I’m looking for inspiration to make my kids school packed lunch more interesting.

Needs to be quick to put together and not too expensive and suitable to suit my kids impossible to judge tastes!

Child A: Ciabbata, lettuce, ham , tomato, mayo. Nutrigrain bar, a pear, bag of crisps. Carton OJ.
Child B: Sausage roll, cheese sandwich on white bread, crisps, Harvest Chewee bar. Carton OJ.
Child C: Two slices of warburton’s toastie with two slices of chorizo, no butter. Harvest Chewee bar. Carton OJ.

All their own choice, and they rarely vary more than the choice of sandwich filling. All healthy and doing well, despite massive difference in nutrition. Oh, they make their own from the age of 10 upwards in our house, so I just have to keep the fridge and cupboard supplied. Have you asked them if they want it more interesting? My son just wants something predictable he can neck in two minutes to head for the playground.

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My son just wants something predictable he can neck in two minutes to head for the playground.

Mine’s the same. He only wants half a sandwich. Gets upset if he has a full sandwich (ie two slices of bread). And if I cut it in two he refuses to eat it…have tried pasta, wraps, salad, houmous etc. It all came back uneaten even though he’ll happily eat all that at home.

Apart from that he has some fruit generally grapes and satsuma (unpeeled), a cereal bar and a yoghurt and some raisins. Sometimes a bit of home-made cake as a treat if he’s eaten his lunch from the previous day.

Jam sandwich, banana, flask of squash. Any more than that doesn’t get eaten, I think for the reason above!

That McDonalds Happy Meal box has pictures of healthy children participating in various sporting activities. It must be good for them.

Sandwich or pasta salad or cous cous
Crisps or dried fruit
Cake or flapjack
Fruit

Ham and cucumber wrap, cheese string, frube, banana, small choccy biscuit.

Crisps or dried fruit

Ooh, I wonder which one junior prefers..!?

My kid has a wrap, piece or pot of fruit, yogurt, small cake, drink.
Lunch box comes back daily smeared with uneaten yogurt with bits of fruit stuck in it.

Bread product – current favourite is Turkey and Pesto Mayo
Fruit or veg – usually peppers or carrots
Chocolate/Sweetie
and one always insists on nuts… she sat and ate 150g of almonds on the train the other day!

Generally a sandwich*, some fruit, a yoghurt and a treat (biccie, cake or crisps) washed down with diluted orange + pineapple juice.

* My eldest will eat anything, my youngest has always been a very fussy eater and will only eat jam or corned beef and brown sauce – sans crust.

Parma ham on wholemeal, apple, smoothie, mini-cheddars.

Mrs J’s home made bread with home made hummus (extra virgin olive oil)
Carrot sticks, apple & water bottle.
Small box of raisins as a treat sometimes.

A quid for chips and scraps

I give my 3 year old 20 quid a day, and tell him to tell the nursery teacher to go out and buy him lunch.

How’s he enjoying his daily Happy Meal?

Cheese wrap, carrot / celery sticks, fig roll, squeezy yoghurt, dried apricots / raisins, apple, flask o squash.

No Ritz crackers tho :0(

I love these opportunities for sanctimony.

Years ago now but mine had marmite sarnies every day at primary school for 6 years anything else got left

Ooh, I wonder which one junior prefers..

vegan kids make some crazy choices

Asked for fennel salad last week for his treat tea 8)

vegan kids make some crazy choices

What, like choosing to be a vegan? 😕

of course not I chose that just like the meat eaters chose for their kids. they are old enough to chose to continue with my indoctrination or rebel against it

You need to take inspiration from the lunch box some Japanese kids get….here’s one;

I don’t have kids but I’m reading this to get inspiration for my lunch box. Currently I have a banana, nutrigrain bar, probioctic drink, wholemeal bagel with veggi burger, salad and humous, walkers baked crisps and a small choc biscuit. Do like the idea of sushi though!

*phones social services*

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I love these opportunities for sanctimony.
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8)

Half a litre of Gin and ten Benson.

Junkyard – lazarus

of course not I chose that just like the meat eaters chose for their kids. they are old enough to chose to continue with my indoctrination or rebel against it

Serious question: is breast milk vegan? 😳

My boys like an avocado cut in half with the stone removed (and pack a teaspoon to scoop out the flesh).

On a Sunday I normally cook a batch of these as a treat for all of our lunches:

Chicken breast strips/drumsticks

7 finely chopped garlic cloves
Juice from 2 limes
Juice from 1 orange
Chilli powder (we like hot powder)
Chilli flakes
2 tbsp olive oil
1 Tsp sugar
1/4 Tsp all spice
Pinch ground cinnamon
Pinch ground cumin
Pinch of dried oregano

Mix together and marinade chicken for 3 hours or overnight and then grill until cooked.

Stick one in the lunch box!

You offering me some?
Technically if you drank milk I guess you are not a vegan but I assume most consider this cruelty free as the milk is going to the intended recipient.

i did once know a couple of vegans who had a placenta party – i declined the invite- and they insisted this was vegan as well as it was death and cruelty free.

half a pound of rump steak and a trangia

I haven’t a clue what they take, they make their own.

Changes but anything from bread & jam to bagel with tuna or a flask of beans and some mini sausages. On a Monday they normally get left over Sunday lunch (Yorkshire puds, cold roast potatoes etc). Then have mixed fruits, cheese, yogurt, juice etc. wish they’d have school dinners really.

Cocaine and fags are a great appetite surpresent. They don’t need lunch

School dinners for mine. Has sandwich/toast tea when she comes home and her parents have a proper dinner later.
Keeps the dinner ladies employed dunnit?

Cocaine and fags

Lovely names you chose for them Binnners

Greggs is their middle name I assume?

One of these each and a smack round the head.

*no kids

This morning
Tuna Mayo in a wrap
Cheesestring
Crisps
Tunnock bar
Yoghurt
Grapes
( She’s a little piggy ? )

That chicken is truly stomach churning. Is that real?