What did you take to school to eat at playtime (milk, snacks)

[dizzybint]

When I was at primary school way back in the early 50s kids didnt get much money or many sweets for that matter.. my mother gave me a bread roll with jam or butter,or toasted bread for my "playpiece" as we called it in Scotland... if lucky I would get a chocolate biscuit too... ..I was talking to my grandson and couldnt believe the money kids get now for their morning break at school..to spend at the tuck shop...

[Hopes]

Was "playtime" what we call lunch? I was raised in the 60s and 70s. We just ate what the school cafeteria served. I can't even guess what it cost back then. Maybe 35 cents, maybe 65 cents. I think lunch is $2.50 now. They didn't start serving breakfast until I was in 8th grade, but most students ate breakfast at home and that's still the norm today where I live. The school breakfast is really there for the disadvantaged kids to have a chance to eat. That's the whole purpose of the breakfast program.

[BirdieBelle]

We didn't have a snack when I was in elementary school.

Now at my son's school, which is overcrowded at the moment, his 5th-grade class eats lunch at 1 pm, so they have a snack around 10:30.

He brings various things but usually something like crackers or a granola bar.

[Hopes]

I just realized you're talking about a snack for morning break. We didn't do that when I was growing up. I believe my children did in kindergarten and MAYBE first grade in the 90s. I recall sending carrots, peanut butter crackers, or something similar.

[randomparent]

I just remember having a morning and afternoon recess in elementary school. Was there snack food? I have absolutely no idea. Lunch was standard cafeteria food in a divided tray or a PB&J from home with a carton of milk.

[Mattie]

The only snack we had was in kindergarten, and it was a packet of crackers and 1/2 pint of milk.

My kids' schools had lunch accounts, where I could deposit money for them to spend on whatever was available. Elementary school was about $2.50/day, in high school it was closer to $7.00, but they stayed late for sports practices so they bought extra.

What's a "tuck" shop? Is it like a convenience store here, where you can buy various pre-made snacks and drinks? My kids have never attended schools where they could leave campus during the day, so it was cafeteria food, or brought from home.

[maciesmom]

I attended a variety of schools in a variety of states. I don't recall having any snack breaks in CT ir MI in the late 60's/ early 70s; Ohio in the early 70s elem school seems to me we had a midmorning "milk" break where a cart came to the classroom with milk for a couple of pennies per carton. We moved to California (mid 70s) where a 10 minute "nutrition break" was standard through high school. Seems to me my kids had times during their school day where they were allowed to have a snack if they brought something but it wasn't specifically set aside time. I usually sent fruit, crackers or granola bar.

[irootoo]

We had a midmorning milk break and we were allowed to bring a snack for that if we wanted to, but nobody did. If a kid had a birthday, they would bring sweet treats for the whole class and we would have them during our milk break. They were usually brownies or cookies. The one I remember best was a jack o'lantern sugar cookie with orange and black frosting and a green stem. That really impressed me. (This was in the early 1960s.)

[eyeye]

We never had snack time in school (80s) and I ate free lunch. They served oily pizza, burgers, canned veggies and fruit, milk and choc milk. Gag. They didn't serve breakfast.

My kids get snacks cause the schools are so large the kindred have "lunch" at 10am and the 5th graders have lunch close to 2pm so many kids need a pick me up. The school day is also longer.

[Molli]

My school gave us all a small carton of milk.