lunchbox woes!

belfastgirl23

Oatcakes might be useful - they are a bit healthier than crackers and can be re-sealed and sent in again next day. Also those individually wrapped cheeses last quite a while before they go off, even unrefrigerated.

thegirlintheattic

No frubes - they are quite vile once they've been sitting in a lunch box all day. I'd say put a few snack type foods in that don't take time to eat - cocktail sausages, tomatoes, carrot sticks.

Xaniwoop

Perhaps an ice pack or frozen drink carton that will have defrosted by lunch time might help if the problem is how unappetizing slightly warm/sweaty food can get.

Janepig

Xaniwoop wrote: »

Perhaps an ice pack or frozen drink carton that will have defrosted by lunch time might help if the problem is how unappetizing slightly warm/sweaty food can get.

Or frubes can be kept in the freezer to be put in the packed lunch for the same effect.

Jx

mwa

Similar problems here with my DS and DD! If I have time to do batch baking, I will make a couple of banana loaf/spiced fruit cake/cheese straws and slice and wrap portions for the freezer. Then I will put these with sandwiches/cheese and crackers/pasta with pesto topped with cheese or breadsticks and carrot sticks with humous. A handful of mixed fruit (strawberries, grapes and cherry tomatoes) and a babybel. Sometimes it gets left which drives me mad, think a lot of it is to do with similar to your child and they just want to go off and play.

lil.smartie

Wraps instead of bread?

apesxx

glad i found this thread. My problem is not the amount of food as dd eats everything now but just after some new ideas to mix it up a bit. the crackers sounds a fab idea, im going to try that next week as already got dinners in for this week.
We had a problem of dd always eating the good bits (yoghurt, cheese or biscuit) so she could run off and play but leaving the butty or sausage roll and fruit. She was told that if she didnt eat her sandwich in future i would leave the other bits out and she now eats all of it

Cash-Cow_3

Cold chips. Apparently kids love 'em.

FatVonD

My DS refuses to eat anything at school, if I put it in his bag he takes it out again, leaves it at home and eats it when he gets in. I buy breakfast bars and send him off eating one of those in the morning so he doesn't have a completely empty stomach.

He will however eat pizza if i give him money for school lunches, pizza must be cooler than packed lunch.

When he first started school he never wanted to eat breakfast, I'd be beside myself as I'd read somewhere that you could tell which kids were going to fail at school because they'd arrive hungry and I thought I'd look like a bad parent!

skintchick

WHy not ask your child what they'd like?

I regularrly ask DD who is 3 what she wants to take to preschool and usually if she has what she asks for then it gets eaten.

If things regularly don't get eaten I stop putting them in for a while.

She has: sandwich, piece of fruit, pot of other fruit like raisins or grapes, yoghurt pot, 2 Babybel cheeses.

It usually all gets eaten.