I send James to school with a water bottle (they prefer the kids drink water only) and a small frozen popper in his lunch box.

I've not heard of a no nuts policy at school but his old daycare had that policy. School is also anti-junk food too, they have foods that are categorized as green, yellow and red light foods sold at tuckshop. Obviously red light foods are erring on the junky side...come to think of it, I think they've only got one red light item on the tuckshop menu. We're lucky the school is so small that tuckshop only operates once a week.

I pack some type of fruit - sometimes with a toothpick to make eating a bit of fun, cheese and crackers (James has been known to rock up to school with camembert and crackers), a muesli bar, sandwich or roll, sometimes a yogurt, soy crisp or rice snacks - this is all packed in a thermal lunchbag with an ice brick. Variety each day usually makes sure they do eat. You do get caught in the trap of packing too much too sometimes. What doesn't get eaten usually gets eaten for afternoon tea or in the car on the way home.