Another school year is here, and therefore another year of trudging our way through making school lunches every day. Believe me, by the end of each school year I am limping my way through the finish line and totally phoning it in when it comes to making lunches, but I have developed some simple guidelines for myself that make the drudgery of packing lunches a little less painful & a bit more enjoyable. I'm sharing my tips below, and hope you find some of them useful. The youngest and the oldest on average take lunch 3 days a week and buy the other 2 days, and my middle child is continuing his 7 year winning streak of never ever buying school lunch. He had a meltdown yesterday when we told him today was the day to buy because we didn't have time to put together a lunch, and he was so perturbed by the prospect of standing in the lunch line and eating food not to his liking, he figured it out and made his own. Fine by me, just as long as he pushes himself a little more towards self

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