What's in your child's lunchbox today?

Xaniwoop

DD1 (6) has ham sandwich on white bread, cucumber slices, cheese triangle and a piece of fruit and then depending what I've made/bought/leftover something like flapjack/dried fruit/crackers/fairycake/cookie. It used to be a fromage frais but she spilt it down herself everyday and I got sick of the extra jumper washing!

DD2 (3) has pretty much the same but only 1/2 round of cheese sandwiches and cherry toms instead of the cheese triangle.

My girls aren't fussy eaters in the least but they are very firm about what they want for lunch and have had practically the same thing everyday for years now! At least it's fairly balanced though I'd prefer brown bread. They also get 1-2 pieces of fruit from school at breaktime.

daisiegg

OMG, I am SOOOOOOO shocked at all the terrible things you are feeding your kids, like, even though I have no kids myself I TOTALLY know exactly what it's like making lunchboxes and it is a disgrace that you aren't all giving them organic vegetable sticks and what about protein and have you calculated the fat levels and what about their teeth?!

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!??!?!?!

daisiegg

(is that outraged enough for the popcorn munchers? )

*zippy*

FatVonD wrote: »

Am I the only one that was disappointed there's no page 2 yet? :rotfl:

Damn you for getting me all excited :cool:

As soon as I saw the heading I thought oh dear :eek:

Waiting for the trigger post....

jumbo sausage roll
kingsize mars
litre of full sugar coke
family sized pack of crisps

:cool::D:p:rotfl:

pinkshoes

Amanda65 wrote: »

Sounds like a nice selection for your DS Pinkshoes. Just a word of warning though from someone who has been there and worn that t-shirt! I always have (and still do) cook from scratch every evening and have always encouraged healthy options however that doesn't stop 16 yo DS choose pizza regularly for his lunch. It's very easy to be 'shocked' about what others do when your children are little - just be careful about who you criticize as you don't know what you've got ahead (a piece of excellent advice given to me when mine were all little) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

As someone who is stick thin, I also have a high chance of inheriting heart disease. My dad has it, and my grandfather died of it very young.

So despite being able to eat whatever I like and never put on weight, I am also aware that the amount of fat I eat is likely to be clogging my arteries, which raises my risk of getting the hereditary disease.

My dad very nearly died when I was 18, as his main arteries and veins to his heart were so badly clogged with cholesterol.

My son is welcome to eat what he likes when he's old enough to make his own decisions, but he will be armed with the information he needs to know what he ought to be eating and why!! Sometimes the thought of a loved one dying is enough to make you think twice about continually overdosing your body with sh*t!

When you MAKE someone a pack lunch, you have the choice what goes in with it. I always ate all the healthy stuff my mum put in, as I would have felt guilty otherwise!

ps - I LOVE junk food! I just don't eat it all the time!

gunsandbanjos

Xaniwoop wrote: »

DD1 (6) has ham sandwich on white bread, cucumber slices, cheese triangle and a piece of fruit and then depending what I've made/bought/leftover something like flapjack/dried fruit/crackers/fairycake/cookie. It used to be a fromage frais but she spilt it down herself everyday and I got sick of the extra jumper washing!.

Glad I don't have the only yoghurt spiller on here! I used to give DD a tub with spoon but like you got sick of the clean jumper needed everyday, sometimes trousers too! Gave in and bought the tubes of yoghurt and she is much better now.

Mrs.W_2

For DD9;
2x Marmite sarnies - wholemeal, cookie cuttered into shapes.
Carrot sticks
Cheese cut into batons
2x Cream Crackers
Apple
Water

At 3.20pm she'll eat a pain au chocolate on the way home.

DD3;
At 10am pre-school provides a snack of mixed fresh fruit and milk.
2x Marmite sarnie - as above
Fromage frais
Banana
Water
(light lunch due to sports class immediately afterward)

On fridays DD9 is allowed to add either a s/of cake or bag of crisps.

I admire those who can provide homemade pasties or sausage rolls. My skills with pastry lead to the girls making sicky faces.

sweetsheep84

Son (aged 4) has ham and cheese sandwich(50/50 bread, no crusts, 3 slices)
A kiwi or carrot sticks
Apple or orange juice
A small chocolate bar/small muffin/fairy cake (only 1 item a day depending on my supply)
Sometimes a drink yoghurt on top of it

I find it a bit boring so gonna google 'bento ideas' for him and see how I can make his lunch more interesting.

Amanda65

pinkshoes wrote: »

As someone who is stick thin, I also have a high chance of inheriting heart disease. My dad has it, and my grandfather died of it very young.

So despite being able to eat whatever I like and never put on weight, I am also aware that the amount of fat I eat is likely to be clogging my arteries, which raises my risk of getting the hereditary disease.

My dad very nearly died when I was 18, as his main arteries and veins to his heart were so badly clogged with cholesterol.

My son is welcome to eat what he likes when he's old enough to make his own decisions, but he will be armed with the information he needs to know what he ought to be eating and why!! Sometimes the thought of a loved one dying is enough to make you think twice about continually overdosing your body with sh*t!

When you MAKE someone a pack lunch, you have the choice what goes in with it. I always ate all the healthy stuff my mum put in, as I would have felt guilty otherwise!

ps - I LOVE junk food! I just don't eat it all the time!

Which is completely understandable - all I am saying is I had all sorts of ideas about what my children would and wouldn't do (before I had them I swore none would ever have a dummy but hours hours of winging from DD1 aged 3 weeks and hey presto - dummy in mouth ). It's just not that easy when they start putting their feet down and have influences from outside (I always found friends likes and dislikes often influenced choices for a few weeks at a time).

Make the most of now and educating your DS and hopefully he will take your habits on board, but beware judging others

Xaniwoop

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Gave in and bought the tubes of yoghurt and she is much better now.

I'm too tight to get the tubes! They eat their yoggies after dinner now, supervised and wearing aprons :rotfl:

I have to say when DD1 was tiny I did take all this very seriously, got a book and worked out how much she needed of each type of food but it's too difficult to sustain in the real world. I took a couple of things from it: fortified breakfast cereal gets you most of the way towards enough iron, a cheese triangle and yoghurt a day keeps the dairy up and 5 fruit and veg is a minimum target. After that we all eat pretty much the same meals and I hope for the best!