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.

Wholemeal dairylea and marmite rolls
Plain or BBQ Hula Hoops or roast beef Monster Munch. Occasionally Frazzles
Orange club
Show apple
Orange squash in the flask.
Chocolate chip cake bar for break (there were no lunchbox rules then).

No deviations on that throughout Primary, I was really picky!

Cheese and ketchup sandwich made with 'Mighty White' bread, a packet of crisps, an apple and a trio - all in my snoopy lunch box and matching flask!

@chuffoff

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

Yes! But I don't think I ever had them

My mum was a bit of a "knit your own granola" type so we never had things like juice boxes or chocolate biscuits. It was all liver sausage or cheese sandwiches and a piece of fruit, usually an apple. I remember having carob covered granola bars occasionally. They were not nice. We also used to get a cube of uncooked jelly wrapped in a piece of clingfilm for a "treat"
She relented a bit in later primary school and I had a packet of Roast Beef Monster Munch every day for my morning snack.

Sandwich (my mum made amazing 3 layered sandwiches in "fancy" flavours like hummus and salad or beef and horseradish. My friends thought it was weird )
Crisps
Penguin bar
Babybel or Dairylea dunkers
Yoghurt (either a Froob type thing or one of those split pots)
Fruit

Brown bread sandwich or home made roll with cheese or bovril or sometimes both!
Maybe cheese and beetroot. Apple homemade fruitcake.
Out of date Hedgehog crisps as we had an organic/whole food shop before it became a thing and it didn’t do well so we had to eat the stock.
Treat would be a shop bought biscuit like penguin. I never minded my lunches but I did gaze longingly at the crisps everyday and biscuit bar kids lunches.

My grandad used to give us fiendish feet yoghurt! I loved them. And Munch Bunch I think they were called, they all had names?

Vegemite sandwiches on brown bread.
Fruit which I never ate as I could stand the smell of warm fruit in a lunchbox - even now it makes me gag 🤢
Sun maid raisins in the red cardboard boxes.
Yoghurt - normally petit filous or frubes.
A cheese string.

I was never allowed crisps or chocolate or biscuits in mine, though very very occasionally I had a wagon wheel!

A ham or plastic cheese sandwich, value bag of crisps, a couple of wildlife yogurts and some type of cake bar that either had jam or chocolate in the middle. Can't remember what I had to drink possibly a carton of orange or apple juice. Also inside a my little pony lunch box except on Tuesday when I had a school dinner which was fish, piped mash potatoes which had little crispy bits on them and parsley sauce.

My mum was into low sugar/eating healthy eating before it was such a commonplace thing … so in the 80s and it was carrot sticks, dry brown bread sandwich with ham, cherry tomatoes and a cereal bar.

I was unimpressed! All my friends had white bread, cheese or jam, penguin bars, crisps etc.

Cheese and marmite sandwich, crisps, apple and penguin bar/club etc. I only drank squash, too! Bloody unhealthy and I don’t have a particularly good relationship with food in part because of this sort of diet as a child, I think.

My sandwich was always on Milk Roll - the cylindrical loaf. Does that exist anymore?!

Sandwich with meat, crisps, penguin and an apple. On a Friday we just had bread and butter and had to put crisps in them as mom went shopping then. Monday was meat from Sunday dinner.

Cheese, jam or banana sandwiches, a flask of bovril in winter. On odd occasion I woul get cream crackers or digestive biscuits buttered, I can still remember the way the butter oozed out of the holes . Am assuming they were days we'd run Out of bread. For a treat a penguin or club milk. All lobbed in together in a Tupperware box !

I'm of the school meals generation, and home food wasn't allowed at my school until I was in the sixth form in the early 70s.

It was tongue or corned beef on a barm cake.

I remember a student bringing in the very first avocado.

Penguin biscuit, brown bread marmite sandwiches, flask of coffee made with milk. A few crisps in a Tupperware container as individual packets were a rare luxury.

Cheese & vegemite sandwich
Fruit
4 crackers with... vegemite as a snack. As you bit down, the vegemite & butter marg squirted through the holes
Frozen squash in a drink bottle

When I ordered my lunch from the school canteen, I had a cheese & vegemite roll. I quite liked vegemite

DM complained recently that DBro DSis & I all had different lunches. DSis had cheese & lettuce & DBro cheese & ketchup. We must have got through a shit tonne of cheese.

Got back to the UK & was blown away - and very jealous - at all the chocolate biscuits & bags of crisps in people's lunches! DM never relented. Clearly another muesli knitter.

A sandwich of either peanut butter, sandwich spread, cheese spread or meat/fish paste. A piece of fruit. 2 plain biscuits wrapped in cling film. A flask of very weak orange squash.

A cheese sandwich (plastic cheese sandwiches) or maybe corned beef. A bag of crisps - mostly an own brand type. And biscuit like a Club or Penguin with a carton of drink - never a pure juice, an orange squash type drink, or Umbongo.

Paste sandwich on white bread, penguin or trio, Tupperware beaker full of squash, sometimes a yoghurt and crisps that I always ate at break. All put together in my Muppets lunchbox. Early 80’s

I remember those bears!! We had them sometimes but ordinarily it was, jam or marmite sandwich, satsuma, some obnoxiously pink milkshake and a packet of supermarket own crisps.

Ahh yes and billy bear luncheon meat was such a treat.

potted meat sandwich
jelly in a beaker
satsuma
bag of crisp
club biscuit sometimes

I made my own lunches from around age 7. Before that we went home for lunch and got to watch rosie and Jim and neighbours on tv. Nutella sandwiches, crisps, couple of penguin bars or wagon wheels. Probably an um bongo, but can't really remember having a drink at school, except from the water fountain.

Jam sandwich and a bag of crisps, golden wonder usually I think.

2 apples and occasionally a carton of orange juice. Not because we were poor but because my mother firmly believed eating more for lunch would make me fat. Breakfast and dinner (and occasionally a light snack before bed) were supposed to be enough.
She’s successfully set me up for a lifetime of struggling with an eating disorder.