It's not unusual to hear someone refer to a lunch box (i.e. the container with their madpakke inside it) as a madpakke, even though there is another word for lunch box, madkasse. Additionally, the meal packed together at home to later be eaten on the go in a madpakke doesn't have to be lunch, which probably explains why the Danish word for "lunch", frokost, is only just making its first appearance in this article now. A madpakke can be eaten at any time and can therefore be a packed lunch, packed breakfast, packed dinner or just some packed (prepared to be eaten) food.