This is part two in order to end it. Here are some useful tips for making lunches each week. Get one child to help you to make a quiche or burger. Ask another child to prepare some fresh fruit or veg for a salad too. Best wishes.

Other classic tasks to do include helping wash up. You can ask one child to help make a couple of sandwiches in question here. And you can request another child to find you more supplies and make drinks. If there are additional children get them to count out stuff. If you are baking make sure to keep their level of interest. It is important to read the whole recipe. Lunches in a brown bag anyone.

In order to save her some more money my mom planned things. Every single week on Saturday in preparation for the entire school week ahead in question she made me have on a Monday two sandwiches to eat. I also had to make do with her mini pies, mini quiches, mini sausage rolls, and mini burgers too. Best wishes.

Ham and cheese was always added to sandwiches. Or it went straight into a salad. I even ate her cake, fruit and sandwiches most weeks of the entire term as well. I had a few slices of cold pizza and leftover sweets in a tin. I even had to take in with me a free small box of biscuits and cookies a few times. Twice a term one year I had some brownies and leftover bread rolls plus a plum.

Once a term I had to have half of a cold turkey. But that was very rare however. Occasionally I had to bring in a cheap melon to share and fish bagels. For example all the nice cakes were transported in a old metal Xmas cake tin to school. Spare ice cream and margarine tubs were used for the homemade bagels. Bread rolls were already filled up with cheap fish, cheese or ham. That was nice.

In lieu of any free lemonade I made do with a bottle of still water. After school I had a entire cup of tasty lemonade with my dinner at half past four each afternoon. Once my dinner was over I did the rest of my homework, showered, watched a film or slept. Or I played a board game, mastered table tennis or read a good storybook.

And I had to have a lot of other stuff. For example four times a term I had either a half of a baked potato or leftover roasted salmon on bread. I had four fresh oranges as a mini snack. I had a bag of crisps. I had the whole works. Since both of my parents liked to keep my lunches simple a lot of the time that was only what I had to eat there.

Smoked salmon bagels were quite popular with other kiddos at my school. Often in lieu of hot food I simply contended with the really cold options. A whole bag of healthy snacks lasted me a full school day. Bread was rather cool.

So did a packet of crisps. My mom always let me go to a farm shop or visit a supermarket in town with her on a Saturday afternoon. There I was allowed to choose two or three items. I had fifteen pounds. That was enough. I varied what I chose in case. Usually I bought some cheese, ham and fish. Or I picked up a fun cake. Some brown bread rarely went amiss.

i only offer it as a PDF but you can buy it and then use an online website that turns PDFs into books to print a hard copy or print it out on the computer and put it in a binder.

Oh! And are these lunch examples for your oldest child? How old is he, just curious

Thanks so much!