What do you pack in your kids lunchbox?

[Anonymous]

A fluffernutter or nutella sandwich.
An apple or Clementine
A yogurt.

[Anonymous]

DD uys lumch some days, but on the days she brings lunch, we rotate 3 lunches: Hummus & pita chips, string cheese or muenster sliced with cookie cutter & garlic triscuits, or sunbutter & jelly on whole wheat. I throw in cbaby carrots or a little apple and a milk box. Occasionally I add fruit snacks or min bag of chips.

[Anonymous]

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a slice of lemon with a small packet of sugar

Is that for making DIY lemonade??

I'm so lucky mine is slightly picky and wants the same things every day: sunbutter & jelly sandwich; banana or an orange; baby carrots; a few crackers of some kind; a babybel cheese.

She likes to put a sprinkle of sugar on a lemon and eat the lemon that way. I know it's odd. She is picky, but odd. She loves blue cheese and feta cheese, and yet the only fruit I can get her to eat is slices of granny smith apples. Very strange.

She's destroying the enamel on her teeth that way.

She only has it maybe once a month, and her dentist said her teeth are in great shape.

[Anonymous]

I forgot to add the most important thing. My dd really likes to have water with lunch.

[Anonymous]

Oatmeal in a thermos is genius! Why didn't I think of that?
My almost 8 year old DS is really, really picky lately. DD (5) will try anything and enjoys all kinda of textures, spices, and food ethnicities. DS is completely the opposite. If it looks or smells different, he won't touch it.

So for him, I send plain mini bagels with cream cheese, almost any fresh fruit (the sugar makes it palatable I guess), hummus (if it's smooth and plain) and soft bread, plain tortillas, left over grilled steak or pork (he won't touch chicken), granola bars (chewy w chocolate chips only), tortilla chips and salsa. Protein is the hardest thing to get him to eat.

I used to worry about people judging me for his lunch but honestly I just want him to eat something so he's not hungry and miserable all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so relieved to read this list! My child does not have the worst lunch at school! I am not single-handedly keeping the Lunchables company going! Haha.

I give my daughter any of the following:
A lunchable, smuckers sandwich, bagelful, slices of meat, crackers
A yogurt of some sort....gotta keep the type of yogurt changing so she doesn't get bored
String cheese or a Babybel
Some type of fruit
Capri Sun Roaring Waters
Hummos and Prezel Thins
100-calorie pack chips or just a small bag of some sort of chip.

Sorry. I don't think these suggestions are helpful, but maybe it will help someone else feel better about their lunches too!

Just don't pack a sandwich. Crackers and cheese are good, too. I've noticed a lot of kids take slices of meat. Granola bars are good. Sometimes my daughter gets excited if there's no "main" part of her lunch and it's a bunch of snacks. Those days I definitely put in yogurt and fruit, though.

actually this does sound pretty bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so relieved to read this list! My child does not have the worst lunch at school! I am not single-handedly keeping the Lunchables company going! Haha.

I give my daughter any of the following:
A lunchable, smuckers sandwich, bagelful, slices of meat, crackers
A yogurt of some sort....gotta keep the type of yogurt changing so she doesn't get bored
String cheese or a Babybel
Some type of fruit
Capri Sun Roaring Waters
Hummos and Prezel Thins
100-calorie pack chips or just a small bag of some sort of chip.

Sorry. I don't think these suggestions are helpful, but maybe it will help someone else feel better about their lunches too!

Just don't pack a sandwich. Crackers and cheese are good, too. I've noticed a lot of kids take slices of meat. Granola bars are good. Sometimes my daughter gets excited if there's no "main" part of her lunch and it's a bunch of snacks. Those days I definitely put in yogurt and fruit, though.

It is horrible.
actually this does sound pretty bad.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

My dd eats basically the same thing every day.

PB+J on whole wheat Arnold sandwhich thin (she like the round bread)

Babybell cheese

carrots, strawberries, blueberries, or watermelon (whatever is on sale)

3 girl scout cookies (we need to get rid of them)

water

[Anonymous]

On a typical day my son's lunch box contains:

-High protein salads made with beans/chickpeas/wild rice/quinoa/cracked wheat/edamame with veggies such as cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, cilantro, etc.
-a fruit
-a veggie (carrots, peppers, cucumbers)
- a snack (usually a LARA bar)
- a cookie or two

[Anonymous]

I have a weekly rotation:

one protein/carb: quinoa salad, sushi, cheese/crackers. sunbutter and jelly sandwich, or egg salad

then a veggie and a fruit: edamame, carrots, cherry tomato, apple, pears, prunes, applesauce, oranges, avocado, cherries, melon, berries.

[Anonymous]

Wow. You guys are all overachivers with these gourmet lunches for your kiddos. Not in my house.

My son is old enough to pack his own. His usual:

PB&J on whole wheat or a ham/pepperoni/cheese
Chips
Gatorade

Snacks: trail mix, mini muffins, granola bars (quaker), small cookie packs.

No fruit, no veggies, nothing that needs wamed up. Just like when we were kids. And guess what- he's as healthy as can be. Strange, I know. I just want him to eat, so I don't really care what it is.

[Anonymous]

- Grilled cheese
- Pasta with meat sauce
- Fried meat dumplings
- Chicken noodle soup

Plus a ziplock of carrots, and a boxed juice.

He also takes a snack every day with him (banana/apple + yogurt + animal/cheese crackers)

He is 10, always hungry. Doesn't like scholl food at all. Eats pizza sometimes there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No fruit, no veggies, nothing that needs wamed up. Just like when we were kids.

Speak for yourself, please.

[Anonymous]

My three kids rotate among these:

for snack: fresh fruit that I cup up in the am, some walnuts, at times some dark chocolaty-something.

For lunch: bread with tapenade, bread with hummus, bread with stracchino (an Italian spreadable cheese), or crackers with some of Trader Joe's tapas cheese sampler.

Drink is always water or sometimes milk.