What do you put in your 5yr old lunch box

So Sienna is starting school next month and I am looking for ideas on what you put in your childs lunch box.
At the mo because she is at daycare all week they have lunch supplied except Friday which is lunch box day so I make it but I want some ideas so she doesn't have the same thing everyday.

I also want it to be cost effective so cheap ideas please

I bake a biscuit such as anzac biscuit or pikelets and have that in the freezer so you could do a selection and just pull one out each day for variety. It will defrost by lunchtime. She gets fruit- watermelon is big at the moment. A sandwich normally cheese or ham just to get the protein in. Sometimes if my bread is stale it is toasted in a fry pan. Also 2 tortillas with spaghetti with cheese inbetween grilled and cut into wedges like a pizza. Pizza is another thing for main lunch snack. This way it can be as healthy as you want it to be and also gives you a chance for protein. I buy the yoghurt tubes and freeze them and use them in summer to keep it cool. Also popped popcorn. I do it at the start of the week and keep it in an airtight container. When no popcorn I do shapes or crackers. Just a box of them and pop some into a sistema small container. I used to buy all the packaged stuff and it is so expensive. Got all the small snack boxes from sistema and use those now and it is so much cheaper and I don't feel guilty spending the money on the yoghurts cause at least they are good for her. As for drink just water in a bottle. Hope that helps. Oh and this week for healthy snack she has baby cucumbers which I saw at the asian food store which they begged me to buy. 5 baby cucumbers for $2 so not the cheapest option but because they were excited about cucumbers I bought them.

Simple really. A sandwhich, x2 fruit usually an apple or a pear and a banana, a yoghurt some times I give her chippys or those ricewheel things and a bit of whatever I've baked. Lately it's been nothing and I've been giving her store bought biscuts
She's a bit older then 5 but same kinda thing really.

i used to give yoghurt and fruit and a sandwich or roll and a biscuit and a muesli bar or those snax crackers...

Now though it is a sandwich or roll (ham and cheese is a fave and with gabriel he loves lettuce and tomato too), a piece of fruit and a muffin or or some other home baking.

i stopped buyng muelsi bars cause it got too expensive. i do buy jelly and fruit though and put that in sometimes...

i was like kelly and used to make sure they had lots but only half would get eaten or bites out of all of it. and for some strange reason jam is always a popular sandwich, and they can have that all week. i usually ask them in the morning what they want on their sandwich.

lots of schools have rules against lollies and some schools consider marshmallows as lollies too (a new one on me though) . Most schools have healthy eating policies in place as well.

rachndean cute ideas

There was a thing about marshmallows being banned at a school due to a game some kids were playing by stuffing as many into their mouths as they could & one child died. Don't think it was in NZ can not remember.