old days' school lunches

[chau]

When I was a kid I was brought up with eating jam sandwiches for school lunches and after school lunches. I was brought up from a poor background (both parents worked but there were too many mouths to feed). So every luchtime I wasn't looking forward to eating my jam sandwiches but only when I am really hungry. :D One time when we were out on a school excursion, there were ducks around on ponds and I couldn't resist feeding them my jam sandwiches. However afterwards I regret badly because other than my jam sandwiches I had nothing to eat on that day.:blink:

What did you ladies get? Were you one of those lucky ones who gets varieties? Or were you pretty much like me?

[July]

Goodness I barely remember! We weren't poor, but not well off either. Average I guess.
Some kids bought their lunch at the canteen (tuck shop) every day but not me. I nearly always took a packed lunch. Except for every Thursday, when my Dad would pick me up in his work truck and we'd go home for lunch. Every Thursday lunch came from the fish & chip shop and I always, without fail, had a battered sav!
Apart from that I probably would have taken a vegemite sandwich, bikkies or pikelets and a piece of fruit. Oh and I had plastic drink bottles - no matter what sort Mum bought, they always leaked.

[Heather]

Vegemite sandwiches....never given any variety or choice.
Can't remember what else was in my lunch box.
My High School had a canteen and the only time I ate from there was in my senior years when I spent some of my lunch times serving.

[Mad Old Cow]

we were poor & yes we had jam sandwiches sometimes vegimite ones & always a home cooked cupcake we lived opposite the school & got to go home for lunch but that still meant jam or vegimite oh & honey. normally had fruit, mum would buy it in a big box & share the cost with friends they used to buy the milk straight from the farms to & i remember mum scraping the cream off the top of it for cooking. oh gee they were the good old day's

[kezabelle]

Money was tight in our household too :) I tell my kids these stories all the time trying to get them to understand how lucky they are... :D

Breakfast was cereal or toast. Morning tea was two small, plain cupcakes that mum had made on Sunday. Lunch was a sandwich with vegemite, honey or jam. We didn't have afternoon tea and dinner was some burnt piece of meat (sausages or cheap steak) with some vegies. We had ice cream for dessert as an occasional treat.

Now, I love good food far too much! We eat lots of nice stuff and a huge variety. The kids eat an enormous amount (but still are skinny so it's going somewhere...). :hehe:

[Supa]

I love/d tuna so most days it was tuna & lettuce. Sometimes egg & lettuce. With a home cooked cake or bickies & fruit.

[Alexa]

Mondays was always order lunch day - so a meat pie or sausage roll and sauce.

Chicken or tuna, or cheese and tomato, ham and tomato, sandwiches and sometimes maybe vegemite, vita weets for morning tea, muesli bar, grapes, an apple or banana.

Get home from school, cheese and savory shapes, milkshake, and an orange.

My mum didn't work so was always around to make meals. I think we grew up rather wealthy, we always seemed to have money and have take-away about once a fortnight, Chinese was my favourite.

[Heather]

My heavens....reading all the lovely school lunches most of you seem to have had, makes me feel quite deprived.

[Puggle]

I remember having sandwiches with vegemite and as a treat sometimes they would have lettuce and cheese on them also or if it wasn't vegemite it was devon

Still do the vegemite with luttuce and cheese from time to time

[Heather]

Puggle...my TT calls Vegemite and Cheese sandwiches "Tiger Sandwiches"...he often asks for them for lunch.

[Alexa]

I don't think I have ever eaten a devon sandwich...what is devon? :uhno:

[Di Nana]

I remember having nice home baking but then my mother went back nursing when my brother turned five I was about nine so I had to make my own lunch from then on, no more home baking I had buttered bread with wine biscuits inside :yes: either an orange, banana or an apple depended what was in season as in those days you didn't get fruit all year round like now, by the time I went to high school you were considerd a nerd if you came to school with a cut lunch, so just had an apple and a can of fresh up.My mother did wise up to the fact that I wasn't making my lunch due to the amount of bread left over so I learnt to throw my share away, we were fairly well off as both parents had good trades but would have preferred jam sammy's and mum being home

[Heather]

Manufactured sausage....the Americans call it Bologna (sp) or Balony (sp).
When we were in Hawaii...the TT lived on those....with Tomato Sauce or Ketchup of course.

[Denise]

Alexa I asked this question a while ago and I think its like our Polony well thats what we call it in the West anyway. My kids love it with Tom sauce.:D
I also got Vegemite sandwiches and home made biscuits or cup cakes. I don't think we had Muesli bars when I was a kid or any of the pre packaged stuff you get nowadays. Curried egg sandwiches I loved and cold roast meat and pickle sandwiches. Does anyone remember the little bottles of milk we used to get at school I remember thinking how important I was when it was my turn to wash them out but then again it was probably the fact that we got out of class for a while:D

[kezabelle]

Alexa, it's also known as luncheon...

[July]

buttered bread with wine biscuits inside What's a wine biscuit - and why were they in your sandwich?

[Mad Old Cow]

Alexa:uhno: Devon is also Luncheon & also known as empire i loved it, & Alexa its easy to see you are the same age as my DD her school lunches were the same as yours :hehe: but i was always baking back then to so she always had a new type of cake or sweet pie to try when she would get home .
Old Di I want to know what a bloody 'wine biscuit is to' & i did'nt like to read that you threw your sandwiches away either thats just wasteful :brow:
H if you want to know deprived just ask me :hehe: but we wwere happy
I remember a girl i was friends with through school her dad was a policeman & he did a lot of the cooking in their house & she used to come to school with homemade hot meals i was so envious of her lunches sometimes she would give me a bit of her homemade 'mock fish' or her potato hash brown ( it was cold though) i still see her at times & i have told her about how i loved her school lunches:hehe:
yes I remember the little bottles of milk they were lovely when we got to them before the hot sun:blink:
i honestly think the stuff kids take for lunch today is mostly crap & there is nothing to sit around & remember about it when they are older

[July]

also known as empire I was going to say that but have only heard my Mum call it that, so didn't think I'd bother! :hehe:

I remember the free milk too! Little glass bottles, not cardboard cartons. I once knew a bloke who went to school in the Pilbara and he said they got tinned milk. I assume he meant evaporated.

[BrissyGal]

I can barely remember what I took for school lunches most days but it would have just been fairly average sandwiches like jam, vegemite, peanut butter or luncheon meat. Mum used to bake a lot back then so we would have had some homemade biscuits or cake as well and a flask of cordial.

I vividly remember my first day at school. Not long after all the parents left, they sat us down on the carpet in one of the classrooms and we had our bags with us still. One of the teachers read us a story and I sat there eating my egg and lettuce sandwich and my green cordial. No one told me I wasn't meant to eat in class...lol

[Mad Old Cow]

yummo evap milk is very thick & yummo lolo

[July]

I love evaporated milk with jelly. We sometimes have that for dessert! Just like when I was a kid. It makes great creamed rice too. Yum.

[lucyloo]

I don't really remember my lunches either. My mum and dad both worked, so it was up to us girls to make our own lunches, so it was what we could slap together the fastest, and easiest.:(
My DD has vegemite and cheese on her lunch everyday!!! I try and try to get her to take something different, but nah, she loves her 'mite' and cheese, and has been taking that since primary school- she is now in highschool!
My DS is a bit more adventerous! He loves his ham and salad and mayo, and also peanut butter.
I cook treats for the kids but also they take pre packaged stuff- they eat so bloody much I can't keep up especially DS. I really think he has holes in the bottom of his feet, and the food just runs out!!:D

[Teeka]

Aargh this topic has brought back bad memories for me. We had polony & tom sauce sndwiches or vegemite every day and a piece of fruit

[BrissyGal]

Did anyone ever have potato chip (crisps) sandwiches?? We went through a stage in year 7 when we loved them.

[sandydee]

we had jam sangas,vegemite,vegemite and lettuce,egg and lettuce,lamb and pickles,devon sangas. fruit and cupcakes or pikelets:yes: occasionally had tuckshop:yes: I also remember the milk bottles:yes: and also made crisp sangas at high school:yes: still love vegemite and lettuce sangas esp on fresh bread:)

[July]

I used to make vegemite and chip (crisps) sangas in High School. They're yummy! My kids made them too - in fact we all still make them - just not very often. :hehe:

[Di Nana]

Old Di[/B] I want to know what a bloody 'wine biscuit is to' & i did'nt like to read that you threw your sandwiches away either thats just wasteful :brow:

firstly auDi they were not complete sandwiches I threw away I never went to the trouble of actually making them only counted out four pieces of bread and always gave them to the horse on the corner so not entirely wasted
and July and Di wine biscuits or super wine are a plain biscuit that you can butter, but I liked them slapped between two slices of bread kinda like your potato chips in bread

[Mad Old Cow]

:brow: Bloody Hell Old Di! stuck between two biscuits :no: yukk
glad you fed your bread to the horses, bet they were'nt telling your mum anything :hehe:

I never had a potato crisp snadwich but my kids did i just couldnt stand the thought BUT! i love hot chip sandwiches on with Tomato sauce & lots a salt:d:

[Di Nana]

:clap: yes me to Watties tomato sauce

[Mad Old Cow]

Ol dDi, get to bed LMAO & it's 'Fountain' tomato sauce

[sehyang]

From Kinder to year 6, I had vegemite, peanut butter, lemon spread, honey, golden syrup or jam sandwiches. For morning tea I had 2 cream biscuits and maybe a peice of fruit.
I remember the little milk bottles too, we didn't get them by the time we reached year 3. I remember one day the teacher let us drink as many as we liked, I think they had to many. I went home that day as sick as a dog, I think that's when I found out I was lactose intolerant, I won't say what happened.
In high school I took the same sandwiches as primary school, but on Mondays I got to buy my lunch with 20 cents. That got me a buttered roll and a packet of smith chips, that I put on the roll. Morning tea was the same as primary school too.

[Mad Old Cow]

oh yes Shirl, 'lemon spread' that mum made i loved that on fresh bread

[Di Nana]

Ok DI I'm off nite nite :hug: watties watties watties:P :P :P :P

[Mad Old Cow]

I'm not playing your games it's to late for you now move it to bed LMAO

[ezmay]

My sis and i never ate sangas cos they would usually go soggy :eww:. Mum then got us lunch boxes with little compartments (tupperware i think) that she put buttered bread and fillings in (seperatly) so then we made our sangas at school. I usually had salami, cheese and lettuce, or banana or apple. Sometimes we had fairy bread sangas or a canteen lunch as a treat. Oue canteen had a really good variety and the local pizza place came once a week so you could order a slice of hawiian os capricosa :yes:. I usually ordered fried rice or patizzis for lunch if i could. In the winter mum gave us a thermos of home made soup :yes:. Mum has never baked a thing in her life so every morning we were allowed to go into the "school box" in the pantry and pick a pack of chips or bikkies. For a drink we had cordial or a prima.
I think the school milk bottles were berfore my time but it sounds like an idea they should bring back :yes:

[Mad Old Cow]

lol Ezmay the shcool milk was way before your time, wish they would do it occassionaly just to give all the kids a good memory from school

[Di Nana]

auDi I am going to bed but just before I go I would like to say how much I hated Lemon spread and I still see it in the shops today and I shudder all the way down the isle along with chocolate hail and hundred and Thousands and god forbid that horrible meat paste and that fountain Aussie sauce:hehe:

[Mad Old Cow]

hope you feel much better now after that WEE outburst Old Di
bloody chocolate Hail whats that? i have never heard of it LMAO you have some funny stuff over there

[Kekka]

Strazburg and tomato sauce sandwiches - DELISH! Other days it was peanut butter, vegemite or jam.

I too loved the little bottles of milk. Hadn't thought of that for many a year!!

Lunch orders.....paper bags with a handwritten note with 25c stuck to it with a crisscross of sticky tape. Those were the days!! Mum had 5 of us at primary school for a few years so it must have been expensive. I recall spending 5c on Happy Snax (kind of like Chickadees), 4c on a jam doughnut and 13c on the large expenditure item - a meat pie or a hot dog with sauce. The remaining cents were spent on liquorice straps (1c each). Crikey....there's no nutrition there!!!!!!!! Obviously my bad habits started at an early age.

[Denise]

Geez I love lemon spread but only the home made stuff,we call it lemon butter:d: We used to spread it on so thick on fresh white bread:d: Its the easiest thing to make, haven't had it in ages cause I just can't stop eating it, think I might make some this arvo:D
Isn't it funny how our Tuck shops back then sold pies,sausage rolls, pasties,cool drink, donuts all the naughty stuff but not one of us was overweight. These days they are only allowed water, no pies in sight only healthy stuff at our canteen and there are so many overweight kids.

[Stormy]

Vegemite or peanut butter just about every day. I would get so excited if Mum had an RDO that day because it would mean I'd have egg and lettuce instead. Even more exciting was if we had a roast the night before because it would be on the sandwich the next day but only in winter when the outdoor temp was cooler because otherwise it would be yucky by lunch. Always had a frozen popper and small drink bottle to keep the food cold but in summer they would be melted well and truly by morning tea. :yes:

[July]

This thread sure is bringing back some memories! Isn't it great?:yes:

Di and Diana - I was LMAO at you two.....
btw I wanna know what chocolate hail is too please!

[Mad Old Cow]

ok choc hail is little choc slithers that you buy in packs & you can sprinkle on ice cream or as Old Di does sprinkle it on your bread ( OH YUKKY)

[chau]

Di Nana, I know all the food you mentioned because I used to live in NZ too. Fresh Up was the best fruit juice drink ever,IMO. BTW, Watties means good food, so the slogan goes;)

Most of you ladies are so lucky to have varieties. I envied that.

I heard about the free small bottles of milk from my teacher. She said the children were made to drink, out of free will. Is that true? She even complained that sometimes during the summer the milks were warm, so isn't there refridgeration in trucks in those days?

[Di Nana]

ok choc hail is little choc slithers that you buy in packs & you can sprinkle on ice cream or as Old Di does sprinkle it on your bread ( OH YUKKY)

OldDi does not her old mother did, I have never had it since my mother stopped making my lunch when I was nine in fact didn't even know you could still buy it till i seen it the other day and cried out loud in horror got a few funny looks
and you would probably like it Di as it is choc sweet:P

[July]

She even complained that sometimes during the summer the milks were warm, so isn't there refridgeration in trucks in those days?

Chau, at my school the milk was delivered some time in the morning and was left in the weather shed until recess (play lunch) time, which was about 11am I think. So you see, the truck didn't hang around and we didn't have refrigeration for the milk at all. :uhno:

[Di Nana]

Chau, at my school the milk was delivered some time in the morning and was left in the weather shed until recess (play lunch) time, which was about 11am I think. So you see, the truck didn't hang around and we didn't have refrigeration for the milk at all. :uhno:

They had milk at our school to and did exactly the same thing left it at the gate in the sun till the people on morning tea duties bought it in, oddly enough I don't remember drinking it, but the do say you block out bad experiences in your life
I also remember the Corso people coming to the school and telling us how the third world children were starving and they used to bring a tin of milk biscuits seemingly this what was sent to these poor children, they would hand them out and we had to eat it so we could get a feel of what these poor kids faced, they were bloody disgusting :headh:

[chau]

Oh I see. Luckily they don't serve free milks during my time or else I might get stomach ache from drinking warm milks.

I forgotten to add, when there was a treat like once in a blue moon, I would get $1 to buy lunch at the tuck shop. One time I was so excited when the lunch bell rang, I ran to the tuck shop to get my pre-order pie, unaware of the loose rope hanging from nowhere, I ended up tripped over that rope and broke my arm. I was about 6/7 years old and all the commotion brought from my broken arm that somehow ironically I never got to eat that pie that I was so looking forward to!:jump:

[kgg]

I could get a variety if I wanted to, but I was very much a routine sort of person. In high school I would eat 4 of those bland rice cakes with peanut butter and a small tin of pineapple!

I wish I was that disciplined now, I would lose so much weight! The city has too many food places to pick from.

[Telori]

I made my own lunches so it was up to me...I would have vegimite sandwich and a piece of fruit...and I was pretty happy with that. Once I started highschool I didn't eat any lunch, I would just eat after school (my highschool girls are the same and I cant chastise them for it even though I want to...)

My younger daughter takes whatever sandwich she makes plus some kind of biscuit and a piece of fruit...she makes her own and chooses what she wants so she must be happy with that too...