So with 4 kids I make a lot of lunches for school. I used to just pack the school lunch cabinet and fill up the lunch boxes in the mornings. Which let me tell you, I am not really a morning person. I hate having to be forced to do stuff especially first thing in the morning. So I saw of these pinterest posts floating around. I don't have alot of cupboard space, or for that matter alot of room for anything really. So I modified my lunches. I lay out 5 baggies for the week times 4. So that's 20 baggies. Then I get out anything they get for lunch. I have to write down what each kid likes and doesn't like. Because I don't remember and to be honest, they keep changing it on me lol. Then I start packing, for obvious reasons I don't anything that requires refrigeration. The kids can get those out in the morning. But I do have a dedicated space in the fridge for that purpose.
I've only been doing it since school started, but let me tell you. There is no fighting, no worrying about who gets what and how much. Cause Clayton gets up a lot earlier then the other kids and he would take all the ritz crackers and then throw a fit when someone went into his lunch box to get some. They haven't really been taking sandwiches, cause they are tired of eating them, plus they want to put peanut butter on it. So they have been taking other things instead, like cucumbers, carrots and things like that. I also bought them all thermos' so they have more options.
It's not a great picture, but you get the idea. It also takes alot of pressure of me in the mornings.
