For lunch, what amount of money did you take to school with you each day?

I mostly took sandwiches, but when I was on dinners in primary school, we took our dinner money in at the start of each week, for the number of days we would be having dinners. That was paid at the start of monday. Each day, in addition to the register, a dinner register would also be read out and we would have to say "sandwiches please" or "dinners please" depending on what we were supposed to be having. When I was in the top year of primary school, my friend and I got to count all the dinner money and enter it in the register to take to the secretary. I loved doing that.

I don't remember the exact amount, but I believe it was less than £5 per week to be on dinners - that's less than £1 (about $2) each day.

I don't remember. I think normally I brought my lunch; I bought milk in elementary school, though. I think that was 20 cents.

In elementry school, we had one of those cards. You prepaid and you automaticly got your lunch. Unfortuanly, you couldnt op out of the program and you had to buy THEIR lunch (which wasnt really that great), they didnt let you bring your own. On top of that, the lines were long as hell and you werent allowed to talk at all. In middle school and high school, I had about $5 every day. Sometimes if I forgot my lunch money, I charged and I paid them back the next day. Somehow they always trusted me that I would pay them back and damn, I wished that they had faxed Equifax about me

Since I graduated in 1970, I couldn't begin to tell you. However, it was a rare occasion when I ate a school lunch. My grandmother was really tightfisted about giving us lunch money, in fact we were lucky if we got milk money from her. My sister and I generally brown-bagged it.

$1.35

No idea.

In elementary school it was $1.00 a day. In junior high school and high school the least was $1.25 per day, but you could spend much more, depending on what you got. I rarely ate lunch in junior high or high school. I saved my lunch money for more fun stuff than eating.

No idea...I don't remember.

In high school, about $1.00. Remember, I graduated in 1972, and prices were a lot lower back then. In college, it varied. We lived close to the local college, so often I went home for lunch, or went somewhere off campus alone or with friends.

I usually brought my own lunch. I didn't always remember it or eat it. I'm not so good at that sort of thing.

It took $1.25 to buy lunch at my high school cafeteria ....god I'm old!!

I think it was $1.50 or $2

I didn't take any lunch money. In grade school there wasn't any school lunch. You had to bring your own. They provided the milk free, so no cash necessary.
In high school I wouldn't dare eat the school lunch. Brought my own. Maybe spent a $1 a day for a drink/snack.

At least 3-5 dollars depended on how much i could squezze outta my dad

I didn't have to bring money daily because we had a little card to swipe which took the right amount out of a prepaid lunch account. I think that lunch cost $1.75 when I was in high school, but the memory isn't clear.

I took $3.50 to school each day which had to account for a 2 sodas and whatever I felt like eating from the canteen...which was usually a grilled cheese sandwich and fried tators. In college I was on the Room & Board plan. This cost roughly $3,000.00 a yaer (two semesters). Since, I only ate breakfast twice in four years I probably got jipped.

Anywhere from $2 to $20. Usually around $5. Sometimes I'd bring it, sometimes I'd only bring some stuff... depends.

Like weed or booze?

In elementary school, we had to bring our own lunches because we didn't have a cafeteria. That's also what I did most of the time in high school. If I did eat anything from the cafeteria, I probably used money from my allowance, so I wouldn't have done that very often. In high school I used to have a coffee and a cigarette between classes. We could actually smoke in the cafeteria! You won't see that sort of thing happening these days! Coffee was 25 cents. I seem to recall that in junior high, you could get a small bowl of mashed potatoes and gravy for 25 cents. I suspect that the lunches were about a dollar, maybe a little more. This is like 1975-1980.

How'd you guess?

I was entitled to free school meals cos we were poor.

I took $2-2.50 (I got more as I got older) with me each day, although I would only spend about half of it.

$1.25

I paid the same amount

I took a bag lunch from home. We were poor enough for me to qualify for free lunches at school but it was embarrassing to have to stand in a separate line and have a special lunch ticket. Kids who did were teased mercilessly for being too poor to pay for their lunches. I hope they have changed that now so you can't tell the difference between the kids who can pay and those who can't. No one should be humiliated because they are poor.

Sometimes I brought my lunch, other times we had "numbers" or "cards" which debited from our prepaid lunch account. I wonder what happens to all the extra money our parents paid when we decided to bring our lunch?

I had dinner tickets that gave me a free meal. We were poor.

Me too

In elementary school:
25 cents for hot lunch
5 cents for milk money
Total of 30 cents

In high school:
$1.00
Sometimes we went off campus to eat lunch at a local hambuger place.

Fifty Cents in elementary school. And if you wanted an extra milk, it was a nickel. In high school, we had vending machines. It usually took about $1.50 to get something good.

I took my own lunch.
In a Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles lunch box with matching flask.
Yeah, I was the coolest kid in school.

.35 was how much school lunch cost me back in the mid 60's. Ice cream sandwiches were sold separately and were a dime.

I always brought my own lunch to school. At least 90% of the time anyways.

> .35 was how much school lunch cost me back
> in the mid 60's. Ice cream sandwiches were
> sold separately and were a dime.

I had to pay .40¢ in the late 60's when I didn't bring my lunch.

> In high school I used to have a coffee
> and a cigarette between classes. We could
> actually smoke in the cafeteria!
> You won't see that sort of thing happening
> these days! Coffee was 25 cents. I suspect that the lunches
> were about a dollar, maybe a little more.
> This is like 1975-1980.

I could do the same thing in high school, and the prices were about the same. In Elementary I think lunch was .40¢.

I'm still at school. I sometimes bring in my own; I often go without. I only ever buy chips for a meal, because the pasta, paninis, and sandwiches are way overpriced. I only get chips about once every one and a half months, and all. I sometimes bring in an apple or a sandwich. I eat lots of cookies, though.