It helps prevent you from growing tired of eating
the same lunch each day.
Though she ate
the same lunch every day from first grade through high school (whole wheat bread, four slices of salami, Miracle Whip), her taste has evolved, and now she owns one of New York's top sandwich spots.
Assuming that their limited food preferences are reasonably nutritious, children will come to no harm if they take
the same lunch every day.
I ate
the same lunch every day for probably 7 - year - stretches (in high school, it was french fries and a Slim Jim.
But in the end, I can glean that: (1) more TLT readers pack lunch in the a.m. vs. the p.m.; (2) your kids definitely prefer variety over
the same lunch every day; (3) readers are almost evenly divided on whether they enjoy packing lunch or find it a chore; and (4) none of our kids have access to a microwave at lunch.
I ate
the same lunch every day of my school career... ate a diverse diet at home.
Like you eat
the same lunch every day for work?
Do your kids want the comforting routine of
the same lunch every day, or do they expect a variety of lunches in the rotation?
Not exact matches
«For the duration of my childhood, my mom made my dad the
same lunch to bring to work every
day — American cheese on a Kaiser roll.
Not pausing for
lunch, they spend their
days passing 900,000 sheets through each copier, pounding 20 million strokes on every electric typewriter, sitting down on the
same chair 20,000 times, and outputting 7,500 sheets of paper from every printer.
While you are eating
lunch with a customer one
day, you notice your VP of sales walking into the
same restaurant with your lead VC.
The
same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the
same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school
lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2
days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two
days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.
We have the
same thing every
lunch, seven
days a week.»
I have a lot of love for this post because I feel exactly the
same about porridge — I have it for breakfast basically every
day (even the hottest summer
day) and often have it for dinner if I've had a big
lunch!
While I do love to cook and try new things, I will also eat the
same breakfast or
lunch,
day after
day.
But I hardly ever blog about it because I'm someone who's content with having the
same meal for
lunch every
day of the week, every week of the month.
I'm not a big leftovers person so I don't really care to eat the
same thing the next
day for
lunch.
My grandmother, like my aunt nowadays, would start cooking all these things one or two
days before Christmas Eve and we would keep eating the
same things for
lunch and dinner until they were all gone, which considering the quantities and the fact that there was only two of us, it might have taken almost a week or so...
«The
days of hotels having a stranglehold on catering are done; whether it's offering a full meal or a continental breakfast or a sandwich for
lunch, everyone is competing for the
same dollar,» he adds.
I read about how much Elsa love pesto;
same here — my four year old daughter can have pasta with pesto for breakfast,
lunch and dinner then again the next
day.
Silas, in the
same sentence, asked if I could remember his juice box for the next
day AND put a baggie of these munchers in his
lunch box.
I created a little lovely dinner for the simple and busy evenings, and at the
same time a wonderful
lunch wrap for the next
day!
Oh and here's my
lunch from that
same day.
Furthermore, I structured the meal plans in a way that you'd need to cook the main meals once a
day (in the evening) and you'd have the
same meal for
lunch the next
day (the first
day being an exception).
Also what about those
days when you just don't fancy having the
same thing for dinner and then for
lunch the next
day?
Although not without controversy he's akin to a modern -
day hero by providing disadvantaged teenagers the
same opportunity he had in the restaurant industry (Fifteen), taking fake fried meat and flavoured milk out of kids
lunches (School Dinners) and explaining to people that a hot chip is not counted as a vegetable serving (The Food Revolution & The Ministry of Food).
So much so that I have recreated it twice since (for
lunch and dinner the
same day).
I have green smoothies for breakfast and that works for me but I tried having the
same for
lunch as well and ended up quite nauseous, it was just too much green stuff in one
day.
I had the
same feeling when I looked at my friend over
lunch the other
day and had to remind him he's a third - year — and I'm a year above him!
If you are taking to
lunch, how are you cutting back to one serving or not eating the
same for 5
days.
Meeta, my blogger friend from What's for
lunch honey, had told me about the hot cross buns she made a couple of
days ago, on chat, and she enticed me with a gorgeous photo (that's not a surprise anyway) of the
same.
Make it the night before and add it to your kids
lunches the following
day, and no one will complain about having to eat the
same (delicious) meal twice.
Every
day, he ate the
same thing: boiled eggs for breakfast, chicken and broccoli for
lunch, meat or tuna with potatoes for dinner.
We worked at the
same facility at the time and would go out for runs on my
lunch break or after work, and I remember the early
days of the program where it was walk four minutes then run one minute x 10 and that one minute of running seemed like an eternity of burning hell.
It starts with Saban, the man who eats the
same exact thing for breakfast and
lunch every
day and has a zero - tolerance policy for bullshit.
There are very few times during the
day when there isn't something to eat on offer, whether it be breakfast, pizza by the pool,
lunch in the restaurant or allegro overlooking the pool who then go on to serve jacket potatoes, pancakes, ice cream and then afternoon tea and cakes, then dinner, then unfortunately nothing until 11.30 pm midnight snacks!!!! Drinks are plentiful and proper Coke etc although the cocktails did all taste the
same but that sometimes depended on who made them.
Cruz has entered the Picky Toddler stage of his development, so I made the
same lunch for him both
days of Mother's
Day Out this week.
I am a 1st grade teacher in a southern state, Title I school (95 % free and reduced
lunch) and here is the reality of the new food guidelines in my school: I know this is true because I eat breakfast and
lunch with my kids every
day and I eat the
same foods they eat.
Your child may want the
same lunch several
days in a row, then suddenly decide he doesn't like it anymore.
(It didn't help that, according to Wikipedia, «on the
same day that the USDA announced the cost - cutting proposal for school
lunches, the White House purchased $ 209,508 worth of new china and place settings with the presidential seal embossed in gold» Doh.)
Even if you're eating them the very next
day, adding them to a salad turns them into something completely different, so your
lunch doesn't feel like the
same thing you just ate!»
But that is not the
same thing as serving veggies from the school garden in every school
lunch every
day for 176 school
days.
* the spinach is delicious if wrap is eaten in the
same day, but we found that it didn't pack the best for
lunches.
And in the past few
days I've had no fewer than two real - life and three online conversations about this
same phenomenon: Children Who Choose Their Own
Lunches But Don't Eat Them.
The meals are often quite inventive and «grown - up», even though they do occasionally get burger and chips or chicken nuggets.And everything is cooked on site, served on real plates with real cutlery, but actual
lunch ladies... That said, it's costly: I pay 4.40 $ (about the
same in dollars, I guess) per meal per
day, so that makes just over 35 $ a week (no school on Wednesdays).
For example, after
lunch, after nap,
same time of the
day, etc..
The French think this is practical for a few reasons: (i) it gives kids enough time to eat and digest their most important meal of the
day; (ii) it gives teachers a proper break (they get a three or four course freshly prepared
lunch (often the
same thing the kids are eating) in a separate lunchroom!)
But a lesser - noticed story published that
same day on the Times School Book blog reported that New York City is being forced to cut its Universal Meals Program, which had previously insured that all children at some predominantly low - income schools received free
lunches, without demonstrating economic need — and therefore without risking social stigma by taking the school meal.
Our schools must share the
same lunch vendor, as these are the
same lunches in the
same packaging that my Chicago Public Schools students must endure every
day.
My kids eat a school
lunch every
day, they get a balanced, hot meal that even in the 15 minute
lunch hour (including standing in line time) they can finish because they are not tracking down their
lunch boxes, they are not opening containers and baggies and they are not spending time trying to trade out with their friends, because everyone has the
same things....