children bored with sandwiches for lunch - got any ideas ?

Question

my 2 daughters 5 & 3 are bored with sandwiches, what else could i give them for their lunch, i'm looking for new ideas, what are your children eating for lunch ?

Answer 1

mashed potato with chicken soup poured on top

Answer 2

Annabel Karmel has some very good ideas in her recipe books, you can get it from any book shop or Mothercare. I just made my 10 month old twins this from the book but it can be eaten on it's own or you could put maybe some sticks of veg with it

Boil one egg
Melt knob of butter in a pan, skin, de-seed & chop one tomato add that to the butter & saute until mushy (2-3 mins), remove it from the heat & stir in 25g cheese, mash the egg & add to the tomato & cheese mix.

It's really nice, I have to stop myself eating it! You may want to double the amounts though as that will only feed one of your children!

Answer 3

Try letting the girls make their own, with their favourite fillings, also get some cookie cutters and make different shapes. My favourite was traffic light sandwiches, use tomatoes for stop, cheese as slow down and cucumber as go, my kids loved them.
Maybe change the bread you use to, multi grain,wholemeal and so on, and you can't beat a toasted sandwich especially on a rainy day.

Answer 4

baked chicken strips...so easy to make or buy them frozen. But I just buy chicken breasts cut them into strips roll them in some egg and then bread crumbs, then simply bake. I make a bunch at a time and eat them all week.

She also love french fries, so bake them...not that often. She loves brocolli, but it's because I call it "trees",

She loves Quesadillas. So it's melted jack cheese, tortilla and I add some tomato too.

She loves cold cuts-so I roll meat inside of cheese and give her ketchup, mustard and mayo to dip it in.

she loves rice so I make chickcen and rice! cooked rice, with shreeded chicken, tomato sauce, peas, corn, salt, pepper-cook rice, and chicken separately, then mix together at the end. Cook rice 1/2 c - 1 c less water since you add tomato sauce. you can even cook the rice with the tamato sauce, 1/2 water 1/2 sauce.

Answer 5

My kids usually have sandwiches, but every know and again they get fed up so to make a change they take pasta salads, like pasta/tuna/sweetcorn. Instead of using bread, try crackers, tortillas (wraps), pitta breads, similar to sandwhiches I know but sometimes its the novelty that makes the difference!

Answer 6

a small bowl of tuna and pasta salad
slice of pork and egg pie and a little salad
wrap sandwich in a tortilla rather than bread
pitta instead of flat bread
hard boiled eggs and portion of mayonnaise
rice salad with peas
cornish pasty
cold spanish omlet slice
piece of quiche

Answer 7

Try quesedillas, chicken noodle soup, jell-o, pudding, tortellini in Alfredo sauce, bananas, green beans, chicken and rice, leftovers from dinner before, gnocchi in tomato sauce, mac n' cheese, pigs in a blanket...

Serve "breakfast for lunch" and then have pancakes with peanut butter and jelly or just syrup, waffles, sausage, cereal, oatmeal...

Answer 8

Pitta bread, lunchable, pasta in sauce (it still tastes good cold). Why dont you try just giving them some bread or a roll and a couple of small tubs with fillings and let them make them up themselves, they might eat them better that way.

Answer 9

peanut butter sushi.... you take 2 pieces of bread and cut off the crust, put on a layer of peanut butter then a layer of jelly, roll it up and cut into "sushi" style rolls. Try homemade soups, My 2 year old loves different kinds of cheeses, wheat crackers and pears, chicken quesadillas, bean burritos, veggie soup and crackers, leftovers from dinner, pita bread or english muffin pizzas that he can make himself, grilled cheese cut into different shapes and dip in tomato soup,

Answer 10

Corn-on-the cob was popular for a while.

Sticks of cheese

Pots of pasta or rice salad were okay

Slices of pizza or quiche

Cold sausages wrapped in foil, even cold boiled potatoes sometimes

Sushi rolls (rice and tuna wrapped in nori)

Fritters or pakora (all sorts of things made with vegetables and gram (chickpea) flour or with eggs, and shallow fried)

Little pots of nuts (except that we are discouraged from taking nuts to school or playgroup in case of allergies)

Little pots of toasted seeds, especially sunflower and pumpkin seeds, with shoyu or tamari stirred into them when they are cooling off after toasting (which you do by stirring them over heat in a dry pan)

Answer 11

Do they eat pasta? How about tricolore pasta (red, green and white) with cheese, ham and veg? Or have you thought about making wraps instead of sandwiches. But a pack of tortillas, put their favourite foods inside, wrapem up and cut them up.