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.

Do they even make paste any more?

They do!
www.princes.co.uk/our-products/sandwich-pastes/

Those of you with packed lunch children should send them with paste sandwiches to see what happens.

I had packed lunch for a couple of years in the juniors (infants weren't allowed them!) So about 81-83ish. It almost invariably consisted of:
White bread sandwich with egg / cheese and tomato / tinned ham
Packet of crisps (Golden Wonder or Wotsits usually )
Yogurt or mousse
Club / United / Viscount / Blue Riband
No drink as we weren't allowed to take them, there were jugs of water on tables though.

Salmon and shrimp paste sandwich , packet of crisps, piece of fruit and a choc biscuit. Mint club or viscount was a favourite. Early 1980's

At primary school in late 60s/early 70s and packed lunches were virtually unheard of.

We all sat down together for a proper dinner of meat, potatoes and veg followed by a pudding and custard. No choice. Dinner arrived in a van packed in insulated containers. And of course we said grace and set the tables with a table cloth, water jug and everything (I kid you not )

It was all very Miss Read.

70s - 80s ... marmite sandwiches on brown bread. Chunk of home made bread and butter pudding (it would have smashed windows if lobbed) and an apple. Home made thick and messy veg stews and soups in my flask. I had one of those mums, bless her, and she marked me out like a leper.

I was never allowed white bread, jam or paste sandwiches, crisps, penguins, squash, yoghurts, all the things every other child ate and I craved. I may have a slight comfort eating issue now....

White bread jam sandwich, squash and a packet of white unbranded no frills cardboard crisps. A girl I always (on purpose) sat next to used to give me her bag of Skips or Wotsits crisps most days! I would always literally be eyeing them up in her lunch box hoping she would offer them!

Choc spread/jam sandwich
Apple
Penguin bar
Bag of smiths crisps

All in a plastic lunch box with a flask of squash!

Like this........

Brown bread cheese sandwich, box of oj, crisps and an apple. Same as I do for my DCs now but they have water.

Cheese or meat paste sandwich on white bread. Crisps. Piece of fruit. Mars bar. Cup shaped Tupperware of orange squash that always leaked a bit. 90s.

Oh yes, saying grace. "For WHAT we're aBOUT to reCEIVE may the LORD make us truly GRATEFUL. AMEN (say it again)

I had a "packed lunch" in the 70's. It was two sices of Mothers Pride with...... paste. No drink (we had milk, before Maggie) and a water fountain in the playground). Got home from school at 3.30, waited until 5 (at least) for tea/dinner.
I saw a mum once, as her 6 year old ran out of the playground to her at the end of school, she literally peeled and held out a banana and had a bottle of water in her other hand. As if the child would faint within the 30 mins of getting home.

I had white bread with butter and golden syrup, (my mum adamantly denies she fed me this shite but my sister happily corroborates my version), a chocolate biscuit (penguin/blue riband/montego/club) and a flask of hot orange squash. I don't recall any fruit or crisps.
In my Star Wars/holly hobbie/sarah Kay lunch box.

primary school, late 1970's
White bread sandwich with dairylea or beef paste, a bag of crisps and a club or united biscuit.
We had a tuck shop for snack too and bought either another bag of crisps or chocolate bar.
High school was worse, i lived off either 2 hot dogs from the canteen or a bag of chips if i could be bothered walking up to the local chippy!

I went home for lunch. I had either soup, toasted ham and cheese sandwich or scrambled egg on toast. That's it

I didn't like sandwiches so my mum did a tub of mixed fruit instead, sometimes with cheese
A yogurt, muller corner or frube
A small bag of crisps
A chocolate biscuit or cake, like a club bar or mr kipling
A sugary drink- mini sunny d or Capri sun

No wonder I was fat we were poor as well, and that lunch must have cost a fortune. Late 90's, early 00's.

I used to bring in hot dog sausages in hot water in a wide neck thermos. And had hot dogs for lunch. Often followed by a packet of jelly.

Those 70's packed lunches were shite..... but several hundred calories lighter than what we provide today. My 12 year old DD takes a wrap crammed with ham or cheese, plus a yoghurt (possibly fruit), crisps (on occasion) and every day a twix or something. She is NOT overweight but bigger than I was at 12 for sure.

Cheese and salad cream sandwich on white bread, munch bunch yoghurt, crisps (usually salt and shake or monster munch) and a biscuit (usually a kit Kat, viscount or 54321).

1980 - I was 10.

Flask of instant coffee (square red unbreakable flask with some picture I can't recall on the side)
Ham or cheese sambo
Taxi/penguin/2 custard creams
Apple or orange

What was I doing with coffee???????

And a packet of Tayto!!!!!!!

Jam sandwich or cold meats (hate sandwichs) hula hoops crisps, a penguin bar and fruit. All of these are acceptable at my DC school but if they told me they couldn't have a sweet pudding I'd be ranting about the school puddings and chips

Sandwiches*

I was at primary school in the late 70s. Usually I went home for lunch but when I took a packed lunch it would be something like a fish paste sandwich and my plastic Snoopy flask filled with squash and ice cubes in a Summer, or in Winter I'd take a small flask of soup.
I don't ever remember taking crisps or a biscuit.