to ask what did your packed lunch consisted of when you were at primary school?

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I was at primary school in the early 90s. I don't remember any lunchbox police at all. For years I took in coleslaw sandwiches (I can't stand coleslaw now), a flask of orange squash, a packet of crisps and a kitkat.

SukeyTakeItOffAgain
Oh I think the Lord made us truly THANKful rather than grateful but same gist.

I remember a friend who went to boarding school saying that they normally had to do the Latin grace (Benedictus benedicat etc.) but when it was the Queen's Silver Jubilee the Headmaster shocked them all by pronouncing "For bangers, beans and toast - thank Father, Son and Holy Ghost"

Either marmite and dairylea (together, yes, sounds gross - is actually amazing) or ham sandwich.

Mint or orange club biscuit.

Apple

Um bongo carton

Sandwich: primula cheese with shrimp spread.
A 'Harvester' apple pie.

Jam or cucumber or cheese & Marmite sandwich
An apple or banana
Juice bottle (Refilled with water throughout the day)

Primary school- Ham sandwich on white bread with no butter, Prawn cocktail Seabrooks crisps, a kit Kat, a carton of apple juice and a box of raisins
High school - a Large sausage baguette and chips, bottle of Coke and a bag of crisps

I was at primary school late 70s- early 80s but we weren't allowed packed lunches until about 1981. I used to have sandwiches - cheese, meat paste, dairylea or egg & a biscuit. Sometimes I had a dairylea triangle. I don't remember having fruit. At secondary school, I had tuna sandwiches everyday!

Oh yes, I also had squash in a roughneck flask & sometimes tea.

If we were going on a trip, I had crisps for a treat.

A sandwich made with mighty white bread and dairylea or peanut butter, a packet of space raiders or monster munch, a Longley farm yogurt (black cherry flavour if a lucky day), an apple (golden delicious on an unlucky day), penguin/club/kitkat/similar. Early 80s.

80's - white Mothers Pride sandwich with chicken/beef paste, munch bunch yoghurt, carton of juice and a penguin bar or similar
If I was really lucky I sometimes got a packet of pickled onion monster munch

"Naice" ham, cheese slices - the orange ones in proper bread (ie not sliced white loaves from supermarket as mum didn't like them). Dairy lea triangles, nip the end off and squirt out!! Blue Ribands, breakaways, taxi's or wagon wheels (they were bigger in those days) and a piece of fruit and sometimes crisps if there was enough in the food budget.

The difference was that we didn't get sweets and biscuits at home or being brought into school for birthdays etc. We had sweets on Sundays after Church when Mum went for the Paper. And birthday party bags usually had a few in but not much - no toys and bits, cake a few sweets and a balloon. Party food was eat your sandwiches, sausages, sausage rolls and cheese and pinneaple hedgehog first, then they might bring out some party rings and ice cream and jelly.

We had very little by the way of pocket money for sweets as well. I remember when I was about 7 I got enough to buy a packet of polos or 10 blackjacks or fruit salads or a packet of spangles... 5p I think it was

Late 80's early 90's (australia)

Peanut butter sandwich
Muesli bar
Juice box
Small (handful) pack of chips or biscuits and cheese spread
Maybe a piece of cake or some biscuits of gran had been baking

Occasionally we'd have an egg and lettuce sandwich which I loved the taste of, but hated the smell.

My favourite canteen lunch was 4 chicken nuggets in a buttered roll.

I don't think any of this would be allowed now

Just found this online, this is the same as my Snoopy flask

late 80's, all in a my little pony lunchbox

flask of ribena, cheese sandwich, apple, yoghurt, whichever chocolate bar was on offer that week (eg club, penguin, kitkat).

I wasn't allowed crisps, but somehow I was allowed 3 sweet things!

No breakfast, a slice of cold toast with marmite and a penguin bar at morning break time and then school dinner at lunchtime. I still like toast and marmite.

I had sandwich I wasn't fussy only had white bread.
Choc bar
Bag of crisps
Yoghurt
Flask of squash

4 rich tea for break.

I remember having ham roll, ham/beef/chicken paste and a club.

I can't remember ever having anything resembling salad, fresh fruit.

I had diluted juice in a beaker too.

Ham roll and paste in a white bread sandwich.

Not altogether mind, different yummy flavours on different days!

First primary school- some sort of sandwich, penguin chocolate bar, apple, pack of crisps and usually got given a glass of water by the canteen staff (small school)

On the odd occasion I took a drink to school it was a panda pop cola.

Which led to me being bullied into giving it up to another pupil. It only happened once- he demanded I give it to him. "I want it by my place when I come back from the toilet"
While he was gone, I drank it all down and filled the bottle from the vinegar that was on the table. And handed the re-closed bottle to him. I was about 6.

Sandwich, crisps, chocolate bar and piece of fruit. Would do the same for my son if it weren't for the lunchbox police! No chocolate or crisps allowed at his school. They removed a homemade cake the other day. Bastards.

Mid 90s - early 00s.

Usually some sort of sandwich and a juice carton, if dad made my lunch the sandwich would be marmite even though I hated it. Other things varied quite a bit, could be a tomato, some cheese, an apple, a banana, a carrot, a chicken leg from a roast, a healthy yogurt, occasionally a bag of crisps.

I used to look on in envy at my schoolmates and their caramel wafers, wagon wheels, squash, Mr Kipling's etc.

My mum used to actually batch-freeze sandwiches. Me and my brother had to take a round out the freezer in the morning and it had defrosted by lunchtime. The joyless frozen fillings varied between potted meat, cheese and pickle or cheese and marmite. The bread was one side wholemeal one side white with Vitalite spread instead of butter. We were allowed a penguin or club biscuit and a satsuma and a flask of squash. Awful days the early 80s.

80s-90s. Sandwich spread, marmite, or peanut butter sandwiches, crisps, club or penguin bar, apple or banana. Squash. That was standard. I remember one girl having sandwiches and grapes. Thought that was weird at the time 😂

1980s - tuna and cucumber on wholemeal bread, or grated cheese with tomato (or occasionally egg and salad cream on white bread, yum!) We also generally had a Jordan's cereal bar, an apple, and sometimes some crisps.

Later in the 80s the cereal bar turned into a chocolate bar like a Penguin or similar (my mum had gone back to work and my dad was less good at healthy lunches...)

By the 1990s I was responsible for my own packed lunch and being a typical lazy teenager would forget and then eat crisps and chocolate from the tuck shop or vending machines - Nik Naks, Monster Munch, and Mars Bars. No wonder I got chubby in my teens!

I had the Snoopy flask. And I've just remembered about Heinz Sandwich Spread! I had that too. Like snotty salad cream with bits of who knows what in.