[Shiitake Jones]

Macrostudent! Great to see you here babe!
thanks for your question.

Having been brought up in a nori roll loving household, I did have to contend with some weird and wacky lunch box ingredients. Not only that - I also didn't have the ninja turtle or barbie plastic lunchboxes (forget about Hello Kitty) but a brown recylced paper bag. My mother was very progressive. Or maybe just a product of her times?!

Now I know that my tempeh sauerkraut sandwhiches (I was spared the natto then!) are a much healthier way to feed a kid than the hydrogenated peanut butter and sugar laden jelly some of my classmates grew up on - and even then I enjoyed them. But sometimes I did think it would have been easier to not have to explain what that thing that looked like an unexploded hand grenade was that I was munching on.

When I started making my own lunches, I decided to make them as colourful and appitising and appealing as I could and this is what I took to school in my high school days and I also made my own lunched to go in college and when I was in the corporate world.

I do the same when I travel. Now I have people stop by and ask me where I bought that delicious looking food. I smile smugly and tell them it isn't for sale.
This has even happened at baseball games! (ask Ken)

So it is possible to be the invitation. It is amazing the impact you can have....

Some friends have balked at the responsibility I take for my own wellbeing but most know how committed I am to living in a way that is in my greatest Truth. I know they are my real friends. I have tried to interest them in this way of being and some have been curious, others haven't. Maybe I was often too forceful. I don't want to be that way with Ken. I know he is soooo interested. But you can't force these things on people....so I am learning to be patient. Slowly!!!

let me know what is happening in your world


xoxoxo

Shiitake