Photo: Martha Payne

Nine-year-old Martha Payne was not too happy with her school lunches, which were measly, sad-looking, and often lacking in fruits, vegetables, and, you know, flavor. So she started her blog NeverSeconds, documenting each meal and including important stats like how many mouthfuls of food -- and how many hairs -- each meal included. The blog has since gone viral and has already affected some real change in the Scottish school system. Which of course is great for the school kids of the world. But it makes the rest of us think—for instance, how would a daily blog of your lunches look? Would the imagery be a gorgeous gallery of well-balanced meals? Rainbows of fruits and veggies? And how would you, honestly, rate each mid-day meal? Today, for example, mine would go something like: Leftover kid mac-and-cheese, 3 mouthfuls. Beverage: 2 cups of coffee. Hairs: one, canine.

I think NeverSeconds can inspire some change not just for the school system but for each of us.  Lunch should be something delicious, a potentially-photogenic pause in the middle of the day, a chance to refresh and nourish and reboot. Lunch should be, in other words, something that would make Martha Payne proud.

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