2007
these promises were made for us
maura @ 8:27 pm
Last year I helped out once a week with kindergarten lunch + recess for the first few months of school. It was a nice way to get Gus (and me) settled into his school, figure out where everything is, etc. And I also got to see what the school lunches are like.
I know that you will be shocked — shocked! — by my report that school lunches are awfully yucky. Lots of fat + salt in food that just does not look all that appealing. I mean, I am all for fat + salt, but at least spend your fat + salt allowance at the store with the GOOD stuff, you know, the pistachio meringue cookies or ravioli drowning in butter.
Anyway, last year school lunch made me really sad. Most of the kids don’t eat the fruit or veggies that are required to go on their styrofoam (!) trays. I wouldn’t eat the latter, either, as they’re criminally overcooked. It was the breaded cheese slab on a roll that really pushed me over the school lunch edge, though. I nearly cried.
Gus is a picky eater, so I was quite surprised this year when he said he wanted to have school lunch. But only on Fridays, which are pizza days. He has pizza and chocolate milk and ignores the mushy vegetables and even the option for fruit.
And you know, I do feel guilty, really I do. But I must admit that Thursday nights have become my favorite school night of the week. No lunch to make! No lunch desires to drag out of my uninterested son! We are in a phase right now where Gus is very very VERY bored with the 4-ish foods he deigns to eat (hmm, wonder why?) yet will not try anything new. So the removal of lunchmaking responsibilities once a week has been a most welcome change.
Extra bonus: his backpack is lighter and easier to carry. I could get used to this school lunch thing.
