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Plan ahead when shopping. You can't pack a torpedo-roll for a change unless you thought to buy one.
Collect together a few very small, cheap containers. It's easier to include fresh things if you can just pop a few small bits into a small container.
Buy some different types of bread. These might also inspire you to use the matching filling: bagel (cream cheese), pitta bread (houmous), soft "hot-dog" rolls (sausage & ketchup).
Kids will generally eat lots of small things better than one big thing. So ditch the door stop. Include one or two small sarnies and add a few nibbles: cheese cubes, breadsticks, mini sausages, mini quiches, mini-spring rolls, mini-pasties, felafel, cheese straws, crisps, vegetable crisps.
Don't forget leftovers. "Fridge-food" can make easy, tasty additions: cut up sausage, omelette square, cubed roast chicken, pizza, small baked potato, pancake.
Pasta/rice/couscous salads are quick if you think ahead. If you are making pasta bolognese for tea, chop up a little extra raw veg, add in some of the cooked pasta with a bit of mayo. Hey presto - pasta salad ready for the next day.
Once or twice a week make something completely different. Veg strips and breadsticks with houmous, cheese and crackers, soup in a flask, tortilla wraps, pitta pockets, cold potato wedges with cream cheese dip.
Add a little pot of veg: carrots, cucumber, sugar snap peas, mangetouts, mini-corns, cherry tomatoes, peppers.
Add a little pot of fruit: raisons, dried apricots, mango, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, tinned fruit.
Keep a crib list. If you suffer from a serious inspiration deficit at 7.30 am, keep a crib list of things the kids will eat and can be made into a packed lunch in less than 10 mins.
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"never going to be the sort of mum who gets up at 5am to make fresh date, olive and parmesan rolls fashioned into teddy bear shapes?"
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| bread types |
mini bread rolls tiger bread mini-baguette panini soft "hot-dog" rolls pitta bread naan tortilla wraps sliced bread cut into triangles/fingers/ little squares |
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fillings |
ham tuna
with mayonnaise
marmite mix 2 or 3 fillings together for stripey sarnies |
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| nibbles |
cheese cubes breadsticks mini sausages mini quiches mini-spring rolls mini-pasties felafel cheese straws crisps vegetable crisps leftover sausages cut into short pieces roast chicken - cubed pizza small baked potato pancake omelette Spanish tortilla |
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| other ideas |
homemade soup in a flask tortilla wraps bagels pasta salad rice salad tabouleh (cous cous salad) Pasta "with any veggies they will eat and a tomato sauce. Messy but healthy! Put in some wipes!!" (thanks Jenny, Upton) French toast (thanks Anne- Marie, Chester) |
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| dried fruit |
raisins apricots mango banana chips sultanas |
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| fresh/tinned fruit |
satsumas bananas apples pears blueberries strawberries raspberries mango grapes pineapple apricot peaches melon kiwis mini fruit salad with honey |
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| sweet treat |
fairy cakes flapjacks mini jam or lemon curd sandwich jam tarts mini-muffins currant bun or hot cross bun sweet bagel fun size chocolate bar banana bread |
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messy treat (don't forget plastic spoon and piece of kitchen roll) |
yoghurt creme caramel chocolate mousse jelly |
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| drinks |
fruit juice smoothies water milk (Did you know milkmen can usually supply mini milk cartons - you can have 5 delivered on Monday dated to last all week!) |
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