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.

Mid 90s:
Sandwich
Yoghurt, jelly or those fruits in jelly pots
Biscuit or a cake
Crisps

Fruit juice/lemonade type drink

Oooh dancer I had a snoopy lunchbox and flask - I remember 'upgrading' to a flower fairies one that had a yellow spout thing for pouring rather than a screw top!

Either....
Jam on 4 cream crackers or
Brown bread marmalade or
Meatpaste sarnies or
Heinz Sandwich spread sarnies

With an apple or satsuma

With a penguin biscuit or club (mint or raisin)

Miss Piggy flask with weak orange squash

cats

Looks like lots of us took squash in a flask. I suppose it was much cheaper than individual cartons of juice (if those were even available then). And kids didn't drink water back then

1960s. Taking a packed lunch to primary school wasn't done. Our school dinners cost 5 shillings a week (25p in current money).

White bread sandwich with either Heinz Sandwich Spread, Shippams paste, banana, egg and salad cream or ham.

Packet of crisps.

Penguin or Club biscuit.

A Frutti long life yoghurt.

A banana or apple.

Ham or jam sandwich, or honey if my Mum was feeling nice with the crusts cut off. A penguin, club or viscount biscuit. Carton of juice. Packet of crisps and an apple.
She'd also always have a finger of fudge with her in her bag for me too as we'd often have to go back to her work for a few hours.

rum 'it's just enough to give your kids a treat'

I walked home for lunch to my grandmothers where I'd get soup. Was about a mile.

I had a Snoopy lunchbox and flask too! I had the first day I started Reception and kept it all the way through Infants.

Flask of squash
CHeese and cucumber sandwich
Fruit
Choc dip (had to wrack my brain for the name of that!)
Crisps

In the 1980s. If we forgot our lunch the nuns would make us a jam sandwich.

My primary years were 93-00 and we used to be able to take in whatever we wanted.
Most of the time my packed lunch was jam butties (DM would try to give me ham or cheese but I was a fussy kid who didn't eat them), fruit corner yoghurt, wotsits or quavers, a penguin/club biscuit or something similar, a tangerine or banana and a ribena carton. I was constantly switching between packed lunch and hot dinners too because I could never decide which I preferred to be on

As I am ancient and was at Primary School in the 1970s I can't answer the question. There were no packed lunches, you either went home (which is what i did ) or had a revolting hot dinner that you were forced to eat. And, I mean forced. No veggie options, in fact..no options. Glad I went home for mum-love and a Wagon Wheel or two!

White bread sandwich
Orange squash
Pot of ambrosia rice or pot of jelly
Crisps/chocolate biscuit

No one ever looked or commented on my lunch from what I can remember.

for some reason we were not allowed packed lunches at my school so the whole school had school dinners late 70,s to mid 80,s at secondary school it was a sandwich of some description a carton of fruit juice and a cereal bar every day for five years!

Tuna sarnie with no greenery, crisps, Penguin and strangely I can't remember what I drank. I'd sometimes have cheese paste sandwiches as well and always a large marsbar after school I'd never dream of eating any of that stuff now!!

Early 80's

Warm days
Heinz sandwich spread on white bread/peanut butter on white bread
Skydiver salt and vinegar crips/Golden Wonder Cheese and Onion
Wagon Wheel/Viscount/Penguin

Cold days
Flask of vegetable soup
slice of buttered white bread
Wagon Wheel/Viscount/Penguin

No fruit ever.

The thought of sending my 7 year old to school now with a flask of boiling soup brings me out in a cold sweat, but apparently didn't bother my mother at all.

No sandwhiches. Wouldn't eat them. Might have had a plain Pitta bread sometimes

Kit Kat/penguin
Orange
Crisps

That was it

Every single day. I have a few issues with food so this was good for me

also at secondary we had two ice cream vans[we had a boys and girls playground catholic school] that used to park on either playground for the whole of the lunch break!

1960s, school dinners or go home. You had to eat everything you were served and were not allowed out to play until your plate was cleared. We had spuds with every meal, followed by pudding and custard. There were hardly any overweight children. The only drink available was water.

Secondary school was better

Chips!!

Chips and ketchup
Chips and cheese
Chips, cheese and gravy

It's a shame the "packed lunch police" didn't start a few decades earlier ey?

At primary school in the 90s (in my Powerpuff Girls lunchbox!) I usually had chicken or jam sandwiches, a juice carton, crisps and a biscuit. School dinners were a bit hit or miss (so much pink custard...).

At secondary school if I was having a packed lunch it would usually be something similar but the school dinners were supplied by caterers and there was a lot to choose from so they were a bit better (taste-wise if not health-wise!). Paninis, chicken burgers, sausage rolls, a few rounds of toast...

Things have definitely changed now, there was never any suggestion of "lunchbox police" or teachers/canteen staff being in the least bit interested in what you were eating. They did offer a few healthy alternatives in secondary school but you were never forced into choosing them.

Early 80s sandwich, crips, chocolate biscuit and piece of fruit. I was moved onto dinners when a new policy came in to allow a choice of two different school meals, as far as I remember my school was one of the first in our away to trial this new idea 😆

Late 80's/early 90's. Sandwich - either ham/corned beef/cheese, packet of crisps and a penguin!!