Julie Jones wrote: My 11 year old daughter was told to find herself something for lunch at coles last night, usually she goes for the pre packaged things like "strings and roll ups".  Well amazingly she started reading the ingredients listings and instantly put them all back on the shelf.

Unfortunately she has come home with nothing for her lunch box.

Today she has taken a few grapes, apple, sandwich and thats it.

Any ideas on what i can give her as a sweat treat for the lunch box, previously ive given her the cheesecake, she doesnt like banana cake or anything with fruit bits in it

HELP !!

Olivia Ball wrote:re  ... chunky little salad ...

Suzanne A wrote:

Olivia Ball wrote: I don't know about sweet snacks, but the sort of thing I'm doing for my kids these days include: Savoury Shapes, pretzels, popcorn, cheese cubes, a boiled egg, guacamole (or other dip) with rice crackers, homemade fruit yoghourt (natural yog mixed with glucose powder & stewed fruit), baby carrots, or a chunky little salad with some combination of:

tinned four-bean mix (drained)
ovaline cheese (miniature bocconcini balls, drained & halved)
capsicum, diced
cherry tomatoes
cucumber, diced
mung bean sprouts
splash of vinigrette (optional)

My daughter would live on grapes, given a choice, but I've cut them out since reading The Book.  I wish I could given them nuts to snack on, but it's just not safe in the school environment.

I notice Kraft is now marketing a low-sodium, high-vitamin variant on Vegemite for children called "My First Vegemite" -- said to have half the salt of regular Vegemite.  One wonders why it's particularly for children, when surely we should all be eating the healthier product.

It looks like "My First Vegemite" has 4.7 g of added sugar added going by their nutrition panel
http://www.vegemite.com.au/vegemite/page?siteid=vegemite-prd&locale=auen1&PagecRef=764

Your daughter sounds a lot like mine, she basically lives off fresh air and love.  My daughter is 4 and goes to day care 2 days a week.  They are nut and egg free, otherwise in her lunch box I usually put... pop corn, shapes (bbq flavour), rice crackers, vegemite scrolls (puff pastry spread with vegemite and sprinkled with cheese, roll into a log and cut into slices.  Place slices onto a baking tray and bake at a high heat about 200 degrees until puffed and golden, you can also add any other flavours you like, like a pizza flavour with ham, tomato paste etc), cheese, crackers, strawberries, I've been trying wraps with cheese and meat, muffins of all kinds, pancakes (we call them flat cakes instead).  If the day care weren't egg free I would boil an egg.  I've been wanting to try out some wraps with cheese and meat.  The day care has a microwave so I can send hot stuff along too like pasta, but I also hear that quiches are good cold too.

As for the my first vegemite, 4.7 per 100 sounds really odd considering that normal vegemite is only 1.4g per 100g.  I would like to see the ingredients to see what makes up the 4.7g of sugar.