What was in your childhood lunchbox?

[DukeofEarlGrey]

Inspired by the 1980s lunchbox thread about the actual boxes... what did you have in them??

Mine was extremely consistent: sandwich, piece of fruit, carrot sticks and a ‘treat’ that varied but was always some kind of biscuit. My favourite were these things called Huggy Bears which was a little bag of biscuits with chocolate goo inside and bears stamped on the outside.

My lovely dad was in charge of lunch boxes and did this for me every day as well as a lunch for everyone else.

Roughly,

Lets see.... sandwich, crisps, raisins, yoghurt.

Gosh, so long ago! Nostalgia!

Sandwich usually with ham or wafer thin meat of some sort. A packet of crisps, an orange or packet of raisins and a penguin bar. Snd to drink, one of those Tesco or Asda little fruit juice cartons, always orange.

Highlight: an orange Club, a Wagon Wheel or a mint Viscount.

My mum was a knit-your-own-muesli type way before it got fashionable, so I always got:

• a cheese or tuna sandwich stuffed with cucumber and tomatoes on the crusty bits of wholemeal bread (of course, it always went a bit soggy )
• a Jordan’s muesli bar
• an apple
• water or very weak “hi-juice” low sugar orange squash
• for a treat I was allowed half a packet of Hedgehog Crisps.

I looked on green with envy at all my peers, who invariably got a carton of Um Bongo, jam sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off, a Babybel and a Penguin biscuit.

Aged 6 I would probably have killed for an Um Bongo

Celery... hated it!

Potted meat sandwiches!!

Um Bongo and a Dairylea sandwich.
An apple that just travelled back and forth for a week until it was sweaty and shrivelled.

Sandwich with cheese or ham or sandwich spread or sardine and tomato paste.
Piece of fruit
Piece of cake and/or chocolate biscuit
Squash or milky coffee.

Sandwich, a piece of fruit, bag of crisps (supermarket own brand multipack), biscuit - usually a penguin. I don't remember having a drink.

@foxgoosefinch

My mum was a knit-your-own-muesli type way before it got fashionable, so I always got:

• a cheese or tuna sandwich stuffed with cucumber and tomatoes on the crusty bits of wholemeal bread (of course, it always went a bit soggy )
• a Jordan’s muesli bar
• an apple
• water or very weak “hi-juice” low sugar orange squash
• for a treat I was allowed half a packet of Hedgehog Crisps.

I looked on green with envy at all my peers, who invariably got a carton of Um Bongo, jam sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off, a Babybel and a Penguin biscuit.

Aged 6 I would probably have killed for an Um Bongo

Mine were the same. I see your weak squash and raise you fresh orange juice in the flask that slowly fermented all day and the smell build up over time and all the juice tasted like it. I can smell it now just thinking of it .

Food was a brown peanut butter sandwich and an apple for snack. I remember always being starving and totally overcompensate with my own DC's lunches as a result. They are also allowed NOTHING but water in their reusable bottles.

Luncheon meat & brown sauce butty on brown cardboard bread. Or peanut butter.
Crisps. Penguin or club and carton of orange juice.
I was ALWAYS really really really hungry and that just was never enough.
I used to look with envy at my friends lunch boxes.

I was always hungry as a child.

Usually sandwiches (cheese spread and cucumber was my favourite), piece of fruit and either a piece of cake or some other snack type thing. Loved it when I had a little flask of hot soup in there on cold days (the flask came with the plastic lunchbox).

Egg Mayo that stunk!

Sandwich
Biscuit like club, penguin, wagon wheel etc
Crisps
Juice box
Flask of soup on cold days

@Onlypostnowandagain

Potted meat sandwiches!!

Gosh "potted meat" takes me back! My mother was a fan. Was the type of meat clear or was it described as generic "meat" I can't remember? There was a salmon version if I recall. I typically had potted meat sandwiches (spread thin as my mother was a war child) an apple and a Tunnocks caramel bar. And she made her own "healthy" brown bread which meant lunch was to be endured rather than enjoyed.

Hedgehog crisps!

I made my mum and dad buy them from the wholesalers in giant boxes and would sell them at school. Then I'd collect the packets in and send off the tokens. I reckon we 'bought' a good few hundred bricks for the hedgehog hospital!

Forgotten all about that until @foxgoosefinch mentioned them! Happy days!

Sandwich, sometimes with that ham with a face on it (was it a bear or a boys face??) or cheese, fruit sometimes and hedgehog crisps.
All in a My Little Pony lunchbox.

I had an Annie lunch box with matching flask I absolutely loved before changing to a retro tin one. I had mighty white bread with fish paste, cheap crisps where you add the powder from a sachet, I can’t remember what else.
Made by my mum.

Homemade bread sandwich , dairy Lea triangle, fruit, veg , sometimes a penguin bar
My kids lunchboxes are far worse I have to admit/ crisps every day etc 😞

I’d forgotten about Um Bongo! We didn’t have stuff like that on a daily basis but were allowed it for school outings, when we got to specially choose things like drink, crisps and chocolate biscuit. Come to think of it, this was probably as much to do with money as health. But goodness Um Bongo was a treat

@foxgoosefinch

My mum was a knit-your-own-muesli type way before it got fashionable, so I always got:

• a cheese or tuna sandwich stuffed with cucumber and tomatoes on the crusty bits of wholemeal bread (of course, it always went a bit soggy )
• a Jordan’s muesli bar
• an apple
• water or very weak “hi-juice” low sugar orange squash
• for a treat I was allowed half a packet of Hedgehog Crisps.

I looked on green with envy at all my peers, who invariably got a carton of Um Bongo, jam sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off, a Babybel and a Penguin biscuit.

Aged 6 I would probably have killed for an Um Bongo

Ha- this was very similar to me if my dad ever had to make my lunch I was absolutely delighted to have sliced white bread sandwiches in clingfilm rather than homemade bread in a paper bag that would go greasy !!

Usually a wafer thin chicken or ham sandwich, smartprice yoghurt, an apple or banana, some treat like a biscuit, usually penguin or mint club and crisps. Sometimes a carton of juice if Mum was feeling fancy 😂 but usually squash.
I used to think packed lunches were so boring but now I’m a Mum myself I appreciate that my Mum did that every morning for me and my brother ❤️

DinosApple It was ‘Billy Bear!’ We used to have that too, sometimes!

Jam sandwich, Space Raiders, satsuma and a Trio bar.

I had school dinners though. This would have only been for a school trip.

Sugar sandwiches