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.

I don't think anyone brought a packed lunch in the 70s when I was at primary school.

No packed lunches at my school unless a very specific dietary/religious reason (bearing in mind 'special diet' included the school's one vegetarian who was allowed to bring a cheese sandwich). And no choice of what we ate other than being allowed to refuse three items a term (liver, cream and milk for me, which meant I had to eat hideous cooked tomatoes with macaroni cheese, and finish it as we had to have a clean plate, bleurgh).

But to get to the point, we had packed lunches on school trips, made by the school: white bread sandwich (cheese I think), a piece of fruit cake, an apple or satsuma and a carton of orange squash, all in a plastic freezer bag. And all a bit squashed and warm from what I remember. All 1980s.

sandwich
yoghurt
fruit
bottle of squash
crisps instead of yoghurt on fridays
Always had 2x choc biscuits when we got home.

I think the idea kids can't have similar lunches is bonkers. The obsession with fads is very short sighted. Should it be wholegrains... but no, carbs are bad! Avocado and nut butters, hang on, fat is bad! What about a nice pear - full of evil sugar.
Anyone wih even a basic knowledge of metabolism knows the body creates its own fats, sugars, proteins with a few exceptions so this is all rubbish. Healthy balance with regular exercise is the best way forward. But i recognise others may disagree!

Cheese sandwich and a drink and that's it. I would sit there watching all the other kids eat crisps and chocolate in late 80's early 90's. I have no fond memories of lunch.

Late eighties:

Granary bread sandwich with ham or cheese
Satsuma/apple/banana
Raisins
Yoghurt (non-flavoured, non-fun, natural)
Carrot sticks
Flask of water

Yup. Nobody ever played swapsies with me when it came to packed lunch

No packed lunches at my primary school.
Most kids went home for lunch. Those that didn;t has school lunches.

Homemade soda bread. No fruit. No drink. A chocolate mouse and a penguin or club

Early 2000's here but in primary school we still had turkey twizzlers and dinosaurs, so I'm assuming Jamie Oliver hadn't changed anything by 2005.

Packed lunches mainly consisted of a cheese or billy bear ham sandwich, a frube yoghurt, cheese string or baby bel, a timeout bar or a penguin, maybe some crisps and either squash or a carton of concentrated juice to drink.

I remember thinking my best friend having cold chicken goujons was posh!

Cheese and pickle roll
Crisps
Small chocolate bar (club, kit Kat, wagon wheel etc)
Fruit (that I never ate)
Juice box (normally umbongo)

When I eventually have kids, they'll just be having water. But I don't see the problem with a sandwich, crisps and chocolate bar. Will try and find them fruit they actually like though...

Question from this American -- would someone please tell me what orange squash and satsuma are? I'm guessing that the orange squash is a mix of juice and fizzy water, but have no clue about satsuma. Thanks!

Squash is a still fruit drink made from a cordial and water, like koolaid. A satsuma is like a tangerine or clementine. A bit like a little orange.

A Satsuma is a small easily peelable citrus fruit like a clementine, mandarin or orange. Traditionally shoved to the bottom of your stocking on Christmas Eve and the mainstay of lunchboxes (as in they mainly stay there and are never eaten)

Orange squash is a cordial - sugary, still orange flavoured concentrate you add water too

Child in the 70s. We had school dinners but had packed lunches for school trips out. Sandwich (cant remember what filling) on white bread (doorstep sandwiches from the kind of loaf you had to cut - oh how I wished to fit in and have thin sliced white like the others), with a Dairylea triangle and shop bought mini fruit pie.

The 70s. Cheap salt and vinegar crisps and salmon spread on ryvita with cucumber. Only the ryvita always got soggy in my bag and I never ate it. I somehow managed the crisps though. Ah, the 70s. If you remember them, you know how shit they were.

Twuntsrule

Squash is water flavoring, kinda like kool aid powder-but liquid.

Satsuma as a tangerine

Thank you, at leastitsnotMonday, hazeyjane and tobolsk! I can add this to my food vocabulary of courgette, chips, and spotted dick! Always good to learn new things...

I remember pasta salad. This was circa 1983. So no-one else had it. Grim. And Mr Kipling's apple pies. Which disintegrated all over my lunch box.

80s - jam on white. Chocolate bar like a penguin. Flask of strawberry milk. It was Excellent.

no packed lunches in my primary days(late 60s early 70s god I'm old) but in high school, sandwich, crisps and fruit