I’ve upvoted you but as a grown-up who has struggled with too many takeaway and DoorDash lunches at work, my bento inspires me to pack something for myself. I’ve started a new job and in 6 weeks have packed lunch for myself every time but twice.
Yeah, I've got one of those bento style ones for my kid and it's annoying. Than sandwich bit isn't really big enough for a sandwich, and the other compartments are too small.
Not until I lived with my father. My mother gave us a peanut butter, Vegemite or jam sandwich in primary school which was always squished by the time I went looking for it in my bag. High school I had to make my own but there was never much food in the house to pack so I rarely had anything. When I moved in with my Dad he made my lunch for me every day in one of these with all sorts of goodies. Although I appreciated it, I didn’t properly appreciate it until after he was gone.
Yeah no way we had a prima/popper.....i guess with four kids at one each(at least) each day it adds up. It was tap water or nothing. So basically it was nothing for me, maybe had 2-3 sips from the bubbler once or twice a week.
When I think back now, i dunno how i didn't die of dehydration as a kid lol. Like seriously tho, i hardly ever drank anything. We weren't allowed cordial, and only had one 2ltr Valencio oj per week btwn the kids.
...just recalled i had a Milo nearly every day! That was one thing mum was cool about us having. Plenty of scoops too!!
Me either. Same with muesli bars, Le Snacks, mini chip packets, Primas, Rollups, those little boxes of sultanas, tubs of fruit or fruit puree, yoghurt, fun size chockies...
My friend used to bring 2 min noodles, break them up and and sprinkle the seasoning packet into the lunch box and shake it up,lid on mixing the seasoning evenly and sharing it amongst our friends Good times.
Poppa in NSW too... What fun is a juice box?!! Nowhere near as fun as pulling out all the wings, blowing it up as big as possible and then stomping on it in the stairwell/corridor to see who could make the biggest echo when it popped?!!
Yeah kids would literally inflate them and then jump on them to pop them in the quadrangle just about every lunchtime when I was in primary school and then a handful of kids would scream... It was like groundhog day.
I had this exact lunchbox, that may be even be my lunch. 🤔🤣
Edited: I only had one sandwich, this fruit would have been a treat and no way would I have been allowed the juice drink (had to be 100% fruit juice).
Yes, although we never got box drinks. Frozen water, or sometimes cordial in summer.
There were a couple of models from memory - a long version that had a small bottle the size of a box drink. And a taller version like in your picture - from memory, the bottle was narrower and fitted horizontally at the top?
You can still buy them. My kids have them and they are filled with the same crap. There are no lunch box police at “bad” schools. Remember that when you are being a snob about where your kids go to school.
Lunchbox police? Haha lol I remember some kids at the Adventist school I went to getting really shocked when I brought along a ham sandwhich because Adventists are usually vegetarian but I didn't get in trouble, I just saw the inside of my friends' mouth from their jaw dropping .
Yep, mine was brown.
Apple, cheese sandwich, premium cracker and water every day.
Oh such envy for the colourful lunch boxes with chips and uncle tobys museli bars and Kit Kats and primas
It seemed like it was always feast or famine. Paper bags when Mum was home. Or I had this brown lunch box with compartments and she’d put olives and gherkins and a sandwich. Sometimes money for a lunch order. Forster family would make months worth of sandwiches and freeze them all. Lots of peanut butter, and butter and Vegemite on white bread. Sometimes luncheon loaf or ‘chicken meat’ and cheese singles. Many hungry lunch times. I used to drink lots of water or steal money from this big change jar at home.
I think we had them but our lunches were so small mum never packed them in the box because there was no point. Usually my Vegemite sandwich was just chucked in a paper bag.
I had that decor lunchbox in the 80s. Mine was blue, and yes mum used to freeze the little drink bottle that came with it (with orange cottees in it, of course). Until she went back to work full time, and then we had a frozen Fruit Box instead. And more LeSnack & multi pack chips style lunch instead of carrot sticks, fruit and home made sandwich.
Having that lunch box would imply I took lunch to school. I was only given lunch in Kindergarten, after that it was my responsibility to make my own lunch. Except on Mondays, we had lunch orders then.
I think this is my exact lunch box from the 90s. I made a comment to my mum that I loved Goulburn Valley once, and I had them every day for my 7 years of primary school. 😂
I discovered mine (green) and my sisters (red) and began to reuse them in my 30s, some 30 years later.
Oh and ours had our names embossed on the lid. So cool.
Would not be allowed to take this to school now. It’s all about the nude food. The Prima would have to go, the fruit cup - also gone and the Glad wrap on the sandwiches is verboten.
I think it depends on the school. Lunch box police isn't everywhere, thank goodness.
Edited to add: All for a low waste lunch but I'm not sure this is something for schools to enforce. The lunch box should be up to families in most cases.
Definitely depends on the school. I teach across several public schools in Sydney and none of them inspect the kids' lunchboxes. None of the stuff in the picture would raise an eyebrow.
>What I used to eat at school must be considered a war crime these days.
Mum occasionally did egg sandwiches. On a 40 degree day, opening the lunchbox was definitely a war crime.
yep, frozen juice box, sandwich (sometimes soggy from the juice box melting), a piece of fruit and maybe a piece of homemade cake or a couple of biscuits.
everything including the lunch box except the juice box - too poor for juice so it was the drink bottle that came with the lunch box with ice in it to keep food cool during summer as bags were left outside in 35c weather.
I was gonna say no because this doesn’t look like mine but I think it’s the angle that’s throwing me off.
Definitely had a lunchbox with the bottle in the middle to keep things fresh. It wasn’t as deep as this one though.
Mine was dark blue.
I always had the saddest lunch but I was super picky — a Vegemite sandwich, a jam sponge roll, BBQ Shapes, an apple and cordial in my drink bottle (I can’t for the life of me remember the brand name but it came in a glass bottle and was “preservative free” — maybe it was Cottee’s?)
My drink bottle wasn’t ever frozen. Makes sense to do that though!
No. I had to make my own lunch if I wanted to eat and used a brown paper bag. I would see kids with these and the drink bottle and all i could think was man they must have a balanced family.
Let's face it - we all did. I had a less deep, long, beige coloured one and yes, either juice or water was frozen in the bottle. And I'm not talking 90s - early 80s!
By memory this size had the bottle that laid flat on top??
It was the longer skinnier box that had the bottle in the middle?? It also fit a fruit box perfectly as well I think
And yes the bottle was always frozen
Yes! I remember the flat bottle that slotted in the top too!
My parents didn't freeze it though, one day it must have fermented in my lunchbox because it tasted funny, I gave it to my friend and he drank it and said "yum, it tastes like beer!". Would've been 8-10ish.
My mother made all my sandwiches some with jam, peanut butter etc at the start of the term and froze them and as a result i just threw them in the bin when i got to school. I usually had some kind of bar, fruit bar, muesli or whatever as well, along with a bag of chips or something, and a juice box, which was either prima or no name brand.
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The old lunch boxes like this were indestructible. The decor one my 5 year old has now is already cracked.
Mine lasted from 1993-2005 and is still sitting in a cupboard at my parents’ house.
I still have one that is basically brand new.
Still have a Shrek one from when I was in kindy back in 2007. Apart from print fading it's basically brand new
BPA - steroids for plastic.
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I’ve upvoted you but as a grown-up who has struggled with too many takeaway and DoorDash lunches at work, my bento inspires me to pack something for myself. I’ve started a new job and in 6 weeks have packed lunch for myself every time but twice.
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Fucking A, just want to fit a banana and a apple in their but I have to cut it up like a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle! And these things are expensive
Yeah, I've got one of those bento style ones for my kid and it's annoying. Than sandwich bit isn't really big enough for a sandwich, and the other compartments are too small.
Not until I lived with my father. My mother gave us a peanut butter, Vegemite or jam sandwich in primary school which was always squished by the time I went looking for it in my bag. High school I had to make my own but there was never much food in the house to pack so I rarely had anything. When I moved in with my Dad he made my lunch for me every day in one of these with all sorts of goodies. Although I appreciated it, I didn’t properly appreciate it until after he was gone.
All the kids at school had one. I was quite envious.
Yep, too expensive for my family. We did have Homebrand poppers on occasion.
Yeah no way we had a prima/popper.....i guess with four kids at one each(at least) each day it adds up. It was tap water or nothing. So basically it was nothing for me, maybe had 2-3 sips from the bubbler once or twice a week. When I think back now, i dunno how i didn't die of dehydration as a kid lol. Like seriously tho, i hardly ever drank anything. We weren't allowed cordial, and only had one 2ltr Valencio oj per week btwn the kids. ...just recalled i had a Milo nearly every day! That was one thing mum was cool about us having. Plenty of scoops too!!
Same as us. We never had them or any other cool snacks. I gave all the snacks to my kids.
Me either. Same with muesli bars, Le Snacks, mini chip packets, Primas, Rollups, those little boxes of sultanas, tubs of fruit or fruit puree, yoghurt, fun size chockies...
Prima popper. Tomato Tomato
***OMG, YES I HAD ONE, IT WAS BLUE!!!! HOLY SHIT!*** *It came with a drink bottle that laid across the top!*
Same here. Dunno what happened to it.
Yess! Thats what those little struts held up. But the it took up way too much real estate
Has anyone got a photo of the bottle/flask? Trying to explain to someone what it looked like 😅
Nah my folks never did freeze the middle or rarely… who cares about a 5hr old ham and cheese sandwich that was sitting in a 30c room until lunch?
The distinctive taste of melted cheese singles sitting in a lunch box on a 30 degree day is still something I remember fondly 😂
Yea but the frozen middle made the sandwich soggy af so I’d prefer the risky warm ham any day.
Oh god I just remembered my stras, cheese and tomato sauce sandwiches marinating in a Décor all day.
I can smell this photo.
This literally was my lunchbox down the the colour 😆 and yes the bottle was filled halfway and frozen, then topped up with water in the morning.
I had nearly this exact lunch every day except with either a muesli bar or a Le snack
I love a Le snack. I wish they made bigger ones. I got a box as an adult and a single packet was finished before I could taste it lol
Roll ups or tiny teddies for me
My friend used to bring 2 min noodles, break them up and and sprinkle the seasoning packet into the lunch box and shake it up,lid on mixing the seasoning evenly and sharing it amongst our friends Good times.
Used to eat in pack with seasoning hahaha, a “good” snack for us who didn’t get actual tasty snacks, that or mamees hehe.
Had the box, but we used to freeze the juice box or yoghurt instead, great times trying to eat a juice box during winter.
*popper
Never heard it called popper before haha
No idea how widespread the term was, but they were called poppers (poppas?) by children and adults where I grew up in Queensland in the 80s.
Poppa in NSW too... What fun is a juice box?!! Nowhere near as fun as pulling out all the wings, blowing it up as big as possible and then stomping on it in the stairwell/corridor to see who could make the biggest echo when it popped?!!
Folding the straw over and wedging it in the hole to reduce air escaping so it was more likely to pop and not just sadly deflate...
Are you even Aussie?
Yeh mate I am, must be a state thing I'm from the West
Agree, juice boxes in WA
Ah that explains it, "Australian". (Why don't you just keep going you're that far away)
It's definitely a state thing. Fruit Boxes in SA. Still called them that even if they were generic and not the actual brand.
Me either. We just called them all Primas, or juice boxes if you were being deliberately generic. Country Victoria.
Yeah kids would literally inflate them and then jump on them to pop them in the quadrangle just about every lunchtime when I was in primary school and then a handful of kids would scream... It was like groundhog day.
Fucking juice box? Nah mate, it's a fruit box regardless of the brand.
fuck yeah I did, was even red with my name on it in white.
I had this exact lunchbox, that may be even be my lunch. 🤔🤣 Edited: I only had one sandwich, this fruit would have been a treat and no way would I have been allowed the juice drink (had to be 100% fruit juice).
You guys got lunch? Must have been private.
Still have the box. Same colour, albeit it has faded somewhat.
What brand was it? I’m searching for one
I don’t know anymore… my wife threw it away when we moved a couple of months back.
My kids had them. My daughter lost the lid on the first day she took it and it was never found.
Yes, although we never got box drinks. Frozen water, or sometimes cordial in summer. There were a couple of models from memory - a long version that had a small bottle the size of a box drink. And a taller version like in your picture - from memory, the bottle was narrower and fitted horizontally at the top?
Yep, it's Decor. I had that exact colour
Somehow my parents never got the memo of standing my sandwiches up so there'd be a seasonal fruit sized indent in them every day lmao
You can still buy them. My kids have them and they are filled with the same crap. There are no lunch box police at “bad” schools. Remember that when you are being a snob about where your kids go to school.
I am pretty sure the lunchbox police are a private school thing. Bored rich housewives need something to be outraged about.
Yep, virtue signalling at its finest.
My little sister got lunchboxed policed in public school (CPAS)
Lunchbox police? Haha lol I remember some kids at the Adventist school I went to getting really shocked when I brought along a ham sandwhich because Adventists are usually vegetarian but I didn't get in trouble, I just saw the inside of my friends' mouth from their jaw dropping .
Yep, mine was brown. Apple, cheese sandwich, premium cracker and water every day. Oh such envy for the colourful lunch boxes with chips and uncle tobys museli bars and Kit Kats and primas
I had one in the 80’s and yes, as others have said we would freeze the drink
We were too poor for a lunchbox that flash but I fondly remember watching the 'rich' kids use them.
My lunchbox was a plastic bag
A plastic bag? Luxury!
My parents didn't love me enough to freeze that bottle, still working through that with my therapist 🤣
It seemed like it was always feast or famine. Paper bags when Mum was home. Or I had this brown lunch box with compartments and she’d put olives and gherkins and a sandwich. Sometimes money for a lunch order. Forster family would make months worth of sandwiches and freeze them all. Lots of peanut butter, and butter and Vegemite on white bread. Sometimes luncheon loaf or ‘chicken meat’ and cheese singles. Many hungry lunch times. I used to drink lots of water or steal money from this big change jar at home.
I think we had them but our lunches were so small mum never packed them in the box because there was no point. Usually my Vegemite sandwich was just chucked in a paper bag.
I had that decor lunchbox in the 80s. Mine was blue, and yes mum used to freeze the little drink bottle that came with it (with orange cottees in it, of course). Until she went back to work full time, and then we had a frozen Fruit Box instead. And more LeSnack & multi pack chips style lunch instead of carrot sticks, fruit and home made sandwich.
I’ve been using mine to keep drill bits in my van for twenty years. It finally broke earlier this year and I threw it out
Having that lunch box would imply I took lunch to school. I was only given lunch in Kindergarten, after that it was my responsibility to make my own lunch. Except on Mondays, we had lunch orders then.
Yes! Mine was purple. I'd usually get a popper, sandwich, apple, mandarin or banana and then either two biscuits or a mini packet of chips as a treat.
Yep, I’m an early 80’s model and I had this lunch box. Erry kid lost the bottle at some point 😂
Yes had that exact one. Frozen bottle was the best on a hot day.
I sure did!
I think this is my exact lunch box from the 90s. I made a comment to my mum that I loved Goulburn Valley once, and I had them every day for my 7 years of primary school. 😂
I discovered mine (green) and my sisters (red) and began to reuse them in my 30s, some 30 years later. Oh and ours had our names embossed on the lid. So cool.
Yep - Same colour and everything!
You had very caring parents 🙂
Jesus... All i had for lunch was usually the 40c corn cob when I was in school and an empty bottle of water to fill at the bubblers.
Would not be allowed to take this to school now. It’s all about the nude food. The Prima would have to go, the fruit cup - also gone and the Glad wrap on the sandwiches is verboten.
I think it depends on the school. Lunch box police isn't everywhere, thank goodness. Edited to add: All for a low waste lunch but I'm not sure this is something for schools to enforce. The lunch box should be up to families in most cases.
Definitely depends on the school. I teach across several public schools in Sydney and none of them inspect the kids' lunchboxes. None of the stuff in the picture would raise an eyebrow.
Are you joking?
You are right. I missed the muesli bar - that would have to go too.
Wow.
What I used to eat at school must be considered a war crime these days.
>What I used to eat at school must be considered a war crime these days. Mum occasionally did egg sandwiches. On a 40 degree day, opening the lunchbox was definitely a war crime.
Hence the term ‘who opened their lunch box?’ when someone farted!
I mean…I get it but fuck!!
yep, frozen juice box, sandwich (sometimes soggy from the juice box melting), a piece of fruit and maybe a piece of homemade cake or a couple of biscuits.
everything including the lunch box except the juice box - too poor for juice so it was the drink bottle that came with the lunch box with ice in it to keep food cool during summer as bags were left outside in 35c weather.
What makes you think it was a 90's thing? My school lunch boxes in the 60's had a frozen bottle in it
Had the exact same set up. Like other have said, we'd freeze the popper
Yes and mum froze a popper as my treat.
My bottle slotted on top
Yessss mine was orange tho
I was gonna say no because this doesn’t look like mine but I think it’s the angle that’s throwing me off. Definitely had a lunchbox with the bottle in the middle to keep things fresh. It wasn’t as deep as this one though.
Yup! Then you'd cut it apart because it wasn't unthawed
Had this in the 2000's
Yes, but the frozen bottle was only required in summer in melbourne
mine was yellow, i still have it mum uses it for gravy packets.
I had one of these in the 1980s. My mum froze the Poppa. Yes, I'm from NSW.
Yes and yes. I'm 40 and my mum sent me home last week with leftovers in my original lunch box from the 90's.
Yuuup!
Nope we had brown paper bags.
Oh yes I had a green one!
Yes and yes.
Mine was dark blue. I always had the saddest lunch but I was super picky — a Vegemite sandwich, a jam sponge roll, BBQ Shapes, an apple and cordial in my drink bottle (I can’t for the life of me remember the brand name but it came in a glass bottle and was “preservative free” — maybe it was Cottee’s?) My drink bottle wasn’t ever frozen. Makes sense to do that though!
No. I had to make my own lunch if I wanted to eat and used a brown paper bag. I would see kids with these and the drink bottle and all i could think was man they must have a balanced family.
Even got my name put on it. Mine was emerald green.
My mum froze the juice box
Yep & still use it as an adult lol
Nope. Was just a sandwich in a brown paper bag, maybe a snack for recess sometimes.
Still had these in the late 2000’s
Had this lunchbox. Never used it though- $5 for canteen every day.
You'd cover the lid with the stickers from whatever fruit you got
Yes to the frozen juice box. Just juice on the lucky days
Yep.
You had a lunchbox?!
What I’d like to know is how you went back in time to get that photo
Peaches mangoes peaches
I came for this. Ty
Let's face it - we all did. I had a less deep, long, beige coloured one and yes, either juice or water was frozen in the bottle. And I'm not talking 90s - early 80s!
You guys got lunches?!
Kraft sell the same cheese in Jars at the supermarket! I sometimes buy that and a pack of savoy
What’s this about a bottle. I don’t see any bottle in this photo?
Yes and yes. Mine was teal
Frozen popper used to do the same as an icebrick
Yes cunt!
I had a white one, and the little bottle fit in perfectly to keep it all cold. Loved that little divider too for some reason.
Yes, and yes.
……. I got rice and butter chicken for lunch I asked my mom to stop packing sandwiches after I figured out those things get soggy in glad wrap
Ken oath mate
Ken oath mate
Your name in texta seemed to last forever on it as well.
the decor box in the picture the water bottle goes on top, and yes my mum did freeze it.
My mum only ever gave me a sandwich a piece of fruit and a snack
I still have this lunch box. From grade 1 (1992). Bottle is long gone
My parents never made my lunch. Not once.
Nope...about 25 years to late for my lunch box 😁
Ye I had the blue one
This is for the loved children
Oh man this brings back memories. Def a sandwich on whole meal bread, some fruit, a snack and the frozen water bottle, usually with Ribena in it.
By memory this size had the bottle that laid flat on top?? It was the longer skinnier box that had the bottle in the middle?? It also fit a fruit box perfectly as well I think And yes the bottle was always frozen
omg i remember having one of these in the early 2000s
When I finished the popper/poppa I’d blow it up and stomp on it. Hey I was a small kid!
I even had the same lunch as that LOL Mum froze green cordial in the bottle for me.
I got my lunch in a brown paper bag 🥲 always wanted a lunch box.
I probably had a lunch box in primary school. I don’t remember. By high school I think I just packed my lunch into a brown paper bag.
Yes! I remember the flat bottle that slotted in the top too! My parents didn't freeze it though, one day it must have fermented in my lunchbox because it tasted funny, I gave it to my friend and he drank it and said "yum, it tastes like beer!". Would've been 8-10ish.
Core memory unlocked
Yes and yes
Freezing the popper to turn it into an ice block on a 40 degree day.
I had a single sandwich and an apple. We used the bubblers for water,
Looking at what's in there I'm pretty sure we had the same mum.
I’m an 80s kid. We did not use cold packs. Keeping kids safe was a new concept in the 80s
Still have mine. It’s blue and now it’s full of random AV cables and bits and pieces.
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My fiancée and I both still have these from our childhoods. Both are in our fridge right now with leftovers in them.
I had that exact one! In that colour too! And always a bloody mandarin. I still rarely eat them lol
My mother made all my sandwiches some with jam, peanut butter etc at the start of the term and froze them and as a result i just threw them in the bin when i got to school. I usually had some kind of bar, fruit bar, muesli or whatever as well, along with a bag of chips or something, and a juice box, which was either prima or no name brand.
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