How To Be A Good-Enough Lunch Packer: Episode 170
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Boxes, bags, and bentos–here we go, friends. We’re talking lunch-packing on this week’s episode of The Mom Hour. From the gear we love (or like well-enough), to the stuff we pack (no, it’s not pretty or perfect), to when and how we get lunches packed (and unpacked…ew), today’s episode is FULL of tips and stories to encourage you this school year. PLUS Sarah is joined by our newest new-mom contributor Alison Thompson at the end of the show. Check it out!
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Episode 151: Feeding A Family (Breakfast & Lunch)
- Laura Fuentes / Momables.com
- The Girl Next Door podcast episode about Home Efficiency, and Erica’s Instagram post about freezing sandwiches
- Meagan’s Lunch Box Challenge series on The Happiest Home (from 2011): Intro, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4
- Alison Thompson co-hosts the Crunchy Cocktail Hour podcast in our Life, Listened network
- Meagan got the Classmate Printed Soft Sided Lunch Box from Lands’ End
- Sarah uses the Mackenzie Collection Classic Lunch Bags from Pottery Barn Kids and the Classic lunch bags from Pottery Barn Teen (slightly deeper but otherwise similar style)
- Pottery Barn Kids Spencer Bento Box
- Easy Lunch Boxes Bento Lunch Box Containers
- Rubbermaid LunchBlox Kids Flat Lunch Kit
- CVS Health Peas Hot or Cold Therapy Pack
- Fit & Fresh Cool Coolers Slim Reusable Ice Packs
- Sarah has this Thermos brand Funtainer and Meagan’s teens have larger thermoses like this one
- Sarah sends inexpensive stainless steel demitasse spoons like these to school for yogurt
- Meagan used the SCOUT Divide & Conquer Open-top Storage Bin on top of her fridge for school snacks for years
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Sarah, I know we both want to raise caring and kind kids, but it's not always easy to identify ways to help them engage with the world generously. |
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| 1:08.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah. |
| 1:11.5 | And I'm Megan. |
| 1:12.4 | We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to grown. |
| 1:15.4 | We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that |
| 1:19.7 | motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement. |
| 1:23.2 | And remind you that it's really all going to be okay. |
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