School lunches may kill you, through exhaustion

By Julie Power
Updated January 31 2015 - 8:08am, first published 8:01am
Surely you have time to spend 30 minutes making sushi faces for your little darling's lunch box?  Photo: Julian Kingma
Surely you have time to spend 30 minutes making sushi faces for your little darling's lunch box? Photo: Julian Kingma
Surely you have time to spend 30 minutes making sushi faces for your little darling's lunch box?  Photo: Julian Kingma
Surely you have time to spend 30 minutes making sushi faces for your little darling's lunch box? Photo: Julian Kingma
Surely you have time to spend 30 minutes making sushi faces for your little darling's lunch box?  Photo: Julian Kingma
Surely you have time to spend 30 minutes making sushi faces for your little darling's lunch box? Photo: Julian Kingma

On Wednesday I woke at 5am to make two pretty strings of fruit for my sons' lunches, the first of about 360 lunches required by my children this school year. Every three sultanas, I inserted a dried apricot, a teeny currant for variation in size, and then added a cranberry for a lovely look reminiscent of the stained-glass windows of Notre Dame. That took me until about 6am.