How much was school lunch when you were in school?

[Red State Rebel]

I remember lunch being .25, the little carton of milk was .02 and on Friday you could get Chocolate milk for .03!!!!

This was elementary school, early to mid 60's.

[22181]

1. In a private school...

No hot lunches but we did buy milk. A dime for a small carton, about 8 or 10 oz. I guess. 1978-1985.

[bif]

2. 35 cents

at a catholic school in the mid 60s.

[shoelace414]

3. 65 cents in the late eightys

[name not needed]

4. Last year it cost me 3.15

[papau]

5. free - 2 cents for milk, then later 5 cents for chocolate milk -then later

10 cents for milk.

But it helps to be poor - in this case

:-)

[El Supremo]

6. 35 cents in 1960 Kansas public elementary school

And it might have tasted bad, but it was more nutritionally balanced that what I see in public schools today.

[hrhdeb]

7. 1.00

When I was in school, lunches were a dollar, but my family was really poor, so we were subsidized and mine was free.

deb

http://www.votewhileyoustillcan.com

[asthmaticeog]

8. 25 cent lunch, 25 cent milk in the mid-'70s

Obviously they were making up some margin costs on the milk.

[KurtNYC]

9. 60 cents in 1973

Italian food every day of the week - pizza, pasta, subs, parmigiana, lasagna and fish on Friday of course.

[TX-RAT]

10. Sounds like we went to school together.

Chocolate milk was 2 for a nickel.

[papau]

14. Yes - we may be dating ourselves! :-)

:-)

[Ten Bears]

11. 50 cents

I think I recall that milk by itself was 2 cents at one time and then went up to 3 cents. I could always buy an entire lunch fo 50 cents though.

[cmf]

12. Around a dollar

I went to a particularly restrictive Catholic school k-8 where one was not allowed to bring one's lunch without a written note from a doctor. So, everyone had to buy and was billed monthly. I think the monthly bill was around $15-$20. I went to a less restrictive Catholic high school and usually brought my lunch, so I can't remember how much it cost there.

[tekriter]

13. We had nothing to eat but a handful of cold gravel...

tell that to kids today and they just won't believe it.

[proud patriot]

15. Can you believe it's $2.00 now

I make my son homemade lunch everyday .
but every once in a while my son requests
money to buy lunch .

When I make him lunch it's like Gourmet, but my
kid wants the crap served at school :shrug:

Go figure

[Kali]

16. Funny

When I was a kid - public school, Phx AZ metro area, late 60's 70's - 35 cents (think milk was 10) My mom always made lunch - my treat was I got to "buy" once per week. I LOVE cafeteria food. My kids "buy" all the time - they HATE cafeteria food and for them its a treat to bring from home. I call it alternation of generations. They pay 1.25, BTW.

[Droopy]

17. One dollar in the early eighties

We had to buy lunch tickets from the school. They wouldn't accept cash in the cafeteria.

[Rowdyboy]

18. When I started first grade, I got a dollar a week from my mom

It went up to a dollar and a quarter a week a few years later.

[yellowcanine]

19. 35 cents. I used to skip lunch and save my lunch money to spend on stamps

for my stamp collection. I was a dweeb. I freely admit it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. 35 cents in high school, mid to late 60s

You could also get a hamburger or hot dog for 25 cents and milk for 2 cents, as well as an ice cream sandwich or popsicle for 15 cents.

To add some perspective, this was in the days when a pair of Levis cost $7 and my grandmother sold her 2-story house in a nice part of Minneapolis for $17,000. Oh, and my father earned $500 a month.