Fun question: favorite elementary school lunch

amanda_deanda01
amanda_deanda01 Posts: 43 Member
edited November 24 in Food and Nutrition
Remember back when you were a kid and didn't have a care in the world about what you ate....yeah I miss those days, especially the school lunches! So let's gets nostalgic and tell me what your favorite school lunch was! Mine was the chicken strips that were the size of pencils, mashed potatoes, a roll and the vanilla flavored milk
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  • Will_Run_for_Food
    Will_Run_for_Food Posts: 561 Member
    Leftover KFC. Everyone was always jealous of the kid who brought in those two cold drumsticks.
  • DaintyWhisper
    DaintyWhisper Posts: 221 Member
    edited January 2018
    Nacho day was always my favorite! I liked those little brownie cakes with powdered sugar on top, too. I remember being able to buy snacks if you brought extra money, so I would save up 50 cents for a zebra cake. : ) Yum Yum.
  • Kimblesnbits13
    Kimblesnbits13 Posts: 369 Member
    Pizza!!!!
  • Spliner1969
    Spliner1969 Posts: 3,233 Member
    I'll 2nd Pizza day!
  • MsArriabella
    MsArriabella Posts: 469 Member
    Italian Dunkers! Basically cheesy garlic bread with marinara sauce to dip it in.
  • crazykatlady820
    crazykatlady820 Posts: 301 Member
    Chicken sandwiches!
  • crazykatlady820
    crazykatlady820 Posts: 301 Member
    And the dinner rolls. They had the best dinner rolls!
  • UK92
    UK92 Posts: 53 Member
    edited January 2018
    Turkey Twizzlers, until Jamie Oliver ruined everything.
  • RaeBeeBaby
    RaeBeeBaby Posts: 4,246 Member
    edited January 2018
    With a big family, we only got hot lunch once or twice a month. It was almost always pizza day!

    So to add to the fun, what was the worst school lunch? At my school they had something called baloney cup. It was a slice of baloney (bologna) with a scoop of fake mashed potatoes in the middle and a sprinkle of processed cheese on top. Then baked in a muffin tin until it was hard and shaped like a "cup". Nobody could ever figure out how to eat it. With your hands? with a fork? I tried it once and thereafter saved my hot lunch days for pizza.
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    Gotta go with pizza, too.
  • CindyLouWhoinWhoville
    CindyLouWhoinWhoville Posts: 1,217 Member
    Vegetable Beef Soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwich. I loved those *kitten* sandwiches!
  • kam26001
    kam26001 Posts: 2,794 Member
    We had "pizza bread". I don't know if my school was too poor to make real pizza or what but pizza on french bread was a delicious idea.

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  • MichelleWithMoxie
    MichelleWithMoxie Posts: 1,817 Member
    I didn't normally do school lunch, usually brought it from home. But on pizza days I'd beg my mom for lunch money lol. So, I remember that as a favorite from elementary school. + Choco milk.
  • jackiepreston17
    jackiepreston17 Posts: 97 Member
    Pepperoni sandwich. Two slices of bread drowning in butter with marinara, mozzarella, and pepperoni sandwiched in between. We liked to call it the 'Heart Attach' lunch, but it was delicious.
  • Crafty_camper123
    Crafty_camper123 Posts: 1,440 Member
    It was pizza day for me as well. And by pizza I mean those overly-greasy square things they plopped on your tray that you had to fold in half like a taco or lose all your toppings. But they were so good!, LOL
    @kam26001 , French bread pizza is amazing!! Makes for a perfect quick weeknight dinner! You just reminded though of when we had spaghetti and "garlic bread". It was almost always leftover hamburger buns that were going a little stale. So they just slapped garlic butter on them, toasted them and called it "garlic bread"

  • jesspen91
    jesspen91 Posts: 1,383 Member
    Pink custard!
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  • crabbybrianna
    crabbybrianna Posts: 344 Member
    I went to a few schools when I was growing up, and none of them served lunch. Everyone either went home for lunch or brought their own. Is it a normal thing for schools to serve lunch to kids?

    The only food I remember being served was a snack in kindergarten, and it was cheez whiz on saltine crackers, and it was awful!
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    Stromboli or Saulsbury steak w/ buttered noodles. And chocolate milk on Fridays!
  • MichelleWithMoxie
    MichelleWithMoxie Posts: 1,817 Member
    crabbybrianna wrote: »
    I went to a few schools when I was growing up, and none of them served lunch. Everyone either went home for lunch or brought their own. Is it a normal thing for schools to serve lunch to kids?

    The only food I remember being served was a snack in kindergarten, and it was cheez whiz on saltine crackers, and it was awful!

    You must have gone to very small schools? It's very common for school lunch to be offered for students from K-12, at least here in the U.S.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I think my mom packed me a bologna sandwich pretty much everyday...
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    My school had HUGE fluffy rolls. They were the only thing worth eating there. Sometimes I would just buy a couple of rolls instead of a lunch tray.

    We lived near the lady who made these rolls and I have her recipe for them, but I'm sort of afraid to try it. When we've tried it in the past, they weren't nearly as good--I think the recipe doesn't scale down well--and I'm also concerned that I'll eat the whole pan.
  • kam26001
    kam26001 Posts: 2,794 Member
    crabbybrianna wrote: »
    The only food I remember being served was a snack in kindergarten, and it was cheez whiz on saltine crackers, and it was awful!
    Sounds like Handi-Snacks.. so good!

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  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    It was a long time ago and I don't remember liking anything very much. Late 70's to early 1980's Maybe mac and cheese. I took my lunch often in my cool metal Peanuts lunchbox and it was usually a sandwich, thermos of milk, fruit? I remember cheese sandwiches- white bread, velvetta, miracle whip.

    My elementary school did not have a kitchen that I knew of. I'm not sure how the food got prepared. It was served from a table set up in the corner of the gym.
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    Chicken noodle soup & egg salad sandwich

    We never had pizza, but they made pizza buns out of hamburger buns, and they were really good
  • crabbybrianna
    crabbybrianna Posts: 344 Member
    MichSmish wrote: »
    crabbybrianna wrote: »
    I went to a few schools when I was growing up, and none of them served lunch. Everyone either went home for lunch or brought their own. Is it a normal thing for schools to serve lunch to kids?

    The only food I remember being served was a snack in kindergarten, and it was cheez whiz on saltine crackers, and it was awful!

    You must have gone to very small schools? It's very common for school lunch to be offered for students from K-12, at least here in the U.S.

    I went to schools in Canada and the US (Alberta and Washington state). Maybe they were small? I didn’t think they were that small, they were pretty normal schools. My high school had a cafeteria where you could buy food, but it wasn’t very good and most people didn’t eat from there. I remember everyone bought hash browns and chips, but not much else.
    kam26001 wrote: »
    crabbybrianna wrote: »
    The only food I remember being served was a snack in kindergarten, and it was cheez whiz on saltine crackers, and it was awful!
    Sounds like Handi-Snacks.. so good!

    044000038113%20-%20Ritz%20Handi-Snacks,%20Crackers%20'N%20Cheese%20Dip,%200.95%20oz,%2030%20ct-500x500.png

    The peanut butter Handi-Snacks were amazing! The cheese ones, not so much.
  • WilmaValley
    WilmaValley Posts: 1,092 Member
    Fish sticks!
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    Bbq riblets!!! Basically the same meat as in the McRib, only in small nugget-sized pieces, with bbq on the side.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    Oh and Lunch Lady Dave, the guy in the sweat pants, made the most amazing maple walnut cookies. At least he said he was making them. Now that I'm older and wiser, I think he was full of *kitten*.
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