5 School Year Organizing Tips to Lower Lunch Stress

August 19th, 2011 Kids Organizing Organizing Tips

Lunch Snacks

It’s time to get organized for the new school year and know your kids will need to eat lunch five days a week. How can you save yourself some time and also some lunch time hassles this year? Follow these 5 organizing tips for lunch time success!

Organizing Tip #1: Create a lunch making kit. Place all of the items you use regularly close to the area where you or your kids make their lunch. You may want to include lunch sacks, sandwich bags, snack bars, juice boxes and peanut butter.

Organizing Tip #2: Create a snack bin. Open up the individual boxes of fruit snacks, granola bars and fruit leather and dump them into one big bin. This will eliminate a bunch of half empty boxes in your pantry and kids will know this is where they can go for after school snacks too.

Organizing Tip #3: Decide if the person who is in charge of making lunches is a morning person or a night person. Usually you hear the tip that you should make lunches the night before. Well, I had a friend who is a morning person tell me that it is actually easier for her family to make lunches in the morning as they are all early risers. So, make lunch accordingly.

Organizing Tip #4: Use your school prepay system. You can pay ahead for all of your child’s lunches or just pay for a few lunches for those days that your child would like to buy or you really don’t have the time to make lunch.

Organizing Tip #5: Stock up on a variety of healthy choices to keep lunches interesting for your kids and so you will know that you always have enough on hand to pull together a good lunch.

When you are organized, you know your kids will always have a healthy lunch and you can reduce some morning stress too! Yeah for less stress!