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How to Organize School and Office Lunch Supplies Quick and Easy.
Back-to-school season is in full action and, this means it’s time for packing school lunches on daily bases. This can be a tiring task, but with a little organization, a system and routine in place, it can be quick and easy.
In this blog, we’ll talk about some tips for how to organize your school lunch supplies. By following these tips, you’ll be able to pack lunch boxes faster and easier each morning!
HAVE A LUNCH-PACKING STATION.
If you have the space in your house or kitchen, making a lunch-packing station which is a great idea. This is especially helpful if you’re packing for more than one person. So, it will still be easy to grab everything you need and pack a lunch quickly. add lunch boxes, water bottles, containers, snack separators and school cutlery.
HOW TO ORGANIZE SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Packing school lunch boxes on a daily basis for an entire year isn’t fun, but it’s a necessary. If you don’t have a system in place, it can be chaotic and time-consuming.
So here are our favorite tips to help you organize your refrigerator and pantry to make packing lunch boxes quick. trust us when we say it will make your life easier.
DESIGNATE AN AREA IN YOUR FRIDGE FOR SCHOOL LUNCH SUPPLIES.
The best way to make lunch prep easy for you is to designate a space in your refrigerator for all of the items you’ll need to pack your kids’ lunches.
You can either use a specific shelf or drawer or even just put all of the items in a storage container. this way you can work according to your daily routine fast and easy, either you prep over night or early mornings. As you can also label these containers and its best to use clear ones for better vision.
And if your kids are old enough to help make their own lunches, make sure they know where the designated are chosen in fridge for their lunches is so they can grab and prepare their lunches easily, prepare a container for veggies and fruits, cheese sticks and yogurts, etc.
DESIGNATE AN AREA IN YOUR PANTRY FOR SCHOOL LUNCH SUPPLIES.
In your pantry or in one of your kitchen drawers, set aside another area for school lunches for food and snacks that do not need to be kept in the fridge. This includes items such as granola bars, crackers, fruit snacks, chips, shelf cupcakes, etc.
By doing this, you’ll have an easy grab-and-go option for school lunches.
Like with your shelf or drawer in your fridge, add designated school lunch containers like a snack bin with snacks and items your child can bring for lunch.
It’s preferred to have a few different containers with different snacks (like one with various types of granola bars, another with fruit snacks and chips, etc.) and let your kids pick one item from each container to pack in their school lunches the next day.
So, just buy a few plastic containers or bins label them for easy view, all of this may feel costly and time consuming, but everything bought can be found online or in local home appliance stores, plus it’s a very good investment for later on in your daily life, and this way you’ll not have to think about what snacks to pack.
Beyond that, also make sure their lunch includes a drinks like juice boxes, water – something they like. Adding something sweet (or savory if they prefer) for a little dessert is always fun!
OTHER TIPS!
Here are a few other ideas to help you with lunch-packing for the new school year.
MAKE EXTRA DINNER.
If your kids don’t want sandwiches every day and you’re running low on ideas, then use dinner from the night before, make them healthy pancakes, or egg muffins.
When your meal planning for the week, buy and prepare enough food for dinner that you’ll have leftovers. Then, after dinner is over, pack the leftover food into lunch box containers.
