Cost per week of HM packed lunches

Penny-Pincher!!

DD today (she's at college) has got:

2 x rolls with scrape of butter, lettuce and vegemite (10p)
Apple & Banana (20p)
Oreo cookies x 2 (5p)
Yogurt (10p)
Water (FREE)

Total 45pence!

freyasmum

Lunches at our school at £2/day. Very occassionally, my daughter will have a school dinner but more often than not, it's a pack-up. However..... with regards to packed lunches, she's a monster! At home, she eats absolutely everything but at school there's one little boy in particular who keeps commenting on her lunch (I hate it when you bring that box, it means it's horrible!?) and then she'll pick and leave the rest.

I've given her pasta salads, regular salads (with the 'ham ends' that you get at the deli counters for a 1/4 of the price of the premium slices), cous cous, bits of chicken, cheese and ham rolls (as in, the cheese is rolled up in the ham), quiche, pasties, you name it, I've probably given it but all she'll eat at school is sandwiches/wraps or the occassional pasty. It's frustrating and I'm bored enough with it, never mind her! :rotfl: but hey ho...

Loaves x 2, Farmfoods = £1.50 (/19 sandwiches)
Frube = 11p
Dried fruit = 15/ishp (I buy packs of value raisins, apricots, etc and decant them into a little lock and lock tub rather than buying the little boxes)
Apple = 10p
Banana for her snack = 10p
So far = 46p and then it's your choice of filling.

Sandwich fillings can either be cheese and coleslaw, sliced meats (sometimes from deli counter, sometimes from a joint cooked and sliced at home) and sometimes egg (free - at point of 'using'! - from the chooks) mashed up with butter, salt and pepper. Cheese and meat sandwiches can be prepared and frozen to prevent wastage.

Wraps are usually chicken/ham with lettuce, cucumber and tomato - these are her favourite.

Sometimes she'll have a square or two of chocolate on a Friday. It's by no means fancy food, but this is what I've worked out gets eaten with little to no waste, which I truly despise!

ragz wrote: »

I send plastic spoons with the yogurts as I kept losing my teaspoons! I had given them cartons of fruit juice but they found it filled them up too much, they prefer a bottle of water.

That's why I buy frubes (on offer) and freeze them. In fact, I spent a tenner (:o) when they were a £1/box in Asda and am only just getting to the end of them. It means she can have her yogurt, it's 'branded' (gah!) and I don't lose cutlery.


Btw, the seriously strong cheese (which 'cut' with grated carrot, some onion - spring, or regular - and mayo makes a completely delicious filling!) is still £4.00/kg at the cheese counter in Tesco atm.

craigywv

mine (boy aged 8) is away with a reduced bread roll approx 4p,with corned beef and brown sauce approx 15p,ashops own brand fromage frais 8p,2 gingersnap biscuits again shops own brand approx 4p a banana 10p and his water bottle 3 for a pound in £shop has lasted all year with shops own brand dilute orange 5p total 46p, i can vary his one day sandwiches nezt day 2 pieces chicken shops own brand big bag 2 quid for 10 pieces does him all month, pepperami sticks, grapes any fruit, frozen frubes as lady up the page does also,boiled egg peeled lol cant do it himself,he not know about brands just yet but even if he does start he not getting them i WONT buy them sorry kiddo its eat or starve, i also do jelly pots bought in £world 6 for a quid, i put grapes, peaches slices whatever there is in house in these pots boil jelly up and pour into these they come with lids also enough for a sml bowl for the house fridge. i went to his teacher as i was noticing his yogurt was being left he said it was warm, i asked where do they keep there lunches until lunch time she showed me in direct sunlight in a sweltering classroom!!! i asked do they have a fridge he could put his in she looked at me as if i had 4 heads but said she SUPPOSED it would be ok if he put it in the EMPTY fridge in dinnerhall well thats what its there for woman!!!so now they all doing it i think it should have been pointed out from the beginning as my friends kids been in that school for 7 yrs and have packed lunch everyday and were never told they could use the fridge ok rant over, so lunches can be done very cheaply

macpep1

Frugal wrote: »

I have Mr T, Mr S, Ald! all nearby.

Many thanks

Just to add, If you want to give them crisps then Aldi's own make crisps 6pack @ 69p are great & have been given the seal of approval by my fussy-I-will-only-eats-walkers-smokey-bacon OH!! I also get Hovis bread @ 69p from Aldi

My dd takes a packed lunch but is a home a few weeks as well, she will not eat yoghurt or anything but she normally has a cheese sandwich with brown bread or a roll with butter only, diluting juice, 2 pieces of fruit & a treat of her choice.

I am fighting my way back, you do get there eventually with careful planning good luck

jarvo28

Hi lunch is £2 aday at our school and with 2 kids there its just too much .

Todays lunch

chicken leg
veg rice
frut salad
milkshake

apple for paly time

they only have 1 sanwich a week with jam in lol