What was in your childhood lunchbox?

Pissy Missy · 15-09-2022 10:49am

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I would have gladly shared my sweets with you 🍬🍫🍭

nothing · 15-09-2022 11:05am

We weren't allowed any type of sweets or biscuits in primary, but in secondary there was a school shop with loads of them.

Usually, it was diluted squash, some kind of fruit, and sometimes white bread with ham or cheese or jam or egg mayo, or cream crackers with Philadelphia or peanut butter or cheese.

Cream crackers with philly were the worst, they'd be gone soggy by lunch time and the philly would be hard and cracked.

Egg mayo sandwiches were my favourite, though my classmates didn't feel the same!

In secondary, the crisp sandwich became a recurring theme, yum!

RoryMurphyJnr · 15-09-2022 11:08am

Cheese and brown sauce sambos.

Easi Singles

Chef Brown Sauce

Brennans white bread.

Every single day, through choice, my mam was a bit embarrassed and tried to get me to take ham or jam sambos.

To this day I still have them a few times a week for my lunch

Neyite · 28-09-2022 12:12pm

Homemade bread with home made butter and a thick slice of calvita. Along with an apple and milk from our cows.

Yes, despite it being the 80s and all the other kids getting white sliced pan billy roll sambos with taytos and a penguin bar, our lunches alas were stuck in the 1880s. I used to be so jealous of the other kids, yet I'd really enjoy that sandwich now!

awec · 28-09-2022 12:22pm

I went to school in NI so we were able to buy cheap hot meals in school which I don't think is a thing down here?

In primary school you didn't get a choice, everyone went to the canteen and every day there was basically a set 2 course meal (lunch and dessert). It was hit and miss, there was a Friday hotdog + chicken soup with chocolate cake and chocolate gravy dessert that was the highlight!

Secondary school was all about the chips, but some favourites were:

Chips, chicken nuggets (or sausages) and beans
Gravy chips / curry chips / cheesy chips
Chips, cheese and chicken soup (yep, that cream-of-chicken soup poured over chips is actually very nice with cheese)

Would have got things like chicken pie, lasagne etc too, all pretty good. There was a deli thing for sandwiches if you wanted.

Used to get hot sausage rolls during the morning break, 2 of those with ketchup was a daily staple.

I think nowadays the secondary school menus have been made all healthy, looking back on it there wasn't much green stuff being eaten!

Tabnabs · 28-09-2022 12:32pm

White Brennans bread, margarine from that massive margarine container you used to be able to buy in supermarkets, with "plastic cheese" aka easi singles or processed ham slices. When things got good there would be the occasional pate sandwich too. Usually an apple somewhere in the school bag too. We got the little milk cartoons too, otherwise it was a little flask/bottle with diluted orange.