A WEEK-BY-WEEK GUIDE TO
EATING LIKE A KID AGAIN
By Bryan Richards
Adulting is diffi cult. Mortgage
payments. Yardwork. Ever-looming
retirement. Rearing children.
Between taxiing kids to soccer
practice, fi ghting over bedtime
and making sure your teenager
remembers to wear deodorant,
there's hardly a moment to breathe,
let alone enjoy yourself. And when
you fi nally do sit down to a relaxing
dinner, it's something heart healthy
and doctor recommended.
It's no surprise, then, that as you
watch your kids gorge on tater tots
and corn dogs, you might be longing
for entrees of old. The hunger pain
is real.
That's where we come in. Several
Charlotte restaurants have turned
classic childhood eats into grown-
up dishes, so we've created a
"school lunch" calendar (complete
with ideas for classic family nights
and Mac and Cheese Mondays) to
guide you through the city's best
throwbacks. From bacon-wrapped
tater tots at Fran's Filling Station
to homemade poptarts at Sunfl our
Baking Company and sloppy Joes
at the Diamond Restaurant, you can
eat like a kid again every day for a
month. Now if only you knew where
to sit in the cafeteria…
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