Lunch bags ....

fuzzybear01

liney wrote: »

I though the point was to use them like a cool-bag, not actually place the food directly in there. That's what I do anyway;)

Yes but you still get crumbs and bits of food stuck in the seams. The school don't encourage kids to put wrappers in the bin when they're finished so the bags can end up quite gross inside (primary school).

moomoomama27

fuzzybear01 wrote: »

Yes but you still get crumbs and bits of food stuck in the seams. The school don't encourage kids to put wrappers in the bin when they're finished so the bags can end up quite gross inside (primary school).

I just turn them inside out, put them in pillow case and run them through the washing machine! Can ou not put the sandwhiches in a little plastic box insode and encourage them to put rubbish inside? That's what mine do.

saidan

asda recently had lunch cubes - you open the box and there is a section for a sandwich with a lid on - then the top bit of the box is divided into two - i put a drink one side and fruit/bisuit the other side.
plenty of room for a primary aged child.
durable too.

hth, saidan.

tiff

Tesco value plastic box with lid, approx £1, Asda do the same I think. After the first year at primary my two both had a clear plastic lunchbox which can go in the dishwasher, I hated any of the other options as they didnt clean easily. Cheap to replace rather than spend £6 or £7 each on a themed box/bag.

Buttonmoons

I bought my DD (5) that lunchbox sudian, but you can't even fit a pot of yoghurt in it, which is highly annoying, I like how it has compartments. Have bought her a bag one she can wear across her for lunch now, as the plastic one she kept dropping and its got a crack at the side.

Her school do make them put their rubbish in the bin though, she has been taking her yuk empty frube tube back of late, thats more lazyness on her part I think!

abbecer

I buy the character lunch bags but buy them from home bargains so only cost around £2-£3 each.

Kaz2904

I got my two tins last year from TK maxx. They are retro style tins and had cookies in them. DD managed to pull the handle off hers the first day she used it (no idea how) and we said we'd fix it but having looked at it, couldn't see a way to. I let her carry on using it without the handle whilst we thought on it and tbh when I suggested a solution she said she was happy to continue as she is now. She's at junior school so hers goes in her school bag and doesn't need carrying. DS is still at infants and his gets dropped, thrown and goodness knows what else done to it. His is still going strong too.
Ours aren't allowed to throw away their rubbish so we can see what they've eaten. Hence their lunch bags used to become revolting. They go in the washing machine regularly. DS got a lego cube lunch box last year which he (and all the parents) thought was fab but it really didn't hold enough. It was a struggle to fit an apple in it.
It's such a pain though isn't it?

gairlochgal

Have you seen the BNY neoprene lunch bags on amazon? One of those did my dd through the last 3 years of primary school

gratefulforhelp_2

fuzzybear01 wrote: »

Yes but you still get crumbs and bits of food stuck in the seams. The school don't encourage kids to put wrappers in the bin when they're finished so the bags can end up quite gross inside (primary school).

I put them in the WM.

It makes me cross that our school won't let kids put the rubbish in the bin, so ... not very green this ... I put the lunch in a supermarket carrier inside the lunch box, so the whole lot goes in the bin when they get home, since they've left the rubbish in the carrier.

If anyone can tell me where to buy drinks bottles that don't leak after the third use, I would be grateful.

Mupette

i should imagine one of the reason behind not allowing the kids to empty the rubish in their bins is so that the parents can see what the children are eating at school..

i know some parents on here before were not sure what their children were eating from their lunch boxes and what was being chucked.

Could also be to keep the amount of rubbish down if they are restricted to the amount of rubbish collections they get.

what about using a sheet of foil and show the kids how to unwrap them and then fold them up again to be reused?