

Matt gives them all the food he has, and the monsters eat it.Īt breakfast, the monsters eat Matt's food, and, at school, Matt notices his lunch box is empty. One of the monsters bites Matt and says that they're going to eat him. Matt tells them that he doesn't have any food. The noises grow harder and, suddenly, the monsters zoomed out towards Matt, saying that they want food. Startled, he closes the box, but, later that night, he hears noises coming from the lunch box. He cracks it open and hears voices inside that tell Matt that they're hungry.

He was staring at the picture in his lunch box when he noticed the monsters were flying out in the same lunch box in the picture while chasing the boy across the kitchen. Matt took the lunch box and went up to his room, then he slammed himself on the bed. It had a comic of three monsters chasing a boy. Later that day, Matt's mom buys a red plastic rectangle container. He tells his mom that he forgot his lunch box in the bus, so she has to buy a new one. Matt explains that his mom is always trying to force him eat more, because she thinks he's too skinny. She asks Matt to have a snack, but he refuses. Matt was going up stairs, but as he passed the kitchen, he noticed his mom was in it. On the first day of spring, Matt Green comes home from school.

" Matt's Lunch Box" is the seventh short story from the book More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps.
