On skinny kids. It is really rough you know...the way they have cut down on the portions in school lunches (while raising prices, naturally) . If your son is six feet tall, still growing, very active and a fellow whose skinny bones form a walking anatomy lesson, all you hear is whining about the little tiny sandwiches and terrible teensie tacos that are served. Good manners and lots of "pleases" and "thank you ma'ams" will sometimes get a boy an extra scoop of salad or an extra juice, but by the time that bus gets here at 3:17....get out of the way, he's headed for the cupboard
and the fridge
or anything that holds still long enough to put it on a plate (quick Mike, hide under the table).
All kids should have to do farm work after school. That would end this whole "obesity" affair in about a week.
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My son is the "are you gonna eat that" guy at his table I fear. I hear rumors.
ReplyDeleteHe's starving too, but he doesn't do the hard farm work your guy does.
I brown bag it. In 20 years of teaching, I've never eaten a school lunch.
Several of my co-workers eat at the diner across the parking lot, but I brown bag my lunch. I can eat what I want and watch the calories that way. I wish I had your son's problem!
ReplyDeleteHi FC, we often have considered sending lunch with the kids but with no refrigeration choices are limited. You can only eat just so much peanut butter and jelly. I would love to come up with a viable alternative to mystery meat and yogurt, which he doesn't like to send to school.
ReplyDeleteLaurie, me too, believe me I don't. lol
Your kids are so lucky to have a home where they can do work that is important to the well being of the family. Playing endless video games doesn't fit that exactly.
ReplyDeleteHi Jan, believe me, we know they are lucky to get to work for us, but they don't believe it for a minute. lol
ReplyDeleteI haven't been truly hungry in years. But this brought back some very dim memories.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're right - PB & J just doesn't cut it when you want a whole chicken with all the trimmings:0)
cathy, in the big world this is a small thing...except to the hungry kid and the cupboards when he hits 'em.
ReplyDeleteMy brother hit 6 foot 5 at about age 15...all arms and legs. It was impossible to fill him up and my nanny used to say he had a "greedy worm". But you are right about the farm work. When I hear about all the food everyone normally ate on the working farm...it's all stuff full of saturated fat and they went through 25 pounds of flour a week easily. But that work is hard work. No one suffered from eating that way.
ReplyDeleteHi rosie, isn't it funny how so many boys are that way? He was kind of a stocky kid when he was little, but when he grew he became just like my grandfather who was exactly that style of thin.
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