Three Friends

We have so many Food Banks over here now and I often donate things. When I think of all the food that gets wasted these days and the big grocery stores are the worst for that. All the bread, fresh vegetables and other things that are thrown out each and every day. It's just so wrong!!! I know that the big supermarkets have a Food Pantry that they donate too, but there is still just so much waste

We don't see that many food banks around here .. maybe in the towns but Waverley school just had one for Christmas boxes for poor families. All the kids donated some foods tins etc.  The kids get free school lunches here and they HAVE to eat them ... Greta hides what she doesn't want in her bag !!!!  So she tells me, then gives it to the dogs at home !

We don't have free lunches here in Australia, I used to make the girls lunch daily and they would take them to school. As a treat I would let them buy a tuck shop lunch once a week, usually on Fridays. I think we have discussed this before as it sounds vaguely familiar.

Perhaps Greta keeps a plastic bag in her bag to put the food into

All the kids get a free lunch here as it is a Rural school !   Nothing flash according to the kids .. pizza, sandwiches, ravioli, pies, .... according to Jack   Greta is a fussy eater ... she gets away with it at home ....  she just puts the school stuff she does not want into her school bag. 
I think she actualleh has 2/3 school bags !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I often see one hanging on the washing line !
 
Thats how it used to be back in the olden days Linda, free school lunches only for the poor families or people on the dole ( unemployment ) I have no idea nowadays.

So Moira, Greta puts the food she doesn't want into her bag.........does she have a plastic bag inside or does the food just go in as is?  If you often see one hanging on the line maybe it's because she's putting those lunch things right into her bag. 
Kids are rather picky it seems, at least when they are little.  Pam didn't like a lot of things but she LOVED snack food.  Tom didn't like snack food, junk food, whatever you call it.........he always wanted a MEAL.

Oh, then her lunch probably comes in a bag and she just puts that bag into her school bag so there is no mess.  Our school lunches were like a meal, potatoes, meat, veggie or salad.  Sometimes it was pizza or chili, spaghetti, things you wouldn't put in a bag.  My kids and Emma just ate what they wanted and threw the rest in the garbage.  School lunches do account for a lot of waste.
I didn't make Pam special meals either, she just ate whatever of what we had that she liked and didn't eat the rest.  She eats everything now except mushrooms and she says she doesn't like pork, but why, I don't know? 

Kids will be kids!!!
I'm trying to think what I didn't like as a child but all I can't think about is MILK and I HATED IT SO MUCH!  It seems like I liked about everything else that my Mother cooked.  Susie was very picky and the funny thing is she was a fat little girl and I was super skinny.  In her teen years it was discovered she had a thyroid problem and got on medication so she slimmed right down then.