Little Lunch Ideas

CheerLouth · 18-11-2019 5:10pm #1

Can anyone suggest ideas for small break at school? My 4 year old is quite fussy - won't eat fruit, cheese, dips etc. She has been taking a small yogurt for little break but is getting fed up of them now.

Princess Calla · 18-11-2019 5:47pm

Assuming the school isn't egg free how about some savoury muffins?

I've found some of the baby weaning books great for recipes.

pwurple · 18-11-2019 8:09pm

I just stick the whole lot into the various compartments on the lunchbox and they pick what they want to eat at either break.

Carrot sticks
Cucumber slices
cherry tomatoes
Some fruit , would she eat strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, grapes, apple slices?
raisins
Those round ritz crackers fit in nicely, but other crackers do too.
Sandwiches cut into fingers (Chicken, ham, cheese). We mix the breads up, sometimes wraps, sometimes brownbread, sometimes soda bread etc.
Raw Almonds or peanuts if you school allows
unsalted Popcorn
Sliced sausages
Pasta salad

CheerLouth · 18-11-2019 8:17pm

Oh the muffins might be a good idea.

She won't eat carrots or cucumber. The only fruit she eats is grapes, raspberries and at a push, an apple. I never thought of popcorn (I tend to think of it as a treat). She's grand for big lunch with sandwiches, wraps, pasta etc. It's just little lunch that is getting stale because she is so fussy

And we've tried everything to get her to try foods - her little brother on the contrast eats absolutely everything.

Loveinapril · 18-11-2019 8:31pm

I haven't tried it yet but I read somewhere of someone cooking popcorn in coconut oil, I think it sounds lovely. Would she try hoummus? There are so many different flavours, my toddler loves breadsticks dipped in hoummus or peabnu butter. Muffins are a great idea, I use various recipes from baby led weaning websites (banana, pumpkin, sweet potato and carrot, apple and banana muffins. Or you could make a batch (and freeze them) of mini pancakes with different things in them, like banana and oats, raspberry or apple and cinnamon. It could defrost in the lunchbox on the way to school.

mirrorwall14 · 18-11-2019 8:39pm

As a second level teacher popcorn is banned in our premises due to mess. Maybe confirm with school on that one

shesty · 19-11-2019 9:57am

You could just swap around every day between the yoghurt, and the bits of fruit she will eat and just keep at it.If they are hungry enough, they eat eventually.Lunch is very hard to keep interesting.I do a few ritz crackers and fruit too.i know people do dry cheerios and that aswell

CheerLouth · 19-11-2019 10:22am

Thanks all. I'll try the muffins and see how we get on with them. And continue swapping around with the few fruits she does eat. She has gone today with a rusk.

pwurple · 19-11-2019 11:58am

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

As a second level teacher popcorn is banned in our premises due to mess. Maybe confirm with school on that one

Oh yes, I'd never send them with a whole packet. I'm talking about maybe 8 bits of popcorn in the bento-style lunch box.

Lizardlegz · 20-11-2019 11:59pm

Tomorrow I’ve put a scone in their snack box. At their school it need to be something they can take out to yard in their hand. So sometimes I will put in:
a little bag of breadsticks with a babybel or fruit yoyo
Brioche roll
Museli bar
Little snack pack of tux or Jacobs crackers
A pancake
Hot cross bun
This time of year I will start putting in a fruit mince pie for my sons snack. My daughter wouldn’t be partial to them at all tho...

CheerLouth · 21-11-2019 10:58am

I made these and they've gone down well with her:

https://www.myfussyeater.com/banana-orange-oat-toddler-bites/

I'll try something different again next week.

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