Time saving tips - helping you to save time & pack your kids healthy lunches!

As mentioned in other posts, I know how stressful it can be sometimes running a household while working full time. Even if you don't work, running a household in itself is a job so hopefully these tips help to make life slightly less complicated. 

Below are my tips to help you be a little more organised when it comes to packing lunches. It is easier to give your kids healthy & nourishing meals when you have them ready to go.

1. Preparation! Write a list of what will go into your children's lunches for the week ahead and add it to your shopping list for the week.

2. Invest in a box of zip-lock bags. Seriously. They are so useful for packing lunches. (Don't worry, I  re-use all the bags. My son brings them home in his lunch box of an afternoon and I wash them and re-use them the next week. No wastage here folks).

3. Use Sunday afternoon/ evening as your preparation time. You will only need an hour maximum and it will save you so much stress throughout the week.


4. Getting organised.

What to do in your hour preparation time?

• Cut up a range of salad ingredients (cucumbers, carrots, capsicums, tomatoes etc) & put them in lunch time portions in your zip lock bags.
• Cut up pieces of fruit to make a fruit salad and pack them into small containers or zip lock bags
• If you/ your kids eat eggs, hard boil a handful to keep in the fridge.
• Make all of your children's lunches at once for the whole week (or at least a few days worth). Ham & cheese wraps, salad sandwiches etc keep fine in the fridge or freezer. Just take them out of the freezer the night before and put them in the fridge.

5. Pack the lunches the night before. I can't think of anything worse than running around in the morning packing lunch and trying to get everything else organised. It takes about 30 seconds to pack the lunch the night before if you have prepared everything in advanced. 

Example lunch ideas -

Piece of fruit

Greek yoghurt
Boiled eggs

Salad wrap/ sandwich

Homemade treats   I sometimes pack these truffles or banana bread.

Prepared cut up salad snacks
Prepared fruit salad

Crackers and cheese

These are some very easy tips but it does really help to keep the week stress free and running smooth.

Do you have any time-saving tips? Would love to hear from you :)

Bee xx


fruit salad image sourced from here http://mewkeirin.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/how-to-stay-healthy-and-fit-during.html