What do you put in your 2 year old lunchbox (daycare)

[lizzymcfizzy]

My nearly 2 year old goes to family daycare twice a week and we provide the food.

I'm just wondering what other people give their kids?
She's there from 7.45 to 4.45 so its morning tea to late snack.

She has a sandwich and yoghurt for lunch along with a little tub of diced fruit, juice.

morning/arvo tea - fruit (pear, rocky, grapes or orange) or any of the snacky things I put in.

snacks - cheese stick, biscuits (heinz rice crackers and a cream biscuit or wiggles bikkies), heinz kids bars, sultanas


It seems like alot of food, she doesn't always eat it all. I'm just wondering if there are other foods she can have? I don't want to give my carer anything thats too time consuming to prepare. Occasionally she will sleep in (DD that is) and have to have brekky there so she gets some weetbix or cornflakes.

[mum2bubba]

Skye only goes to occasional care for three hours on Thursday so I don't put in alot of food...

Yogurt
fruit (sultanas/banana etc maybe even some pureed fruit)
fruit cake (nothing with nuts though and no sweets)
cheese and crackers
fruit sticks/bars
oven baked fruit thingys or mueseli bars

generally just healthy things but no egg or nut products are allowed.

[cja]

My 2yr old has lunch at childcare mon-fri.

He has a vegemite sandwich AND a little container that somedays I put sliced cheese and ham in or two mini quiches or sliced up avocado or left over bubble and squeak AND either a packet of sultanas or a tub of sliced peaches.

He goes to childcare 10-12:30 each day so has morning and afternoon snacks at home, but rarely has an afternoon snack after that lunch. They sit down for lunch for about half an hour and first he has s/w, then they give him next thing etc..

[FatBigToe]

What about including some baked beans in a little container? You could wash the sauce off if your not comfortable with it, or mash them too.

I guess it all depends on how much time you have to put into it.. Do veggies go down well? I used to make vegetable soup and put it into a microwaveable container which made it easy to warm and little savoury muffins were rather popular too!