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.

Sometimes a flask of homemade chicken soup (tasted great, looked like sick)
I didn't like margarine so sandwiches with sandwich spread and tuna, cheese or ham, or corned beef and pickle. Sometimes a bit of leftover chicken from a roast, often something that my mam had found in the discount freezer store, I remember getting kiwi juice in a carton a few times. An apple, orange or clementine, sometimes a penguin biscuit, sometimes a bit of homemade cake.
Ahh, I was a mollycoddled child!

[quote GellerYeller]@Siriisatwat I had forgotten being allowed home for lunch too![/quote]
It’s crazy when I think about it now.
No one checked. I remember just turning up at home and my mum would be like, “oh hi”.

she was the district nurse for the old people in the village, sometimes I’d bump into her on my way home if she was working and she would tell me to make a sandwich.

Then as long as I was back by 2, no one at school cared! This was in infants!

Oh yes, I remember walking home on my own or with siblings for lunch when I was in Infants. 'Dinner time' was 12 till 1. The house was always unlocked.

Packed lunches were something that came later, at further-away secondary school. Sometimes I tried school dinners for a term but they were really not very nice at all. There was no choice, just what the dinner ladies made that day.

@dorothygaleandtoto

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

Yes!! I still buy it

Ham or cheese sandwich. Bag of walkers crisps. A penguin or a club and a satsuma. Every day for many years!

Cheese with either cucumber or onion and salad cream sandwiches with a bag of crisps, a penguin or club biscuit and orange squash in a flask.

My mum made me a cheese and onion sandwich when I was in labour with my first and I cried because it tasted of my childhood 😭

@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

OMG you MUST be my sister! Yes a Jordans bar was so much better for you than a penguin - yeah right I bet it had more sugar!!!!

As a treat we used to get raw jelly cubes.