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Camping trips, lazy days at the pool, backyard water fights, and picnics at the park - these are the activities that a good summertime story is made of. As much as my kids enjoy the carefree days of summer (they even managed to lose track of the days within the first two weeks), they are also excited to start back to school. While I relish the thought of having some time to myself again, I already feel nostalgic about the memories we create together in the summer.
Lunchtime during the summer holidays takes place according to our bodies' schedules rather than the clock's. Two little heads appear beside me as I start pulling lunch meat and slices of watermelon out of the fridge. Four willing hands start to spread mayonnaise and mustard on slices of bread and set the patio table with place mats and napkins. My 6-year old son has claimed the job of "Official Cucumber Slicer". He sits carefully on a chair, pulled up to the counter, and slowly saws away at a cucumber until we have enough slices to fill everyone's sandwiches.
With my husband and I both working from home on many days, we have ample opportunities to eat together. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I would not have it any other way. It gives us the opportunity to chat about our day so far and to enjoy each other's company. How I am going to miss our midday chats when summer is over. Lunchtime will be far too quiet.
With my boys gone all day at school in the fall, I have an overwhelming need to stay connected to them even while we are apart. When I make their lunch each morning (they will be eating corn dogs and waffles on a stick - seriously - over my dead body), I tuck a note in each of their lunches. While the notes always include some sort of motherly sentiment, I also include either a fill-in-the-blanks secret message or a joke they can share with their friends. This small gesture lets them know that I am thinking of them, even though we are not together. After school, they often can not wait to tell me that they solved the puzzle or which of their friends had a joke to tell in response.
There are only a few weeks of summer holidays left and I plan to enjoy every moment we spend preparing and eating lunch together. For more great ideas on fun ways to spend time with your kids, check out Smucker's Kidvitations.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 395 of 395We walked home from school for lunch. When we were finished eating, we watched a local kid's tv show before we went back to school. It was a very nice break.
My mom and I made my lunch together for school the night before--nice quality time
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I loved making pennies & corn with my mom - it's sliced up hot dogs and canned corn (drained). Yum!
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My mom always wrote me a note on my napkin when I was in school and I carried on that tradition with my own children. It's funny but my sons are much older than my daughter and sometimes they make her lunch and tuck the note on a napkin into her lunch too. She loves getting a message from her big brothers on her napkin.
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My favorite lunch-time ritual with my mom was picking a page from a coloring book and coloring it together while we ate!
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My favorite lunchtime rituals as a child was peanut butter and jelly wrapped in a tortilla.
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I don't really remember a favorite lunch time ritual. I went to a one-room school with all 8 grades. My siblings & I brought sack lunches--as did everyone else. I remember being envious of the kids who had store-bought treats. As an adult, I don't even like those very same treats!
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When my mom packed my lunch, she would use a cookie cutter to make my sandwich into fun shapes. It was always a. surprise as to what shape it would be. There was always a hershey kiss for dessert.
When I was little I only asked for Bologna sandwiches at lunch-time.
Now, I never ask for them. Too much balogna.
Good thing to mix up lunch items. Now I understand, better.
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Weekday lunches were best enjoyed with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - and if I had plain potato chips, I would put them in my sandwich. Salty crunchy deliciousness. On weekends, I looked forward to hot dog sandwiches. We didn't have much money growing up, and my mom wasn't much of a cook, but after a morning spent running errands, we'd come back and my mom would slice hot dogs lengthwise and fry, top with a slice of cheese, and slather mustard on two slices of bread. Add hot dogs and cheese - and there you have it. Hot dog sandwich. Not high on my desired list now, but it's a fun memory.
we didn't have any lunchtime rituals. Both my parents worked, so there wasn't a lot of interaction at lunchtime when we were in schoold.
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We didn't have a cafeteria at my elementary school, so it was bag lunches every day. The moms got together once a month to get together a hot dog or hamburger day for us in the church kitchen, and we were thrilled to have a hot lunch!
My mom never, never bought cookies from a store. Our lunches always included something yummy she baked for us herself.
My favorite lunchtime ritual was when my mom would come to school & ate lunch with me. I loved being able to spend extra time with her.
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my favorite lunchtime ritual was the prayer that we said at every meal.
We didn't have any lunch time rituals when I was a kid. As long as I could remember, I got hot lunch.
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I loved when sandwiches were in shapes when I was a kid. When I was home, my Mom would use cookie cutters to make heart, star and circular sandwiches....even shaped grilled cheese sandwiches.
When I was a kid peanut better and Jelly was a very popular school lunch. My grandmother always cut the sandwiches into 4's (in half and then half again). The kids at my lunch table thought that I had a better sandwich because it was cut differently. When my grandmother found out that I was sharing it, she sent more for my friends.
My mom would always pack my lunch for school. I remember eating a PB&J sandwich, fruit, and homemade chocolate chip cookies often.
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I always loved the anticipation of what was in the lunch bag as well as what could I trade it for. Sadly my parents were "healthy" and I usually had nothing to trade for! Nobody wanted my food! lol And when I did have something yummy I wanted it for myself so even though I thought about it just about every day it only happened a small amount of the time. :)
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I would go for the dessert first!
When I was a kid I loved grilled cheese sandwiches. My mom would also sometimes make tomato soup with egg noodles. On a wintery day in particular, the grilled cheese with the tomato soup was the perfect combo. Sometimes I still make it for myself!
I miss school pizza. When I was a kid it came in huge sheets that the lunchladies would cut up with huge garden shears for you. I still put mustard smiley faces on my bologna and cheese sandwiches like my mom did. Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com
My mom was one of those mothers who would cater to us. She would actually make us our favorite sandwiches. I liked fried egg and my sister liked bologna and cheese.We both liked them cut in triangles. I am afraid to say I don't have the patience of my mother-the kids get what they get!
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Yum...this is making me hungry!! PB&J with salty potato chips in the middle!
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I spent years only eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches...so I guess getting the peanut butter and smushing in the banana was my favorite ritual during childhood!
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Here's my childhood lunch ritual!
In high school, my parents gave me lunch money to eat in the school cafeteria. A cheap and filling lunch for me was vegetable soup and a freshly-made yeast roll - and I was able to keep what was left over from my lunch money to spend on other things. I was thrifty even then!
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When I was in grade school, my dad used to pick up little candies to put in my lunch. Like a plastic garbage can with "garbage" candy inside, or a lunchbox with "food", etc. The best part was he always included a goofy rhyming poem to go with the candy.
In the summer we would eat lunch outside on the picnic table
When I was a kid it would be frosting on graham crackers. We all loved that as kids.
I loved when I got to buy lunch, it was always better than anything packed from home. The thing was though that you could NEVER admit you liked the food. So I would stand in line talking about how bad the school food was with everyone else, but in truth I thought it was just fine and ate every bit off my plate.
My favorite lunchtime ritual when I was a kid was eating a bowl of Mac and Cheese outside while selling lemonade on my homemade lemonade stand. Sooooooooo Good! ")
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Since I was a kid back in the Dark Ages (at least according to my grandchildren--no TV, no electronics at all, etc) the only thing I can really remember is that I never heard of PB&J until my kids wanted it. That really blows everybody's mind!
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My mom often packed one Hershey's Kiss in my lunchbox, just as a reminder that she loved me.:)
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My ritual was to have things on the side! If i had a sandwich I would want the bread and meat only together, cheese on the side no sauces of any kind. I was a picky little eater and my wonderful mom always made sure I was happy!
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My mom would choose one day a week to add a special treat in my bag. I never knew which day it would be. It was always exciting.
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Best was definitely making grilled cheese sandwiches with my dad.. buttering the outside of bread slices, laying cheddar slices on while frying in the pan. And in my household, grilled cheese was always eaten dipped in ketchup. So good!
When I was young I'd take goldfish and dip it in chocolate pudding!
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When I was around 10 my Mom used to put hot dogs on forks for my brother and I and let us roast them over the stove. We thought we had THE COOLEST mom ever!! (Actaully, we know we did!) :)
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My favorite lunch time ritual was sharing food with everyone and removing the crust from the bread!
I actually liked it when we were old enough to make our own lunches for school.
There we'd be, the three of us, all trying to beat each other to want we wanted for our lunch. Arguing, and laughing. I miss that. And as my son is an only child, he'll never know that.
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My ritual was to have a fluffernutter sandwich which I ate really fast so I could get back outside.
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Potato chips dipped in ranch and convincing my younger brother that French dressing was a CHEESE sauce and he should dip his chips in that instead (so as not to use up the precious precious ranch).
I loved unfolding the paper napkin, and making myself a little placemat for my sack lunch goodies.
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It was so long ago, I barely remember! :)
Getting a perm was an all day affair and my mom would drop me off in the morning then bring me a delicious lunch meat sandwich with mayo, lettuce and tomato at lunch time.
In highschool my friends and I would always get our lunches and sit together under a big tree and gossip!
butrflylo13 at yahoo dot com
Going to Gramma & Grandpa's for lunch was always so special.
I loved it when my Dad made cream cheese and jelly on toast for lunch. He called them "house specials".
I had to have the same thing all the time peanut butter and jelly with added butter yes butter! It's actual quite good and chedder cheese soup...lol
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I don't really remember any lunch time rituals. For my daughter, I try to make some special things that she loves like mini bagels with cream cheese.
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I loved it when we could BUY our lunch instead of packing it. We always wanted to buy lunch on pizza day! Something about those rectangular pizzas! I still love them to this day!
One of my favorite lunchtime rituals growing up is that we'd go over to my grandparents' every Saturday and always make Mac & Cheese. Then we'd sit around and play some sort of board game or put together a puzzle or something. Those were great times together as a family!
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I loved eating on tv trays in the family room -- that was always such a treat!
One of my favorite lunchtimes as a kid was to be able to go the park and eat. Lunch was always better outside at the picnic table:)
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I LOVED canned tomato soup! My mom would heat it up so it was ready when I walked in from school at lunch time...we only lived a couple of blocks from the school. Then, I'd carefully open a pack of saltines, crumble them up into the bowl of delicious soup...YUMMMM!!! My mom said I didn't eat crackers in my soup...I ate soup in my crackers!
Having picnics on Saturdays!
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i liked when my mom would pack a cooler filled with snacks and drinks and sandwiches and send us to the pool in the summer
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When I was a kid, our lunchtime ritual was eating fast so that we could get back outside to play. Then sometimes, we'd realize we ate to fast because the neighbor kids weren't done yet. Other times, it was the neighbors who ate too fast.
We had a lunchtime ritual of cutting the crust off the sandwiches!
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I remember eating peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches with my brothers and sisters.
I would take my potato chips and put them on my sandwich so that the sandwich was crunchy, my favorite was doritos
My favorite lunches was in grade school when i use to be able to go home for lunch. marybug2@yahoo.com
I have a nine year old Granddaughter that loves peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwiches with honey on it too! She loves the Smuckers strawberry jelly, you can't get her to eat any other kind of jelly, she would know if it wasn't Smuckers too! We even make a bonfire and have smores and she puts jelly on that too!
I don't remember any rituals when I was a kid, but I do remember when I learned how to make tuna salad and my mom would let me make it for the whole family....it was the start of my love for cooking for my family
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I liked to cut my sandwiches with cookie cutters, the big ones...so I would have heart shaped peanut butter and jelly and grilled cheese shaped like a dog or a flower....I do the same thing for my kids now!
I actually loved cafeteria lunch and would look forward to going through the lunch line and seeing what was being offered that day!
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I remember the special lunches when my father was home and would make grilled cheese sandwiches with a dill pickle on the side. Thanks for the contest.
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On cold afternoons we would always get tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Eating that today still reminds me.
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My mom would take us to the library then let us picnic at the park or in the living room if the weather dictated on cleaning day. We loved it.
Making a trade for one my friend's iced graham crackers was a school lunch ritual. The pink icing was beautiful!
I use to eat chicken roll on white bread with mayo and black pepper. It was the only thing I ate for years for lunch
When I was a kid, we would have mostly sammies & then take a break from being outside at the hottest time of day by watching cartoons.
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I liked summer luch the best, we usually ate outside picnic style.
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A favorite lunchtime ritual we have is to use cookie cutters to cut sandwiches into shapes.
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During the summer, my lunch time was making it with my mom. Just the process of deciding what to eat, making and sitting down to read the newspaper made me feel all grown up. During school time, I would have to get in line with my friends as we had to be assigned seating based on how you was in line as tables was filled one by one. We would exchange our home lunches if we brought them or traded (hated raisen cookies) foot if school lunch. A major silly tradition.
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Today I am embarassed to say that in high school my lunch consisted of 2 ice cream sandwiches.
This is a ritual, and part of my childhood, so I guess it counts, right?
My grandfather always worked around his farm then went to work at a factory. Lunch was always the big meal of the day at their house. I spent lots of my summers at their house.
Sitting around with fresh food just in from the garden and two people who cherish you like nothing else in the world - what could be better?
I always had to have the crust off, and my mom cut in four pieces, and I loved having a juice box too : )
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When I was growing up we lived on a really long side road with lots and lots of kids our age.
So we were always all over the neighborhood playing ball, skateboarding and riding bikes.
As long as my mom knew where we would be we were free to stay and play except for lunch and dinner time.
Those two times a day we were required to be at home to sit down with our family and have a meal.
And we always enjoyed it. It gave us time to catch up on what we had been doing, were going to be doing and laugh at each others silly jokes and antics.
During those two meals a day it was as if time stood still.
And it definitely made for one of my favorite childhood memories.
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What I used to do was sneak some mayonnaise sandwiches. My mother hated them and would do anything to ensure I limited myself of these but this was my treat. Our regular food ritual was some of the best BBQ beef sandwiches ever. My mom was a great cook!
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Didn't really have one. My mom and Dad worked and I pretty much made my own lunch. I did have fun with my friends at school, though.
I always wanted a straw with my milk
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I loved when my mom would have lunch ready for my friends and I in the summer. She would lay out a blanket in the yard for us... I miss her
I liked chicken nugget day at school.
I can remember my grandmother making me just about anything I asked for. I particularly enjoyed chicken noodle soup with crackers crushed in it.
I used to love when my grandma would cut my sandwich in half diagonally, then flip the sides around so the corners were touching. Then she'd add carrot sticks on top for antennae and call it a butterfly. :)
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My favorite lunch time ritual as a kid was on the weekends, when we sat down as a family and my mom made grilled cheese and soup
My old neighbor and I had a little strip of woods between our homes - Jolene and I would have our sandwiches while digging out hole to china - wasn't until I was older that I found out our fathers used to fill the hole back in some each night so that we didn't destroy the property and could still dig - LOL
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I loved it when Mama took us all to the park or lake for picnics. trinitygsd at yahoo dot com
I would open up my sandwich, sprinkle some crushed chip inside, put the bread back on, and then eat my sandwich.
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My sister didn't eat the crust on her bread and when we got older and took our kids to a fast food restaurant she would peel off the crust on her hamburger bun. Needless to say all of our kids grew up doing the same. dpschad@yahoo.com
I loved when we had grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for lunch because I enjoyed dipping my sandwich in my soup and making a huge mess.
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My grandmother raised me and she always made lunchtime so special. She would make me a sandwich and cut them into 4 pieces. She would then put a little design in each square. She always had a piece of homemade pie for dessert and when I started school everyone always wanted to trade that piece of pie for something they had!
Not so many rituals as a child but when I got my first job it was so great to meet my best friend for lunch. We felt so grown up at 16!
Maybe because of the divider plates, I was obsessed with my foods touching, and then eating one bite of each item...
My favorite lunchtime ritual was grilled cheese and tomato soup on Sunday afternoons.
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As a kid I always loved opening the little tupperware with the surprise desert at lunchtime.
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I used to enjoy putting potato chips IN my sandwiches when I was a kid.
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I don't think I had a lunch ritual. My sister and I can home for lunch and my Mom always had P & J sandwiches and a glass of milk on the table waiting for us.
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I had to take all the crusts off my sandwiches and all the skins off my apples and grapes-my poor mother!
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There was a squirrel that would hang around my grammar school. I would save a cookie and hand feed the squirrel every day at lunch.
That's probably why I still love animals to this day.
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Our ritual was for my mom to say, "made with love" when she handed me my sandwich.
PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY ON TOAST WAS A FAVORITE
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Making sure that everything that I was going to eat was eaten and then I would drink and it was always milk. Thanks for the chance at winning.
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My mom used to pack me a turkey sandwich 3 times a week and salami twice. She'd cut the sandwich into a star shape and would always include a guilty pleasure snack. I used to order milk at school as well! :)
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My mom would wrap a frozen can of soda in my lunchbox - a different flavor every day & it was always a surprise.
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I always had a little debbie treat in my lunch, which I loved. honeypie411 at yahoo dot com
Fried Bologne Sandwhich!
Everyday!!!
Carla
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I remember my mom cutting the crusts off and I was the only kid in school with a cream cheese and olive sandwich! Thanks.
I used to drink chocolate milk at every meal. I would throw a fit if I didnt get it. I was a handfull. haha
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I've always had to take the skin off my baked potato. I still do and didn't know anyone else who did until I met my husband!
My favorite lunchtime ritual as a kid was my mom would write a note to me on my napkin. I would be surprised when I opened my lunch box. Sometimes my mom would get creative and cut my sandwich in shapes.
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As a kid, my mom always added a piece of lettuce to our peanut butter sandwiches so they wouldn't be so dry.
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my mom would a special note to my lunch of something fun we would do that evening
I still think of it and laugh today. Every day at lunch my mom would yell out of the front door that it was lunch time, and I would hear it wherever I was in the neighborhood and rush home to eat. Hilarious!
when it was a cold day my mother would pack hot tomato soup in my lunchbox really warmed me up
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I used to eat my banana and put the sticker inside my lunchbox. I even got my teachers to provide some banana stickers for me. I had one teacher give me a price sticker off of her can of Tab.
Maybe my childhood is just too far away, but I don't remember anything special about lunches. Not at home, not at Mam-ma's house. The only snippet of memory I have is when I was in elementary school, they used to serve a celery stalk with peanut butter in it, and I'd lick the peanut butter out and leave the celery.
i really didn't have any lunch time rituals per say .... i hated crust so my mom always made sure I had crustless bread :)
I am going to steal ur idea of notes in the llunchbox if I ver have a kid!! :)
My mom would tell us stories.
Mary D
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My mom always had me take the cafeteria hot lunch, so I never had any real lunch time rituals ... unless you count trading desserts with the other kids lol
favorite lunch time was tuna fish... I'd get mine before my sister, because I didn't like pickle relish and she did. Just always has reminded me of the little things my mom did to keep the peace....
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I have to say that I don't remember lunch times as a kid. My parents weren't the type to really do anything special for us. I like to send notes to school with my girls whenever they take packed lunches to school. Thank you!!
I don't know that I had rituals. I always looked forward to certain foods in the school lunches at school, though. vidomich(at)yahoo(dot)com
being a picky eater,I dont recall any rituals
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I use to walk home from school for lunch. My mom and I would enjoy our lunch together.
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My weird lunchtime ritual was bringing soup in a thermos for lunch! I didn't like sandwiches so I brought that instead, weird!
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Lunch for us was at noon everyday, no matter where we were, outside playing or at a friends house, we were expected to be home by noon to sit down with our Mom and have lunch and again at six for dinner. Mom believed families should eat together
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When I was a kid, my sister and I had my mom play the role of the "lunch lady" from school and make us lunch on actual cafeteria trays - and often she'd make the same types of meals we'd get at lunch (though a lot better tasting!). I guess we loved school so much we wanted to recreate it in the summer and on weekends!
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I loved waiting to check out my lunch bag so I could see the little notes my mom left me
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Nothing could touch on my plate and I liked to have mostly one color food.
Diane Baum
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In the summers I would stay with my grandma while my mom took college classes. She fed me ham and cheese sandwiches,an apple and three oreos every day all summer. I used to take apart the oreos and eat them separately and it drove her nuts so I started doing that to my sandwich too just to be a brat.
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My grandma would make a huge homemade lunch and we would come in from working..eat ourselves silly...and then nap on the couch...
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putting peanut butter on toast, then making a face with raisins.
When I was a kid, my mom would do fun little rituals at lunchtime. She would cut our sandwiches into shapes with cookie cutters. She would also do theme lunches, like picnics in the living room or "campfire cooking" where we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows over the fir in the fireplace.
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My grandpa had a ritual where if we cleared our lunch plate we were rewarded with a ginger snap cookie.
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My sisters and myself would use cookie cutters on our sandwiches and make neat shapes and vote on who we like the best.
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When I was in school there was no cafeteria. We walked home for lunch. My gramma always made sure I had a hot lunch. She was a really good cook and baker.
When I was in high school, I used my lunch money to buy ice cream and I saved the rest of it :-)
Putting ketchup over my eggs,
I don't really recall any. I do recall Mom always cutting our sandwiches in a diagonal manner.
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coming home from school for lunch and bringing my friend with me
When I was younger I wouldn't eat anything that my fingers would touch. So whatever I ate had to be eaten with a fork. If for some reason it couldn't be eaten with a fork, I would eat around the part that I had touched.
My grammy would make me the best chicken and rice soup whenever i came over!
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I used to only eat one type of food at a time during lunch, instead of eating everything together.
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I didn't want PB and J but something else and I loved to buy the milk and have a straw.
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Thanks for the giveaway...my favorite lunchtime ritual as a kid was trading desserts with other kids in the lunchroom.
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sandwiches with no crust
I remember making fried hotdog sandwiches and garlic potatoes with my sisters. My mom would let us cook our own meals occasionally and, to me, those were fun times!
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I wanted the same thing everyday - grilled cheese and tomato soup. Now, that is my comfort food. :)
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My mom paid for the meal ticket plan and we were given menus. On days that I didn't like what they were serving, I'd pack my lunch.
I had severe allergies as a child so my mom always made me a special plate.
My mom used to make homemade pizzas and we used to put our own toppings on!
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