Packed Lunch for work

BusyGirl

I have 2 daughters, both brought up, treated the same etc. One has a peanut allergy, but is ok with other nuts,and my other daughter is fine with all nuts. My sister in law breast fed her first child who has a very serious nut allergy,and is also allergic to most dairy products and then she bottle fed her second child who doesn't have any allergies at all?!?
Unfortunately it's a fact of life, lots of kids have allergies, unfortunately some are potentially fatal.

purpledaffodil

Re the nut allergy thing, my eldest who is very old (30) has had a nut allergy from baby hood, long before it was trendy. He is also allergic to fish oil and linseed.Like his siblings he was breast fed, but they both fine. He went through school with people thinking I was some kind of loony, fussy mother because of it. He was even given a coconut (yes that's really a nut) biscuit at school. He vomited and swelled dramatically just before the bishop arrived. He has an Epipen now, but has to be very careful in restaurants where they used to scatter nuts with abandon (it's slightly better now) Most schools now have a no nut policy - my school even bans them for teachers just in case we happen to touch a child with our nutty hands - rather OTT I think.

raeble

purpledaffodil wrote: »

Most schools now have a no nut policy - my school even bans them for teachers just in case we happen to touch a child with our nutty hands - rather OTT I think.

There are some people who don't have to ingest nuts to have an allergic reaction - someone can be eating nuts in the same room or touch them with their "nutty hands" and the person with the allegery will go into anaphylactic shock.

thriftlady_2

Don't forget that anything bought in an individual package is going to be much more expensive than buying say, a big chunk of cheese or bag of raisins. Get some little plastic tubs and pack your own version of Babybels or Fruitinis -and be green too

magni

I bottle fed my 2 and neither of them have any allergies to food. Dd is allergic to Penecilin.

dipsy

dora37 wrote: »

At DD's school we are asked not to send in nuts - not from the 'nut police' but out of courtesy to the children that have serious nut allergies.

If I was told that they were not to take them I wouldn't send them with them, and thinking it through I guess kids will always "swap" things with friends, nuts are obvious, but as for nuts in food I am not sure how that could be prevented.

Must be a worry for parents whose children suffer with any serious allergy.

trying-very-trying

Just to break away from the nut discussion.

I have just made a little dish of couscous(left over from dinner) added some spicy chicken(again a left over) and reduced to clear spring onions, and it looks lovely for hubby's lunch tomorrow.

Hubby takes a banana and bread or rolls for the most of his box, but I like to add something a bit different as well, so I make up small pots of potato salad, savoury rice, anything that's left over from dinner, then I make them different, by adding a different protein, chicken, tuna, bacon misshapes, hard boiled eggy.
Even a little box of chopped up cooked sausage or bacon misshapes with cheese cubes and cocktail pickled onions or the sachets of tk picked up from bk.

If I don't have anything savoury I make up little individual trifles, or jellies with added fruit.

Just do whatever I can to make it a little bit different, today he's got tigger paws with eggy weggy in them:rotfl:.

He's away from 4.30a.m 'til c7.00p.m and nowhere near a shop. So just anything to give a break from boring wholemeal bread (he hates wm bread, but I don't make and won't buy white)with jam or cheese.

17yo dd only takes bread with filling and a small pot of fresh fruit salad, made from whatever we have in.

Mrs7ones

My 3 take:
- Sarnie of either cheese, tuna or salad
- Home made cookie
- piece of fruit or carrot sticks or cherry toms (ds2 sometines takes mushrooms!!!)
- small pack of raisins
- fresh fruit drink

Daisy_Dormer

Hi, after lurking on this board for ages, and picking up loads of useful information I've finally plucked up the courage to register and start posting!

My husband has finally come round to the idea that it will be cheaper for him to take a packed lunch to work rather than buying from the shops each day. I wondered if any of you have any good ideas for cheap and filling lunches that I could make, as a change from sandwiches. I looked on the Indexed Threads part of the boards but I couldn't seem to see anything about packed lunches.

Thanks in advance.

dearbarbie

I make allsorts - pasta and pesto, salad, potato salad (mayo, five spice, spring onions, potatoes), salami and cheese rolls, cans of soup and a roll are less than £1 from supermarket too. Noodle salad/stir fry to heat up? I live for packed lunches. Have you looked up 'bento' on google? I love bento-style lunches, give you more choice!