How many breakfasts can a breakfast eater eat?

Rory is a breakfast eater. Since school started, she's had quite the variety of breakfasts- cereal, pop tarts, toast, waffles, yogurt drinks (that I make from yogurt + juice). We have gotten a nice routine down where the girls get dressed, Rory feeds the dogs, eats breakfast, gets her hair done, etc., etc. until we leave for the bus stop.

So one day last week Rory came home announcing that she had "eaten two breakfast-es." Which basically means she went into the school early and got breakfast at school with her meal card. I explained to her that if she eats at home, there is no need to eat again at school, as it costs us money and we've already spent money on the food she's eating at home. Her response? "But Mom, Mrs. Bousselot just gives us a free ticket. It doesn't cost any money!" Okay, so about 15 minutes of explanation later, I think she understood she was not to eat breakfast at school.

I really thought I had it cleared up. Until last night. I went to a meeting at church, and Mrs. Barr (who works at Rory's school) mentioned that she had seen Rory that morning at breakfast. Oh, really... Turns out Rory's had breakfast almost everyday at school.

So I came home and asked very nicely if she had been eating breakfast at school. At first she silently denied it (is it not really lying if she just shakes her head "no" and doesn't actually say "no"?), but then fessed up when I reminded her to tell the truth. It seems that the $1.75 breakfast we've been buying has consisted of one thing and one thing only....cinnamon toast.

From now on we'll be having something more "treat-like" with breakfast pretty much everyday. Maybe cinnamon toast, a donut, a danish to go with the cereal/waffle/peanut butter toast. Apparently Rory's sweet tooth wakes up in the morning with the rest of her!