The Grocery List

Yesterday my hubby left the grocery list out and I was so tempted to just cross everything out and write in such delicacies as hot dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches, and wrinkled potato chips. I believe I was feeling in touch with my inner grade schooler.

Which made me ponder what did I eat as a grade schooler?  I can say that I brought my lunch, made by my mom, to school during grade school. In the younger grades it was very rare that I ever bought my lunch from the cafeteria, which is fine because icky cafeteria food. As I got older we started being informed what the cafeteria would be offering that week so I'd be sure to hit up mom for lunch money when they were having hamburgers. I could have lived on hamburgers as a grade schooler. Who are we kidding? I could live on hamburgers now.

I brought my lunch in a lunchbox and not a paper sack. It was the same lunch box for years and years until it needed replacing. I didn't get a new one every school year. For a long time it was Scooby Doo with the Mystery Machine and cast of characters on it. That's the only one I remember. I don't remember using the thermos or what was in it but I must have. I'm such I drank something and being allergic to milk it certainly wasn't that. I never had that short squat thermos looking thing that held soup but I remember a friend of mine had soup for lunch quite often.

As for what was in the lunchbox, there was almost always a sandwich. Most often it was peanut butter and jelly (always a classic and still a favorite), sometimes cheese (not grilled, just cheese), bologna, and sometimes it was braunschweiger. I often had carrot and/or celery sticks wrapped in tin foil that would crunch like the dickens. Once in awhile I'd get a pickle or pickles. I often would get a pouch of potato stix, which I think back in those days were one of the only snack sized item sold. Other times I get a few saltines, Ritz or other crackers in a baggie or those cheese 'n crackers with a red stick to apply the cheese. Sometimes I'd  get a candy bar or a few cookies also in a baggie. A real treat was to find a box of animal crackers in there. I was supposed to bring the baggies and foil back to reused and did so dutifully.

After writing all this I figured out why I am so bad at adulting. I can't get over the kid stuff! We're at a fancy steak place and I'll have the hamburger. Not sure what's for dinner?  PB&J wins that battle every time. Instead of the steamed veggies...  can I have raw ones instead? Looking for a snack? Pickles are awesome! Or cheese! Or crackers! Or cheez 'n crackers! Have this high end cake from a name brand bakery?! No, I'll have these fig newtons... Ah! So much has been illuminated!

The Fine Print: Surely it must be time for lunch by now? Cards 'n parts from Club Scrap, old kit stuff with a few items from my stash thrown in.