Been daydreaming of my snack baons when I was in my early Montessori days. The usual package consists of either ham/cheese sandwich na lasang plastic, wafer biscuits na Gold ang wrapper, TUC salty crackers, Knickknacks, Jack N' Jill Pretzels, and other sorts na mukhang mura sa budget, then for drinks would be Hi-C Apple or Grape (ayoko ever ng mainit na Zesto ang sakit sa lalamunan, nakakasuka and super malas mo pag yun ang baon mo sa field trip), Zip orange, Yakult (I don't realize then na sobrang kulang ang 1 bottle at that time), or cold Coke with ice in the ever-uso thermos na Coleman. I remember that time when my filthy rich classmates would have Yan-Yan or Kitkat for snacks.


During lunch, Celso would have his yaya bring him the the circular 3-level container metal baunan, which would separate steaming hot rice, nilagang baka with overflowing sabaw and his printong tapa or porkchop. Super mukhang masarap but I was never sure though, I never asked for a portion, thinking I might contract something from Celso, who then was not so hygienic. My usual rice lunch consists of tapa or tocino, adobong pork or chicken, cold fried chicken with no breadings but instead marinated in soy sauce, hotdogs that turns my rice pink, since the dogs are put on top of the rice, wala kasing separator ang Tupperware ko. My ever favorite lunch treat was bacon or corned beef, but over-all-on-top-of-my-list fave is when mommy forgets to prepare baon for us so she comes by at school and brings hot carinderia food like menudo or igadu.


Eventually, my snacks evolved to kiosk food like flavor-varied soda, clover bits, cheezels, chickadees and all other chichirya of the late 8o's. There were times when I had ice-cold Coke in my Coleman when it's PE day.