School Food Service Industry, meet Spring Break!!
Yes, due to the timing of my hire, after one week of training on the job I now have an entire week off. Plus, the Monday following is a "teacher conference" day or something, so I have ten, count 'em, ten consecutive days of blissful freedom. Well, unless you count the catch-up housecleaning, the cooking, the gardening, the shopping, the studying for my online medical transcription course, and the daily trips to the park to keep my school-free child from getting cabin fever. ^_^
And then, there is the food. Of course, the school regularly cycles through the expiration dates and makes sure food closest to its date gets served first, but with an entire week off some of it just can't wait until April 3rd. So once the kids were gone, the dishes done and the kitchen all cleaned up, they started divvying up what had to go. I tried to claim as little as possible, being the newbie and not wanting to seem greedy. But it just kept coming, and eyeballs kept turning to me to take more. I walked out the door today with:
10 pounds of vacuum-sealed salad fixings
4 baskets of cherry tomatoes
1 large bag hot dog buns
1 large bag dinner rolls
1 large handful of individual serving packs of carrot sticks
1 handful of Uncrustables (those lovely pre-packaged PBJ sandwiches; quite delicious really!)
All this I lugged home in a box, remembering on the way out the door, "Hey, I have to walk two blocks home in the rain!" I have no idea if I'll even get through all this stuff. On the other hand, my husband and I are going out tonight, so maybe I should hark back to the days of bartering. I wonder if the sitter will accept payment in salad?
Yes, due to the timing of my hire, after one week of training on the job I now have an entire week off. Plus, the Monday following is a "teacher conference" day or something, so I have ten, count 'em, ten consecutive days of blissful freedom. Well, unless you count the catch-up housecleaning, the cooking, the gardening, the shopping, the studying for my online medical transcription course, and the daily trips to the park to keep my school-free child from getting cabin fever. ^_^
And then, there is the food. Of course, the school regularly cycles through the expiration dates and makes sure food closest to its date gets served first, but with an entire week off some of it just can't wait until April 3rd. So once the kids were gone, the dishes done and the kitchen all cleaned up, they started divvying up what had to go. I tried to claim as little as possible, being the newbie and not wanting to seem greedy. But it just kept coming, and eyeballs kept turning to me to take more. I walked out the door today with:
10 pounds of vacuum-sealed salad fixings
4 baskets of cherry tomatoes
1 large bag hot dog buns
1 large bag dinner rolls
1 large handful of individual serving packs of carrot sticks
1 handful of Uncrustables (those lovely pre-packaged PBJ sandwiches; quite delicious really!)
All this I lugged home in a box, remembering on the way out the door, "Hey, I have to walk two blocks home in the rain!" I have no idea if I'll even get through all this stuff. On the other hand, my husband and I are going out tonight, so maybe I should hark back to the days of bartering. I wonder if the sitter will accept payment in salad?
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