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.

ah, I had dinners.

Mystery meat, sloppy mash, cold beans and something for pudding that would have been better used as an anti-terrorist device.

those were the days...

I forgot, Seabrooks crisps. They were amazing, and came in every flavour imaginable.

Anyone remember Tudor crisps? They brought out chocolate flavour once.

I never liked Seabrook. Loved salt n shake though.

This thraed has reminded me of trios - I loved them too.

TRIO

TREEEEE EEEEE O
I WANNA TRIO AND I WANT ONE NOW

Were Tudor crips the ones that brought out Hedgehog flavour crisps?

I had school dinners but if we had a school trip i always had
marmite and cucumber or garlic sausage on wholemeal bread
harvest crunch bar
apple
hedgehog crisps.
I used to crave my friends dairylea on white bread and penguin biscuits. Bloody garlic sausage used to honk once it had chance to warm up on the coach... Obviously i was always very popular on school trips...

my granny packed mine she was a loon

potted meat sarnie with branston on (gross)

handful of Maltesers flung in to rattle round and get covered in potted meat and branston (double gross)

orange with potted meat on, so that sarnies would be shaped to the shape of an orange

it was not good

Yes they did hedgehog too MB!

dodgy beaker with teeth marks around the edge full of jelly, some cling film underneath the lid for good measure.

banana sandwich, soggy.
penguin
another dodgy beaker of orange pop.
ready salted crisp.

Marmite and lettuce or Billy Sausage sandwiches on Mighty White bread.

Flavour & Shake crisps

Banana

United biscuit

I cried because I wanted a square flask like my friends - Mum said they were difficult to clean and made me have a round Hollie Hobbie one instead!

can you still get potted meat?
or salmon paste?

Beefpaste, cheese, spam - occasionally jam butty on white earburtons bread
Packet of crips, usually space raiders or seabrooks
Mars Bar, Crunchie, Twix or something like
Can of pop - usually coke or Iron brew

No fruit or veg or anything remotley heathy - we ate that crap at home lol

When we went on school trip my mum used to double it (ie 4 buttys instead of 2, 2 crips, at least 2 chocolate, and lots of fizzt pop)Like I was going to starve because I wouldnt be home until 4! Ah those were the days

Yes, I saw it in M&S a year or so ago.

Sardine spread is the best one!

MMMM Hedgehog flavour crisps I loved those,
I was really fussy and I mostly used to have carob and yoghurt coated raisins, dried banana chips or a special hedgehog shaped roll from the bakers with philadelphia and raisins in.
My sister used to have bread and butter and water its all she would eat the dinner ladies gotmy mum in coz they thought she was being neglected.
At secondary school I bought jelly tots and coke for 50p and saved the rest of the money for scammy lammys.

oooh, dont know about sardine.we called potted meat potted dog.
hedgehog crisp very weird.
we used to try and predict the price of crisp when we were old, 21,as they went from 3p to 5p. the general consensus was at the going rate it would be what our dads earned.

munchies were really expensive, i always dreamed of buying a packet.

What on earth were hedgehog crisps?

i used to love tab cola (the clear stuff) and pom bear crisps.

I was once caught out lying, trying to appear poncier to a friend and said my mum made them with a little teddy bear shaped cookie cutter.

She was really impressed.

Not so good when my mum handed out bags when she came for tea one night.

Was talking to dp about this the other day and he was always given a pot noodle for lunch !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have those japanese egg press things- a fish and a buny head... I thought they would be cute for DD when she needs a packed lunch

Mine were gross- tongue or corned beef sandwiches on mighty white
I hated them.
If I ever could I sneaked a pb one instead.

Salad cream sandwich (crusts cut off)
Apple
Crisps
Chocolate bar (54321 or breakaway)
Oh and sometimes homemade cake (if lucky)

arghhh forgot about salad cream sandwiches, wht dont m and s do them?

I craved salad cream sandwiches on white bread when pregnant the first time. With salt on them.

Hedgehog flavour crisps were crisps made in the flavour of hedgehgs! Don't think any hedgehogs were harmed in the making of said crisps but they were a lovely savoury flavour also loved thoe fish and chip/ chicken and chip biscuit-crisy things only available from tuck shop and a quater of choc-lick.

Oh god those chicken/chips things were brilliant, I only ever had them on seaside trips, never saw them anywhere else.

God knows what was in them.

I'd forgotton about those drinks DrNortherner!! My mum was so pleased when I said I liked luncheon meat (cheap) - she then gave it to me for a year, on white bread with pickle

My mum still buys sandwich spread - I'm preg at the moment and love the stuff!!

My box also consisted of apple, crisps and a chocolate bar every day (United, Club, Penguin or Trio) We weren't remotely unhealthy though.

At secondary school I think I had chips and gravy, a KitKat and a can of coke every day for 5 years and, remarkably, wasn't obese!!