So what did your lunchbox contain when you were a kid?

[DrNortherner]

Mine was always the same:

Cornedbeef or ham sandwich on white bread
Packet of 5p crisps
Apple/orange
Milky Way or a Mars Bar
One of those cheapy juice cartons where you stick the straw through the film on top of the cup.

Every day, beansmum? Gosh, that's a lot of egg per week, isn't it?

When I was at secondary school my packed lunch generally consisted of 10 No 6, as dinner money was 25p a day and 10 No 6 conveniently cost 24 1/2 p...

My poor undervalued mum, she did all her own baking and my lovingly hand-made, yet hated usual lunch was :

Home made bread
Egg mashed with butter, salt and pepper
A home made scone
a carrot.

I longed for squeaky white pan rather than mums crumbling doorstops - more often than not the bread would separate from the crust and join the bashed scone to become a sort of squidy monogunk in the corner of my margarine tub lunch box. I used to think Mother's Pride was the height of sophistication

She had an individually wrapped wet wipe each day as well. Looking back, she wsa probably a bit strange, I was still jealous though.

Went home for lunch at primary school

At secondary school:
Ham sandwiches (the very square, high water content sort)
Packet of Quavers
Banana
Chocolate biscuit (Club, Trio, Penguin)
Carton of drink

Every day for 5 years. I was a stubborn and fussy eater. I branched out into cheese sandwiches when in the 6th form.

I must have also had marmite sandwiches chopped into squares quite a lot as I can remember testing the sandwiches every day to see if they were 'good bread' or not - if they were good bread you could press a circle shape which would stay round the corner of the sandwich with your lips. If it was rubbish high quality bread you couldn't.

Lol at all the marmite - think our mothers must have thought it was convenient and nutritious!

Lolol at SixSpotBurnet - I spent my secondary school dinner money on 10 lambert and butlers, think they were a bit more than 24p by my time though

I used to get

My father's homemade wholemeal bread (heavy as lead!) with ham or chicken or cheese and salad
A frozen yoghurt that would be defrosted bar a nice ball in the middle at lunchtime (usually hazlenut)
Some fruit and salad, usually from the garden

I think that was about it.

We weren't allowed crisps or sweets

Yes, I'm darn lucky to still be alive to post about the No 6, I can tell you.

I remember when they first brought out Lambert & Butler but I never liked them.

jam or paste sandwhich and fruit all wrapped up in a plastic bag lol

oh and if my Dad was making it he would put little eyes on it and notes inside and an extra sarnie for my best friend who was a boarder and always starving!

Boursin Sandwiches in 1980
I think my mother thought she was the Elizabeth David of the New Forest
and a flask of chicken cuppa soup
don't remember fruit of any kind

At primary school my mum used to make wholemeal sarnies with peanut butter, ham or cream cheese. Then my best friend let me try her white bread-and-Mattesons-liver-pate sarnies and that was all I wanted from then on (urgh ).

Sometimes we were allowed crisps - Quavers, Skips, Hula Hoops, Monster Munch.

2-3 pieces of fruit (banana, apple and I seem to remember it was always satsumas in the winter/peaches or cherries in the summer)

A choccy biccie, like a Penguin or Blue Ribbon was pretty standard.

Drink - Ribena or a little carton of Just Juice orange juice.

We weren't allowed to take packed lunches, it was either school dinners or go home.

Chicken spread/liver sausage sandwiches
Trio (remember those? ) / Harvest Crunch Bar
Burger bites if we had any (mum's friend worked for people who made them and used to get loads every so often)
Small box of raisins
Carton of orange drink.

If we were going on an outing we used to get those little individual cheescakes in a tub. Fan-farking-tastic!

Potted meat sandwich on white bread

bag of square crisps

Apple/banana

longley farm yougurt

penguin/trio or gold bar

carton of just juice or umbongo

Harvest Crunch! Yes! I was trying to remember what they were called!@Eyeballs

Also, Um Bongo! Yes!@Imnotok. And does anyone remember a viule kind of blackberry-ish squash in a carton called 'moonshine'? That was my favourite.

lol @ plant's dahl soup. I bet quite a bit of that goes on nowadays too. And all you lot with your egg sadwiches! Whiff whiff

A sandwich (usually cheese and pickle) and a piece of fruit (usually an apple), with orange squash in my flask. I had a Snoopy lunchbox.
Mum also used to give us squares of uncooked jelly wrapped in clingfilm. I asked her why recently and she said "I don't really remember, to give you a treat I suppose".
Cos she couldn't have given us a bloody Penguin like all the other bloody kids, could she?! Though, to be fair, we did get Monster Munch for morning break.

We didn't have packed lunches.

At primary you either had school dinners or went home.

At secondary you could have school dinners (cafeteria style) or go out to the shops.

My favourite was a stovie roll (you need to be Scottish) or beans and chips which were 25p.

There was also a chip van that sat outside the school!

I remember once having a ham and coleslaw roll, bag of crisps, can of coke. But I have no idea of what was usual for me. How can you all remember?

Yes we used to race the teachers over the road at secondary school to be first in line for the chippy .

Sandwhich
Trio/Penguin/viscount
Yogurt.

The same every day for 8 years.

I had school dinners all the time I was at Primary and cheese and marmite sandwiches every single day through Secondary and college!

Ham on white
packet of crisps
penguin or kitkat
cake
apple (never touched)
flask of Robinson's orange (strawberry for a big treat, although it must have been the same price)

Because my mum have us practically the same thing every day! there was none of this poncing around with menu planners and trying to vary things @pointydog

We could decide on a daily basis if we wanted school dinners or packed lunch. they didn't care. i often had school dinners on Fridays because they did chips. And I always blagged a school pudding (cake and custard...mmmm).

In secondary school we had a cafeteria and it was all chicken nuggets and shite pizza. I used to spend my lunch money on fags and the occasional plate of chips with salad cream.