Lunchbox ideas for a sandwich hater!

spartacusthe1st

So daughter is 4 and at school and she really hates sandwiches!
I have tried wraps/pittas but she seems to hate it all!
She loves pasta but not cold, she loves pizza but not cold.
Soup in a flask is not an option.

I usually give her bread sticks and cucumber in place of a sandwich but I feel she needs something more substantial.

She sounds like a fussy eater it she really isn't it's just the sandwich issue.

Any creative ideas will be welcomed greatly!!!

mummyroysof3

Will she eat mini pittas or wraps or rolls?

Indie_Kid

Pasty, sausage / cheese and onion roll

Tiglath

Ham smeared with cream cheese and rolled up round strips of red pepper.

elsien

Think buffet/finger food. Cocktail sausages that sort of thing, with salad on the side, done separately if she prefers. If she likes cucumber could you do sliced tomato to go with it? Does she like dips - you could do peppers or carrot sticks to go with it. Will she eat cold hardboiled eggs? Couscous? Samosas?
What is it about sandwiches she doesn't like? Could you give her crackers, bread and butter, ryvita, oatcakes with the fillings on the side instead of inside? Just suggesting it because I knew someone who hated sandwiches but would happily eat all the bits separately.
And if you fill up with fruit such as bananas that's more filling as well.

marisco_2

Instead of sending in a packed lunch would she be open to the idea of trying school dinners?

GobbledyGook

Mine love 'dip day'. They get hummus and another dip along with breadsticks, cucumber, peppers and carrot batons.

In the summer they have salads with a cold meat. Sometimes they'll have cheese and crackers or even picnic finger foods (little sausages, a sausage roll or pork pie, cheese cubes type thing).

Is a flask an option at all? The school mine go to doesn't allow soup in a flask, but they can have flasks of warm food. So with a wide necked flask that they can get a fork in they take pasta.

lostinrates

Frittata wedge, or slice of quiche or tart.....I make quite a few savoury tarts, they are quick, simple, once sliced would give you several lunches, just wrap them in slices and pull a slice out of the freezer maybe to add to whatever else ( fruits, prepped raw veg etc). Would work for my husband, might it four your little one?

JodyBPM

My daughter is the same, she hates sandwiches. She's not actually a fussy eater at all in general, but I think she's just really, really bored with sandwiches. The only bread products she will happily eat in her lunchbox are a chunk of fresh tiger bread (but not a tiger roll) or, strangely, cold buttered toast! At a push she might eat a chocolate spread sandwich, but I don't tend to do this often as its not really nutritious.

I make pasta salads or rice salads (cold savoury rice works well), plus a pot of regular salad (cucumber/tomato/radish/celery etc mainly rather than lettuce, as these are easier and quicker to eat), and then fruit and a yoghurt. I do sometimes do hummous and breadsticks/veg sticks too. Another good one is cheese and crackers. I do half a dozen Cheddars, some sliced cheese and sliced chorizo, and she puts it together to eat it.

It's a pain and takes so much more preparation than my DS who will eat pretty much anything in a sandwich.

bigmomma051204

Does she like the components of the sandwiches but just not put together?? Because that is like me LOL!

Although I don't mind those "sandwich thins" by warburtons (i think) - they are nice... i hate bread sandwiches though!!

But I would eat : pieces of ham (think wafer thin or maybe gammon yum!) slices of bread with some butter to put on (ahh she could have those little packets like u get at hotels etc!) cucumber, cheese etc Kind of like a child friendly ploughmans

I am weird - I also like cold potatoes... not potato salad (yuk - cold condiments are NOT my friend!) but like cold new potatoes? Again with some cold cooked chicken breast, or cold cooked chicken goujons (homemade - shake and bake lol!)

Realistically she doesnt NEED bread - just some element of carbs to keep her going! So potatoes, rice etc or crackers -

I know u said she doesn't like cold pizza BUT neither does my son ... he will though, eat homemade cold Muffin Pizzas - We make them the night before... cos he makes them, i think he thinks they are much tastier!

Easy - slice a muffin in half, toast it.. spread tomato puree on both slices, then add grated cheese (i buy the grated mozzarella and keep it in freezer - use straight from the freezer!) then add toppings and a tad more cheese! Then blast it in the microwave until the cheese is melted All done! Takes 5mins!!

apesxx

Ritz crackers with slices of ham and cheese to build up their own crackers. Was a fave with my kids before they went on school dinners x