From Mini Babybels to liquid meal replacements to restaurant-quality dishes, lunchbox preferences are a generational thing
It is that time of year when, if you are stupid like me, you are thinking about packed lunches for children, having failed to put your foot down about the perfectly fine school dinner. If you are smart, you are also thinking about packed lunches for yourself, because it is somehow more mature than going to Eat – the nutritional equivalent of having a crippling mortgage instead of crippling rent. So stand by for some sweeping statements about generational differences, as they relate to packed lunches.
Children like things to come in many segments, discreet packages containing different food groups, and you either have to beat this out of them or accept that lunch is never going to look very chic or nutritious. Mini Babybells and oaty bars, plastic bags full of grapes and single-ingredient sandwiches with the crusts cut off: this is the stuff of childhood dreams, with some Dunkers or ham and cheese Lunchables if you get super lucky with your parents. These foods are fine in and of themselves (I run a pretty loose ship); what they will not do is introduce a child to anything new. Adventures in a lifetime’s eating begin with combining foodstuffs, not keeping them all separate and wrapping them in clingfilm.
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