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Hellobee Boards Topic: The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?! https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:19:43 +0000 Penny Lane on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-647133 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:58:05 +0000 Penny Lane 647133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Hahaha. I didn't get a lunch. My mum was a single mum and I have 3 younger siblings, so making lunches for us was something she gave up pretty early on ;) If I woke up early enough I could make myself a marmite and cheese sandwich. And pick up an apple and a muesli bar (if there were any in the house!!) Grace on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-647072 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:46:29 +0000 Grace 647072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yup, that's exactly what my lunch was. And I had no idea what bentos were either. :) wheres_c on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-647069 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:44:33 +0000 wheres_c 647069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I still drink squash! [attach=2346/13/mjrwe9.450x600.image.jpg] wheres_c on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-647068 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:41:27 +0000 wheres_c 647068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes! I still eat that stuff! I always had a soggy cheese and tomato, marmite or a paste sandwich....Brits, remember paste? Then a penguin, a kit Kat or a club. If I was lucky I got a viscount. Then monster munch or hula hoops. Orange squash to drink! StbHisMrs on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-647004 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:40:46 +0000 StbHisMrs 647004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I had a Rainbow Brite lunchbox and thermos. It contained a similar lunch - Turkey/cheese or ham/cheese - on really special days I'd get a croissant sandwich Pretzels or a bag of chips Fruit Snacks Apple or tangerine Yogurt anonysquire on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646930 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:45:55 +0000 anonysquire 646930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We didn't pack lunches. Hott lunch all the way! TheSwissWifeStyle on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646868 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:44:11 +0000 TheSwissWifeStyle 646868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pretty much the same kind of lunch for me. (American) I just wanted to add that I had a Jem lunchbox, then a NKOTB one! In middle school it was "cool" to bring your lunch in a brown paper lunch bag. Sigh, how boring is that! Shutterbug on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646856 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:34:15 +0000 Shutterbug 646856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Cherrybee: oh my goodness! I had that exact lunchbox/thermos!!! It's how I met my best friend (who is still my BFF) in first grade because she came over to my table to see my lunchbox, haha. So crazy. Your packed lunch sounds a lot like mine. betsyboop on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646852 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:32:50 +0000 betsyboop 646852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Hmm the soggy ham and cheese sandwich sounds all too familiar! And i had that lunch box! I used to drink white grape juice from that thermos! Ahhh the memories... My parents STILL have that lunchbox! They keep first aid supplies in it! rachiecakes on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646836 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:22:33 +0000 rachiecakes 646836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Cherrybee: is it odd I read your post with a British accent? hehe My lunch was similar. Sandwich, fruit, crackers or chips and I usually had milk money to get a drink at school. But I saved that change all week to get candy out of the vending machine. daniellemybelle on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646804 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:59:38 +0000 daniellemybelle 646804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Similar components for me (American) as well, although it was usually a ham&cheese or turkey&cheese sandwich. Peanut butter was rare. We'd get chips or pretzels, and either a cookie, Jello or chocolate pudding. Sometimes she would put in a box of raisins, or mozzarella sticks. I don't think we often got fruit or veggies because we never ate them! Oh, and a Juicy Juice box. YUM. Andrea on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646800 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:56:44 +0000 Andrea 646800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Cherrybee: the American packed lunch is about the same. I just wanted to say that I had that lunch box. Loved it! BoogieBea on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646753 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:07:14 +0000 BoogieBea 646753@https://boards.hellobee.com/ That's what my old lunches looked like too when we packed them for trips. I mostly ate food served at the cafeteria. MsLipGloss on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646733 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:58:49 +0000 MsLipGloss 646733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @ladyfingers: Little Debbies! Talk about *unwrapping a smile*! Yummmmmm. .twist. on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646687 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:37:48 +0000 .twist. 646687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Cherrybee: haha thanks! I think eventually my mom got a cloth bag for me. I was always so jealous of lunch boxes! BananaPancakes on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646685 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:36:16 +0000 BananaPancakes 646685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Mine was similar. Turkey and cheese sandwich. A piece of fruit and a sandwich bag of plain chips. I'd bring a quarter to buy a chocolate milk or take water in my thermos. I'd randomly throw in a whole pickle, which I usually traded for gushers. Me and another kid had a deal going most of elementary school. hellocupcake on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646683 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:35:37 +0000 hellocupcake 646683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I had a lunchbox too (: Although, I will admit, we usually ate whatever the school lunch was. Packed lunch was for special occasions, like field trips. And, sometimes we would even get lunchables (: Mrs. Lemon-Lime on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646679 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:33:56 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 646679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Ha ha your British lunchbox wasvery similar to my American one. PBJ on whole wheat wrapped in a sandwich baggie or wax paper. Little Debbie's zebra cake snack. Handful of Utz in a sandwich baggie. (used for trading food) Broccoli florettes and carrot sticks with aside of Ranch dressing in tupperware. Sunmaid raisins. If my dad grocery shopped I had Juicy Juice juice box, if my mom grocery shopped I had Capri Sun! I remember the thermos, but I usually played with it at home. Filling it up and pouring stuff out for my dolls. We would line our lunchboxes on the table and play TV with them. I had a CareBear lunch box. travelgirl1 on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646671 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:29:48 +0000 travelgirl1 646671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Cherrybee: Exactly how you described! I had a Care bear lunchbox and flask with weak orange squash. Jam or peanut butter sandwiches, supermarket own brand crisps if you were lucky (although sometimes salt and vinegar chipsticks, still love those), Penguin or Club biscuit oh and always a yoghurt, quite often a French set one, ew. Cherrybee on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646670 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:29:37 +0000 Cherrybee 646670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ A plastic bag?? Aaaw @.twist.: I wanna go back in time and give poor little you a hug!!! I got a new lunch box every school year. then, when I went to secondary school (at 11) and was too grown up and cool for a lunch box (you took tupperware then) I got a new pencil tin every year instead! ladyfingers on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646667 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:26:04 +0000 ladyfingers 646667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pretty similar except with the American versions of biscuits/squash/crisps. And probably a hard boiled egg. Little Debbie snack cake, etc. .twist. on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646660 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:23:26 +0000 .twist. 646660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ That's what my lunches looked like too (Canada) although I never got the awesome case. Just a plastic bag :( :( loveisstrange on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646653 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:20:12 +0000 loveisstrange 646653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ That pretty much looks like what my elementary school lunch bag would have looked like. lol. I want to do bentos though! C seems to respond well when I cut things up in different ways, so I think she would do well with it. Cherrybee on "The Great British packed lunch! What were your packed lunches like?!" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-great-british-packed-lunch-what-were-your-packed-lunches-like#post-646652 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:18:29 +0000 Cherrybee 646652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Over the last few months, I've noticed "bentos" mentioned on this site regularly. I understood that they were packed lunches of some sort and thought that perhaps bento was an American word for packed lunch. Anyway, I noticed that all the bentos people posted pics of were super cute and followed a set kind of formula (like little portions of finger food). I finally googled bentos and discovered that they are, in fact, a traditional style of packed lunch from Japan, Korea and a few other gorgeous places. I had no idea!! Well that got me to thinking.... a traditional English packed lunch, when I was a little girl, looked like this: They were usually packed in "lunch boxes" - plastic boxes with handles on, that often came with a matching flask. They frequently contained: - A soggy ham or cheese (sometimes jam) sandwich, wrapped in tin foil or cling film. - A bruised apple or another, similarly boring piece of fruit. You had to remember to throw this away in the playground bins, otherwise you'd be told off by your mum for not eating it. - A penguin bar - or some other biscuit type bar. - Weak orange or lemon squash - in the flask! Really posh kids might have had a capri sun! You envied these kids!! - Very occasionally, you got crisps. Those were the best days!! Where are you from? What did the traditional lunches of your childhood look like? [attach=2581/13/mjrhau.340x300.lunch-box.jpg] [attach=2581/13/mjrhaw.600x285.lunch-peng.JPG]