Packed Lunch

fryup · 21-09-2010 08:31PM #1

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 · 21-09-2010 08:35PM

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 · 21-09-2010 08:36PM

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 · 21-09-2010 08:49PM

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

OutlawPete · 21-09-2010 08:52PM

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 · 21-09-2010 08:54PM

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 · 21-09-2010 09:04PM

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

scientific1982 · 21-09-2010 09:05PM

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

Sofiztikated · 21-09-2010 09:10PM

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 · 21-09-2010 09:39PM

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

Killer Pigeon · 21-09-2010 09:39PM

Damn you OP.

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

Aidric · 21-09-2010 09:42PM

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 · 21-09-2010 09:43PM

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 · 21-09-2010 09:43PM

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 · 21-09-2010 09:49PM

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 · 21-09-2010 10:13PM

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 · 21-09-2010 10:18PM

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 · 21-09-2010 10:27PM

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 · 21-09-2010 10:37PM

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 · 21-09-2010 10:42PM

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 · 21-09-2010 10:51PM

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

IvySlayer · 21-09-2010 10:56PM

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 · 21-09-2010 11:13PM

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 · 21-09-2010 11:18PM

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.

up for anything · 21-09-2010 11:20PM

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 · 22-09-2010 12:46AM

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

darragh16 · 22-09-2010 12:49AM

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 · 22-09-2010 12:55AM

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 · 22-09-2010 01:01AM

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 · 22-09-2010 01:11AM

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 · 22-09-2010 01:41AM

Sandwiches: there's good aytin in them

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