Breakfast is served, in school, translated…
As I read the article, “Socializing with the Lunches”, I’d wanted to pen down the story shared by my son and I on lunches too.
When my son was in his elementary years, I’d had ZERO experiences making the lunches, but, the kids would want to have mom’s cooking, so does my son too, but unfortunately, I only know how to make fried rice with soy sauce and ketchup. Until one time, I’d used sticky rice to make his lunch; that day after school, as my son came home, he’d told me, that lunch tasted awful that day, so he had to, throw it out. And, ever since, I’d, given up, and my son started ordering the nutritious lunches from school.
here, is one breakfast for you to choose from…
And, due to chance, I’d started, taking a cooking course, and, cooking became one of my hobbies, and, it’d taken my six months, to get certified for a Level C Chinese cooking certificate. My son is in his last year of middle school, faced with the stress of taking the high school placement exams, he’d been under pressure, as mom, I’d wanted to, give him his needed boost using the most important meal of the day, breakfast, and so, I’d gotten up forty minutes earlier, to cook him his breakfast.
In the limited time that’s given, I was under serious pressure, to make something that’s nutritious and delicious. From the egg pancakes, the beef rolls, to sandwich, hash browns, and rice burgers………I’d made them all, I’d strained my thoughts, to make different breakfast items, hoping to make my son happy.
or, how about this???
Later on, my son told me, that he and his classmates started a “breakfast exchange club”, and, the friend’s mom also has a level C certification for Chinese-style cooking but they’d both believed, that I’d, cooked better. I’d heard, that his friend wanted in on the breakfast club too, my son asked him, “What’s your breakfast?”, the kid said it was a puff pastry bread from 7-11, my son and the members of his breakfast club immediately turned the student away, told him, “Of course, you must bring a homemade breakfast from you mom or dad!”, my son stressed.
He’d even told me, that the breakfast I’d made him, the classmate on his left and right both wanted some, and, after someone had my teriyaki chicken rice burger, he’d asked my son seriously, if he can, buy some from me. It’d made me so happy, hearing all of this!
From having my homecooked meals thrown out by my son, to now, I can pack his lunches with full-confidence and he’d shared his food with his classmates, I’d felt, that it’d been, more than worth it, these past two, three years’ cooking classes I’d taken. Besides, until you stepped into the kitchens and cooked, you wouldn’t know how trying it is, so, don’t forget, to tell the one who cooks for you, “Thank you”. Of course, the best kind of encouragement the cooks would have, is that the kids come home, with an empty packed lunch!
or, you might enjoy…
a fully nutritious meal like this one, photo from online…
So, this mom learned to cook, for the sake of his son, and, the son gave the mom encouragements for her cooking, by letting her know that his classmates enjoyed her food very much, which gives this mom even more motivation, to cook for her own son.
Life, the Obstacle Course 