My kids had envious friends because they had home fried tortilla chips in their sack lunch rotation. I didn’t even make the tortillas, I just cut them,fried them and salted them. When I packed my kids lunch they always had a protein, a piece of fruit or carrot sticks, a salty crunchy and a dessert. Any teacher who seize that lunch would have had me at the school in a heartbeat. Possibly even charging the teacher with petty theft and child abuse.
My kids didn’t like packing their lunch. They didn’t like all the usual lu ch foods like sandwiches and chips. They would wait until they got home and have leftovers from the previous night’s dinner.
For a brief time my son had access to a microwave and he did take leftovers then.
So glad my kids have graduated.