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    Posted: 19 July 2010 at 7:52pm
I'm getting bored making DD's lunch each day. I feel like I'm giving her the same things all the time and I really don't want her to be fussy like me!!!

What do you put in your kids lunch boxes for daycare?

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Ours is mostly a mixture of the same stuff:

- sammies (but we have a few spread choices)
- fruit usually mandarins, grapes, apple, banana or whatever
- fruit jellys
- yoghurt
- cheese
- crackers
- rice wafer things (they come in a bag like chips)
- rasins
- carrot fans (lol carrots chopped into fan shapes cos my boy is obsessed with them)
- cereal like nutra grain in a little container
- cucumber slices in summer or if i happen to buy some in winter
- leftover quiche or sausage rolls
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I'm having the same problem with lunches. We do cheese on toast with marmite (cold), a quartered plain pita bread, raisins, a squeezy Olny Organics fruit sachet (he's 18 mos, but loves them), bobby bananas, tomorrow I'm going to make some cheese muffins because he loves those too ... erm ... cheese sammies with Vogels bread (he loves it), I made a cheese and ham toasted pita that barely got touched the other day (mind you, he's been teething on the sly, so it might have been that) ... ahhh ... Yep. We're pretty boring here too!! I have to get loads of cheese into him though because he doesn't drink milk, and he's still not feeding himself well enough for me to send him with a yoghurt, because he needs help with that.

Sorry - not very helpful!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ginger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 July 2010 at 8:03pm
Originally posted by kebakat kebakat wrote:


- fruit jellys
- cereal like nutra grain in a little container


Stealing those ones! I'll also do marmite on a cruskit because he quite likes those, and if I've done baking that's not too bad, half a bicky (eg. chocolate chip cookie) ... Am still thinking
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Send the yoghurt anyway, then they can clean up the mess! lol Daniel wasnt good at yoghurt or spoon feeding himself but they are use to the mess there and he can learn from watching all the other kids
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   Good point!
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i kind of only have 2 options cos im lazy and dont really let mack have any packaged food so our options are

1: cheese on toast with marmite
banana
raisins
yogurt

2: tomato pasta bake
carrots
cut up peices of peach and pear

when at home we also gives him prunes, dried apricot, grated apple, chunks of cheese, ham, veggie mis (carrot, coli, brocolli), cruskets, rice crackers, left over dinner etc...


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my boy has had sandwiches pretty much every school day since he started, so thats over a year. sometimes they prefer the know to something new.

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In addition DS likes some of the off season tinned fruit for a change
and baked muffins, savoury scones - u can make the mini muffins
left over roast potato lol
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Savoury muffins, pita with hummus, pikelets, scones, veg soup, yogurt, fruit (mandarins, bananas and kiwifruit at the moment as in season) H also loves those fruit sachet things from only organics, I think it's the novelty of sucking it out!

Off sandwiches here which is a pain. He pretty much eats what I do, not a big fan of 'baby' food.
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Im glad they feed our kids .. I have a hard enough time thinking of what to put in Dh's lunchbox.
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Originally posted by Bizzy Bizzy wrote:

my boy has had sandwiches pretty much every school day since he started, so thats over a year. sometimes they prefer the know to something new.


DH had Peanut Butter & Jam sandwiches every day in school when he was young. Even now it's still his fav sandwich.


Lunchboxes here include a selection of:

-Banana
- Kiwifruit
- Grapes
- Raisins
- Olives
- Raw Carrot
- Cucumber
- Sandwich (Jam,Chicken or Pastrami generally)
- Pasta
- Fruit Sticks (can't remember the name but they come either in apricot or strawberry)
- Rice Crackers / Corn Thins
- Muesli Bars
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* Pikelets are good, I often make a batch and freeze them. Pop it in Jack's lunchbox before kindy and it's thawed by morning tea time
* Mousetraps
* Different crackers - rice crakers, cruskits, rice thins, Shapes
* Mother Earth Fruit sticks
* Creamed Rice
* Dried fruit - apricots, apple slices/rings
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Wow so many ideas. Thank you thank you thank you!!! hehe
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Dani - some new things Ryan's just discovered are surimi (the imitation crab stuff) and sliced black olives. Depending on if your daycare will let you take egg things you could send leftover fritatta as well. Marshmellows as a sweet treat now and then. Slightly boiled apple with a bit of butter and cinnamon and cardamon coated on it.



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We rotate marmite sammies/toasties/spaghetti/jam sammies and add crackers, fruit cup, banana, raisins, muesli bar and a biscuit. Sometimes I add in a packet of chips for him if he's been a good boy. Thomas is pretty fussy so we just stick with the same staples. Thomas LOVES egg and peanut butter but they're not allowed it in the lunches.
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