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The Secret Black Market of 1990s Lunchbox Trades

Here's what we were eating instead of school lunch

Jan 9, 2013 12:31 pm

This isn't a processed food bashing sesh. It's a processed food memorial for the previously innocent items parents now get citations for packing their in their kids' lunches. They were fun, and while those days are pretty much behind us, I thought I'd shout out a few things I used to trade for when the black market opened around noon every day.

What To Eat: Lunch

Interview With A NYC Prep School Chef

We found a good solid model to follow

Dec 6, 2012 12:31 pm

Just because Michelle Obama and Jamie Oliver aren't in the news every day promoting the cause doesn't mean we're not still obligated to take steps every day towards improving the situation. I hope someday "eat your vegetables" loses its stigma as a brush-off or even punishment, because we all figured out how to make kale chips. Meet someone who's working on it.

What To Eat: Lunch

What Was Your Favorite "Flavor" Of Lunchables?

Lunchables: Nostalgia City or Grossville?

Oct 8, 2012 11:31 am

I cannot tell a lunch-related lie: my mom used to buy me Lunchables all the time. they were just so awesome, I had to have them — the meat was SO processed, the crackers were SO not whole wheat and the cheese, well. You know. But when I see the Lunchables of today's youth, it's very hard to feel nostalgic for the lunch equivalent of a TV dinner, compartments and all.

What To Eat: Lunch

Top 10 Notes I Got In My Lunchbox

Mama Kapadia was a master of the lunchbox note

Jul 25, 2012 11:31 am

My mom was a master of school lunch, knowing full well how gross and not-nutritious the food would be if she'd just given me a buck fifty and taken the morning off. Here are her top 10, as recounted to the best of my memory.

What To Eat: Lunch

What Boarding School Kids Eat For Lunch

High school cafeteria food gets personal

May 3, 2012 11:31 am

When it became known that I would be going to boarding school instead of high school with my friends, two main sets of questions arose. My friends: "What did you do?" My parents' friends: "What will she eat?"

What To Eat: Lunch

Bologna Sandwiches: The Best You Ever Had

A bologna sandwich recipe for an old-school lunch

Jan 25, 2012 12:31 pm

I really, truly loved bologna sandwiches when I was a kid. More than chicken fingers. More than pizza. More than anything else you couldn't slather with mustard and take for lunch. I loved the uniform texture and smoky saltiness of it and the fact that bologna had three meanings: Kosher beef, deli-style pork blend, or "bullshit, you did so break the VCR."

News Feed

Cafeteria Lunch Gets A Makeover

First Lady announces new school nutrition standards

Jan 24, 2012 1:01 pm

Wake up. WAKE UP! As food-obsessed eaters everywhere enjoy organic kale fritters and wheat grass cleanses, one out of three American children and adolescents are overweight or obese. The numbers are shocking; childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years.

What To Eat: Lunch

I'm A French 3rd Grader

Oh, the delights of the European school cafeteria

Dec 22, 2011 12:31 pm

Guess what French schoolkids eat for lunch? Pas du pizza. Pas du hot dog. Pas des frites. They actually eat a lot better than most of us will eat at dinner. Why? The government mandates it.

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