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[quote=Anonymous]I rely heavily on prepared items for lunches. My kids are tweens, so the quantities might be bigger than for younger kids, but the formula has held since they were in younger grades:

1 main - sandwich (or two - see: growing tweens), cold or heated pasta, hard boiled eggs, slices of leftover chicken or deli meat.

2 fruit or vegetable, preferably something that doesn’t require me to do any prep work for packing - clementines, apple, peach, strawberries, applesauce, fruit cup packed in juice. I try for at least one fresh item, but am ok with the second being processed (applesauce, etc).

2-3 snacks - popcorn (packaged), pretzels, nuts, edamame, chips, crackers, fruit roll up, string cheese.

1 dessert - usually a couple of cookies, maybe a small candy bar after Halloween or Easter

1 drink - I have a bunch of glass bottles that I fill with OJ or apple juice at the beginning of the week. They also take water bottles.

With the possible exception of the main, all can be prepped for multiple days at a time. Packing a lunch box in the morning consists of grabbing the items and throwing them in the lunchbox. Most of the time my kids do it themselves now, but it really only takes a minute whether it’s me or them. [/quote]

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