Packed lunches, how much do you spend?

Threebabes

My kids go on mostly packed lunch. I dont spend a lot, a lot less than the £9.50 it costs each per week

Sandwich, 2 slices of bread or a roll
piece of fruit, apple/banana/satsuma/strawberries/grapes or a bag of grapes/apples from asda
stick of yogurt (which I again freeze on day of purchase)
flapjack/biscuit/mini biscuits/mini roll cake
crisps/snack o jack/quavers etc
drink

Mrs_Arcanum

Lidl does nice 250ml orange & apple juice cartons 5 for 99p (occasionally on offer). Otherwise Waitrose doe 6X 200ml for £120 or so. The tubes are brilliant from the freezer as they help keep the rest fresh. Our local schools don't include juice with school dinners.

Usually total around £1.10. School lunches start at £2.05 (primary) or around £2 for just a baguette or some pasta/pizza (senior).

Caroline73_2

At my sons school they have to try to eat everything, so I don't give him any extra choices in the lunch box. They aren't allowed to throw anything away so parents can see what's eaten.

He has a sandwich, a tube yogurt, a tub of grapes and a bottle of fruit juice. I buy large cartons of fruit juice and fill a plastic bottle each day.

onlyroz

I can do packed lunches for the four of us for around £10-15 a week. For me and hubby it's just a sandwich (I get free fruit at work) but the kids get a sandwich, fruit and yoghurt. The sandwich is usually meat, tomato/cucumber and some sort of filler (e.g. egg mayonaise or coleslaw).

Moneybot

For most of his time at primary school my eldest had Marmite sandwiches every day cut into triangles. No other sandwiches would be eaten and if he didn't get Marmite he would be a total pain at school after lunch. This made his lunches very cheap although it did up my angst levels. On the up side he thrived on it and is now a healthy 16 year old who will sometimes have ham sandwiches in his lunch box.

happy35

my son is 15 and packed lunch is quite expensive as he has a huge appetite, at least 6 slices of bread made into sandwiches, a litre of diluted juice,apple,pear and a biscuit or crisps

when he was little he still had a big appetite so used to take a packed lunch as the dinners were too small

despite eating huge portions of food he is very slim

DON79

Threebabes wrote: »

My kids go on mostly packed lunch. I dont spend a lot, a lot less than the £9.50 it costs each per week

Sandwich, 2 slices of bread or a roll
piece of fruit, apple/banana/satsuma/strawberries/grapes or a bag of grapes/apples from asda
stick of yogurt (which I again freeze on day of purchase)
flapjack/biscuit/mini biscuits/mini roll cake
crisps/snack o jack/quavers etc
drink

This is similar to what I give my son although I do worry I am giving too much sometimes lol!

I give a sandwich (2 slices) on cheese/cold meat usually (can't give peanut butter & jam as one child in the school has an allergy )

a banana (usually doesn't get eaten!)

flapjack or mini biscuits or sometimes crisps

a cheesestring


Am going to be getting the yoghurt sticks to try with him this week and see if he likes them.

spike7451

I make my own sausage rolls using a tin of hotdogs & a pack of Jus Roll puff pastry.Simple to make in 20min including cooking,sometimes I add some caramalised onions on the bottom & brush with hot dog mustard before adding the hot dogs & rolling.I can get around 10 'hot dog rolls' for around £2.00 as opposed to paying,what £2 for six commercially bought ones.
Plus the kids love them as they're a variation on a hot dog.you could even make more than the 10 by halving the hot dogs.

moomoomama27

Mine take
a sandwhich, roll, pizza or soup (in winter)
a frozen yoghurt stick,
a piece of friut (fresh or dried pot),
a piece of homemade cake, or cereal bar
and packet of crisps, crackers or rice cake.

My youngest 2 take a small pot of cheese cubes for break, and the eldest a very 'healthy' tub of biscuits for break! Costs me quite a bit, but alot less than 3x school meals, where they wouldn't eat them anyway!

mum2twinsx2

Mine have the following

• half wholemeal pitta bread with ham/chicken cucumber and tomato
• fruit fromage frais yoghurt
• Fruit either apples/strawberry/kiwi/banana/pears/grapes or aspberry etc
• a combination of Cucumber sticks, carrot sticks, cheese, breadstick with a dip houmous or similar
• box raisins
• smoothie

It costs me about £16 the smoothies bump it up, that is for two of them and two days me for packed lunch. still cheaper than school dinners here. would be cheaper if they had crisps but there not struck on them at all. Most the time does not all get eaten at lunchtime but does on the way home from school.