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[quote=Anonymous]I am so jealous of all the variety here! My 7 year old is a very picky eater. She’s really willing to try so many more things than a year ago, so it’s getting better, but lunch is still tricky - no Mac & cheese, no chicken nuggets, no pizza.  She just barely willing to eat pasta with butter, and not enough to fill up on. I also have a 4 year old who is a more adventurous eater, but I’m not making 2 different lunches. So staples for us in lunch are:

Sun butter & honey sandwiches

Sliced applies with cinnamon - they won’t eat a whole apple if I send it in whole, or sliced if it gets brown. Cinnamon covers the brown and it’s easy for me, and they’ll each eat the whole apple.

Frozen waffles. I toast them in the morning and they eat them cold. I ordered little silicone squeeze bottles from Amazon and put a small amount of syrup in them.

Blueberry pancakes - this is their fav but I’ll only do it once a week. I get the Kodiak protein pancake mix - just add water! And add frozen blueberries to the pancakes as they’re cooking. Sometimes I do it the night before. Sometimes the morning of. Bonus is I know they’re eating the fruit!

I send fruit every day. We use a metal container for lunches and I use muffin cups to divide as needed. I try for 2 muffin cups of fruit a day. Sometimes at the end of the week “fruit” = raisins or dried mango. Anything whole - apple, pear, banana, clementine - comes home untouched 80% of the time, so I avoid that.

I try to add a fun snack part of the time, maybe most of the time - pretzels, goldfish, pirates booty, cheezits.

Hard boiled eggs used to be easy and a big hit but she was teased about the smell and begged me not to send them anymore. So I don’t.

I would very much like to move to the bin system, but all the examples I’ve seen are processed food + whole fruit. That doesn’t work for us.

Good luck OP![/quote]

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