Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 14, 2011

Fruit leather? Hmmm….dried fruit?

And stewed unicorn horns.

Not quite the right balance – where’s the fresh fruit (not sugary leather) and crisp, fresh vegies instead of chips?

Why do I think the only change is in the girl’s perception?

Now I’m dating myself. Never had fruit roll-up or ever heard of it until 5-10 years ago. We never had one those girls had not even tuna or peanut butter/jelly sandwich.Question to all of you. Can any of you get on GC normal way? I cannot I get under management; which means networking trouble.

tuna on a tortilla? I don’t get it, it sounds like a reasonable, normal lunch offering to me.

I started subsisting primarily on school lunch in middle school, so I haven’t experienced this.

Actually, you can buy fruit leather at Costco. :) It’s not bad, actually, pretty much dehydrated fruit and at least the brand I buy doesn’t have any added sugar.

Methinks either most of you never had kids, or it’s been quite a while since they left home. Fruit leather was here in the 60s (if you knew where to look); then there came the sugery fruit rollups, now healthy fruit leathers are back. Healthy thing too, as Dogbarian mentioned. As for tuna tortilla, my 6yr old loves ’em, gets them all the time. PBJ? Many schools have banned them, either in individual classrooms or in the entire school, because of the extreme reactions some kids get to even tiny amounts of peanuts or tree nuts. Remember lunch trading? All the food sensitivities and allergies kids have these days has all but killed trading. Our school district had a kid go into anaphalactic shock last year from a nipple of a PB cookie. Times have changed, folks! … Not necessarily for the better. Check your epipen with the school nurse.

Hmm, my kids like tortillas as an alternative to ordinary sandwiches. We invented the peanut butter, banana and chocolate chip burrito. And sliced ham, cheese and relish or salsa rolled up in a spinach green, tomato or cheese tortilla looks very festive.

Uh, that would be nibble, NOT nipple. Yikes!

@ shytimes – I take it this means after five years of marriage, and bag lunches for my husband, I have a loooong way to go. ;)

@ mrssaskfan: those are some awesome-sounding sandwiches! Must try.

Fruit roll-ups have actually gone out of style so to speak with the healthy eating concepts. There is a growing brand that has well marketed their alternative – they call it “fruit leather” and is made by a company called stretch island. Unlike fruit roll-ups that were so popular in the 90’s they don’t have any added sugar and are literally just pureed fruit. Kind of odd how everything comes back around sometimes.

Starts out GREAT but slacks off towards the end. (or in this case by the 2nd week!!)

I just LOVE the facial expressions in “Stone Soup”. They’re so … well … expressive of what the characters are up to.

I don’t remember what I did for kids school lunches (maybe because I was putting up with a lot until I could divorce their father). I made HIS lunches until he finally moved out. I think the kids made their own if they wanted to take something, but we lived close to school so probably not needed.

My first year in school I would walk to the bowling alley and get a hot dog every day.

Up to sixth grade I could run home eat lunch and watch “My Little Margie” and “Life with Elizabeth” and still get back to school before the bell. Don’t recall what I had for lunch, but it wasn’t Chipped Beets on Fruit Leather.