DD, 3yr, goes to playschool one day a week. I have to give her a cut lunch which does go in the schools fridge but has to be something that DD can eat all by herself and not need heating up.

The majority of the time, I have run out of ham or luncheon meat so shes been having cheese and tomatoe sandwiches! How very boring!

Anyone got any ideas?

DS loves to have a lunchbox filled with lots of bits and pieces.
* cheese cubes
* cut up fruit/veg
* ham/chicken/ etc
* nuts (not sure about these at day care tho)
* dips
* pieces of lavish bread

Whatever really, depends what we have that he would eat. His fave is the dips and lavish pieces/veg to dip with.

Also cheese & bacon rolls, pin wheels, cold toasted sandwiches (yuck, but he loves it! ). Wraps, cold stir-fry or fried rice, home-made pizza, quiche, fritatas etc

he usually has a sandwich but these are some of our other foods that are used to break up the sandwiches everyday.

HTH

DD's favourite sandwich is cream cheese and vegemite. (No marg/butter)
She also loves peanut butter and jam (usually a treat).


If it goes into the fridge, why not a salad? You could have ham, cheese, egg, lettuce, chicken, tomato, carrot - pretty much anything in it that you know she would eat.

DS takes lunch to kinder twice a week. He helps prepare it the night before, and he usually requests a salad box. We include a mixture of carrot/celecry/cucumber sticks, mushrooms, a halved hard boiled egg (DS loves to peel them), a babybel cheese (called stopsign cheese by DS) and some sort of protein - strips of left over roast meat, chinese roast pork, ham sticks, or his favourite which is marinated chicken wingettes.

He also loves homemade fried rice (with broen rice, vegies, egg and chinese roast pork).

Also a cold pasta salad (pasta spirals, little bit of salad dressing, diced carrot/capsicum/mushroom, peas and corn).

My DD eats exactly the same thing every day, and if I alter it she wont eat it.

She has
Vegemite sandwich with the crusts off
yogurt
mandarin or grapes
crackers of some sort
fruit stick or muesli bar (which is sometimes left)

Occasionally we will find something else she like ie fruit or veg wise, but generally she eats this every day. She goes to preschool 5 days a week.

I vary DD's preschool lunch a bit, but when it comes to sandwiches, she likes simple vegemite, or honey, or jam etc. I make them more exciting by giving her sandwiches cut into cookie cutter shapes- her favourites are the star one and the gingerbread man one. She has fun biting his head off!

These previous threads have heaps of ideas (it might seem like alot of reading, but if you print some of those lists out, you'll never be short of ideas to pack ):

http://members.essentialbaby.com.au/index....howtopic=482783
http://members.essentialbaby.com.au/index....5&#entry6593255
http://members.essentialbaby.com.au/index....ic=233652&st=20
http://members.essentialbaby.com.au/index....45&hl=breakfast

Thanks for the replies girls.

I did think of a salad before but she really only likes beetroot (will make a big red mess), cherry tomatoes, cheese and meat and avocado (will get all mushed up) so I wasnt really too keen on giving her this.

The cold fried rice sounds ok but, I think she could manage that and hy the time shes finishing her hot meals at home they are stone cold anyway so wont bother her that theyre cold.