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.

Ooh, actually I tell a lie. I winter my mum used to do me a flask of soup. I felt dead fancy with my soup! Otherwise it was corned beef or cheese spread butties.

White bread sandwich with sardine and tomato paste & iceberg lettuce, or marmite, sometimes ham.

Munch bunch yoghurt.

Trio bar/penguin/echo bar - a gold bar if we were really lucky

5p bag crisps

An apple that I usually saved for the way home.

Ate most of it, often left the crisps.

1980s:

-Sandwich:
(rotated between ham & lettuce/ cheese, pickle & tomato/ marmite & cucumber
-Dairylea triangle
-carton of orange juice
-yoghurt
-apple or banana
-either raisins or a pink wafer biscuit
(and a daily note and smiley face from my lovely Mum, when I was little)

Anyone else remember the excitement of very occasionally finding a fondant fancy as a treat??? Wahey.

There were no packed lunches when i was at primary schools, everyone had school dinners or went home for lunch.

Jam sandwiches or corned beef. Crisp, cordial, chocolate buiscits, rarely fruit.
I was once packed a tin of no frills beans and a tip opener. What a great day that was! Imagine the school letting you open a tin in school today without gloves and safety goggles. This was late 80's - early 90's.
Fast forward to early 00's when dd1 was in primary school. Hers was cheese/various cold cut meats white bread and butter. Fruit, something like a dairylea dunker or babybell, juicebox, Crisp or chocolate
Dd2 is 6 and on school meals. Packed lunches seem like too much hard work today

Early 1970s; I don't remember at all! Probably white bread sandwiches. Then hot dinners forever from age 8.

Normally some sort of paste sandwich. Sometimes ham or cheese.
Bag of space raisers and a piece of fruit, sometimes a yoghurt too, though my mum stopped giving me yoghurts as i kept losing the spoons haha.
Chocolate biscuit, normally a one finger twix, a trio, club or kit kat.

When I was at primary we had free milk and biscuits for snack time too.

Jam sandwich
Chocolate biscuits
Apple
Crisps
Squash
This was the early 80's

Peanut butter sandwich, box of raisins and water from the drinks fountain. That was it every day (and I loved it).

A cheese sandwich and an apple . If flush corned beef - I used to gaze longingly at the school dinners . Early 80s

• Sandwich
• Crisps
• Chocolate Mousse
• Raisins

For ages my packed lunch consisted on one digestive biscuit and a drink.

I hated eating in public and dm found that was what I'd eat, if she gave me more I'd eat nothing.
She said she expected a call in from the school to ask what was going on if anyone noticed but never had one. So either they didn't notice, or saw dsis' lunch (2 large rolls, bag of salad, slab of cake, chocolate bar and an apple) so guessed it was choice.

Witchend I was all ready to start crying at your neglect, then I read on!

Sandwiches were cream cheese and raisin, tuna no mayo, cheese and marmite, honey or chocolate spread.
Sometimes I'd have crackers with blue cheese or a special bread roll from the bakery shaped like a hedgehog at harvest time, a rabbit at Easter.
A penguin, trio, club, a chocolate bun or marzipan animal.
A golden delicious apple.
Flask of Robinsons orange barley which I never drank.

I used to go home for lunch a couple of times a week, I walked by myself age 5 and I'd have cheese on toast watch lunchtime cartoons and buy 10ps worth of choclick on the way back to school.

Oh you reminded me Witchend DSIS was a really fussy eater and had a slice of bread and butter, half an apple and water every day. My Mum was paranoid the dinner ladies would think she was being neglected.

An average lunch for me at secondary school in the early 2000's:

Ham, cheese or marmite sandwiches.
Satsuma/grapes and cherry tomatoes.
Penguin or kitkat.
Crisps.
Carton of orange juice.
I always had a bottle of water.

I was on school dinners, but when I took packed lunches for brownies/trips etc.

Small roll - brown, either cheese, pastrami or tuna - with some salad.
Crisps
Satsuma
A treat - fruit winder or a choccy biccy
Bottle of water or squash if we had it in

I started primary in '96

The bloody nuns didn't allow packed lunch. They made us dress in gymslips and girdles (a wollen tie around the waist ) in the 1970's. What I would have given to have a marmite sandwich. 😩

Oh! And my "Tuck" at morning break was either a satsuma or a box of raisins or individual bag of dried apricots or banana chips

We always got a wrapped chocolate biscuit (Kitkat, Club etc) for our playpiece, ie mid morning snack. My mum still calls those type of biscuit playpieces!

My favourite was a fruit club in the purple wrapper.

Mid-late 90s.
Sandwich with cheese and pickle, or sliced ham/chicken/beef, or tuna or fish paste (yum), or mackerel in tomato sauce (yuck). Usually cucumber or something in the sandwich too.
Packet of crisps which I ate at break.
Apple or satsuma (usually uneaten)
Penguin/kitkat or similar. Mum used to buy boxes of broken off-brand kitkats at the market and reassemble the pieces and wrap them in cling film.
Flask of squash.

I had a friend who had jam sandwiches every single day. What I coveted was the little boxes of raisins. And Lunchables.

Sandwich (usually ham, but sometimes cheese, tuna or egg mayo)
Fruit
Biscuit (Penguin or Club)
Yoghurt
Squash

This was in the late 90s.

Oh and our grace was "Thank you for my food, for my family and my friends, amen." which we all chanted in a really sing-song way.

1970's - forced to eat school dinners, in a classroom on my own so others wouldn't see me rebelling

Then aged 6 walked home about a mile for dinner - cheese on toast or tomato soup and a bit of lunchtime children's TV (Pipkins and such).

School trips - sandwich of meat paste or Sandwich Spread or Dairylea.
Apple
Breakaway/Penguin/Blue Riband
Rubbish tupperware thing for squash which leaked and ruined sandwiches.
Never any crisps (always had to share bags at home)

By the early 80's, at secondary, I had cheese and pickle sandwiches every single day (or pease pudding if we'd just been to visit relatives in the North-East), a satsuma, a chocolate biscuit; sometimes crisps if I was lucky.

New York City, 1970s: either ham and Cole slaw rollups (4), tuna salad in small Thermos, bologna on white bread with mayo, or PB&J. Thermos of milk, piece of fruit. Mother v calorie conscious. Friends would share their crisps or corn chips with me.