Kitina13 wrote:Cinnamon wrote:I m not raised in America so excuse me if I am overreacting, but not one item in her lunch box was gone cooked. Everything was just open out of a plastic bag or box and assembled in the lunch box. Now I understand why she never shows what she is eating for lunch? Maybe? And why she says “dinner meals” in her grocery haul: that’s coz she actually cooks only for dinner. Lunches are all prepackaged food assembled on a plate. Is that how it is in most households in the US?
I can't speak for all of the United States but I feel like a lot of times lunch is a cold meal, not necessarily packaged though. especially when you are packing for school children, I'd be interested to know what lunch is like where ever you are from!
Lunch is usually the main meal of the day and an elaborate one. On most days it has a vegetable stir fry with a flat bread made from scratch and vegetable lentil soup cooked with spices and had with rice and a raw salad like carrots, beets cucumber tomatoes radish onions, any one or combination with some yogurt. So for kids lunches, for example, to be easy to eat we pack the flat bread rollled up with some vegetable filling or even if it’s a sandwich, the vegetable filling is made at home and even the spreads are made at home with things like cilantro, mint, tomatoes, coconut, ginger garlic raw mango and spices. Dinners are also hot with some raw veggies, but not as elaborate. Not that I think everyone does all this, but I had an impression that people eat at least 2 home cooked meals a day. But kinda a little shocked that one meal is right out of packaged boxes.