It's also okay to like make one batch of pasta salad and put that into three lunches and then make another batch of like a bean salad or bean dip and make that the other two lunches.

So you're not making five brand new lunches for the week. You're maybe thinking of two ideas and making five lunches

out of that. Welcome to didn't I just feed you. A podcast about feeding kids. Hey, I'm Stacey. And I'm

Megan. Today we're going to talk through one strategy for packing school lunches, which is doing some prep ahead of time to make

packing easier. Oh, Megan, I'm so glad that you mentioned that this is just one strategy.

You know, I just think it's important to mention this. Like, not everyone has the same resources,

not everyone's in the same schedule. Preping ahead, I think is a great strategy for most people to employ at different

points throughout the school year, but it just may not be a strategy that universally works for

everyone throughout the year. So I just want to make sure that everyone listening, you all know,

that we have other kinds of lunch help. We have

lunch help for everybody. We have a whole school lunch guide that can help you because we've

always got you covered. Yeah. And I do not mind saying that our stress-free back-to-school

lunch guide is awesome. I've actually been reaching for it myself as my kids have gone back to school

this month. We created this e-book last year as a resource for packing the whole, the total,

180 lunches, double or triple that if you have more than one kiddo, lunches. And it's really

helpful whether it's your first year of packing lunches or your seventh year and you just need a little bit of help.

Or your collective 20th year.

I know, right?

Right, between us.

But seriously, we poured ourselves into this lunch guide because together we counted, you guys.

We have about 20 years of combined experience packing school

lunches. So we took our best tips. We created a cheat sheet for your grocery shopping list

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