My Every Morning
September 15, 2010
I get up at five to make everyone lunch for school.
Before you start thinking that I am such a great Mom who cares so much about nutrition, let me set the record straight by saying I am cheap. My issues with school lunches are: they incredibly expensive, contain foods that my younger kids are going throw away, and are not nearly large enough for anyone other than my youngest two (you know, assuming that they would eat them, which is doubtful)
The lunches I send are a mixture of healthy and junk food. Sometimes more healthy than junky, sometimes the other way around.
At the end of the last school year, Susan and I had a hilarious exchange about using up all the “school” food and not wanting to buy more snacks. As the last couple days dwindled on, the lunches were becoming more and more “creative” and each of us certain that we had packed the most ridiculous lunch. The last day I sent one of my sons, who had decided he no longer ate sandwiches, to school with a sleeve of ritz crackers, a string cheese, a baggie of Apple Jacks cereal, and a Pop-Tart. It was like a Lunchable on steroids. I am glad that was the last day because there was nowhere to go from there.
Of course for him there is nowhere to go from there because that was the BEST LUNCH EVER IN THE HISTORY OF LUNCHES! Every day since has just been a lunch box full of disappointment after nutritious disappointment.
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