2nd grader- 1 lunch box, 3 water bottles (but really one she stole from me, so I guess two), 3 bento boxes we put in the lunch box but we could likely get by with 1 or 2.

2 lunch boxes. One regular one and one that has a large compartment for a thermos and smaller compartment for items to stay cool.
About 5 water bottles in total. Only 2 or 3 go to school though.
DD empties her lunch box when she gets home and I make her lunch ( and mine) at the same time I’m making dinner. Then it’s in the fridge ready to go for the next day. If she takes a hot lunch it’s just something I heat up in 2 mins and put in thermos.

Anonymous wrote:1 lunch bag. 2 water bottles, 0 ice packs, 0 snack boxes (unless this like a gladware with pretzels in it?). Unless something spills the lunch box does not get dirty every day. Water bottle goes in the dishwasher when I am running it..most but not everyday. Containers just go in the dishwasher but I do not have special ones for the lunch box.

My answer exactly.

My DS is younger, he is in K. One lunch box, two bengto boxes, two small ice packs (both fit perfectly in his lunch box, so I use both each day) two water bottles. Each day he comes home and puts the bentgo box in the sink to get washed in the dishwasher. I’ve packs go back in the freezer.
I make all lunches at night so I’ll take the clean bengto box and make lunch and the waterbottle used that day goes in the washer as well.

3 bentgo boxes-- we run dishwasher every other day so this is the perfect rhythym for us. They go into one lunchbox (a Packit) which you freeze the box itself so you don't need ice packs.

DC comes home, empties any contents, and loads the removable tray in dishwasher and puts bag in freezer (with a lot of prompting). I handwash the outer per Bentgo's recommendations. We have 4 water bottles that came in 2- 2packs.. we use one for 1-3 days before putting it in the dishwasher, plus have an extra for instances when one gets left at school/sports.

For two kids - 2d grade and 5th grade:
- One lunch box each (2 total)
- One water bottle each (we lost one water bottle this school year but on an airport shuttle) (so 3 total this school year)
- Three ice packs in total
- A catalogue of 8 containers from which to chose

1 lunch box and 1 water bottle. Alexa plays a reminder the night before telling my 3rd grader to bring up his lunch box. It gets put in the dishwasher and is ready the next morning.

1 of each. Same ones as last year.

PP again, and girl, pack the lunch the night ahead of time! Even better, get your kid to start helping so they can eventually do it on their own.

2 lunch bags and 6 (or so) water bottles. 2nd grade DS tends to forget stuff at school fairly often and sometimes even needs to take mine or DH's bag if we're working from home. Last Friday he came home with 2 bags and 3 bottles in his backpack!

1 lunch bag. 2 water bottles, 0 ice packs, 0 snack boxes (unless this like a gladware with pretzels in it?). Unless something spills the lunch box does not get dirty every day. Water bottle goes in the dishwasher when I am running it..most but not everyday. Containers just go in the dishwasher but I do not have special ones for the lunch box.

One lunch box, two ice packs, two water bottles, one bento box. The kids are required to empty out their lunch box each day when they come home from school.

One lunchbox, 2 bento boxes and at least 5 water bottles. They always seem to disappear!

One lunch box, a million water bottles. Somehow even mine have become mysteriously covered in stickers, so according to her they all belong to her now (ha, nice try!). This may be obvious, but can you pack lunch at night and/or do batches of breakfast foods and reheat in the morning?

If you have one child this age, how many lunch boxes, snack boxes, water bottles, ice packs, etc. do you have? I have tried to keep it pared down, but I get low-key angry when it's 7 in the morning and I have to make breakfast, quickly wash a dirty lunchbox, and then pack a lunch.