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.

Cheese or corned beef and piccalilli sandwhich, packet of crisps and trio or penguin bar, happy days

Jam/honey sandwich, apple, and a penguin or a packet of crisps for breaktime...

A 2 finger kitkat and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps. My stepmom's effort! I fucking hate salt and vinegar crisps too. Set me up nicely for an eating disorder!

70s -
Carrot/celery sticks
Fruit - sometimes slice of pressed dates
Sandwich - home baked bread (and my lovely Ma worked full time)
Crisps.
Sometime leftovers from family dinner.

Beef paste on white bread, a carton of ribena, a packet of skips and an orange club biscuit, a mint viscount or a blue ribband.

105 posts and no one had a carton of 5Alive? I’m flabagasted! Along with my 5Alive I would have either a sandwich or roll with cheese and pickle, ham and coleslaw or tuna in seafood sauce with cucumber. Then either a petit filous or chocolate biscuit type thing, club, penguin, cartoonies or those little pods of Jaffa cakes or a Harvest Bar. Crisps, hula hoops, mini cheddar, salt and vinegar chipsticks and some green grapes or an apple. How much got eaten depended entirely upon whether I had some kind of lunch time club or sports practice.
Raw carrot for break time.

Ooh yes I had 5 alive but I'd forgotten it.

Carton of orange. Sandwich with cheese or ham (sometimes plastic Kraft cheese - yuck). Bag of crisps, fun size Mars bar and apple.

I'd usually eaten everything but the sandwich by the end of mid morning break.

My mum was also a healthy whole meal type, long before it became fashionable.

The popular girl on our lunch table used to request something nice from each girl on the table; a crisp, a piece of chocolate etc. She passed around her thermos flash lid and we were required to place the item on it for her delectation.

I never ever had something to place on the lid. . Over 30 years and I haven't forgotten.

Popular girl was a bit of a bully and slightly overweight. But age 7, I wanted to please....

1970s: marmite, cheese or sandwich spread inside white sliced bread, a bag of chipmunk crisps or a wagon wheel or two finger kitkat. An apple or banana. All in a brown paper bag! I envied the smarter children with their tupperware. The banana always got squashed in the paper bag and mushed all over the sandwiches. I often didn't eat much!

Ham roll, bag of crisps, chocolate biscuit. We never had much fresh fruit when I was growing up - not sure if it was too expensive? I know we weren’t well off at all…

Billy bear sandwich
Skips
Penguin bar

Always 3 things.

1970s here.
Fish paste sandwiches or tinned sardines with vinegar and pepper or cheese and brown sauce. I can’t remember what else but I was very jealous of friends who had a slice of Madeira cake or orange wedges with a packet of sugar to dip in 😊

In 1980s we had emigrated to Australia. We had cheese and vegemite sandwiches and a frozen popper (carton drink).

A luncheon meat sandwich on thin cut white bread and loads of real butter..
A carton of um bongo
A munch bunch yogurt banana flavour was my favourite.
Maybe crisps too I csnt quite remember

Oh 5alive too a tone point and I also remener chicken paste sandwiches

A sandwich, Um Bongo and a sluce of Harvo

Cheese and coleslaw sandwich, apple, Rocky bar or similar, some kind of crisps and apple juice in a thermos (it made it go brown )

Garlic sausage and cucumber in mighty white (every day, I must have been honking!)
A Trio, Blue Riband or a Penguin. If it was. Trio the whole table would sing the advert song 🎶 TRIIIIIIIOOO! TRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIO 🎶
A tiny multipack bag of Tudor Crisps
Satsuma
Um Bongo box (supermarket version only) in the later years but usually an Aladdin Roughneck flask of warm weak orange drink.

Oh and sometimes a Ski yoghurt. Strawberry only.

Sandwich (cheese and pickle or tuna and cucumber) crisps, penguin biscuit, capri sun!

Anyone (80's kids) remember fiendish feet yoghurts?

Potted beef, cheese and pickle or Wafer thin meat on mighty white (mum refused to buy Mother's Pride!), with multipack crisps, sometimes a toffee yogurt. I vividly remember M and S doing spring onion crisps, also those monster munch style crisps that were multi coloured bright red, orange and yellow , or Sky Divers? And Piglets or farm animals shaped crisps-did I dream them?! We got a soda stream free with a catalogue years after they were fashionable and I sometimes got a fizzy drink from that-there was a blue syrup that looked like anti freeze! That wouldn't be allowed now would it? And yes to a special lunch for school trips!

1960s A home made Cornish pasty (with rock hard suet pastry) and an apple.

I only had packed lunches for a term. Then I begged my mother to let me have school dinners again.

She still laughs about it. I reckon she did it on purpose.

A sandwich, ham or paste
An apple
Occasionally a penguin

School trips we’d get a bag of crisps too