This post is sponsored by Nature’s Harvest® Bread and Entenmann’s® Little Bites™ Snacks. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
We are a week into school, and it’s really going smoothly, including school lunches. This is the first year my youngest needs a lunch and is at school for the full day. She just LOVES 1st grade. Can you believe they get three recesses a day?
With three kids and husband, making school lunches can be a big chore. But, I’ve simplified it. On the weekend I grocery shop for the week, and then on Sundays, I prepackage everything myself in zipper bags for the lunches and sort them into baskets in the fridge.
I put together a basket of fresh fruit like watermelon, grapes, berries, and more.
I also make a basket of fresh veggies like carrots, mushrooms, celery and snap peas, and I make up small containers of ranch dressing. My kids love their veggies and ranch.
One thing I do make every couple of days is a batch of sandwiches, so they are the freshest. I like to use Nature’s Harvest® Honey Wheat bread for our sandwiches. It’s one you can feel good about because it’s baked with whole grain nutrition, and they will love it, too! Everything else I put together to last through the entire week.
Lastly, I have a basket of non-refrigerated items like applesauce, pretzels, fruit cups, and a wholesome dessert like Entenmann’s® Little Bites™ snacks. A little dessert surprise just adds fun to the lunchbox!
This setup makes lunch so easy. Many times, my older kids can pack their lunch for themselves. Each night, I just pull out the lunchboxes and take things from each bin, and all three school lunches are done in less than 5 minutes. A little preparation goes a long way!
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How do you like to make it easy to make lunch for school?
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This is a great idea! The biggest source of stress I have during the school year is sending lunches with the kids.
Prepackaged lunches are such a genius idea! I can’t believe I never thought of it, but I’m definitely going to start doing it.
WHat a great idea to make the process go quickly!
Wow, this is a great idea. I find this very helpful especially for a busy mom like me.
These are awesome tips! Mornings are always stressful and rushed, so anything to cut down on time is a good idea!
I’m going to have to try your set up. It’s organized and I can see how it could save all of us time preparing lunch boxes for the kids.
I like the idea of having several baskets of stuff already made up. I have been packing my child’s lunch and try to ensure that I have healthy foods for lunch.
I would love to say that I am always prepared but some days just sneak up on me and we are forced to get things ready in a rush. I like those days when we have everything prepared in advance, it really helps!
I love the idea of having everything prepared in baskets. My girls eat school lunch most of the time though, but they’ll have home lunch sometimes. Those Little Bites snacks are really good!
This is a fantastic idea to make school lunches easier to make. I will have to share this with my friends with kids in school. It will definitely save you time in the morning.
Such a cool idea. Honestly, I to hate making school lunches because my daughter is such a fussy eater but I thinking planning ahead like this will help make the process easier.
What a neat idea. A streamlined approach to packing a lunch. Great way for the kids to quickly make their own lunch or make it faster for moms. 🙂
What a great idea! This will definiltey speed up the process and still keep thing sin order
I always wake up early to prepare my kids’ lunches. This is a really great idea, I should do this.
This is such a grand idea. I have very busy days and putting all my goodies in a crate like this is easy and super fun
Great organization for those lunches! Looks like lots of variety and healthy snacks too!
This is great preparation. These little ones tend not to decide what they want until the night before the morning of. Just too much freedom to choose. LOL! – Yolonda
Great ideas! School lunches can be stressful to prepare at the last minute!
I’ll try to follow your tips. I make bento snack box for my daughter everyday and there are days that I don’t know what to put inside.
I love the idea of having some baskets already prepared with some snacks that I can just grab and add to my little one’s box ! I am going to get some done