What Shall I put in her lunch box?

Question

My little girl is starting school in sept and wants a packed lunch. Can you give me some ideas about that I should put in it. Many thanks

Answer 1

hi, well in my sons lunch box i put him some sandwiches, usually, cheese spread or peanut butter. i give him a few cherry tomatoes, a handful of raisins, a drink, a yoghurt, a piece of fruit and a cereal bar and sometimes carrot sticks too, its healthy and he loves it.

Answer 2

well i took my lunch for 13 years of school, and let me tell you, it gets to be boring... but my mom usually packed a sandwich(obvious) but you might try to have more than one kind available to swap out every other day, then she would pack something good for me like an apple, or a fruit cup...healthy, and something fun, like three cookies, or something sweet. When i got high school, it was nutra grain bars and some fruit, don't give her anything that is going to attack her energy. too much sugar or carbs can make her sleepy. you want to add energy to her day, not take away. It will be hard to pay attention in class if she can't keep her eyes open. the little treat will help her have a good day, just include something else that she enjoys that is good for her too. Oh, you might put some crackers with peanut butter, the PB will be full of protein and very helpful to her active life.
Good luck, and maybe offer that she can buy lunch on Fridays, they usually have Pizza at school, and it is hard to trade a sandwich for pizza, lol.

Answer 3

Whatever she likes that can go in an easy-open container of some kind. Make sure you check that she can open anything you pack in her lunch.

Sandwiches are great, of course. Cutting them into odd shapes will give her a giggle. Baby carrots, small apples, grapes, raisins and bananas are relatively easy for little ones.

A cookie or small brownie will give her a sugar boost for the playground after lunch.

And writing a greeting or joke on her napkin is also a fun way to give her a smile while she's at school.

Answer 4

As a dinner lady there's a bit of advice I can give you: Send juice/squash in bottles, never in cartons. Frubes or any kind of yogurt in pouches are just messy (no matter what the manufacturers say, most kids can't open them). Avoid chocolate, crisps and sweets of any kind, they help develop a taste for sugar and salt that they don't need and will be difficult to get rid later on. Food like cheese strings are also messy, what happened to: "You don't play with your food!" food is food and toys are toys, shouldn't be confused. All they really need is a good sandwich, raw sliced/chopped veg and fruit (fresh or dried), together with a healthy drink like juice, sugar-free squash or even better: plain water.

Answer 5

Cut up fruits and Veggies, with toothpicks for skewers and ranch dressing or cream cheese dip. Kids love anything on a stick, and anything they can dip.

Roll ups, tortillas with deli meat or left over shredded chicken or turkey, cheese, etc.

I don't recommend peanut butter to anyone, Partly because I have a child with a severe peanut allergy, and partly because many schools are now either banning peanut butter completely, or banning it in certain classrooms, etc. Peanut butter is very difficult in that it's sticky, and doesn't come off of hands and surfaces without a thorough cleaning.....and we all know how thorough the average six or seven year old is. I teach preschool and we are Peanut and tree nut free. Anyone who has ever witnessed a child in the midst of anaphylactic shock realizes how severe food allergies can be. For those who don't know, during anaphylactic shock the airway swells shut due to internal hives, basically suffocating the child. It's the scariest thing I have ever dealt with both with my own child and the kids I work with. Severe food allergies are considered a disability and schools are required by federal law to make accomodations to allow the disabled child to receive a safe and equivalent education. There are a million alternatives to peanut butter.

Off my soapbox, my daughter has access to a microwave at school because together with the food service department we have decided it is safer for her to not eat school food, so she is allowed to bring heat ups, which is usually leftovers. I know other kids use thermos containers, which work fairly well at keeping things hot, as long as you pre-warm them with boiling water and make sure what you put in is hot and not just warm.

On the days she doesn't have a heat up, my daughter brings a sandwich or rollup, or sometimes just a couple of pieces of roast beef or ham rolled up by themselves, cucumber sticks, tropical fruit cup, some dry cereal like cheerios, and either a cookie or small piece of banana bread or something similar.

Answer 6

You can make her little salads and put them in a seperate tub inside the lunch box for her. Even pasta salads or any sort of pasta dish as a chage from sandwhiches. For winter months you could but a wide thermos flask and put heated up soup in the flask for her that way she will have something warm in her tummy.

For more tips try Annabel Karmel cook books they have got lots of tips for healthy lunch box ideas a would highly recomend them to every one.

Answer 7

shredded chicken and salad wrap with mayo or cheese salad sandwich something healthy like that carrot/cucumber sticks. yogurt and fruit and on Friday as an end of week treat if they have been good at school a pack of crisps or a snack size chocolate bar for doing well xx oh and a drink flavoured water

Answer 8

To have a balanced diet you should put in:
-Healthy sandwich preferably homemade!
- a bit of cheese or something dairy
- a piece of fruit or a little tub of mixed fruit
- a packet of crisps or chocolate
- a little carton of fresh juice( an innocent smoothie it always tasty and healthy!) and a bottle of water

Answer 9

Sandwich, fruit, veggies, juice (100% juice only, try Juicy juice or something like that), and a small serving of baked chips/pretzels. Save the sweets for an occasional surprise.

Answer 10

id give a sandwich some fruit i sometimes pop in a biscuits as treat. but my tip would be to put drink in a flask type bottle as youll find with cartons they rarely drink them all and sometimes end up back in there bag upside everything wet even bottles they often forget to close them. some kind of drink bottles that is easy open and close plus it works out much cheaper
also cheesestrings are handy or cereal bars