Lunch Commandments
Packing lunch five days a week every week for the next 9 or 10 months is a task of biblical proportions.
It should be homemade, but easy; tasty, but nutritious enough for the Canada Food Guide; sensitive to classmates’ food allergies, but sensitive to your kid’s likes and dislikes; sanitarily packaged, but eco-friendly. Have faith and obey a few of our lunch commandments; you’ll be saved from the sin of lunch frustration.
Thou Shalt Not Go It Alone
Involve the kids’—even the young ones—in what they are taking for lunch and they’ll be more likely to eat it. They can help with the shopping list or choose their favourite snack to take. If you keep all the lunch-approved snacks in one place, just ask them to go and choose one for that day. With older kids, try keeping a container in the fridge full of sandwich fixings—sliced tomatoes, pickles, lettuce, cheese, meat—and get the kids to make up their own sandwiches.
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