08-18-2011, 08:16 PM
I used to eat hot lunch in school~my parents were divorced, so I qualified for the free lunch program (in the 70's, you automatically qualified if you came from a 'broken home')....
My oldest started out getting school lunch, but he never liked what they served, so I was just wasting money every week, and getting calls from the school b/c he would throw his lunch away every day.
Both my boys take a lunch to school now~and it's never a conventional PB&J. They make their own type of lunchables by cubing up meat and cheese ends from the deli. They love raw veggies, so they usually include carrot sticks and broccoli, or celery stuffed w/cream cheese. I freeze a couple of 6 packs of bottled water, which makes an excellent ice pack.
My oldest started out getting school lunch, but he never liked what they served, so I was just wasting money every week, and getting calls from the school b/c he would throw his lunch away every day.
Both my boys take a lunch to school now~and it's never a conventional PB&J. They make their own type of lunchables by cubing up meat and cheese ends from the deli. They love raw veggies, so they usually include carrot sticks and broccoli, or celery stuffed w/cream cheese. I freeze a couple of 6 packs of bottled water, which makes an excellent ice pack.