Welcome Kristi1234 to the MakeMeThinner Forum ~
You have already received excellent advice from one and all.
What a very special day it will be for you, for your son and for his classmates. I am so glad that you will be there for this special occasion.
I know what it is like to sit on both sides of the school desk. I am a Mommy, a teacher and I was an administrator. Children and teachers alike work very hard to prepare for these events.
Sit in the front row – if there is entertainment, you will want to see and hear it all – 4 years olds are terrific!
Lunch will most likely include salad with dressing on the side, maybe little tea sandwiches (or those roller sandwiches) and dessert of some kind – maybe strawberries dipped in chocolate or cookies.
Pile your plate with salad. A really big pile so there is not as much room for the
evil foods. If you have a 4 cup serving of salad that will do NO damage whatsoever.
Pick the least dangerous of the
foods and take a very small amount. Don’t linger in the food line, go confidently, take 2 cups – one for tea/coffee and one for water. Tea is best because you can go back a number of times for water and people may think you are going for more food! Hah!
You can always say that you will go back for dessert later.
When ‘later’ comes, you could be too full for dessert because of your big big lunch and ask your son if he would like to eat yours or the kid at the desk next to your son’s.
24 K is definitely correct – your little 4 year old
WILL be watching to see if you like what he prepared. Be sure to genuinely
praise him for his effort and for his hard work.
Eat slowly and push aside what you can. Eat only that which is necessary to not hurt his little heart. Use the eating time for talking time – meet his deskmates, ask him about how he prepared the food, about the entertainment, etc. With the focus on your son and his classmates, the time will pass quickly and you will be able to safely pass the
forbidden foods on to the
TrashMan.
The kids will have left-overs on their plates because they will be too excited to eat because their Moms are at school. Other Moms will have left-overs on their plates, too. Remember, we are no longer card-carrying Charter Members of the Clean Plate Club. It is perfectly fine to not lick your plate – leave left-overs for the
TrashMan.
Depending upon how much and what you eat at the luncheon that day, I’d probably skip the Lean ‘n Green for supper that night and have a Medimeal for supper instead. Be sure to have all your Medifast packets for the day – do not skip a single one!
What a special day it will be.
I just thought of a funny little story about a Mother’s Day Luncheon that we had one year. During this particular school year, I was teaching multiple grades (3-4-5) in a small private school.
Our school had about 50 students, grades K-5 with three teachers, a secretary and an administrator.
The children all arrived in
carpools and since there was no cafeteria or kitchen, they brought their lunch every day and
ate right in the classroom.
On occasion I would plan Taco Mountain Day or Hot Diggity Dog Day and we would cook lunch in a crock pot or an electric skillet.
As a general rule, however, we did not have implements in our classroom for meal preparation unless I had hauled them in for the special hot lunch.
Mother’s Day is always a big deal and kids want to do
special things for their moms so we planned a wonderful program with poetry recitation, singing, and lunch at school.
The children had each written a short story about their mother and after multiple re-writes and spelling clean ups, they carefully lettered their masterpiece in their best D’Nealian manuscript and then we hand-bound the story into a little booklet with leaf and brayer prints on the cover and included some watercolor paintings inside the booklet.
This was a very
labor-intensive project!
Two days before The Mother’s Day Event we made truffles. We put the truffles into little boxes that the kids had also hand-made and decorated.
The morning of The Mother’s Day Event, we dipped strawberries in
chocolate…
Since our school did not have a kitchen, we requested that several families send some deli items for the luncheon and we specifically asked that the bread, cheese and meat be sliced and on a tray,
all ready to be served. We asked that it arrive at 8:15am with the kids that day so that it would be table-ready and there would be no last-minute surprises for the staff.
Well, the said food items showed up about two minutes before the party, the bag contained six loaves of crusty day old French bread, a couple of 2 pound blocks of Velveeta and a canned ham…
The only knives to be found in the entire school were a plastic picnic knife with “teeth” and in my purse, a pocket knife I use to carve the core out of apples.
Have you ever tried to scrape off a gelatinous mass covering a canned ham with a plastic knife or thinly slice a rubbery hunk of Velveeta? How about saw through and thinly slice day old crusty bread?
While I was
madly sawing, one teacher sat at the piano playing a nice soothing prelude, the principal and secretary greeted and seated the Mums and grandparents. Just after the preliminary salutations by the principal had been made and I had the children in their positions and we were about to begin with the program the
fire alarm went off.
We quickly evacuated the building and since this was not a planned fire drill, fire trucks raced into the schoolyard, sirens blaring, horns honking and lights flashing.
After the school was surveyed and declared safe for entering, the freezing parents, students and staff returned to the auditorium for the program…the fire chief reported that someone had pulled the fire alarm…
During the Tea & Sandwich Time, a family of four from Barbados was seated near the food table. The youngest boy, a first grader did
The Ultimate Gross Out.
On the first day of school during the first hour of school of every single year that I taught school, I told the children that I had
F.O.B.
(this is to be pronounced slowly and stilted.)
Fear
Of
Barf
If you ever feel sick, do not raise your hand.
If you feel woozy and puny, do not walk by my desk.
If you feel like you are gonna hurl, go directly to the B.R.
Once you are through and have washed your face and hands, come directly to me and I will pet your head and pat your shoulder and call your Mommy.
I have F.O.B.
There are two things that can
strike fear in the heart of a teacher:
Lice and Barf.
Back to the Mother’s Day Tea Time and Andy, the first grader…
It was
barf-o-rama right there, next to the mutilated food table, in the same room as Mrs. P.
Mr. and Mrs. NameChangedToProtectTheirIdentity looked at one another and then at their son.
Mrs. NCTPTI leaned over to Mr. NCTPTI and in a loud voice proclaimed, “
Andy is having a sick up,” and continued to eat cookies.
My little school did not have a full-time janitor.
I have
F.O.B.
I’m sure it will be a special day for you and your son.
School events are always interesting. Be sure to sit in the front row so you won’t miss a thing!
All the mommies dress up and everything. I know it is not going to be "lean and green" and I cannot tell him that mommy cannot eat what he has made for me...I just do not have that in my heart...my question is what can I do to minimize the damage? 
..........try and come here as often as possible............it will definetly be a life saver.......... 
..........and 
..........That is soooooo sweet what your son is doing......I know Nancy will have the answer.........If it were I .......I would put food on my plate.......shuffle it around making believe I was eating... 
...........I would ask the teacher what was on the menu just so you are prepared..........Think of it this way...........If you really had no choice and was restricted to any of those foods you would have no problem explaing it to them..........however we always feel being on a diet is a weak excuse and not good enough reason..............in any case I will be keeping you in my prayers and I'm sure it will all work out.
......Imagine That......Our Very Own 
Before I was dieting, my beloved would try to get me to eat his British breakfast specialties like scrambled eggs and baked beans on toast. After the first time there was NO WAY I was eating it . Ewwwww!!!
Loved it!
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