Liebling's lunch box is cleared out every night to avoid the decaying food issue. He leaves all the crusts from his bread and brings home apple cores and any empty packets (school policy is for him not to throw rubbish away), so it needs doing.

Sandwiches, rice with kidney beans and veg, pasta salads are all winners for us. I will pop in the odd packet of snacks or cakes, but always fruit. Also sausage rolls, scotch eggs, crab sticks, carrot sticks and hummous, leftover pizza slices, tortilla wraps... all with a frozen water bottle in the summer (don't fill it up before putting it in the freezer!). Always stuff that Liebling likes and if he doesn't eat it then he goes hungry - if he were to prat me about then he will be making his own lunches.