School lunch ideas for picky eaters

My daughters are very picky eaters. It’s hard to find things to put in their lunches for schools. I’ve been packing sandwiches for them but they are getting tired of sandwiches. Any ideas would be helpful

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What kinds of things do they like? You can always get a thermos' and fill it with stuff that they will eat

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I feel you. I do a lot of different sandwiches , I also do quesadillas sometimes with just cheese or turkey and cheese, pizza bagels , pin rolls , buttered noodles and always a side of fruit , pretzels or crackers , juice box , make their own lunchable with cheese , meat , crackers and add a treat

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My niece is such a picky eater to her nana would pack her Nutella sandwich's all the time that's all she's eat ! maybe some cut fruits string cheese maybe get some cute molds I've seen lots of kids eat cute cut up cheese

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Have you also tried making shapes out of the sandwiches.

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My son is picky. He likes mini sandwiches (I cut them into shapes. As alternatives he has mini muffins (cheese and courgette ones - if you only use inside of courgette/zucchini they can’t even tell they have veg in), ‘pizza’ pinwheels (using puff pastry) and ‘picnic’ lunch (cheese, crackers, meats, veggie sticks). All with plenty of fruit (sometimes cut to shapes or with ‘eye’ skewers to make them into characters.

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Mine won’t even eat sandwiches 😓 I really struggle with lunches too

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Wagon wheels. Lunch meat cheese rolled up in a tortilla and cut into lil inch wheels . Use a cookie cutter to make shapes out of fruit or sandwiches. Home made lunchables are fun

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Thank you all for such amazing ideas I’m going to try some of them next week 🤞🏼hopefully they like them

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