A while back I entered a contest hosted by Applegate Farms called ROCK THE BOX. It was a contest offering a new lunch box and to enter all you had to do was share your favorite school memory about food.
Me and food go waaaaaay back! My snobbery days involved shunning the french bread pizza and asking the lunch lady to make the “circle pizza” when i was in kindergarten. And in junior high, I spread rumors about the GRAY hamburger meat they fed us… which is why i often ate the ice cream they sold instead of actual lunch… i actually think the ice cream was more nutritious LMAO!
ANYWAY.
My winning memory was the jumbo soft pretzels that the entire school would get after lunch about once a month. I remember seeing hundreds of brown boxes FILLED with soft pretzels and the Hissing sound from everyone pumping their fists in the air saying “Yessssssssssss!” (ah, the ’90′s). I remember picking off the salt of my pretzel, LMAO (divas start young) and enjoying every bit of soft pretzel while in class (eating was forboden in classrooms). But yes, pretzel day was always the best day ever in elementary
So i won the cutest lunch box ever. Kind of like a bento box packed with coupons and stickers and a handwritten card.
Its got 5 contaners! and can even hold a water bottle on top.
Can’t wait to try it out! thank you Applegate Farms for loving my pretzel day!
Betty Crocker sent me some potatoes au gratin… I have had this for a while. I just have reservations about potatoes in a box. I had hardly anything in my cupboards for dinner and gave in to my hunger.
I was really scared. this looks gross. Like a sea of- you know what- you get the idea. Its nastee looking.
So, potatoes au gratin- Never had the real thing but thought the instant stuff was just okay. I could make this myself… dont know why I havent tried it before. I thought the potatoes had a weird texture and the cheese sauce was a little gritty. Everything else tasted great. I put some smoky BBQ sauce on my chicken… it was like a lightened up comfort dish. 
thats an awesome lunchbox! jealous!
Ha I used to love the round pizza with the tiny pepperoni!I am sooooooo jealous of your lunch box lol
The potatoes au gratin were my favorite Thanksgiving side as a kid. I would hover around my grandma in the kitchen just to smell it as it baked–since we never had it at home I considered it a sophisticated holiday-only dish. No one ever had the courage to tell me the box wasn't fancy, just full of salty starch pretending to be potatoes and milk solids pretending to be cheese. Good times, good times.
Great Story! That is such a great lunch box….Maybe Daijia should get one!
oooh..congrats on the awesome lunch box! very cute and very eco-friendly..gotta love that!
Such a cool lunch box!! Congrats!
in my elementary school you would've thought chicken nugget day was a national holiday — oh how I miss than those processed nuggets of fried goodness
That's such a cute story! Food memories are so much fun…I kind of like potato gratin though boxed sounds weird to me (my rul of thumb: boxed potatoes are not stomach-space deserving!) I *think* it's pretty easy to make..par boil slices of potatoes, pour over milk/cream/cheese mix and bake?
that lunch box is cute! I want one!