How To: Eat Sunchips

How To: Eat Sunchips
by Charlie

If your mom has given you Sunchips with your lunch, you are a lucky fellow! She is likely unaware of the delightful game that she has provided for you. I know, I know... it's lunch time, and you really should eat that yummy peanut butter and jelly sandwich before you start playing. Trust me, once you start you will not be hungry anymore!

1. Pick up a piece of your PB&J and give it a good bite. It will placate your mom ... and, it takes awhile to prepare this game anyway.
2. Your mom is now oblivious to your actions due to the fact that she is eating her own Sunchips. So, while you are chewing your PB&J bite, take each of your chips and quietly break them up into several pieces. I like to start with three of four pieces per chip, but sometimes eight or nine pieces can provide more of a challenge.
3. If your mom is looking at you right now, just smile and say, "I love mommy! I love Sunchips!" That will keep her happy for a bit.
4. Go ahead and take another bite of your PB&J, maybe you are hungrier than you initially thought you would be.
5. While digesting that bite, swirl your Sunchip bits around on the plate to mix them all up.
6. I know, you're thirsty, go ahead and drink a bit of that milk.
7. Here's the tricky part. Wait until your mom gets up to do something... maybe put her dishes in the dishwasher, or let the dog out, or answer the door... and quickly take your PB&J off your plate.
   
8. Look at your Sunchip pieces and start to reassemble the chips. Try to get at least a little bit done before your mom gets back...
   
9. When your mom asks you what you are doing, smile and take a big bite of your PB&J, (the bit that didn't fall on the floor.) Then just smile at her because she knows that you can't talk with your mouth full. Keep working.
10. If your mom isn't distracted again by the time you finish that first bite of PB&J, hurry up and get another one so that you can keep working on your puzzle without distraction.
11. Once you assemble a chip, yell "Look mommy, I did it!" Your mom will be so impressed that you managed to come up with the game and get it all back together that she, hopefully, won't mind the mess.
    
12. Keep working until all the chips are gone.

By the time you finish your game, it will likely have been sixty to ninety minutes since the start of lunch. And, while you've only had a sip or two of milk, four or five bites of your sandwich, and the three or four Sunchips your mom gave you... who cares about hunger? Meals are not for eating, they are for playing. And this game is one of the best that I have found. (And try to make it to your nap before your mom finds that part of your PB&J that landed on the floor! By the time you wake up, she'll have forgotten about it.)