Do you remember opening your lunch box at school to find yet another cheese sandwich and some apple slices? I do! Packed lunch could be incredibly boring and for some reason your friends’ lunch always looked tastier than your own. We often swapped around and sometimes I didn’t touch my lunch at all just to secretly throw my sandwich into the bushes on my home. On rare occasions, I completely forgot about its existence and it almost started growing legs and running through my bag, but I promise this didn’t happen a lot.
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I would have loved to have found a kinder egg because the chocolate is yummy and you get a little toy too!
I would of loved to of found a nice tasty sandwich, because the ones I had where always taste less, there was always more bread then filling lol
I would love to have found chocolate cake,cause you can never have enough cake,probably could have used it as payment to get other kids to do my homework too lol
A Kinder surprise!! Because obviously this would have been very unlikely…
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I always loved Wagon Wheels when I was little! I used to peel them gently apart, lick out the creamy, jammy centre then nibble the biscuit parts and chocolate! I used to make a right mess lol!
Like any other kid, I would have loved a cake!
I would have loved to find egg mayo sandwiches in my luchbox because they were so yummy and my absolute favourite but they did smell rotten and they would lead to an afternoon of teasing !!
I would have loved peanut butter or salt and vinegar crisp sandwiches but always got boring ham!
Honey sandwiches
I would have loved anything chilled or cold. My abiding memories of packed lunches are of wilted sandwiches and warm juice
We made our own pack lunch from an early age and had the same thing every day. Ham sandwich, apple & yoghurt. Basically, I would have loved anything which wasn't a ham sandwich, apple or yoghurt.
Tunnocks teacakes – the biscuit with marshmallow and all covered in chocolate! nibble off the chocolate from the marshmallow, them eat the marshmallow, then the biscuit!
Tunnocks teacakes – the biscuit with marshmallow and all covered in chocolate! nibble off the chocolate from the marshmallow, them eat the marshmallow, then the biscuit!
i would have loved to find chocolate because i can never have enough chocolate (and have been like that since i was little)!
I would have loved to have found crisps – salt n' vinegar flavour.I love crisps and was never allowed them as a child.
I would have liked to have found Cassie Brown's lunch in my lunch box. Her mother used to make her heart shaped sandwiches, with smiley faces made of bits of carrot and cucumber and stuff like that. I was so jealous.
I would actually have liked cheese sandwiches! I had biscuits all the time.
I would of loved to find my cat in my lunch box so that i could of fed it the processed ham off my sandwiches as i hated the stuff but my cat seemed quite fond of it.
dairylea triangles because i love them to pieces
I would have love to have had a lunch box seeing as school dinners were compulsory in my school :0((
I always wanted a Wagon Wheel as all my friend had them except me.
I always wanted (and sometimes got!) a little note from my mum or dad, just to say that they loved me lots. I was bullied a lot at school and often ate lunch alone, so it was so nice to get the reassurance now and again! 😀
I would have loved to find cheese straws as my nan made the best ones I have ever found
I would have loved to find a whole banana in my lunchbox. My father for some unknown reason would only allow us to eat them mashed!! (this was in the 60's)
I used to pray that my mum had packed pickeled onion monster munch – I also used to love getting a hard boiled egg and marmite sandwiches ( I was a strange child !!! )
I would have loved to find fresh apple juice in my lunchbox for a treat, instead I got orange squash every single day! Variety would have been nice and I love apple juice!
I lived across the road from my school so went home for lunch everyday. I would have liked a sandwich, crisps and a yoghurt (or chocolate biscuit)!
I would have loved peanut butter or salt and vinegar crisp sandwiches but always got boring ham!
Any fresh sandwich was always welcome, but always got soggy sandwiches after a hot sunny day.
i usually got home baked goodies courtesy of grandma
I would have loved to have found a toffee apple. Loved them as a kid but only had them on Bonfirte night. Can't stand them now.
I used to yearn for normal bread! I was the only kid to have pitta bread and I got strange looks no end. The filling was even odd, egg and Heinz sandwich spread (it is delicious though)
So a cheese and Branston on white bread would have done me so I could fit it with the rest of the gang!
I would love to have found a kinder surprise egg
I would loved to have found my mums fruit cake
cheese and tomato sandwiches 🙂 cheese when I was little was a very rare treat!!!!
A mint viscount – haven't had one for years but they remind me of school lunchboxes
Would love to have found my mums lemon drizzle cake. It was lovely & moist with a crunchie sugar topping. We didn't get it very often as it was a cake for the grown ups but when we did it was a real treat. So finding that would have been a lovely surprise and proper treat.
A slice of my Nan's bread pudding, it was delicious and my favourite – that and her riced pudding, but I am not too sure that would have gone in my lunch box that well…
would love to read this!! i feel guilty i have a terrible imagination when it comes to food.
a cadburys chocolate log
I would have liked to have a found a lovely salad instead of sandwiches in my lunch box.When I was at school my friend had really posh looking salads in for lunch and I was always envious!
a lovely tub of salad, with fresh crisp lettuce leaves and cherry tomatoes
Egg & Cress sandwiches on yummie bread. My other dream find would be a packet of plain walkers crisps not smiths soggy crisps!
I would have loved to have found anything as I had school dinners (although loved most of them!) but they were pretty stodgy!
I had school dinners (not always that nice) so I would love to have anything in my lunch-box. A bar of chocolate, perhaps (JOKING!)
Chocolate covered marzipan. And what would I like to find as an adult? Chocolate covered marzipan. Two of the best flavours in the world, almond and chocolate!
Chocolate coins because I could use it as currency
Many berries. I love the colourful berries in my lunchbox.
Chocolate penguins or mint club – my fave naughty treats
I would have loved tuna sandwiches. I used to get something very quick and easy like jam, but tuna has always been my favourite sandwich filling
I always wanted Penguin bars in my lunch box. I usually used to come home for dinners but the bribe of having a Penguin bar in my lunch box was enough to get me to have lunch at school. I think it was because we didn't tend to have any junk food at home.
I would have loved mature cheese – we only had mild cheddar – so boring.
i would have liked lots of sweets because we didnt get a lot of sweets cos they werent good for us. x
I would like to have found a can of coke as these were still quite exotic in my family and never added.
I would like to have found mango. i love mango so much, i could eat it all day!
I'd have liked to have found cake or a biscuit as we were never allowed them and I was always jealous of friends who had goodie stuffed lunch boxes.
one of those orangina bottles that you had to shake, i remember them being all the rage when i was young but never got one in my lunchbox 🙁
a chocolate apple mmm x
One of those Hippo strawberry mousses (can't remember the name just the ad) because they were such a big treat
strawberry bootlaces
Any chocolate bar, why? Because I was not allowed chocolate when I was growing up, so to get my hands on any was like having a quick fag behind the bike sheds. 'Forbidden fruit' for me.
A wagon wheel chocolate biscuit. A girl on my lunch table one every day and I coveted it sooo much 🙂
A bit different, but I would have loved a freezer block in my lunchbox as the food and drink was always warm by lunchtime
I would have liked to have found a creme egg in my lunch box every day! Not very healthy, I know, but I was a chocoholic even then!
Potato crisps and chocolate bars – my parents only gave me healthy foods for lunch
I'd love to have found one of those white chocolate tubs with the bread sticks to dip. I remember those being a great treat when we went to the supermarket and were allowed one!
Primula cheese spread sandwiches, because I was convinced they were the epitome of decadence!
Some money to get an ice cream after school I grew up in South Africa and there were many extremely hot days that we'd get out of school and the ice cream man would be waiting at the school gate, felt like we'd won the lottery when we had some money to buy an ice cream after a long day at school.
crisps and chocolate i always had an apple and some other fruit while all my friends had the fun un healthy stuff x
My sister and i used to have white bread SUGAR sandwiches for lunch. It's a wonder that we managed to stay awake at all in the afternoon! Now i'm a mum i'm horrified at this, but i feel we're far more educated about nutrition these days. Thankfully!
Some chocolate or crisps! I always had an unhealthy lunch box!
one single after 8 mint chocolate , because as a child they were mine n my dads fav treat , no one else in the family liked them so it was our thing !
I would have loved to find the special chocolate bars that my mother made with crucnched up rich tea biscuits. They are delicious, and now my children love them too!
I loved my my mum's homemade cakes because they were yummy 🙂
I loved to find Marmite sandwiches because my mum used to spread them with butter just perfect so they melted in your mouth! She also used to put my sarnies into shapes and I was the envy of all my friends!
Anything other than jam sandwiches, my dad made our packed lunches while he was a stay at home dad in the 80's and everyday it was jam, different types of jam, but still jam. I was actually pleased when I was moved onto school dinners, even though they were really horrible at least they were't jam!!
I always had school dinners – so anything in a lunch box that was mildly edible would have been great.
Anything but garlic sausage – my dad put that in a couple of times and even though I loved it, the smell was really embarassing!
Knowing what I know now I wish that my lunchbox had had more fruit in it. I also love pasta salads but back when I was a kid it was sandwiches with a tonne of butter on, 2 jaffa cakes and a packet of crisps. We weren't health conscious back then! x
I loved ham sandwich and apple! Because It was so delicious together!
Marmite and crisp sandwiches – for some reason it's my favourite sandwich combo. If I ever went on a school trip I'd get a small chocolate bar – what a treat!
I suppose like any child I would have loved to find some chocolate but fortunately my mum liked us to have healthy meals
i love my monkeys to have a portion of cheese in there lunch boxes
i like mine to have a few grapes
I would have loved something other than a plastic cheese sandwich!!
i always had jaffa cakes,