Word: lunchbox
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...when I was about seven, I lost my lunchbox a few hours before lunch. This meant that not only was I without noontime sustenance, but that even if I did find something to eat, I was going to get a stomachache worrying about losing the lunchbox in the first place...
...turns out, I needn't have worried on either front. When it was time to eat, my classmates generously contributed carefully culled articles from their lunchboxes. (For those of you who've ever considered packing prunes, asparagus or green beans in your kids' lunches, it's important to recognize that unless some poor kid forgets her lunch that day, every single item will wind up in the garbage can.) And, in a delightful turn of events, my beloved lunchbox turned up two weeks later when my bus driver noticed a mysterious and unpleasant scent emerging from under a seat...
...with 85 minutes in 1981, according to the University of Michigan. Last year the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons reported that thousands of kids have back, neck and shoulder problems from lugging heavy backpacks. At Beacon the books stay at school; each day Annie carries only her bright blue lunchbox...
...Help is on the way. Food researchers at Oklahoma State University have created individually wrapped slices of peanut butter, and Smucker's new line of frozen peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches is already available in some cities. Should you tire of this lunchbox classic, StarKist's new vacuum-packed tuna pouches mean you don't have to expend any effort draining juice from a can. To eat it, though, you'll still need a utensil. Not so with IncrEdibles' microwavable macaroni and cheese on a stick or its push-pop scrambled eggs. You'll appreciate the strength you save...
...green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their images run before my eyes... Every day there's a Teletubby something; last week it was a keychain-sized Tinky Winky; the week before, a larger-than-life Po; last month, a lunchbox with the four little demons holding hands, united in song. The little girl is obsessed, and I can't get away. You think I'm overreacting? Have you ever had a Teletubby in your belly...