We all go through the supermarket and think to ourselves, it would be so easy to fall into the trap of buying all for the school lunches, I've been there I know.
I had two very active, very tall teenagers, and the amount of food they ate each day was phenomenal and lunch was one of those meals, we battled and in the end there was no other way I had to make their lunches as buying enough food to fill them in a day was ridiculous. It was almost $12.00 just for lunch at the school tuck shop, I was lucky if we had $50-$70 a week for groceries back then, let alone to spend a quarter of it on one lunch.
They usually took to school, each day
- 6 slices of bread made into assorted sandwiches and cut in half, we could be quite original with fillings they were not terribly fussy eaters
- 2 pieces of any type of fruit
- Homemade cakes or muffins or biscuits
- If we had them, some popcorn or chips or pretzels ( I always brought these items in bulk and we used glad zip lock bags to seal the freshness in, rather than buy individual lunch size bags
- They could also use the microwave at school for 20 cents, so that opened up the door to heaps of other avenues, such as 2 minute noodles, soup, dinner leftover, American hot dogs, pizzas, pies again the list was endless
