Nine-Year-Old Food Blogger Shows Off Her Daily School Lunches

It’s called NeverSeconds, and it’s a nine-year-old girl’s food blog that shows off her school dinners and has experienced some serious Internet traffic in the past couple weeks.

Martha is the young girl behind the blog, a student from Argyll, Scotland that started posting her lunch pics a few weeks back. According to her periodic updates, her site has reached a visitor count in the hundreds of thousands. She’s had several press encounters, some BBC radio time, online coverage, and even gotten the attention of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

This is great news, considering it’s not everyday something that’s this cute and sentimentally favorable gets some massive coverage. Let’s also not forget how well written her blog is. For a nine-year old? When I was nine, I was still trying to piece together my hodgepodge of a last name, let a lone laying claim over one of the fastest growing publications on the food interwebs.

Go Martha!

The blog started as a writing project with her father, and consists of fun pictures of her plates of food, and then an equally quirky rating system that breaks down her meals into the following categories:

Food-o-meter: 9/10
Mouthfuls: 29
Courses: starter/main/dessert
Health Rating: 7/10
Price: £2
Pieces of hair: 0

Easily my favorite categories that Martha covers are “mouthfuls” and one of the most important ways you can rank food, “pieces of hair.”

Martha’s efforts are helping her hone some web savvy writing skills, shedding light on student meal plans and opening up some interesting conversation on the quality of meals being distributed to youth.

Give her blog a visit. Her youthful exuberance is wholly evident, she describes her lunchtime soup as “the best soup in the world” and the “sticky rice which was amazing because it stuck to itself but not to my fork.”

As of today, her early morning meal included sticky rice, chicken noodle soup, a chocolate milkshake and spring rolls.

Can’t wait to see what she eats tomorrow…I hope it’s foie gras. Now that would be some interesting commentary.