Daycare lunch ideas?

[Soontobe]

Hi,
I was wondering if I could get ideas for what to pack dd for lunch for daycare?

What do u guys pack in lunches?

[kiwibird27]

Little pieces of cheese, carrot sticks, sandwiches cut up, remember no peanut butter, sultanas, little yoghurts whatever u would normally feed him at home for lunch

[draught]

My girls also like cold pasta, ham, and pre-cut fruit, cherry tomatoes - lots of finger food basically. If you are organised some quiche with vegies in it is also good - lots of protein and calcium and vitamins in one dish. Fritatta cut up also works well.

[OJandMe]

I generally include the following

MT:
-2 vita-weats or crispbreads with vegemite/avocado and chese/tuna and cream cheese
- fruit (either half an orange and half an apple or pear, or strawberries, or watermelon) I try to always put in 2 fruits.

Lunch:
- sandwich with various fillings... the most popular so far
* egg, lettuce, mayo
*advocado, Mayo and tuna
* cheese and tomato
*vegemite
*jam
*honey
*ham and chese with tomato sauce

OR
- cold pasta salad (the boys LOVE mozzarella, fresh basil and cherry tomatoes)
- spaghetti or pasta (usually from the night before) to be heated up
- container of 'leftovers' :p depends what we had... sometimes couscous with curry, sometimes a fried rice (they love fried rice) sometimes steamed vegies with bits of sausage or something

AT:
- yogurt or custard (something dairy as they don't have a 'day' bottle on kindy days)
- seaweed crackers
- banana 'chips'
- apricot squares
- museli bar (the all natural ones)


Drinks: They always take a popper of juice. ( I use the small 'popper juice' brand as I added up all the percentages and it's 100% juice, and the size is perfect for their lunch box
AND A BIG waterbottle (one of those sipper straw ones) that I half fill with water and half fill with ice in the morning. It always come back almost empty.. and I know they drink out of cups their during the day as well.


I haven't got around to doing the quiches yet... but Ollie loves filo pastry, So I'll have to do something with that.

[mum2bubba]

Hayley isn't in daycare yet but when we go out (or even just at home) she has sandwiches, yougurt, cheese and cold meats (stras, ham etc) fruit, sometimes carrots (depending on if shes fussy or not) cruskets/saladas, tubs of tuna

[Aquamarine]

My boys love their little pikelets, fruit sticks, custard and yogurt tubs, and bananas.

[kiah]

- sushi
- salad wraps with chicken/tuna
- antipastos (olives, cheese etc.)
- fruit and veg sticks
- dried fruit