What can I put in a pack up for 8year old for the whole day

ironed_out

My daughter is going on a school day trip this week and needs to take a day's worth of food! They leave at 6am and home about 6.30/7pm so will need plenty of food....but I don't want to overload her!
She normally has packed lunch anyway but I don't know what else to put in so looking for any ideas please

MoaningMyrtle

Flapjacks, cheese and biscuits, cheese straws, breadsticks and houmous, sauasge roll, fruit salad, babybel or piece of cheese, iced bun, orange juice, apple juice, water, smoothie carton. This is what came into my head, just a few sggestions.

Depends on what she likes and if there are any restrictions?

sooty&sweep

Hi

Bananas, buttered hot cross buns - mine like them with cheese in them.

Butterfly_Brain

Pitta breads filled with salad and chicken, plenty of drinks, frubes, fruit, hot cross buns, cocktail sausages, Babybel, home made oat biscuits( see twinks hobnobs), celery sticks filled with cream cheese or peanut butter, raisins, dried bananas and some boiled eggs. That's all I can think of at the moment hope some of these are of help

barbie_babe

we are going to France next weekend and will be travelling most of the day. We have to plan food for us all for the whole day, i will pack each child a meal in to a small plastic bag and put the three meals into a lunch box. This is my menu

Breakfast -Cearl bar and carton of orange juice and a piece of fruit
Lunch - Sandwiches, crisps, fruit, flap jack or cake and a carton of orange juice.
Dinner -Cold pizza, fruit,cake and a carton of apple juice
Small bottle of water.
We do this every year and we never have to buy any extra food. Just hot drinks if we want them.

ironed_out

Great ideas. Thanks everyone!
Barbie babe..That's a brilliant way to plan for the whole day. I think I'll be doing that...3 bags in a lunchbox....in fact i'll probably do the same food as well, except change the pizza to a sausage roll, and put a couple of 'snacks' in as well (raisins,flapjack) just in case

carriebradshaw

ironed_out wrote: »

Great ideas. Thanks everyone!
Barbie babe..That's a brilliant way to plan for the whole day. I think I'll be doing that...3 bags in a lunchbox....in fact i'll probably do the same food as well, except change the pizza to a sausage roll, and put a couple of 'snacks' in as well (raisins,flapjack) just in case

you could put a bit of home made quiche too instead of the pizza, yum

rachbc

Yep my son went on a very long (6am till 2am next day) trip and def put meals in bags to try and avoid the eat all the buns and crisps for breakfast symdrome!

Plenty of drinks too.

Bronnie

rachbc wrote: »

Yep my son went on a very long (6am till 2am next day) trip and def put meals in bags to try and avoid the eat all the buns and crisps for breakfast symdrome!

Plenty of drinks too.

Eating all the sweets and crisps for breakfast is part of the fun when you're 8 and mum's not there to tell you what to do! Give them a big bag full of grub and let them get on with it! They won't starve and it doesn't matter if they don't eat conventionally for a day. Relax, mum!

leiela

mine like ritz crakers, mini sausages / savory eggs and sausage rolls, raisins in a tub or plastic bag(or any dried fruit really mine with only eat rasins), Fruit.

Frubes/other squeezable yogurts frozen they act like ice packs help keep the rest of the stuff cold and de-frost very quickly if the kids let them, mine love them frozen like an ice lolly.

Flapjacks, HM cakes, butty's or Wraps (my kids prefere wraps) maybe 2 sets one for lunch one for dinner.

tbh i'd be tempted to have "most" of it frozen, that way it will all keep cool for longer, butty's yogurts etc should all defrost by lunch easily so as long as the "breakfast" stuff isn't frozen she should be ok, at 8 she's old enough to work out not to eat the frozen stuff first.

Like bronnie said i wouldn't bother seperating it all out, my kids would open up the packs and eat chocolate for breakfast anyhoo... but as long as you have a good mix of food, if they eat the junk for breakfast they will only have the good stuff left later on, besides one day won't kill them.

I think the biggest danger is "overfeeding", my kids get bored carrying stuff around especially if there is loads going on my eldest especially is more likely to bin his lunch than he is carry loads of stuff around with him, so don't go mad work out REALISTICALLY what she is likely to eat and just pack that.

daska

Just remembering back to doing the same thing for my older kids tuck boxes for camping trips - I used to do a box full of individually wrapped items. Not always the healthiest selection because that was part of the fun... Fruit/veg I got around by using a very small box and filling with bite size snacks such grapes, cherries (this was later in the year admittedly), and cherry tomatos - and they got eaten. I remember putting in cereal bars, dried fruit, small individual chocolates (the kind you get in restaurants), frubes etc. I also packed sandwiches, sausage rolls etc .

I found the key was ensuring that everything was in small portions so the whole portion would be eaten and not left floating around the box mixing with everything else.