Adults--did your mother put ice packs in your lunch?

[Liberty Belle]

No, but I usually brought either peanut butter and jelly or tomato sandwiches (mmm - haven't had a tomato sandwich in a while).

 

[barkley]

Sounds like we old folk had a lot of fun back in the day.

heck yeah-and whoever knew someone who brought veggies in their sack lunch (well, maybe ant's on a log-but it was way more peanut butter and raisins than celery). no such thing as those individual pre-measure bags of chips-just as many as you could cram into the sandwich bag. no mini oreos or graham bears-full honkin sized oreos, hostess pies or cupcakes (if you were lucky) and those hunts puddings in the little pop top cans
remember "nutter flutters"?-pure calories, fat and sugar

 

[dismom2]

heck yeah-and whoever knew someone who brought veggies in their sack lunch (well, maybe ant's on a log-but it was way more peanut butter and raisins than celery). no such thing as those individual pre-measure bags of chips-just as many as you could cram into the sandwich bag. no mini oreos or graham bears-full honkin sized oreos, hostess pies or cupcakes (if you were lucky) and those hunts puddings in the little pop top cans
remember "nutter flutters"?-pure calories, fat and sugar

And the sandwich bags didn't zip shut--you had to fold that flap over. My mother always wrapped our sandwiches in wax paper first, then put it in the baggie.

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

heck yeah-and whoever knew someone who brought veggies in their sack lunch (well, maybe ant's on a log-but it was way more peanut butter and raisins than celery). no such thing as those individual pre-measure bags of chips-just as many as you could cram into the sandwich bag. no mini oreos or graham bears-full honkin sized oreos, hostess pies or cupcakes (if you were lucky) and those hunts puddings in the little pop top cans
remember "nutter flutters"?-pure calories, fat and sugar

Do you remember when they had those giant sized Oreos, individually wrapped, those were the best? Never took veggies.

Ahhhh the good old days, how did we ever survive????? Life was so much simplier then

Suzanne

 

[themarquis]

And the sandwich bags didn't zip shut--you had to fold that flap over. My mother always wrapped our sandwiches in wax paper first, then put it in the baggie.

I think there were also these weird "bags" made of wax paper. Same deal -- you had to fold the top over for them to actually close. And they sorta made your food taste like wax

 

[Cindy B]

We got free lunch for a short time. I remember getting the favorite treat of chocolate covered raisins. It was a large clump of raisins that were dipped in chocolate.. it was pure heaven.

I was in 5th grade when Capri Suns came out.. like another PP. That made it very helpful for my mom when purchasing things.

I also remember buying cigarettes for my parents at the corner store or even beer at the "package store" (aka the bar across the street). Of course we were little kids and the owners knew my dad.

I also remember walking to school as a K and 1st grader by ourselves to schools (my sister and I). This was in the INNER CITY! This would never ever happen today.

 

[englishteacha]

Once I got old enough to protest, my mom stopped sending in lunch meat sandwiches. Baloney a la locker is just gross. Blech. I took PB and J every day...really, honestly, every day. I did get an ice pack to keep my drink cool once I outgrew the thermos. I bought lunch sometimes in jr. high, but our lunch lines in high school were so long I went back to PB and J.

We had a giant station wagon, and I loved to ride in the "far back" until there were seatbelt laws. I rode the bus every day, even senior year. My parents refused to drive me to school as long as there was a perfectly good school bus that would take me.

 

[Tink415]

No ice packs. When we went on school trips my mom would send a can of soda as a treat and cover with aluminum foil to keep it cold I remember the waxed paper bags too, they didn't bother me tho.
Summer of 1998 we moved to a new state and I sent my daughter to daycare-camp and forgot to put an ice pack in her lunch one day. The teacher told me it was against the law to not use an ice pack I never checked if that was true but I didn't forget again

 

[gate_pourri]

No. Although I rarely ate the lunches my mother packed for me. I typically bought lunch with the money my father gave me and threw out the 'nasty healthy lunch' my mother packed... Ahh... The life of a divorced family child. Oh... and yes, I 'worked' the 'system'...

 

[Diznygrl]

Nope, but I think I got mostly peanut butter and jelly sandwiches anyway. If my mom ever packed any kind of meat sandwich, she would use butter instead of mayo.

On cold days I would get soup in my thermos.


We also had a beat up old van with a HUGE, open backseat area. My brother and I just sat on the floor. When dad would hit the brakes a little too hard, we would go tumbling a couple feet, nearly slamming into the dashboard! We thought it was a riot.

 

[bluesaturn]

I don't think my family ever owned an ice pack. I took lunch meat sandwiches all the time that sat out all day and never got sick. And we had no air conditioning in elementary school and none in high school until I was a senior. Most people with ice packs just used them as a toy anyway, I never thought of them as essential. The best part, this wasn't the 70s or even the 80s. I was the 90s and 00s. Sorry old folks, the "good old days" weren't that long ago when it comes to suspicious lunches. Although, I have always worn a seat belt, so you've got that on me.

 

[JennaTX]

I remember my Mom wrapping foil around my drink thinking that would keep it cold?

 

[OctMtnWoods]

I'm in my 40's. I remember lots of peanut butter sandwiches or bologna sandwiches. No ice packs. I don't remember what the drink was. I think I bought the milk at school for 5 cents. Some greasy chips in a baggie. And some grapes probably. Never got sick.

I do recall that the only time I did get sick and puked at school was on a rare day that I had bought lunch at school. Our school didn't have a cafeteria. The food was made off side & brought to our school in individual foil trays wrapped in foil while attempting to keep it warm. Often it wasn't. And the accompaning cold tray of food often wasn't cold either. Everything was usually soggy from sweating. Yuck. They were called Satellite lunches because they were made offsite. A name of the 1960s-1970s if I ever heard one.

 

[tennisfan]

I went to school in the late 80's-90's. I'm in the UK & never had an ice pack in my lunch. I used to always have meat filling in my sandwiches, my drink was never cold either. I was never ill.

 

[dbogen]

I don't remember what kind of sandwitch it was, but I still have my Donnie and Marie Thermous in the attic. I wonder what that is worth?

Oh and the chocolate pudding snack packs in the metal containers with the pup tops. Yummmmmmm

 

[MickeysMommy]

Nope no ice packs...but I did have a metal Strawberry Shortcake lunch box and a plastic Smurf's one....(early 80s)

It didn't even occur to me about the ice pack till I was in NC taking care of my cousin's kids for a few days and they had ice packs

 

[K and K's Mommy]

Oh goodness no! I didn't die either.

By the 5th grade (1980), Capri Suns had come out.

I was in fifth grade when Capri Suns came out too! Absolutely loved them!

No ice packs from my mom either!

 

[Frye7127]

I had to laugh about this, but no I never had ice packs in my lunchbox.

My SD mother called me one day screaming and having a god-awful bloody fit over my packing SD lunch and not putting an ice pack in it. She ate lunch at 10:10 for crying out loud. Nothing had time to get warm from the time she left the house. I had to laugh my butt off when I got off of the phone.

We didn't get to bring water bottles to school either - another thing I have to laugh about. Yes, they are going to die of thirst if they don't get a drink right when they ask for it.

 

[Dalton5]

I remember my Mom wrapping foil around my drink thinking that would keep it cold?

I confess....I still do this for my kids

Never had an ice pack in my lunch just warm bologna.

And as for seat belts, heck, half the time I was laying in the package tray up behind the back seat.

 

[Dalton5]

The thermoses WE had WAY back then were metal on the outside and glass on the inside.

And woe be to the child who dropped their thermos. You could hear the broken glass shaking around.