Mayonnaise and School Lunches

For years I believed that mayonnaise left out in the sun would spoil and cause illness. If potato salad had mayonnaise, it must be kept cold or thrown out as a spoiled food.

When I look up mayonnaise, I was surprised to find that it is made from vegetable oil and egg yolks. How icky to think that the condiment is just oil and egg yolk. Oh well, it is safe to put mayo on a sandwich and send it to school for lunch.

I'm not sure that I would want to eat the sandwich with mayonnaise after 10 hours or so but for school lunch OK.

Now I asked my mother Mrs. Know-it-All and she said not to use mayonnaise on the lunch bread. Well guess what? For once she's wrong!

I think that I will put those new ice packs in the lunch any way to keep the mayonnaise cool (it tastes better that way).

School lunches are a challenge since the children want fast food. The cost of school food adds up quickly if it is used 5 days a week. Lunches from home need to be fun, so a child looks forward to it.

Now when I went to school all those years ago, lunch was PB and J (peanut butter and jelly) or nothing. No choice was offered. Those good old days are gone. Kids are so much wiser and demanding.

I have found that it is not wise to send a child to school with lunch they hate. Keep it simple, send the same thing day after day and the child will eat it.

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Back to School Safety

Ok, its only July 7, 2008 and going back to school is 6 weeks to 8 weeks away. NOW is the time to get ready to get back to school safety information!

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has great information and down loadable checklists. It is impossible to top the information.

Just go to: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/america.html and you will be pleased!

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