Some of the stuff that people have suggested is so disgusting that I don't wonder that kids don't want to eat it--

My suggestion is, before you do anything else, stop by school at lunch time and observe---as a meal planner, your real job is to chose food appropriate to the situation, so you should see, first hand, what the situation really is. You will learn a lot, and not just about what to put in your daughter's lunch.

Beyond that, I suggest to go to a good deli(when things are a bit slow) and ask your daughter to point,taste, and pick--

As to sandwiches--they fall apart the minute you put them in the baggie--and they dry out--that's what kids hate.

Try making a hoagie/grinder/sub/zep instead--split a sandwich roll or mini baguette, brush the bread with melt butter, or oil instead of mayo-sprinkle with a bit of salt and pepper, then lay in very thinly sliced cheese, and whatever sandwich meats or fillings that she likes--put a bit of shredded lettuce on it, and maybe some sort of salad dressing, like honey mustard, that she likes--

Wrap it in wax paper, or failing that, at least plastic wrap--deli paper would be great, but even I am not that compulsive--

This really sounds like a lot of trouble, but if you just shop ahead, and keep the brush, oil and or butter on the counter, it is no more trouble that anything else, less even, because you know it'll work. And, actually, she can make her own--


As to the "take what you get and like it" school of food preparation, it takes no more work to fix foods that people like, than it does to fix foods they don't like--