REDUCING SCHOOL LUNCH STRESS
By Mandy Merlin Professional Organiser from In Its Place
If the best thing about school holidays for you is not having to prepare school lunches, then keep reading. Below you will find some simple steps and tips for reducing the stress of creating a healthy lunchbox that comes home empty.
There are three main steps to consider, which you can tweak to suit your individual family. They are planning, prepping and storing.
STEP 1 – PLANNING
Bento Boxes are great to separate your lunch and snacks.
Step 2 – Prepping
While nobody wants to spend their whole weekend in the kitchen, a little bit of preparation can go a long way to ensuring smoother weekday mornings. Try:
Step 3 – Storing
Now that you have planned and prepped it is important to store the food safely and have it ready to go.
If your child’s lunchbox does not come home empty, try and find out why. Do they have enough time to eat it? Did the taste change (was the food kept cold/hot enough)? Or were they just not hungry that day? And don’t worry, you have approximately 200 lunches per child in 2020 to develop a system that works for you.
Mandy Merlin is a Professional Organiser based in Newcastle and is the founder of In its place.
Mandy is also a Professional Member of the Institute of Professional Organisers (IOPO).
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Copyright Howards Storage World January 2020
Updated December 2020.