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.

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

I don't think 70s/80s flasks were that good at keeping the heat in, it was probably tepid by lunchtime

Mine took flasks of soup for lunch - only 4 years ago - from Y5 up though, not "little".

Primary School lunches were the best! We didn't take sandwiches then, we had delicious, cooked dinners!! Usually a roast with a scrummy pudding. Lots of custard and seconds of everything

Yes! I alternated between packed lunches and school dinners so experienced both. I loved school dinners, agree about the roast, you could always smell it on Wednesday mornings!

I also liked school 'salad'. You could choose what to have, I had grated cheese for protein, grated carrot for the salad-y bit and it was served with chips for some reason! I liked it so much I asked my mum to replicate it at home

I also loved the square of mince pie with gravy.

Jam sandwich or paste or Heinz sandwich filler (?!) what that want is was called? In a tall jar like a 10m+ baby food jar. Club biscuit, crisps, squash

Mine was late 80's until 2000. I would often take a cheese/ham/jam/choc spread/peanut butter/tuna sandwich or pitta bread if my mum had bought some. Sometimes I'd take a slice of quiche instead. I would also have a packet of crisps, a chocolate biscuit and a piece of fruit. Although I did sometimes have a whole carrot or jelly instead. And a flask of squash.

3 chocolate bars ( bounty, twix, mars bar)

Large bag of doritos

Shop bought sandwich

Mum really struggled in benefits and with depressions this was 90s

Cheese sandwich, flask of tomato soup and a finger of fudge, all served in an orange Avon lunchbox with traffic signs all over it wtf! School dinners were things like liver and bacon in gravy, pink custard or semolina with a spoon of jam in the middle

In the 70s I went to a primary when we had to have school dinners, there was always liver once a week bleugh. In the 80s I moved to a primary where we could have a packed lunch. It was pretty uniform amongst my peers for us all to have
Carton of squash or juice
Simple sandwich, ham, cheese, jam, honey, marmite
Fruit
Crisps or biscuit like a penguin

oh god those rancid bottles of school milk they were kept in a warm classroom all day and we were made to drink them at last break its given me a lifelong hatred of milk i for one am quite glad maggie thatcher did indeed snatch it away personally.

murder Heinz Sandwich Spread, I used to love that. You can still buy it, goes well with cheese if you have a hangover

In the 90/00's I would give my DDs, a ham or cheese sandwich (usually made with milk roll). A 10p type bag of crisps. A bar of chocolate, such as a Tunnocks Wafer bar. I'd put in fruit, but it came back home. Sometimes I'd add in biscuits. They only took packed lunch occasionally.

In the 70/80's, I can still remember the horror of Scotch Eggs and friends with lard/sugar butties.

80s - sandwich, along the lines of paste , cheese, sandwich spread or tuna. Sometimes a flask of soup. Biscuit. Packet of Crisps. Carton of juice - it was fine day when I got capri sun that had been frozen the night before.

90s. I only remember my plethora of sandwiches:

Honey sandwiches, brown bread (they made the bread hard but were so yummy!)
Jam sandwiches on pappy white bread
Cucumber sandwiches that made the bread soggy

And desserts:

Frube
Crepe/pancake filled with chocolate sauce or sometimes strawberry 'sauce'
Mini Pringles/Mini Jaffa cakes

Wholemeal cheese and tomato roll
Carton of juice
Fruit

Still grew up fat though.

Cheese sandwich
Apple
Penguin/Club
Sometimes a whole pack of chewits too ???!!!

I started primary school in 1981 with a brand new Snoopy & Woodstock lunchbox and matching flask.
The flask usually contained dayglo orange squash. Lunch was a sandwich, often Primula, sometimes liver sausage (bleurgh!) or cheese n pickle (yum!) and an apple. And a packet of crisps for breaktime. Sometimes a piece of raw jelly for a treat or some cake if mum had been baking (rare). Or a cereal bar covered in carob which tasted like actual arse.

I was so jealous of my friends who had Clubs, Penguins, Trios etc etc. My best friend sometimes used to get TWO and if she did, she might share.

Early to mid 90s.

Ham/cheese/meat paste sandwich
Packet of crisps
A chocolate biscuit. (Normally an Asda knock off penguin)
Fromage Fraise or yogurt
A piece of fruit
Bottle of orange squash

On a Friday I'd go home for lunch and have beans on toast with cheese.

Grapes and fromage frais

I was a VERY fussy eater and it was all I would eat at lunch. Imagine the outrage if it happened now.

Sandwich with marmite or something in...
A penguin or similar choccy snack
Dairylea dunkers
Fruit
Baby bel
Cucumber

Cheese and ham sandwich
Packet of crisps
Chocolate bar
Piece of fruit
Can of coke

I always had a school dinner.

Ham sandwich, a carton of Ribena, a packet of cheese and onion crisps, a Wispa and a Milky Way. Every. Single. Day.

This would have been in the late 1980s/early 90s. I loved it! I was a super-skinny child and have never been bigger than a 10 as an adult (mostly an 8)

I can't remember anything about my own packed lunch, but I remember a boy who brought golden syrup sandwiches every day!!!

1970s Ham or cheese sandwich, club or viscount biscuit and a flask of orange squash.

School trips meant banana sandwiches instead and a pack of fruit pastels for on the bus.

Beef spread sandwiches (mmm!)
Crisps
Penguin
Juice box