What's in your child's lunchbox today?

Moomum

Just made My 9yo DS his lucky for tomorrow.

Ham and tomato sandwich
2 large cheese rice cakes
Pot of jelly with raspberries in
Goats cheese baby bel
Squash
Apple for a playtime snack

gunsandbanjos

building_with_lego wrote: »

:eek::eek:

There is a kid in my child's class (Y1) who probably survives on similar
I have friends who the second their children get our of school offer them sweets/ chocolate/ crisps and then wonder why they struggle with their child's behaviour. I also know a woman who is/was a slimming world leader who gives her children H@ribo before school :facepalm:

I regularly see kids walking to school eating crisps/chocolate/doughnuts etc, and also drinking fizzy juice or worse energy drinks. Who in their right mind gives primary school kids chocolate and red bull for breakfast?

cutestkids

Today my two aged 11 and 7 had

A wrap with cheese and lettuce
A frube
An apple
A plum
Carrot sticks
A packet of hula hoops

Tomorrow they are taking home made soup with a roll and fruit and probably a small treat like a mini muffin or a scone with butter.

We are very lucky that our school allow flasks of soup etc as the kids like a warm lunch but school lunches are vile.

Mrs.W_2

Janepig wrote: »

Same here - £2 a day doesn't sound much, but £80 per month does!!

Besides the cost, what puts me off about school lunches is I never know if the eldest actually eats the meal.

At least the remnants in the lunchbox allow me to see what's been eaten, as her school makes packed lunch eaters take all their wrappings/packaging home with them.

Janepig

Mrs.W wrote: »

Besides the cost, what puts me off about school lunches is I never know if the eldest actually eats the meal.

At least the remnants in the lunchbox allow me to see what's been eaten, as her school makes packed lunch eaters take all their wrappings/packaging home with them.

Same here with my youngest, he's a terrible eater. I really begrudged coughing up £10 a week for him to have food he wasn't going to eat! And my eldest was never getting enough (as you can see she has quite alot in her packed lunch) as the portions were pretty small. They're both happier with packed lunch, although they do occasionally envy the hot dinner kids!

Jx

lilmisskitkat

Mrs.W wrote: »

Besides the cost, what puts me off about school lunches is I never know if the eldest actually eats the meal.

At least the remnants in the lunchbox allow me to see what's been eaten, as her school makes packed lunch eaters take all their wrappings/packaging home with them.

Same here - our school doesn't have bins in the dining hall so the kids have to bring back packaging & anything uneaten. DD brings the odd thing back, DS's lunchbox is so clean i could put it back in the cupboard without washing :rotfl:

If they did have school dinners then i'd get the moneys worth from DS, he eats everything but DD is more fussy.

K xx

Kaz2904

Janepig wrote: »

Also, if they don't eat what they're given (not a problem for DD!) then they don't get a chocolate biscuit the following
Jx

That's why DS didn't have a chocolate biscuit today, he is a b for not eating properly.

cutestkids wrote: »

Tomorrow they are taking home made soup with a roll and fruit and probably a small treat like a mini muffin or a scone with butter.

We are very lucky that our school allow flasks of soup etc as the kids like a warm lunch but school lunches are vile.

I'm so pleased that my kids school allow flasks. Some of the year 6 children started the trend last term. I have ordered some food flasks for my two so that I am able to give them things like left over dinners for lunch. I like them to have something warm in their belly at lunch but can't afford £80 per month for lunches :eek:

loveasale

I have 2 teen boys, 14 & 15 ,and I've given up on pack lunches now simply because it became a chore....
DS1 would want tuna every day - you don't get much cheap tuna!
DS 2 wanted either jam or ham!
Both wanted crisps , choc biscuit type 'penguin' , yoghurt, water, fruit.
But both wantd more and more,,, it was costing a fortune! Then on the day they had PE it was too much to carry so on that day they had £2 dinner money each- ok when they both had PE on the same day,
but when they didn't it drove me mad!
So I now give £2 a day and tbh it saves me a fortune on the lunch box type food they wanted!
I'm happy about and so are they,,,,, they still have a big dinner at night! :rotfl:

Lunar_Eclipse

11yo: cheese & cucumber sandwich on wholemeal bread, grapes, flapjack & water.

Nearly 13yo: ham & salad sandwich, grapes, homemade cereal bar & water. She normally has a yoghurt instead of cereal bar, but today is a 'quick lunch' day due to sport.

Snacks are fruit or cheese.

Tomorrow everyone is having a tuna rice salad with lots of veg, & homemade chocolate brownie. Bananas for snacks.

12 year old typically has crisps once/week on a night she plays sport till 6pm. We try to stick to a maximum one junk food/pudding item a day which seems to be abnormal, but still far too much from a nutritional point of view!

Mrs.W_2

Janepig wrote: »

Same here with my youngest, he's a terrible eater. I really begrudged coughing up £10 a week for him to have food he wasn't going to eat! And my eldest was never getting enough (as you can see she has quite alot in her packed lunch) as the portions were pretty small. They're both happier with packed lunch, although they do occasionally envy the hot dinner kids!

Jx

Two years ago, my eldest barely survived half a term on school lunches.

She agreed to trial school lunches, until I caught her putting extra fruit and a plain bread roll into her backpack one morning. That put paid to the trial! I felt awful for weeks, knowing that she wasn't finding the school lunches edible/to her taste but did not say so.

Many promises to provide packed lunches for as long as she wants them followed!

I can see my youngest being much like your eldest. She's not so worried about what she eats as much as it fills her tum and keeps her going!