Packed Lunch

fryup

I'm taken aback with the amount of school kids that go into fast food outlets & deli counters for their lunch these days.

Begs the question - are packed lunches a thing of the past? is it not cool to have a packed lunch that your mammy made the night before?

When i was a lad :rolleyes: i survived on cornbeef sandwiches for a full five years in secondary school i didn't mind although I had little choice in the matter as we were skint:o

So are packed lunches a no no for todays generation of school kids?

Noodleworm

It definitely is seen as cooler to buy your food, and not bring in a lunchbox.
I still brought one every day, and still do in college.

that, and a flask of tea save me SO much money.

KeithM89_old

When I started first year in secondary, it felt great to be able to go out and buy your own lunch - a packed lunch is seen as something a child gets when they are in primary - getting money to buy what you want is kind of a 'freedom' kids get when they start secondary.

JONJO THE MISER

Tae in flask, milk in lucozade bottle and a sugar bag with hang sandwiches.

OutlawPete

Don't have kids myself but I think the crap they eat is a scandal.

Which will no doubt be reflected in the heart attack rates in twenty years time.

Leeg17

OutlawPete wrote: »

Don't have kids myself but I think the crap they eat is a scandal.

Which will no doubt be reflected in the heart attack rates in twenty years time.

Yea I agr.. *collapses*

I had a packed lunch till second year, easier and faster to get something in the shop. Didn't have a takeaway everyday, just some days.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

egg sangwiches wrapped up in the bread wrapper, chicks kept their distance

scientific1982

Packed lunches were seen as nerdy when I was at school.

Sofiztikated

Leeg17 wrote: »

Yea I agr.. *collapses*

I had a packed lunch till second year, easier and faster to get something in the shop. Didn't have a takeaway everyday, just some days.

Em, how is faster?

Something you already have, right there in your hand vs something that you have to walk to the shop, wait in a queue, wait for it to be made, pay for it, then eat it.

Yup, faster alright. :pac:

I don't do packed lunches at work, simply because what I'm in the mood for when I make it, I'm not in the mood for when I get around to eating it.

PeterIanStaker

I lived within walking distance of my secondary school, so I always went home . . . and ate sandwiches!

Killer Pigeon

Damn you OP.

I thought that the thread title was an idiom for something else ... like fudge packing etc.,

Aidric

KeithM89 wrote: »

When I started first year in secondary, it felt great to be able to go out and buy your own lunch - a packed lunch is seen as something a child gets when they are in primary - getting money to buy what you want is kind of a 'freedom' kids get when they start secondary.

This, pretty much. I had a packed lunch the odd day in secondary but most days I headed to one of the delis. There was the whole element of going 'up town' at the lunch break as well, have an ol mooch at the mots and such, see if there was any fights happening. :pac:

SV

Tis a disgrace alright.

and the price delis charge for sandwiches is worse!
Celtc tiger age still going ya know?

Can see it all changing with the next generation.

abouttobebanned

Kids these days are mutants.

When i was a kid I had tinfoil covered sandwhiches - Luncheon or Cornedbeef. A bag of crisps a capri-sun and a 5-4-3-2-1 bar. And I was one of the lucky ones.

Nowadays we have kids getting chineses at lunch hour...or big mutha-fukin snack boxes. No wonder they're walking around with beards and bellies.

ibarelycare

When I was in secondary school I'd get money one day a week as a treat to buy my lunch, and the rest of the week I'd get a packed lunch.

These kids must get at least €5 a day to buy lunches with. A lot would get even more. Sometimes I go up to Spar at lunch and there's an Apache Pizza beside it and it's always full of kids from the local secondary schools buying pizzas for lunch!

Parents would rather fork out €25-€50 per week for their kids lunches than encourage or even force them to eat packed lunches...pure laziness!

kylith

I'd get money the odd time in secondary, but when I did I'd usually get a blaa from the tuck shop. The rest of the time I'd have a sandwich, yoghurt, fruit, and a flask of tea.

Lollipops23

I got a chippy takeaway on Fridays-only in 5 th and 6th yr though when I was working and earning!!
Rest of the time I got packed ham and cheese sangwiches and a bar.The queue in the Centra beside where I work come 1pm is mental,literally a hundred kids at the deli counter getting massive rolls,dripping in mayo and coleslaw....heart attacks waiting to happen.

Loopy

The takeaway lunches are bad enough, on my way to work I see them eating big breakfast rolls or sausage rolls enroute to school. WTF, how can parents afford this?

Pherekydes

fryup wrote: »

is it not cool to have a packed lunch that your mammy made the night before?

Some kids get their lunches made by their Dads just before they leave for school. I even made my wife's lunch yesterday!

jokettle

When I realised I was spending €25+ per week on lunches in college, I started bringing my own. I can't afford that! No wonder some of the bills were often paid just a little bit late...

But at least I tried to eat healthily, because I understood that fat plus carbs plus sugar equals early death in an unfit, unhealthy body. Kids generally don't have that foresight, hece the queues in delis and pizza parlours. Hopefully parents will get smarter if money stays tight, and darling kiddy won't develop diabetes at age 15.

Saint_Mel

Went through 6 years of lunchtimes in school with either cheese, cornedbeef or banana sambos.

IvySlayer

I had a very bad diet during primary and secondary school. I didn't know then, plus my metabolism was a lot faster. A run in the morning does wonders.

And yes, I believe PE should include nutritional education. And if a child is obese, it's child abuse. Bar medical reasons.

Asphyxia

I had a packed lunch in primary school and when I went into secondary I used to buy my lunch at the cafeteria, they sold proper big dinners for 2 euro

I now live in walking distance (2 minutes) from my course so I like to go home and have a cuppa tea with a home made lunch.

Superbus

I have delicious packed lunches.

Today it was a red onion bagel, Parma ham, mozzarella, lettuce and pesto. Incredible.

Let down by the impossible orange and tap water though unfortunately.

Yesterday my friend got a pizza in Centra for €5 and the entire year were in awe of his daring.

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Oh good, a parent bashing thread. My son just started secondary school. He gets €2 a day to buy a hot chicken roll (in the canteen) which is HUGE apparently - the way he tells it is akin to a fisherman describing his prize catch. He drinks from the fountain or takes a bottle of tap water to school and whatever he can find in the cupboard for little lunch. On a Friday he gets a fiver to buy lunch in town. I probably couldn't fill him up as cheaply like that and would end up feeding the dog stale rolls/bread and left over ham. The other three cost more per day. My heart/pocket where I keep my heart is broken trying to feed them at school. I used to be happy with jam sandwiches.

KevinVonSpiel

Packed lunch is the cooler option if your parent is 'hip' & includes a joint or two.

darragh16

I'm still in college and I bring meself a few sambo's. Having said that I do prefere a roll from Centra or somewhere like that but is a cheaper option.

You save more money for drink!

Snowie

I bring pack lunch to college no offence i aint eating pig swill for lunch id rather have a boreing ham sambo..... besides a pack lunch cist me about 1.00 euro a day if even

a lunch in college costs me 5 euro i have better things to spend it on like.........................


coffee.... and markers and crayons and stuff

AnonoBoy

Ah you see all those fat little kids eating pizza for lunch and sausage rolls for breakfast. Then their stupid parents looks up something on the internet and decide that it must be a hormonal imbalance they have to make them the tubby little balls of annoyance that they are.

It's hilarious.



I ate so much cornedbeef when I was a kid I'm surprised I didn't turn into a cornedbeef.







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anniehoo

fryup wrote: »

i survived on cornbeef sandwiches for a full five years i

Me too (primary school though )...but the corned beef was five times thicker than the miniscule slivers of shyte you get now. JCs Swords.....ledgebags and still are.My mam used to buy two packs (packs were in a white plastic bag)..one for us to "rob" and the other to make the lunches. Cornbeef and salad cream sambos...god major cravin now.

Tayto were a serious treat (i would win the "who could make a pack of crisps last longest" game), you dont want to know how i made them last hours.:D

Dennis the Stone

Sandwiches: there's good aytin in them

cc-offe

I was like a bottomless pit as a teenager in school, I used to bring a packed lunch and buy rolls aswell at the school canteen, people in my class used to count my yogurts :mad: cos I used to bring in so many of them then I started bringing in 4 chicken wraps a day, 2 for me and 2 for my vulture friends and choc, crisps etc and go to the shop to the hot counter every day

I didn't care how uncool it was bringing in a packed lunch....everyone else was jealous

4zn76tysfajdxp

Sandwiches were uncool wha'? Wha'?

A V A

ibarelycare wrote: »

When I was in secondary school I'd get money one day a week as a treat to buy my lunch, and the rest of the week I'd get a packed lunch.

These kids must get at least €5 a day to buy lunches with. A lot would get even more. Sometimes I go up to Spar at lunch and there's an Apache Pizza beside it and it's always full of kids from the local secondary schools buying pizzas for lunch!

Parents would rather fork out €25-€50 per week for their kids lunches than encourage or even force them to eat packed lunches...pure laziness!

i take it your talking about the one's out in blanch??
i see it every day passing it ,im juts out of school two years and my mates use to come in with 5 squid every single day and buy a roll and a drink etc.in my secondary school,people who bring in packed lunches were not "cool",:rolleyes: stupid stuff !! i brought in a apcked lunch one day in 5th year and it was in one of those old kids lunch boxes with the de-tachable flasks at the top before and sat down at the table were i sit with the homeslices and thats a group of about 20 people and they all just looked at me as if to say wtf haha i just laughed and nibbled away and my ham and king crisp sangwidge

i got a €5 the odd time like once a month and got me lunch from that.it use to take me 10 mins to walk home so i got my hour lunch there!!

the shoite these students eat is unreal and its 5 days a week, if they get €5 a day thats 25 a week ,€100 a month and €1,200 a year , if you think about it , thats mental money for parents to spending on a kids lunch these days

OutlawPete

In Swords, there used to be a place called Alan's Hot Bread Shop, they did some fine sausage rolls so they did.

None of your M&Ms and fancy Cola drinks back then.

Well, there was actually, but we eat them afterwards.

a-k-47

Lunch time in our school theyre were just 2 old school shops around the corner. Used to get a few going around but was just to buy crisps n a refresher bar or some shyte, used to jump over the garden walls n hide when the principle went on a spin around to see who was outside school grounds without a permission lunch home note .. see kids in chippers now at lunch spoilt little ****ers, ham sandwiches bit of choc and the odd pound that was it! and that was only the mid to late 90s.!! lol at the bread paper wrapping the sandwiches when the til foil ran out ha :mad:

Super-Rush

So many memories of cleaning out my locker and throwing 8 moth old sandwiches at anyone who moved. I never liked corned beef.

foxinsox

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Kids these days are mutants.

When i was a kid I had tinfoil covered sandwhiches - Luncheon or Cornedbeef. A bag of crisps a capri-sun and a 5-4-3-2-1 bar. And I was one of the lucky ones.

Nowadays we have kids getting chineses at lunch hour...or big mutha-fukin snack boxes. No wonder they're walking around with beards and bellies.

You must be dead posh... tinfoil ??
None of that in my house!

In my day it was cornbeef sambos wrapped usually in the end bit of paper from the sliced pan and milk in a coke bottle.. not that I ever had coke :rolleyes:

On a good week I might get a Penguin or Wagon Wheel and maybe a packet of yellow pack mangy crisps from Quinnsworth!

Ruu_Old

We had our schoolbooks covered in left over wallpaper, or brown paper bags from the shopping and liked it! :mad:

SV

Ruu wrote: »

We had our schoolbooks covered in left over wallpaper, or brown paper bags from the shopping and liked it! :mad:

I was always jealous of the fúckers who got theirs covered in this lovely clear plastic..

living the high life they were..

Dravokivich

anniehoo wrote: »

Tayto were a serious treat (i would win the "who could make a pack of crisps last longest" game), you dont want to know how i made them last hours.:D

My Dad kept on telling me of how he licked his...

anyhow, in primary school it was mainly Jam Sambos... grew to hate jam because of it... only started getting back into Jam a few years ago...

Secondary School, was mainly Ham Sambo's... until 5th/6th year, I was working and bought Chiken Fillet Rolls and Dr Pepper for lunch.

Merch

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Tae in flask, milk in lucozade bottle and a sugar bag with hang sandwiches.

Cold tea and cold marmalade sandwhiches, I insisted on it at one point but progressed to corned beef and haslett or maybe fish paste , and covered in bread wrappers, we used bread wrappers to seal the lid of our milk too??

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

I lived within walking distance of my secondary school, so I always went home . . . and ate sandwiches!

That was the best, did that in secondary, the sandwhiches didnt turn to mush in your bag, plus progressed to ham

Ruu wrote: »

We had our schoolbooks covered in left over wallpaper, or brown paper bags from the shopping and liked it! :mad:

And we crawled to school in shorts on our hands and knees, backwards up a hill on broken glass, in the rain and snow, shoes!? we didnt have shoes
and we were are better for it too

conor678

I agree that initially when kids start off in secondary school from 1st-3rd year it's nice to have a bit of independence and buy your own lunch. however as was the case with me as you get older and more mature you see the benefits of a packed lunch in terms of nutrition and not regularly wasting your money on over priced foods.

It's a good habit to get kids used to having a packed lunch from a young age onwards because it will benefit them financially and nutritionally in the long run when their older.

If you think we're bad (and my old school did not promote healthy eating for children at all!) check out Jamie Oliver's School Dinner's in the States. Now that's shocking!!!

loike

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Ah you see all those fat little kids eating pizza for lunch and sausage rolls for breakfast. Then their stupid parents looks up something on the internet and decide that it must be a hormonal imbalance they have to make them the tubby little balls of annoyance that they are.

It's hilarious.



I ate so much cornedbeef when I was a kid I'm surprised I didn't turn into a cornedbeef.







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Im not fat nor was the other 200 odd people in my school who stayed in for lunch (well about 20 were). Mcd's was right beside my school and you could get loads of the euro saver menu and in the shop around the corner you could get a chicken fillet roll and drink for 2.50.

I miss my 8.45am jambon

conor678

conor678 wrote: »

I agree that initially when kids start off in secondary school from 1st-3rd year it's nice to have a bit of independence and buy your own lunch. however as was the case with me as you get older and more mature you see the benefits of a packed lunch in terms of nutrition and not regularly wasting your money on over priced foods.

That's it there, most students in secondary schools wouldn't give a feck as to the nutritional benefit of food...if it's nice then it's fair game.

Around about third year, I stopped bringing sandwiches in, same with most others...the Dunnes deli was just down the road (that's the problem there, cheap, tasty but ****e food that's easily accessible).

Used to love getting egg sandwiches though, oh yes!

Pittybitty

I survived on corned beef, ham, banana or jam sandwiches with a pack of popcorn and a drink of mi-wadi up until 5th year - I was earning after that so i progressed to a ham roll from the local centra! Think some parents nowadays have more money than sense

_feedback_

I used to be given sandwiches with this crap. Can't believe they are still making that stuff!

Reading this thread, the memories of the rotten smell of the christian brothers soup in the canteen come rushing back. It was only 20p, but the smell was fúcking horrible.

kfallon

Me Ma used to do a great packed lunch when I was in secondary school, enough to feed an army, the main course being a few hang sangwiches! Packet of crisps and a couple of mini chocolate bars and a drink, set you right up for the afternoon!

Used to always bring in me own rambos when I was in College and I get to go home now for lunch from work so none of these wankery coffee shops or sandwich 'bars' for me

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Alzheimers strikes!

What was that stuff called, the meat paste that came in dinky, little glass pots? I used to love it but it was only for high days and holy days.

Pittybitty

Was it Princes meat paste? With a blue label and lid? They still sell it in the supermarkets - I've been tempted to buy it on many occasions. Think I might just have to this time

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Pittybitty wrote: »

Was it Princes meat paste? With a blue label and lid? They still sell it in the supermarkets - I've been tempted to buy it on many occasions. Think I might just have to this time

That's the stuff although I don't think it was Princes in my day. It's lurking right behind the section of my brain that deals with remembering my kids' names.

ETA: The best thing ever was Cucumber Sandwich Spread but you can't get it any more.