausages
yoghurts

When it gets colder (!!!) I will try to convince DS to take a food flask with a hot pasta dish, but I don't think he'll want to as it would make him different, and we know what kids think about that!

btw can anyone recommend where to buy small tupperwares suitable for eg cheese chunks, cherry toms?

Good luck with yours

Owain_Moneysaver

carolinerunner wrote: »

btw can anyone recommend where to buy small tupperwares suitable for eg cheese chunks, cherry toms?

Pound shops. But they aren't liquid proof ...