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amber - I have wanted one of these lunch boxes for so long! Just can’t make myself spend the money. (have you guys found thislunchrox.com?- so fun!) My favorite lunchbox item would have to have been a boring peanut butter & jelly sandwich. It always smelled so good when I opened my lunch:). Or a fruit roll up. The not-healthy kind. Thanks for the chance!

Sarah Karren - My favorite lunchbox item as a kid was my My little pony thermos with milk– with the pink screw on lid that you used as a cup.

Susan - Mine was the Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pie. My Mom always put one in my sack lunch on a field trip. 🙂

Mindi - My favorite lunch box item was fun fruits or a fruit roll up!

Rebecca - Chocolate chip cookies! (Still are!)

Julie Bauhs - Ding Dongs!!!

Amanda Angert - My favorite lunch box treat was the Little Debbie swiss cake roll….or a Little Debbie Star Crunch 🙂 They both make me gag now though! lol

elma - Love those boxes!! My favorite was a fried egg sandwhich !!!

Kate - My favorite was probably peanut butter and jelly. Not very exciting! I do remember one time I opened my lunchbox and it was EMPTY. I thought, my gosh, my Mom hates me. It was mortifying, and at age 7 or so, it was a life tragedy. Turns out, in her sleepy frazzled Mom state, my Mom packed 2 full lunches into my sisters lunch box, and none into mine. I still remind her about it to this day…haha!

Lari - My favorite lunchbox item was when my mom surprised me with a treat…either cookies, a cupcake or the occasional candy bar.

Kim - Def the Little Debbie Oatmeal Pie!

Staci - Loved loved loved chicken noodle soup (the canned kind) in my Snoopy Thermos! Hot soup on a winter day reminded me of my mom while I was away from her at school!

Mel - My favorite thing was my little thermos that had a flip top. I would pour my kool-aid into the little cup/lid to drink out of. I loved that thing! I love the PlanetBoxes now. I’ve been looking at them and wanting one for my daughter!

Lisa - I actually never had a lunch box. We used the brown paper bags. So bad for the environment! haha! My favorite “item” wasn’t a food item, it was the drawings my mom used to do on the lunch bag. I loved them and thought she was SO talented!

GB Jost - Peanut Butter & Honey

Kristin - I really loved Lunchables. They were such a treat when I was little!

Shannon R - PB & J sandwich on wheat bread with the crust cut off. Yummy!

Lori Herring - Ritz crackers and Peanut Butter 🙂

Cara - Rarely got to take my lunch…but always got a Hostess Sno-bal (?). 🙂

Kami BK - I ate school lunch K-6, because it was part of the tuition at a private, Christian school. I was SO excited to go to public school in 7th and bring my own lunch. I loved summer sausage, sliced cheddar cheese, and Town House crackers. I shudder to think of the sodium and fat content.

Heather S - I had the “awesomest” Cabbage Patch Kids lunchbox when I was in elementary school and I vividly remember being excited when my mom would buy Hi-C juice boxes (because it was a rare treat).
I would love to send my kindergartner off to school with this next fall!

Kristel - I loved getting a few red vines and I would drink my milk with them! My daughter is starting kindergarten in the fall and I would love to use one of these with her!

Courtney - Annie did a fabulous job packing her own lunches! They looked delicious! My favorite lunch as a kiddo was scrambled tofu with veggies…

Amy - When I was in elementary, my favorite food in my lunch was a braunschweiger sandwich! I wouldn’t eat it now as an adult but I loved it then!

Sandy W - Mine was Ding Dongs. I can’t stand them now, but loved them as a kid!

Rhonda - Ding Dongs. 🙂

Lesley Hayden - Please don’t tell my Mom, but I used to trade the home-baked goodies she put in my lunch for the pre-packaged Dad’s oatmeal cookies my friends brought. Gasp! I would NEVER do that now.
Love the line “just don’t buy it”! Definitely applies to me too!

Mia Gallivan - My favorite treat was a Hostess cherry pie.

Debbie - On rare occasions I got Hershey’s miniature candy – I loved Krackle.

Karen Roque - My favorite was Twinkies! 🙂

Jenny Wenzel - Fruit Roll Ups…they were new back then 🙂

susan - Great post! Growing up my fave was the Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pie…oh my….

Growing up in the 70’s my mom was such an organized mom raising 5 little kiddos..this was the schedule for homemade sandwiches that we took turns making EACH AND EVERY WEEK.
Mon: Peanut butter & Jelly
Tues: Bologne and mayo
Wed: Velveeta (yes i said it) w/ Mustard
Thurs: Chicken Loaf (not really sure what that was) w/ lettuce and mayo
Fri: Tuna….always Tuna on Fridays……make that warm tuna by lunchtime : /

Love my mom….wish i could be half as organized as she is!!!!

Michelle - Utz sour cream & onion potato chips!

Tcsd - I loved fruit snacks. Who knows what was in them, but they were delicious at the time.

ileana - Peanut butter and jelly on store bought bread – my favorite as a kid! Cool lunch box!

Ashley - Fruit roll ups or gushers. A rare treat!

Mary - Fruit roll ups. And or boppers

Lynn Ann - Fruit roll ups!!

Kas - Sweet Bing Cherries! I felt so special when Mom would pack them for me!

Amy McD - I always ate the school lunch, and never had a sack lunch. Except for field trips I guess –my favorite item was probably the chips/crackers! 🙂

nora - Oreos. Whenever Oreos showed up in my lunchbox (it didn’t happen often), it was a happy day.

Heather W. - Ham sub from the deli of our local grocery store (Winn Dixie!). Loved those things.

Julie A - My favorite was the fruit roll-up my mom put in my lunch for dessert. 😉

Cassie hinnenkamp - a package of little cinnamon roll cakes, I think they were Hostess. So delicious, so terrible!

Lori Heathcote - My very favorite lunch item was a hostess ding dong, when I was done eating it I always folded up the foil wrapper and made a snowflake with just my hands.

DiAnn Cardona - Peanut butter with strawberry jello on Wonder white bread. Hands down, the best sandwich ever.

Mary N. - I would have to say either the Hostess cherry pie, or Pringles. this was back in the late 60’s and early 70’s. It was such a treat!

Keyla - My sister and I bought school lunch most of the time and my favorite item was the small carton of chocolate milk. For some reason I brought my lunch every day of 3rd grade and every single day I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I have not eaten PB and jelly together in the same sandwich since. o.O

Michelle - I remember once my mom put a little baggie of peanut m&m’s in my lunch with a sweet note. It was such a surprise and I don’t know which part I loved more–the m&m’s or the note. I do this type of things all the time for my kids so I’m not sure it will be a special memory for them. I’d love to get them into packing THEIR OWN lunches (with healthy choices) and this lunchbox would be a great way to start!

Becky S. - My mom would put cream cheese on graham crackers, by lunch time the cream cheese had softened the crackers. I guess it sounds like of gross, but it was soooo good!!

Whitney - Sad to say, but it would have to be fruit roll-ups. Child of the eighties.

tinaehb3 - I loved double stuffed oreos…still do. I carried them in my tin “Annie” lunchbox that I LOVED!

Yauney Sikes - When I was a kid my mom would freeze a juice box for my lunch. When lunch rolled around i would rip the top off and eat it like a thick slushy with a spoon. It was always the best!

Marie - My best friends mom was always nice enough to send extra tuna fish with mayo in a container for me. My best friend and I would eat tuna with crackers. By far the best lunch box item.

AlyssaErin - My mom used to pack the BEST homemade roast beef sandwiches. OhMyGrandma! It was like Christmas morning (seriously) when I opened my lunchbox to find one of those sandwiches lovingly wrapped in wax paper!

Amy Huff - My favorite was the rare chocolate pudding. So tasty. We took our lunch everyday but could get school lunch 1 a week which for me was pizza day. My brother preferred hamburger day and my sister was a fan of spaghetti. 🙂

Heidi - Our family is also gluten free and we are so pleased that our son is able to get a gluten free lunch at school in Walton. He loves to take a lunch from home once in a while, though!
I never got to take a lunch to school when I was growing up unless it was a field trip day… oh, how I wanted to have the lunches that my friends brought! My favorite was to have the snack bags of Cheetos in my lunch. My day was made if I had something like that!

Anna - Cookies! Of course. But in 4th grade my teacher went through all of our lunches and took out anything that had sugar. Then I told my momma and she took care of that!

Michelle - I’m glad you said a cupcake bc mine was Nutty Bars. I so want to change that for my kids! It’s tough! But I know it will be worth it!

Laura Martin - I have to say my favorite thing was a bag of dry cereal like cherries.

Angie Shepherd - Turkey sandwiches

karen - swiss roll cakes

Gretchen P - My favorite was putting spagettios in the thermos when we packed lunch. Those lunch boxes are amazing!!

Lauren - Pizza Lunchables, every field trip without exception!

cathie w. - My mom lived by the “just don’t buy it” mantra 30yrs ago. So it was a super fun treat to find a fruit roll-up in our lunchbox.

Kathi - Mine was Hostess Ho Hos!

Jackie - Sesame snaps! Oh man, when I opened up my lunch box and saw one of those I was in heaven!!!

Tracy - That’s easy! PB&J! Still love em!

sharon / theprincipledtype.blogspot.com - favorite or not, it was pb&jelly sandwiches. was there other food in the 70’s???

Katie - My parents never bought treats – but leftover Halloween candy was pretty special.

Holly - My favorite lunch box item was my dad’s homemade chocolate chip cookies!

Amy - My mom makes her own raspberry cherry jam, and the best was when she would make PB & J with that jam. YUM!

These are so cool! I think its a great learning tool and bad habit crusher! 🙂

Elizabeth - I always loved when we would go on Field Trips because that’s when we got to pack items we didn’t normally get to pack like the Little Debbie Fruit Pies.

Lisa - PB&J

KWolff - My favorite lunch treat when I was little was a slice of my mom’s cherry or apple pie. She would bake a pie, slice it and wrap the pieces in foil and stash them in the freezer. Every so often I would open my lunch to find that beautiful triangle of foil in my Strawberry Shortcake lunchbox. I knew it was going to be a good day!

Amy - momma’s home-made chocolate chip cookies!

Tammy Allen - My favorite lunch box food is fruit kabobs.

Rena - My mom used to make sandwiches that were so good, I used to sell them to the highest bidder. Ha!

Karen - Sadly I had to eat the lunch school provided. But my favorite would have been a swiss cake roll.

Holly - Twinkie. Although I never got one – Mom didn’t buy that stuff! But it was the favorite dream item. 🙂

michelle - I did leave you a favorite- peanut butter and jelly but, I must
add my mother was the lunch lady- way back when things were made from scratch so I ate there a lot and LOVED it. When I didn’t
which was usually on field trips, it was the pbj, cheddar and sometimes, when we were lucky, a can of Shasta wrapped in foil. Good times! Thanks for making me think about that today.

Elizabeth - My favorite lunchbox item when I was a kid was big delicious strawberries. I knew my mom spent extra time to cut out the green stems because she new I didn’t like to eat around them. I wanted to pop the entire strawberry in my mouth at one time! lol
As a mother of two boys now, I realize it is the little things like this that mean so much. It really is all in the details.

Diana Yarborough - Cheese!

Still love it.

Eleanor - my mom had a bread machine and used to make homemade bread for our lunches every single day. i LOVED my fluffy homemade bread. 🙂

bree - Yep, pretty sure it was a ding dong! Or cheetos. Oh dear. But that lunch box is just genius.

michelle cooley - Carrot sticks…..
i was a nerd

Carol Myers - Mom’s Leftover Beef Stroganoff from Sunday lunch (in a thermos, no less) was my VERY favorite thing to find in n my lunch box. I’m sure there was no concentration going on in those mornings when I was looking forward to having that in my lunch!!! Good memories….. 😉

Stephanie - Ho-ho’s or chocolate chip cookies!

michele fry - loved a good p&b sandwhich…still a favorite!!

Kerrie - My favorite item was a peanut butter sandwich – no jelly. And the note my mom would put in my lunch box! Choosing the lunch box was pretty special too!

Annie - Strawberry fruit roll ups were my world!

Bridget - I had MAJOR lunch box envy growing up. There was a kid in my class who always got TWO FULL Ziploc sandwich bags of Cheetos — one to eat as snack, and one to eat with lunch. And he savored every.single.cheeto. It killed me. I think I’m still a little jealous.

Alice H - Soup!! in a thermos. LOL! My mom said that is all I wanted to take to lunch every day. Thanks for the giveaway!

Heidi - My favorite was anything sweet!

shar y - I had a red plaid metal lunchbox. It had a red plaid thermos. My favorite thing was whatever was in the thermos. Weird! But, I loved having things from that thermos!!

Sandra K - Like you Meg, my favorite was a Hostess treat – the apple pie! I was a big fan. Would love to win this for my daughter, who is Annie’s age! 🙂

Sara - Tapioca pudding. In those little plastic cups….they were my fav.

Amy Mumaw - I used to love when I had cookies in my lunch box!!! or a note from my mom !
Amy Mumaw

Karol - My favorite lunch item was a Big Wheel. Strangely, I can’t find the, with that name but I have seen Ding Dongs and believe this is the same item. I packed my lunch every day from the time I was 7 and it always consisted of a bologna sandwich, an apple, a Big Wheel, and milk in a thermos (gross)!

shannon - My mom feed us really boring lunches as a kid: tuna sandwich, apple, a pickle (?!?), nothing fancy or fun. Occasionally if we had field trip I could pick a special snack and it was ALWAYS Hostess raspberry zingers! The fluffy cake, the raspberry filling, and that sprinkling of coconut was perfection to my little girl taste buds. As a mom I would never feed them to my kids, but I have to admit to grabbing them once or twice while shopping by myself and eating them in the car to dispose of the evidence! 🙂

Nan - My favorite was always Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies. Yum!!!

Annette - I always loved Pringles in my lunch. They fit right in there with the “just don’t buy it!” way of thinking. 🙂

Maegan C - Great job Annie!!

Kim Rohrbough - I loved cheetos and always sandwiches. And my Holly Hobby lunch box!

Shawn Rossi - Little Debbie Oatmeal Pie (and I want one now too!)

SkY - leftovers. My school had a microwave!

Becky J - ok- I just had the sweetest trip down memory lane thanks to your question Meg on our favorite lunchbox item from childhood…it was that when I opened my metal lunchbox, it was a little bit of home-yep, I was one of those kiddos who was so often nervous to be at school and away from home 🙁 so I would see my Momma and her love in my pbj, the way she sliced my fruit and folded my napkin! {Shout out- I love YOU, Momma}Funny- I grew up to be a teacher- hahaha 🙂 but tried to be super-sensitive to homesick little hearts as I taught 1st grade for over 10 years – Happy Mother’s Day dear ladies!! God bless you, each one!!

Jamie - Twinkies were my favorite lunchbox treat! I would love to win this for my daughter’s lunch! I love Annie’s colorful lunches!

Alice Shanks - My favorite item in my lunches as a child was the note my dad would leave for me- every.single.day. I looked forward to these little love notes and still treasure them! My parents worked so hard so that I could have a great education and I am so grateful to them for all of the sacrifices they made for me and my sister.

Erin - Zebra cakes! Those were so Google!

Julia - turkey sandwiches.

my daughter was just complaining about her school lunch in the car yesterday. About how I always put the same thing in her lunch. This lunch box would be such a huge motivation to make a change.

Heidi Jo the Artist - My first thought was I really liked my Duke’s of Hazzard lunchbox and Strawberry Short Cake one too. Then in the next sentence I realized you meant food! Fruit roll-up all the way! I’ve done a lot of muffin tin lunches for our kids, so fun to be creative. Thanks for the chance to win!

Beth - Nacho cheese Doritos! I didn’t get them often, but when I did – BEST. LUNCH. EVER.

And now my kids never get them in their lunches either. : )

jill funkhouser - love those nutter butters!!!

Emily - Favorite lunch item was anything I could trade with another kid to the the Hostess items. My mom was already on the “don’t buy it” system so we NEVER had the goodies and I always wanted those!
Fun giveaway!

Maribel - I loved apple filled pies. They are still around , the only way I can describe them as a mini pie turnover. They come in a chocolate pudding or vanilla but the apples are the best.

Carly - Mine was dunkaroos! Hoping to pack more healthy choices for my kiddos than that!

Amy - In elementary school I would have a braunschweiger sandwich. It makes me laugh now as that would not be something I would eat but I liked it then!

Stefanie S - String cheese and fruit cups.

Carolynne - My favorite lunch item as a kid was ho ho’s…lol
I would love to use one of these boxes.. I have recently been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and I should start eating gluten free..this would so help!

Amanda Squibb - Frozen mini twix bars, mmmmmm. 🙂

Pam Szverra - My favorite was the Little Debbie treats! But, alas I have given processed sugar up (again), trying to keep my figure!

Karyn - My go-to for years was PB and marshmallow fluff. Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it!

Annie’s lunches are inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Jody - I think anything Hostess was my favorite “treat” in my lunchbox.

Jill - swiss rolls!!

Meagan - My favorite lunch item when I was a kid was the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches my grandma would make me. She would always make a heart in the peanut butter and cut the sandwich in half and tell me that when the sandwich was together it represented our hearts as one. She always made me feel special. She still makes the sandwich the same way for me and my two kids when we visit her. They like it just as much as I do!

Ekta - Jelly sandwich on white bread any day!

Carrie - Mine was Little Debbie Nutty Bar, and I would eat one in an instant if we had them in the house. Which is why I don’t buy them. 🙂

Julie H. - salami and cream cheese roll-ups

Arlene - Wow what a cool product. My favorite lunch box item growing up was definitely pizza lunchables!

Morgan - I always loved a soup in a thermos. It made me feel so grown up!

Stephanie Wilson - It must be old age (just turned 40 ;)) but I can’t think of a single lunch box item that I loved as a kid. But now I really want a Hostess Cupcake. Or a Ding Dong. Or a Twinkie….

michelle - Little Debbie brownies

Naomi - I liked Zingers! The kind with pink coconut sugar…kinda like a twinkie but pink and coconutty…amazingly awful for you…and yummy!

Courtne Huffman - This is an awesome giveaway! My favorite lunch item as a kid was lunchables… the classic one that came with the dijon mustard and an andes mint. 🙂

jessica - My favorite was Twinkies!

Shelby - I used to walk home for lunch! It was the best 🙂 When I stayed at school my fav was tomato soup in a thermos….

Carla Beem - Fluffynutter-Peanut butter & marshmallow cream

Jennifer McLin - I brought pb sandwiches (no jelly ever) every single day as a kid but I had a friend that would bring Buddig lunch meat in a baggie. I thought she was so cool and always wished my mom would send me the same!

Sara - I loved (and still do!) potato chips. The crunch. The salt. Yum!

karen armstrong - jelly sandwich 🙂

Molly - I loved BBQ corn chips! We rarely got them, which made them more of a treat 🙂

Kasey - Can she come make my kids’ lunches? Those are awesome! I must have been strange kid, because I remember getting excited when my mom put raw turnips in my lunch. I wasn’t a complete health nut, because my favorite dessert was a star crunch. : )

Jamie - I would say a jelly sandwich or a Twinkie!

Marah Hays - My favorite was cookies n cream chocolate bars!

Laura - Peanut butter & honey sandwiches – yum!

Megan - I loved peanut butter, chocolate chips and flour tortilla rolled up. Definitely not low carb, low sugar….

Sarah - Pb&j!!! Still my lunchbox favorite today!

Liz - Favorite item was bologne sandwich with cheese and mustard. 🙂

Diana Tijerina - Sadly i had to eat the cafeteria food. The times i did pack a lunch my favorite was the twinkie! So yummy!

Elle Fouse Cass - I didn’t get to bring my lunch much but I remember being jealous of my friend Kim Hostess Ding Dongs!

sandy johnson - Tuna sandwiches!

Jane - green grapes hands down were my favorite lunchbox treat!

leslie - Wow, I read “hostess” and all of a sudden I wanted one of those yellow zingers. The lemon ones. Remember those? Yikes. … We found out my son is sensitive to artificial colors, flavors, certain preservatives AND gluten a few years ago when he was four and having trouble with motor development. Honestly it was the best thing because now we eat 90% healthy so that we don’t exclude him in our treats. Silver linings. How I would cherish this lunch box, hope I win. 🙂

Rebecca - My mom used to pack a special sandwich when we had a field trip day at school. She put cream cheese and salami on a bagel. It doesn’t really sound that special now – but I always thought it was an awesome treat! Ha!

Jamie - Little Debbie Swiss rolls!

Karey - i always took my lunch and I would have half of a ham and cheese sandwich and some kind of dessert. My favorite item was a Twinkie. How awful is that? I don’t think I’ve eaten a Twinkie since I graduated high school and plan to keep it that way! I love your motivation to get your family eating healthy. It’s helping me to do the same!

Kristina - Ding dongs! If I win, will Annie send suggestions?

Michelle - PB&J from kindergarten to present day!!

Amber H. - Sadly, I was just ecstatic if I could talk my parents into letting me take a cold lunch to school. That in itself was a treat. Of course, it was usually filled with things like chips, ding dongs, and he like. You know, the healthy stuff. LOL

Lisa J - Sadly… mine was Drakes Ring Dings!

Jill - FLINGS!!! There were like a Cheetoh…. but a totally different flavor! Loved them. They were melt-in-your-mouth good!

Jamie - I loved my pb&j sandwiches which I added chips to. 🙂

Laura - Tuna fish sandwich with potato chips layered into the sandwich at the last minute…yummy!

Sarah C - My favorite lunch food as a kid was a bacon sandwich (on white bread).

Quinn - I loved (and still love cheetos). Our go-to in lunch boxes now are homemade uncrustables and I am working on getting them to eat some lunch meat–I am sure that this awesome lunch box would some how help us in the lunch meat eating endeavor–right?!?

Toni B - I was always excited to get a twinkie or some potato chips to go with my sandwich and thermos of tomato soup.

Wendy - I went through a phase of tomato juice and a yoplait yogurt. I ate that every day in the 8th grade! Thanks for the giveaway! -Wendy

Gail - Homemade chocolate chip cookies!!

traci - Always a peanut butter and honey sandwich 🙂

Su - I did not bring lunch from home as a kid. . ate the school lunch which I do not remember complaining about. But my kids will not eat the school lunch. .and honestly, I do not want them too. Occasionally as a “treat” I let them buy on pizza day. I pack all the kids lunches and hubby’s now. . .my preteen girl would love this box. Thanks for a generous giveaway.

Stephanie R. - Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies….loved them!

Jen w - My favorite lunch item was Tang…drank it ALL the time! Such a great lunchbox!!

Sara H - Fruit roll ups!!! (I’ve never bought them for my kids tho-whoops!)

sandy olmstead - My favorite lunch box item was a peanut butter sandwich on wheat bread!(no jelly)

Heather S. - My favorite lunch box item was a tuna sandwich with bbq chips on it. Very strange, I know, but I CRAVED it!

Heather S. - I rarely used a lunch box growing up since I was an MK in Africa & went to a boarding school. However, if I were to have a picnic or bagged lunch my favorite would have to be a good ol peanut butter & jelly sandwich b/c those were RARE treats! 🙂

Stacey Armstrong - This is gross but my favorites were always Lunchable days!

Katie Skiff - I didn’t get to take my lunch that often and I’m sure it was just a bologna sandwich!! So my favorite part was my Strawberry Shortcake lunch box and thermos!!

Gayle - Fruit Roll up!

Debby - My favorite was as bad as yours, Meg!! I loved Zingers- raspberry & coconut flavor. (If they didn’t have these in KS, they were like Twinkies covered in raspberry jelly & rolled in shaved coconut.) They were even better frozen!!!

Debby

Michelle Erstad - Hands down~a bag of Funyuns~loved the onion taste and the crunch! Always needed a piece of gum or a mint after…

angela conklin - A bologna sandwich! Now, I can’t imagine eating bologna! Would LOVE to win this and them maybe buy some for the grands! This is awesome!

Maggie - One of my best friends in elementary school was Japanese and her mom would send rice balls (wrapped in seaweed) in her lunch. I loved them and my friend was sick of them so we would trade. I’d give her my peanut butter and jelly sandwich and she’d give me her rice ball.

May - Metal My Barbie lunch box with thermos!

Laura - My fave lunch box items (that my Mom never sent but I traded for) were potato chips and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches – yum!

Sabrina - This is so cool!!! I always ate hot lunches at school, so I never got to bring a lunch. Everything my friends brought looked yummy though! Especially fruit roll ups! 🙂

Patricia - I was sooooooo excited when I got a lunch box that came with a thermos! 🙂 My favorite lunch was when my mom would make me chicken noodle soup to take to school. It was awesome!

TEre - A squished pb&j. I loved that.
Or the peanut butter cake from the cafeteria. Still love that.
It’s really hard not to pack something made from love that resembles a cookie. It’s just what I know, ya know?
How did the bigs handle the transition. They are so engrained in what they eat…don’t you think? Mine are. But maybe it’s not too late for #4. I shall try, once I win this faboo lunch box! xoxo

Trindin - Ham sandwich with butter…sounds weird but I remember it.
Thanks
Trindin

Tina - my favorite lunchbox item would be cheetos. i only got them on special occasions like field trips so when i would see them in my lunch it was a great day.

shelley - salami sandwich!

Erin T - My favorite thing, was a Creamy Skippy Peanut Butter sandwich on white bread. I still love them, but just not as often (like hardly ever). I really liked this.

Kelly - Always a little debbie of some sort, of course back then there was mayble only like 5 different ones, now there is like 500… Lol

tara h - Double stuffed oreos! My husband occasionally will buy a package and knows he had better hide them instantly!

Julie B - Peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Like everyday.

Joanna - Ding Dongs! My brother and I would hide them from each other so we had to race all over the kitchen each morning to find them before the other one did and took the last one.

Amy N. - I loved to take cold leftover macaroni and cheese (my mom’s homemade kind, but on the rare occasion we had the kind from a box, that was good too!). I still love cold mac and cheese! Especially scooped up on corn chips! Super healthy… 😉

Karen smith - Pb&j with potato chips

christina - I loveeed fruit by the foot! Food I could “play” with was always more fun 🙂

Rachel Schumacher - What a cool lunch box – my daughter would love this.
My favorite lunch box item was probably the Swiss Cake Rolls. What a memory of my childhood.

Corey - Lunchables

lindsey - Great giveaway! I’ve been eyeing these boxes for a while now. They look amazing. My favorite was of course chocolate, those Little Debbie brownies are still my weakness!

Jenny Waldrop - Unfortunately mine was in the little Debbie type family too. It was these apple turnover things. You can still buy them at the gas station. Nasty.

Ellen V R - Just a good ‘ol PB&J sandwich!

Pam H. - I didn’t get to take a lunch when I was a kid! Funny how times have changed…now I take my lunch to work – so this is for Nana (me)! LOL

Mollie - Any kind of sugary treat was my favorite.

Jenny B. - That looks like fun! I almost never took my lunch to school as a kid. I always looked forward to a hot lunch in the cafeteria. The food was so much better back then, though. No frozen chicken nuggets. Those ladies made everything from scratch. The rolls… oh my… not exactly healthy, but homemade, hot, and delicious! 🙂

Sherry Crow - Sherry – If I had to name a favorite it would probably be the faithful standby of PB&J they never get old even when you are in your 40’s.

Stephanie V - My favorite was always a twinkie. Though my mom rarely bought them for us!

sam - I don’t remember taking a lunch as a kid. We lived blocks away from the school and walked home for lunch. However, I do remember my mom going to the Hostess outlet and eating frozen Suzie Qs as an after school snack.

Crystal Woller - Such an awesome lunch box!! My favorite lunch box item was also dessert: a vanilla pudding cup!

Liana - My lunches were always so basic and pretty healthy as a kid. I was always jealous of the kids with Hostess products! My fave was probably PB&J. 🙂

Gina Mitchell - I loved yogurt covered raisins!

Ashley - I used to take cream cheese and olive sandwiches every single day!

AmandaK - I am trying now the “just don’t buy it”, but it is hard , for them and me both! I don’t remember favorite lunch box foods, I remember the boxes! Metal! One the Annie movie, all beat up on the first day!

Jennifer Roehl - I love this idea of teaching kids to eat healthy. We have been trying to do much of the same with our 3 daughters. Unfortunately, as a kid I ate a lot of junk food! I think my favorite lunch box item was a sandwich baggie of Doritos. I still love them but just do not buy them or it would be trouble!

Josie J - Planet Box would be awesome for my 4 year old.

Little Debbie Nutty Bar – Peanut Butter and Chocolate, best combination!

KatieV - I’m totally on board with the “just don’t buy it” philosophy! 🙂 And I’d love to win this. I honestly don’t remember my childhood favorite, but since I brought my lunch nearly every day, I think my “favorite” was when I was allowed to buy school lunch. Ha!

Andrea - My favorite lunch box item as a kid was the Snack Pack pudding because it was in that little can! You peeled the lid off it like you did a soda can back then, and ate the pudding right out of the little flat can!
Ah, the good ‘ole days!

Ann - I so want one of these! I loved the chips! I’m so impressed that Annie is making her own lunches. She’s an awesome kid 🙂

Allison - My favorite was a can of lipton iced tea with lemon. My Mom only gave me those when we went on field trips – because I would have bought milk at school otherwise. Do kids even do that anymore?? Drink boxes hadn’t really been invented yet! LOL!!

Sherry Cartwright - I remember how cool we thought we were because we took our lunch in a Tupperware lunchbox with all the containers inside rather than a paper sack. My favorite treat in the lunch box was rice with nori [seaweed]. No other kid was carrying that to school for lunch. Made me smile each time.

I wish I still had that lunchbox. Instead, I have plastic bento boxes that I use to pack my son’s lunch and my own. Love the Planet Box rover box. Very cool.

Amy Olivas - My favorite was a strawberry jelly and cream cheese sandwich! But I was always envious of kids whose moms cut their sandwiches diagonally. (My mom always cut vertically) I am now a diagonal sandwich cutting mom of 5 boys.

natalie - Little Debbie nutty bar!

Tonya - Hot Cheetos or the fruit snack “smiles.”

Annie - My favorite lunch box item was an Oatmeal cream cookie from Little Debbie… I CAN NOT stand them now.

Susan A - Bologna & Miracle Whip on white bread, no crust. Please don’t make me eat that now. 😉 Love the Planet Box lunch boxes.

Kristin S - Oh, this box is so great! I use so many containers to take my lunch. This would save that.

My mom froze yogurt containers so they would not only be my “ice” but would mostly thaw by lunch time so it was dessert-y at lunch. I did that all through high school too. This was back when yogurt containers were big and yogurt wasn’t all mixed up. I always had plain or coffee Danon and the containers were waxed paper/cardboard. I still prefer plain yogurt which usually freaks people out.

Amber Koehn - I usually ate school lunches as a kid. But every now and then, my mom would pack my lunch in my awesome My Little Pony lunchbox, complete with matching thermos. My favorite lunch item was chocolate milk. I never got it at home, so I loved having it at school. ☺️

denise - My favorite item was probably the can of chocolate pudding . I cut my tongue many times licking the metal pull-tab lid. But it was worth it .

Jen - I loved PB&J. I think I had one every.single.day.

Kim - Little debbie swiss cake rolls. We used to get them in our lunches on fridays!

Margy - I honestly don’t ever remember having a lunch box. I had to just eat from the cafeteria. I remember in high school buying my lunch in the cafeteria… I litterally ate a soft pretzel and chocolate milk EVERY.DAY. Of course that continued to college where I ate a cranberry orange muffin and chocolate milk EVERY.DAY.

Now that I am 32 and my second and last baby is now 9months old and FINALLY sleeping thru the night I’m able to refocus, get back on the exercise routine & im REALLY looking at my eating habits. I figure if I can clean up my act then I can try to get the kids and hubs on the same boat. It will be an uphill battle for sure, but It needs to be done!

Love your blog Meg! 😉

Laura Kelley - Love me some Marta. And I cracked up and gagged a little because my favorite lunch item was Vienna sausages with mustard and a saltine craker. Holy moly.

andrea - def. the juice box 🙂

s - Home made chocolate chip cookies

Bethany - Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies…I would savor those and would NEVER trade with other kids.

Stephany Waters - I think I ate a PB&J everyday when I was in elemenatry school! I’m going to be a newbie lunch packer for my little in the fall and would LOVE to have this box!

Denise - pepperoni and american cheese sandwich! Ugh…so bad for me!

Kate - A rainbow brite- and a muppets… Hard to pick:)

Renee C. - Little Debbie anything! Love these boxes – have been looking at them for a while just haven’t ordered one yet. Thanks Meg!!

Marian - I am a traditionalist… pb&j!

Lisa Vinograd - Squeeze-It juice! Also ritz crackers with peanut butter. & cold pizza! My mom made the best lunches!! 🙂

Danielle - Any type of cheese!!

Karie - Ho-ho’s…um, yeah. My kids don’t even know what those are 🙂

Sarah - PBJ. Still one of my favorite lunches! 🙂

Heather - Peanut Butter & Jelly! and it still is!

Emily - Favorite lunchbox item: Nutter Butter Bar, but not the two pack, mom was stingy and would only let us take one of the two bars each day!
I just saw these on Zulily a week or two ago and really thought about getting one for my next year Kindergartener, I need to stock up!
Question- do you just have one insert and you hand wash it each night?

Michele - The chips, I loved the chips now I don’t even send that in my kids lunch!

Ashley H. - My favorite lunch box item was the napkin with a message from my mom! 🙂 I also loooooved when I had cheese cut into shapes!

This box would be PERFECT for my daughter getting ready to start kindergarten!

Amber - I loved fudge rounds when I was young. And nope I don’t buy them now either.

sarah r. - Bagels with cream cheese.

Christy P - We also had hot lunch and as I recall the chili and cinnamon rolls were quite yummy!

Kim - Star crunch, haven’t had one in years, but they were my favorite!

Sharon - I am sorry to say that our bag lunches were pretty awful (this Planet Box sure would have changed that). Probably my favorite part of lunch was the carton of chocolate milk, sold for a nickel in the cafeteria.

Kara F - The cute notes from my mom… oh no, the ones I never write to my kiddos… oops, better get on that!

Rebecca - My favorite lunch box item were the Bunting meats! Yum!

Chelsea - i loved a pepperoni sandwich… Sounds gross to me now.

Stacy Mc - Ham, swiss, and mustard on rye.

miracle - Oh SWEET! I have been gah gah over these lunch boxes for awhile and had not decided whether to get them or not! I have a cheaper silicon version that I use for my kids, but HELLO, please choose me so I can have the real dealio. My favorite lunch item as a kid was…fake crab meat. Seriously, I would love it when my mom would pack me an entire pack of that colored cod fish that is shaped like crab.

Kristina - My favorite was the thermas that came with the lunch boxes not so much the food 🙂

Crystal - My favorite was any sweet treat my mom packed me and also little notes she would write and stick in there.

Tammy Jane - I would love to win one of these for my daughter, Sadie. She is in the 8th grade and has probably only eaten lunch room food a couple of times. She is old enough to make her on lunch now and her favorite item for her lunch box is cucumber sushi that we can buy at our local co-op. When I was a child I took my lunch to school every day and my favorite item was when my Mom would make me a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Thanks for the giveaway!

Michelle - We never packed lunches when I was a kid unless it was a field trip. A packed lunch was always special… it didn’t matter what was in it it 🙂

Holly - Every time I eat a bologna and cheese sandwich I am taken back to kindergarten. 🙂 We were not creative lunch makers!! But I loved lunch….my favorite part of the day!

Kasie - Fruit snacks!

Jennifer - My favorite was muppets in space. Awesome.

Jenny - OK this has got to be the coolest thing ever. My kids are not eating enough at school…so many excuses…but this an exciting way to resolve that issue. My son is so hungry when he comes home and is over eating because of it. He is ten, 5′ 4″ and over 150. He NEEDS this…
my favorite childhood food…sesame Vienna style white bread toasted with a ton of butter. I remember toasting about 1/2 a loaf between my Grandmother, me and my sister…yikes!!!

Abby - I rejoiced anytime we had leftover chicken from dinner because it meant getting a chicken salad sandwich with lunch!

Jessica W. - My favorite was ANYTHING Little Debbie!

(May 12th is my birthday so I am hoping I win! That would be the best gift ever!)

Anna Eshleman - I actually LOVED taking my mom’s famous curry chicken salad th grapes and almonds. It was delish! I definitely got made fun of for eating such a “non traditional” food item, but the chicken salad won! I would LOVE a Planet Box for my 4 1/2 year old as she starts Kinder next year!

Ashlea Catalana - PB & J with “Nip Chee” crackers and Gushers! I loved lunch time in elementary school and can remember all of the trendy ways to bring your lunch. My favorite was the mini cooler. Ha ha! So fun! 🙂

Rachel - I loved muffins in my lunch, preferred them over a sandwich

Kelley - I love planet box! One of my students had one when I was teaching and I loved seeing what his mom packed everyday!! It makes lunch time so fun!!
Ok favorite lunch box item- pb&j. Then and now!

Kelly - Um, YES hostess cupcake!

Amanda - I loved yoghurt!!! It was even my reward for not crying at the dentist:). I hope I win!!!

Cecilia Sullivan - My mom used to send me bread with butter and jelly or bread with a slice of ham. I used to save my coins to buy an empanada. I like empenadas better 🙂

Vicki Whitney - My favorite lunch box item was Snack Pack pudding because I love pudding and back then it was new!

Ellen - Give me a good ol’ chocolate chip cookie… like you, I don’t have one in my house. Oh well.

Elisa - string thing, from my friends lunch box because my mom “just didn’t buy it”

tuna fish sandwiches too. looking back, I’m surprised I had as many friends with that stinch.

[hope I win!]

Christy - My favorite lunch box item as a kid was probably always dessert – the Nutty Bar wins hands down! (Although I can’t tell you the last time I ate one of those….) PlanetBox sounds like an amazing company, and I loved seeing all of Annie’s lunches – provided some great ideas for my own kids’ lunches! Thanks!

Jessica scott - I always loved grapes and strawberries! I don’t remember eating a ton of different fruits as a kid so I have tried to expose my kids to different fruits like mango and kiwi.

Jackie O M - Cheese Whiz and Saltine sandwiches ~ by the time I was making lunches for my kids? nevuh, evuh!

Tasha - Cheetos!!!! I’m a sucker for all things salty and crunchy. Of course, my kids only get the dye free version now. I’ve been lusting after the Planet Box lunch kits for awhile now for both of my boys.

Stephanie B - That is an awesome lunch bag!! So great she is enjoying being healthy. Well of course your favorite part of lunch is dessert! I use to get a single twix bar sometimes… always my favorite!

jamie - i LOVE that annie is having so much fun with packing her lunches. we started eating carb free during the week {per my son’s pediatrician} so school lunches had to get creative. no more sandwiches or pretzels or wheat thins. but he has done such an amazing job adjusting! i would be SO EXCITED to win a planet box! i would also love to see more of annie’s lunches! did i see a gluten free muffin in the photo? i actually don’t recall packed lunches as a child, just favorite hot lunches. and i want a hostess cupcake now!

Caroline - Swiss Cake Rolls! Oh dear . . .

Mis - I had a peanut butter sandwich (no thank you on the jelly) in my lunchbox every. single. day. from kindergarten to eighth grade. All grown up and it’s still one of my fave go-to lunch items. 🙂 Guess I never grew out of them. 🙂 LOVE PlanetBox! Fun giveaway! Yay! Thanks, Meg!

Sandra - Sandwiches were my least favorite! I’d guess that Little Debbie treats were my favorite (star crunch or oatmeal cream pies). Fortunately, I won’t buy those regularly…maybe 1x year!

Jill - My favorite was a roast beef sandwich with ketchup made from the left over roast on Sunday nights. Yum. Favorite treat was a piece of red licorice wrapped in foil.

Desiree Thompson - My Favorite Lunch item was pudding cups. It was always a great day when was included in my lunch.

Elizabeth C. - Hotdogs…worse that a hostess cupcake!

Ashley R - Oh man, tough choice!!! I think it’s a tie between PB&J (on wheat, never white….though I now have to be gluten free so we do GF bread) or Fruit by the Foot. Those were a special treat growing up for my younger brothers. They’re 5 & 6 years younger than me so I’d occasionally convince my mom to throw one in my lunch too. 😉

Tessa - Jelly sandwiches on white bread … and they were always soggy. This sounds quite gross to me now! 🙂

Lee Ann - Oh my goodness! I have been eyeing these for SO long! They’re so spendy! We would LOVE to win. My kids lunches look like those but in 8 different little containers. We would love to have it all in one.

So proud of Annie’s choices. That is AMAZING! Proof that change can happen.

My favorite was probably anything store bought and name brand. Not generic chips in a fold over baggie – but maybe dorritos! Something I only had on field trip day.

Stacy - Twinkies! My Mom would always make our desserts for our lunches homemade. I had a friend who never got homemade desserts, but she brought Twinkies once in awhile (something my Mom never bought at our house). Every time my friend had a twinkie, she would trade me for my homemade dessert.

Alysa Clark - Hands down, the TWINKIE was my favorite lunch box item when I was a kid. Ahh, the wrapper. The smell. The deliciousness… =)