What’s in your lunch box?

Oh wow that is soooo cute of a lunch box! I saw a clip of a teenager in the US with a Filipino mom and her mom forcing her to have an empty ice cream tub as her lunch box with rice and Filipino viands inside Imagine how shocked her classmates were

@sol_cee Oh my God hahaha that would be shocking awww But what is viands?

@RebeccasFarm viands can be pork or chicken or beef paired with rice. Chicken adobo with rice is yummmmm but I wonder if she ever gets bullied in school for that

@sol_cee I used to make "simple" bentos for the kids when they were little. They were nothing like those bento photos you see online with characters and crazy details - I don't have time or energy for that! I made sandwiches cut with cookie cutters . Have you made fancy bentos? I have this memory of my friend who hated her mom's bentos. Her mom used to put sandwich ham in hers . . . my friend was a brat and she used to throw it in the street !

Bento talk! Loll I know someone who would wake up really early to make this awesome bento lunch for her husband. The meticulous details is just wow. How about you? Do you make any bento for your family? And lolll to your mom making bento with lots of riceeeee

@much2say Throw away? That's so mean and mottainai!! (This is out of topic) but I remember one time my mom tied my hair and I didn't like it but I didn't want to hurt her feelings so I and my sibs went to school but the moment I arrived in my classroom, I immediately untied my hair. Was I also mean?

@sol_cee Hello... I was in the hospital day before yesterday. My blood pressure was 210/200 and my daughter insisted I go and get checked out. The ER doctor put me on an IV to lower my blood pressure but it didn't work as fast as he wanted it to work... When it finally started dropping, I had been in the hospital for several hours. I checked myself out after my blood pressure returned to "normal" for me. The ER doctor wasn't happy but he couldn't make me stay. I've mostly been sleeping since I got home from the hospital. Pretty doesn't want me doing anything and even argued about me talking on myLot. *shrug* The ER doctor couldn't find any reason for my blood pressure to shoot up like that and stay so high. I'm supposed to see my doctor in a couple of days so she can check me out. Yes, it was very nice of her. My parents were poor so the state paid for our lunches every day. But, yes, the kids that had to pay for the lunch paid when the lady taking the money told them how much their food cost or, their parents could deposit some amount with the school each month and the amount of the food was deducted from that amount every day. If the kid ran out of money to pay for lunch before the month was up, the lady taking the money made a note and let the parents know they needed to pay the overdue balance by the end of the month.

Heyyy long time, no see. How have you been? (And I noticed you didn’t mention anything about the rice. Lolll) That is so sweet of the lady. Question, do you pay for that food in the lunch room right after you buy them?

@DaddyEvil oh my.. I just watched an episode of The Good Doctor and one patient is soooo you lol But really, take care of yourself and listen to your doctor. And to Pretty. And to your body. You’re easily noticed when you’re not around

@sol_cee I do not want her to be hungry is her school bus

@rakski I know what you mean. I try to remember if going to school made me that hungry too

I would befriend your daughter lolll and avail of the mini ref

Grape vine? Speaking of leaves, my mom would always tell us how her lunch would be rice and fish wrapped in banana leaves and I and my siblings would make face. But she said banana leaves would give this amazing aroma from the hot rice once you open it but no thank you lolll

@JudyEv oh I can picture that one out. Is it still done now?

@sol_cee The dampened grapevine leaves helped keep the bread moist in our hot summers.

I won't hate either one of you... I just think you have very poor taste in foods.

Oh, you were of those

@DaddyEvil

@sol_cee nope he started being more adventures with trying new foods 4 of years ago. Chicken spiedies are chicken cut up and marinated then cooked on a grill. Usually served in a hot dog roll kind of thing. I’m too tired to think of the right word now for the Bread.

That makes sense! I was really worried about that kid and so I added more portions to my son's lunch so he could share it with him. I didn't want to make it obvious that I'm giving him food because I'm worried he would be offended. That's the overthinking side of me lollll

How about now? Is your son still into chicken? And what are chicken spiedies?

@sol_cee No, because our house is just a stone's throw away from school and I lived in a dormitory from high school to college.

Wow, you didn't?

@Jenaisle that makes sense. I had a classmate whose house was near the school and my teacher would always utos her to get stuff in their house like knife or extra rugs and even broomstick lolll

@sol_cee yes

Totally different from ours

@sol_cee sure they can depending on what you put on them. With enough cold cuts, tomatoes and other things like that,

@RasmaSandra a loaded sandwich! Here it’s common to just put sandwich spread or mayonnaise and that’s it

Can sandwiches really make you full? Here sandwiches are just snacks

But fried chicken in the morning is sooo taxing. Unless she woke up really early?

@brokenbee she woke up really early for your fried chicken! I rarely had fried chicken and I always envied my classmates who had chicken joy

@sol_cee she used to wake up at 4...

I’m sorry about your mom. And it’s nice that you are different from her in the way you take good care of your kids. I can’t imagine a mother sending her children to school with empty stomachs

@almostoveryou oh you're Macy now! Cute name. And you are such an understanding daughter. Others would have been resentful to their moms, if it happened to them.

@sol_cee i'd been resentful most of my life. it gets tiring too. :)

Lol did you give them points for guessing your lunch box food?

@sol_cee i shared food with them instead of giving points

Walked home for lunch? Was your school nearby? My primary school was near too but it was always too hot to walk home at noon

@zhangxueying here I seldom see students walk to school

@sol_cee Primary school takes 15 minutes to walk home, and secondary school takes 15 minutes to ride a bicycle. We have an hour and a half off at noon.Our place is in the northeast of China. Our winter is very cold, and the summer is usually 30 degrees. In the hottest months of July and August, it is summer vacation.

Was it free hot lunch?

@sol_cee yup, glad to be back. Nice to interact with you again.

Oi hi there! Good to see you back here.

But now you don’t need lunchbox?

Oh wow, then you always had hot meals! Lucky you

Was your house near your school? Or you just bought from the school cafeteria?

HUgs to you, Carol. And @RebeccasFarm also had Barbie lunchbox like you

@sol_cee Mine was pink and I loved it. Good memories.