Packed Lunches for School

Anastacia

I have a similar problem with thinking of lunches but for different reasons. My teenage boys will eat anything but dont like lunch boxes or anything which doesnt fit in a coat pocket. I dont do drinks because we are water babies anyway & they have that at school. At the moment they have 3 wholemeal pittas each with various fillings (peanut butter & lettuce etc) or sometimes cold pizza slices. The eat a ton of fruit & veg at home so dont normally take that. Flapjacks are okay too. So what i think i basically need is flat, nutitious food which can be carried in a bag. Having said that i feel they need more variety but they never say so. I could procuce tunasalad wholemeal pittas for a month & no-one would comment.

Thanks in advance

Lucie_2

Here are the lists. The idea is you pick one thing from each list:

Carbohydrates

Bagel
Corn tortillas
Digestive biscuit
English muffin
Flapjack
Chapati/naan
Sub roll
Slice malt loaf
Noodle salad
Oatcakes
Pasta/rice/cous cous salad
Rye bread
Brown/wholemeal/seeded bread/roll
Museli bars
Wholemeal pitta

Lucie_2

Protein
Grilled bacon
Bean salad
Sliced chicken
Chicken tikka
Chipolata sausage
Chorizo
Hard boiled egg
Falfel
Canned fish – sardine/crab/salmon as a change from tuna
Houmous
Prawns
Quiche
Leftover roast meat – sliced
Ham
Smoked makerel
Turkey slices

Lucie_2

Calcium
Greek yoghurt/honey
Cheese - Smoked
Cheese triangle
baby bel
Cheddar
Spreadable goats cheese
Edam
Cottage cheese
Lancashire
Jarlsberg
Mozzarella
Philly – light version
Chocolate dessert
Custard in a pot
Fromage frais
Fruit smoothie/milkshake
Yoghurt
Rice pudding

Lucie_2

Vegetables

Salad leaves
Roasted aubergine (with garlic & olive oil)
Raw broccoli florets
Carrot sticks
Celery sticks
Cucumber sticks
Fennel -sliced
Olives
Raw mange tout
Raw cauliflower
Potato salad
Radish
Raw pepper strips
Canned sweetcorn
Tomatoes – cherry don’t need slicing
watercress

Lucie_2

Fruit

Apple wedges with lemon juice
Banana
Canned fruit in natural juice
Mini packs of dried fruit
Fruit salad
Fruit smoothie
Grapes
Fruit juice carton
Kixi fruit – eat like a boiled egg
Mango
Melon wedge or cubed
Nectarine
Orange wedges
Pear
Plum
Raspberries
Strawberries
Tangerine
Ripe papaya

thriftmonster

dlb wrote:

Our school doesnt not allow hot foods for packed lunch, which is a shame, even in unbreakable flasks, they say it is because there is a risk of the kids burning theirselfs!

I would prefer it if they could, loads of hot snacks i could think of to make.

If our school comes back to me on this one, I shall just point to all the school dinner kids carrying trays with boiling hot gravy and custard......... Mind you, it doesn't take a lot to get me started on some of the school policies

dlb

lol thriftmonster!
I too am not happy about this, and im a parent governor but still doesnt make a difference as they say the dinner kids lunches are served at the correct temp and they are suppervised whilst being served and eating!! Where as packed lunch children just come in and eat, yes they are supervised buy the dinner staff but still this doesnt allow my kids to pack hot dinner in they lunch box!!!!!!!

I may have another word with head when we go back and point out how much healthier a lunch box could be it allowed to bring in hot items.

My kids have to have pack up as i cant afford £7.75 a week x 3 =£23.25 a week or £93 a month!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry but i can feed 6 people for 3 meals a day for 2 weeks on £93.!!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i am soooo glad i read this thread..... as i get stuck in a rut when it comes to sarnies..in the lunch box.... and it ends up ham sarnies.. crisps... apple or banana.. choc.. bar.. and a bottle of made up squash... in a cola bottle.....
yes i know not healthy......i cant afford school dinners.. they have just gone up to £1.55 a day.. in the junior school.. and as my eldest is starting comp... this week.. he as been advised to take between £2.- £2.50 for a meal...

plus i tend to do their lunch bag in the morning.. so i am rushing.. and shouting at the kids to get out of bed.. and to get their skates on ( so to speak ) as they will miss the school bus.....so i will now try and do their lunches the night before..... so i will have more time to think to put in them....

oh.. when on the very odd ocasion.. that i was organised... i used to make individual pots of jelly with fruit in them...
which was cheap...... and diff.....

if you havent got any pots small enough( re-using other product pots )
in tescos and asda.. they do a small round plastic air tight container for about 32p

vik6525

Hi! I was reading in the paper this morning that Jamie Oliver is crusading again about what we feed our kids. I was just wondering, what do you lot put in your kids lunchboxes? Is there anyone on here who'll admit to being a 'dairylea lunchables' kinda gal, or do we all try and fill them with nutritious stuff? Myself, after watching 'You are what you eat' the other day, I always put really good stuff in my ds' bag, just in case Gillian McKeith accosts me at the school gates!:rotfl: