What was in your school packed lunch when you were growing up?

[Enjoyingthesedays]

How did it compare to your child's packed lunch now?

E.T. lunchbox. Panda fizzy drink - 'limon' and shandy were my favourites. I used to like Thousand Island dressing on my ham sandwich (never touch the stuff nowadays). A small choc biscuit bar such as club (mint) or penguin. If I was flush I might buy a pack of crisps from the tuck shop, bacon flavour.

No DC to compare with.

Ham/wafer chicken butty
Dairylee dunker
Box of raisins
Rocky/penguin
Walkers crisps
Carton of juice

Packet of crisps, Penguin like bar and Capri Sun. Hugely different to my own kids healthy lunch these days.
We also got ham sandwiches which always tasted of perfume as my mum used to make them once she was made up and ready to leave so I now have aversion to ham sandwiches 😝

Ham or jam sandwich on white bread. A penguin type bar. A yoghurt. Crisps. An apple or orange. And some orange squash in a repurposed plastic bottle. The early 90s! ❤

Salad with iceberg lettuce, grated carrot, grated cheese and salted peanuts forbidden these days. I still make it now as comfort food. I usually had school lunches, but a pack-up on a Friday because I didn't (and still don't) like chips.

Sandwich on multigrain bread - egg and lettuce, chicken and lettuce, ham, cheese, peanut butter. Piece of fruit. Juice box. Home made cake or tray bake. Very occasionally cheese and crackers or a chicken drumsticks instead of the sandwich.

No crisps or cheese strings or much processed food at all.

I do all sorts for mine: sandwiches, wraps, pita and bagels with various fillings; quesadillas; chicken drumsticks or nuggets; mini pizzas; gyoza; fried rice and pasta salad; soup; breadsticks and dips; cheese and crackers; veggie muffins; skewers; sliders. Always some veg and fruit, plus a small interesting treat - pancakes, chocolate covered pretzels, popcorn, cake pops, Rice Krispie treats, things from the Asian supermarket.

I have access to more interesting preprepared and frozen foods so the DDs lunch boxes reflect that

Me and my younger brother had to make 2 weeks worth of sandwiches at a time and put them in the freezer in bags, then get one out every morning to defrost for lunch.

Home made rye bread with honey, cheese, or something called "pear and apple spread" which was like marmite but sweet.

A packet of hedgehog crisps.

A fruit leather or a home made oat and dried fruit bar.

An apple, pear, tangerine, or banana.

Water in a plastic lidded cup that made the water taste of tupperware.

Ham or tuna sandwich
packet of crisps
apple or satsuma
breakaway/trio/blue riband/penguin/United/club type biscuit
juice

I had school dinners at school as does my daughter (in fact her school do not give any option to take packed lunch) but when I went on trips I had packed lunches and she takes one to trips or summer camp. I think they're pretty similar.

Mine was usually Princes sandwich spread sandwiches (I know, I know but I do still like them!), some crisps, a banana or apple and a yogurt.

My daughter has ham, tuna or cheese sandwich, crisps, a pot of salad (tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, carrots - some combination), a pot of fruit (berries, grapes or satsuma segments). Sometimes she'll take a chocolate biscuit but usually she saves that and has it on the way home anyway.

We always went home for lunch.

Cheese sandwich and an apple. Every day. With a Penguin for breaktime. :) Water from the water fountain.
DS gets a wrap, fruit, cheese and veg eg carrot/ pepper. Which he probably sees as the equivalent of cheese sandwich and an apple 😆(I don't tell him about the penguin)

I had a ham sandwich, salt and vinegar crisps, a club and a yogurt.

I'm terrified of packed lunches now.

Im rediculously and irrationally concerned with food hygiene and proper storage that I'm incredibly limited!

Can't put anything hot in because I'm worried it will breed bacteria as not hot enough, can't put any meat in because you shouldn't leave it out of the fridge for more than 2 hours and should keep it above a certain temp if not refrigerated. Worried about putting yogurts in because an ice pack doesn't seem to keep the lunch box cold enough. fresh fruit seems to go brown when cut up after an hour.. I need to pull myself together!

At the moment, packed lunches look like this (nursary age)- cheese sandwich, flapjack,2 different flavoured fruit Ella's pouches, dried banana flakes, 3x salt and pepper round crackers, a packet of baked cheese and onion crisps and a innocence smoothie.

I'm not really into super processed food so really struggling with lunches at the moment and feel like a bad mum!

Cheese and pickle on white bread. In the winter, a jacket potato. We had open fires in our classrooms and used to put our foil wrapped potatoes on the coals first thing in the morning and by lunchtime they were ready to eat. Imagine that in these days of H&S.

Ham sandwich on door stop bread
Small snack bar such a club
The same apple optimistically added by my mum that was taken to school daily and never eaten. She thought I should be having fruit, I had other ideas.

Once I worked out that if I went for school dinner, I could pay for a roll and pocket the change I never went back to packed lunch. My mum never understood why I was so hungry when I got home.

My favourite lunch was a sandwich (ham, jam or cheese), a wagon wheel or penguin and a packet of crisps. Also usually an apple or banana.

Typical dc lunch - sandwich (usually cheese), grapes or apple, a mini muffin, cucumber slices and mini cheddars. Luckily they go to a school who aren’t like lunch police so can have what they like.

I wonder why Penguins (and own-brand versions of them) seem to have been so popular?

Sandwich (cream cheese and tomato for yonks as I once said I liked it) or sometimes cheese and jacobs cream crackers.

A penguin or tracker bar

Crisps

Piece of fruit

Sometimes a yoghurt or fruit cup

Flask of squash

If mum was feeling generous we would get a blue riband as our chocolate biscuit

Also a bottle of squash was a must.

Tuna mayo sandwich on The Great White with the Goodness of Brown Brennans bread!
Fun size chocolate bar eg Milky Way
Apple
Flask of squash or hot chocolate in the winter

Ireland, 1980s. No option for school dinner.

A whole packet of cheap biscuits to last the whole 5 days

I never had a packed lunch at school, it was always the school dinner which was cooked off site and brought in a big van every day.
It was vile

Grew up in the late 60's early 70's in Singapore.

Lunch was usually something like Rice balls or pancake rolls, 1/4 of a fresh pineapple, crisps and a bottle of coke or Fanta.

Sandwiches (ham,cheese,corn beef)

Club biscuit/blue reband

Can of milk or carton of fruit juice

Fruit

Yogurt

Always 4 items

Sandwich, white bread, apple & cheese filling or ham
Crisps
Chocolate biscuit
Yoghurt or banana