The Lunch Deal - Pigs & All

To refresh every one's memory from last year, Colin has a lunch/food consumption issue. He ends up playing and then not eating his lunch. Of course, the cheese balls are gone, but the sandwich ends up coming home, somehow moist and definitely squished. Fruit bruised. Drinks full.
So, week 1 was Vanessa's week to do lunches. Maie (Colin's nanny)casually mentioned when I dropped off Colin that he was still not eating his lunches. After expending so much energy during the day riding, I am always amazed that he's not starving. But he is a boy, and he loves to play. I know eventually he will come to visit me in Mexico as a teenager and I will be sending Vanessa a food bill, but right now, eating is an issue. An interruption. An annoying life requirement.
Well, I have devised a little plan in my little brain. Being the strategy girl that I am, I decided to dust off my old Learning & Development theory and put it to work.
In order to train mice, rats or pigeons, we use food motivation. Put the pigeon in a small box. Turn the lights off. Turn the light on, if the bird turns in the desired direction, drop in a treat. Wrong direction, not treat, light goes off. And so on. For years the theory was used to train Carrier pigeons. Think Moses and his bird with the twig. Pretty old theory. But it works. So here's my Colin deal: He gets NO JUNK FOOD, no cookies, chips, candy, nothing, in the lunch. Even the darn juice is organic and sugar free. If he eats everything, he gets a treat of his choice for the drive home.
Day 1: Cream Soda. He just wanted a Cream Soda. Second choice was chips. Chips it was, as there was no single Cream Soda available at Longo's.
Day 2: I came through with the cream soda
Day 3: The Pig Visit
Tomorrow: McDonald's...