Packed Lunch Ideas for a Child who hates bread?

Butterfly_Brain

• Wraps, pitta bread
• Breadsticks with cream cheese to dip them in
• Boiled egg or scotch egg
• Babybells
• Pizza or calzone
• Salad with ham or tuna and boiled egg
• Couscous with roasted veg
• Pasta with tuna
• Mini meatballs
• Mini fishcakes
• Cocktail sausages
• Sausage rolls
• Chicken drumsticks
• Chicken goujons
• Mini pasties
• At least two sorts of fruit
• Get some mini pots from poundland and fill with rice, semolina or tapioca with fruit puree
• Make mini fruit crumbles with custard all you do is pop fruit of choice (stewed if need be) in the bottom of a pot then make some seperate crumble and when it is cooked sprinkle it over the top and pour over some custard.

MoradoJess

Steve059 wrote: »

"I've heard that pasta is made from the same stuff as bread, so I don't like it as well now."

I know children can be picky but can't imagine any child saying that and if they did "cake has flour" will probably solve the issue quickly.

OP I think Bento style lunches might be helpful to you, don't over focus on the decorative side of it and get put off just focud on the selection of foods suggested. Linking a post suggesting alternatives but like the whole blog.
http://eatsamazing.co.uk/useful-information/10-alternatives-to-sandwiches-for-lunchboxes

Does your son like other types of bread? My younger sister isn't a fan of bread so my mum just switched to wraps or pitta instead.
Check the schools policy on kids bringing hot food in thermos flasks, then he could get leftovers of dinner.

mrcow

Steve059 wrote: »

"I've heard that pasta is made from the same stuff as bread, so I don't like it as well now."

lol that's a very bizarre assumption on your behalf.

Bread has a very distinct texture and taste. We don't all have to like the same things.

hollyh

Thanks, loads more great advice.

He will eat wraps and pitta bread.

Nothing to do with flour why he doesn't like it I think it's the texture because he will eat toast. He doesn't like hot dog buns or burger buns either. I know it's strange but we all have things we don't like.

adouglasmhor

If he eats toast maybe Dutch crispbakes/melba toasts would be another option.

hoglet121

When I was growing up I didn't like the texture of bread as I found it very dry. I did like toast, pitta bread and baguettes tho. I know that probably doesn't make a lot of sense but that's just how I found it.

I often had stuffed pitta pockets, or sandwiches made from crackers (yes they went soggy, but I didn't mind that). Also if mum found any YS baguettes she would cut them in to lengths and freeze them. When I had sandwiches made from them I thought it was a real treat.

Sometimes I took pasta salad but Mum said if I wanted that I had to make it myself which was fair enough. I was a bit older than I think your son is, but with a bit of supervision to begin with I got pretty competent quickly.

bouncydog1

In used to make DD Monsters Inc bread. Break off a lump of dough and add purple food colouring. Colour rest of it turquoise, then make small balls from the purple dough and push into the main loaf. Leave to rise and bake. Only problem was the feedback from other mums who looked for it in the supermarket!!

kboss2010

Steve059 wrote: »

Just wait until he learns that pasta is also made from flour. Sandwiches or an empty lunch box. Tough love. Who's in charge in your family?

That's a little harsh. Most bread in the UK is rubbish anyway, it's packed full of chemical preservatives, sugar, salt and air and is tasteless with no fibre. Even most "brown" bread is just caramel food colouring in white bread dough.

How about:
Cold stuff:

HM cheese and tomato wholewheat pasta
cheese and pesto wholemeal wraps
Veggie sticks (carrot, pepper, cucumber) with houmous

Hot stuff:
Spag Bol with wholewheat spaghetti
Colourful veg stir fry with soba (buckwheat) noodles
Chicken curry with white & brown rice mix

And before anyone scoffs at kids eating that stuff, my friend's kids actually request it. Give a kid fish fingers and chips that's all they'll eat. Make the food look cool (google bento boxes for ideas) they'll eat it

bossymoo

My DD (3) doesn't really do bread either although recently we've tried those sandwich thins and she quite likes those. I think its a texture thing. She actually doesn't like cake either but happily eats crackers, pasta, biscuits.

joedenise

My DGD only eats chicken wraps for her lunch. She'd rather go without lunch than have something else!

Denise