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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4. Day 30
5. Day 25