Applegate Farms “Rock the Box” Lunch Box Contest

Hey everyone.  I'm really tired this morning.  Really tired.  Can anyone tell me why I always wait until 11:30 at night to make the kids' lunches?

Last night it was a PB&J (Marantha organic peanut butter & Cascadian Farm organic Raspberry jelly on Rudi's organic 100% whole wheat bread) for The Daughter.  Plus a sliced Honeycrisp apple.  For The Son: 3 slices of Applegate Farm's smoked turkey breast, Hain mayonnaise, Kroger spicy mustard, and lots of green leaf lettuce on Rudi's organic 100% whole wheat bread.  Plus a sliced Gala apple.  [apple skins are always left on, BTW]

It's not like I think I should make their lunches days ahead of time (after all, a fresh sandwich is fresh for only so long) but I could certainly do it a little earlier than midnight especially now that I'm getting up every morning at 6am.  Five hours of sleep each night just isn't cutting it.

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So the other day I opened my email and found a note from Gina at Applegate Farms.  Apparently she'd found my blog because of my rather regular mentions of purchases of Applegate Farms meat products [I do love the stuff and depend on it as a major source of protein, especially when I travel and it's an important ingredient in my recipe for hot pocket sandwiches].

Gina told me about a "Rock the Box" contest currently taking place.  You could win a cool OOTS deluxe lunch box simply by sharing your most vivid school food memory.

Funny but I don't have any vivid, specific school food memories.  What I do remember, however, is the general embarrassment of eating brown whole grain bread.  In those days -- mid- and late-70's -- we didn't know anyone else at school who ate brown bread.  It was truly the era of Rainbo bread.  My siblings and I perfected a hobo-brown-bag move of eating our sandwiches as they were cleverly hidden inside our paper lunch bags.

Luckily my kids attend school with kids who've grown up with whole grain bread.  For them it's perfectly normal.

It's a good thing The Son doesn't feel the need to hide his sandwich in a brown paper bag because Gina graciously offered to send us a complimentary OOTS lunch box -- in his favorite color, no less: green.  The Daughter actually prefers the brown paper lunch bag not because she uses it to hide her sandwich but because it doesn't require her to remember to bring anything home with her.  Whatever works, right?

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