Fooooooood & School

Growing up my mother was a stay at home mom so I had most of my lunches packed for me because she had the spare time. What I do remember of my packed lunches is that even though my mother had the time to cook my meals it seemed like all she did was pack them since they almost always had pre-packaged food like Lunchables or the store brand versions. Whenever I did receive a “home cooked” meal it wasn’t usually from that day it would be leftovers from the night or two before. On some days I did however get to enjoy some of the spectacular school food that everyone seemed to give the nickname “slop”. Most of the time my grade school would pass out the usual fish sticks and crinkled fries on Mondays and some other typical school food the rest of week except on Friday we would have an almost mystery meatloaf that was actually not half bad as long as you put about half a bottle of ketchup on top. By the time I had gotten to middle school the food got a little better which such items as corn dogs and cookies along with drinks like soda and juice instead of milk every day. When I reached high school my eating habits changed a lot because the options to eat grew immensely. We had Pizza Hut on Fridays and McDonald Days the cooks would make homemade chocolate chip cookies. The cookies were so moist and gooey then we would add marshmallow syrup to them. Once I moved away to college I was fortunate enough to never get the “freshmen 15” instead I lost 15 pounds within the first year mainly because I never ate due to insignificant funds. Now I eat a lot more healthier and more balanced meals to keep my weight at a steady level.