cooling lunch boxes

Butterfly_Brain

Wilkinsons do lunch box size freezer packs, I buy them for my son

tandraig

about the cost of school meals - I cant believe that some of you are only paying about £1.85 per meal !!! when my twin grand-daughters started nursery class the meals were £3.85 each so they took packed lunch. unfortunately son finished work on ill health couple months back so as meals are now free they are having those as my son was spending up to £20 a week on lunchboxes!

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Oh for the days back in the 1950s when a school dinner was 9d a day (4p) but I used to walk a mile and a half each way at lunchtime as my Mum thought they were a waste of money as I hated them with their green slimy greens and fatty meat so it was shank's pony for me and my Mums lunch.

Magpie.

lickylonglips wrote: »

A school dinner in your child's school in nearly £4? Are you sure?

My daughters school dinners are 3.95€ a day so around the same if the op's sons are £3.85

Primrose

An ice pack will probably be too severe but you could try getting one of those small Rapid Ice chiller sleeves which is small enough to go round a beer can, cut it in two and just pop half of one of these into the lunch box.

jackieglasgow

just had to pop in to say :eek:! Our school dinners are £1.20!!!

Healthy balanced traditional meals, with a veggie option and a 2 different packed lunch type options too! Not percfect but oerfectly acceptable here's alink to have a look if anyone's interested.

http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/portal/page/portal/SLC_PUBLICDOCUMENTS/Comm/COMM_1305%20PS-menu-parent-lflt.pdf

OMG some of you are being seriously fleeced by your local authorities!!

ETA wouldn't this make a great show and tell thread?

valk_scot

£3.85??? For lunch for a five year old? That's ridiculous.

It's £1.70 at our primary school for two courses, with two hot options, baked potatoes or sandwiches, soup or pud. At DS's secondary there's a big menu but you can also get Dinner of the Day which is a main course, pud and drink for £2.00.....and the portions are enormous.

The kids still take packed lunches on days when activities mean they have to eat fast though. I chill everything...juice, fruit, yoghurt, made up sandwich etc...and I open the lunch bags and put them in the fridge too. The kids complain it's all still too cold at lunchtime, lol.

ubamother

I would normally second the frozen juice carton, but have spent loads of time with a cp child since his birth through to middle school and he can't open them as the straw and straw package are too fiddly onehanded and he's now 10. A flip top plastic one may be easier so he can hold it in his elbow and use his (opposite) working hand to flip the lid - you could freeze the contents of this easily enough.

winniepooh

Magpie. wrote: »

My daughters school dinners are 3.95€ a day so around the same if the op's sons are £3.85

I've been talking to parents with children that go to other schools in the area. There all roughly the same but one school was 4.05 per day.

Dont get me wrong the meals look fab and has lots of choice and we get a menu every week and then decided if he's going to have a dinner on a certain day (does that make sense) so I probably let him have dinners when its winter. But we will have a proper meal for tea when he is at home so while the weathers still.....dare I say it....warm I think sandwiches will be alot cheaper. I'm waffling again lol

winniepooh

ubamother wrote: »

I would normally second the frozen juice carton, but have spent loads of time with a cp child since his birth through to middle school and he can't open them as the straw and straw package are too fiddly onehanded and he's now 10. A flip top plastic one may be easier so he can hold it in his elbow and use his (opposite) working hand to flip the lid - you could freeze the contents of this easily enough.

I've found a flip top bottle with a button. You press it and it flips up. He does it quite well shutting it seems to be the bigger problem lol.