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Lunchtime Stockpile Saves Money and Sanity

​I pack lunches every morning for three teenagers and my husband. More often than not, I would get started and discover that the chips and snacks intended for lunches had already been eaten. So I started packing “starter” lunch bags. On my grocery shopping day I buy enough chips, drink boxes and snacks for two weeks' worth of lunches. I line all my brown paper bags up on the counter and drop a drink box, chip bag and snack into each bag. I put one week of lunch bags in a box in my pantry and the second week’s bags on a shelf in another cupboard. To pack a lunch, I pull out the number of bags I need and add fruit and a sandwich to each. This has saved me a lot of time, money and frustration. My costs go down because the food is actually eaten for lunches as it was intended, and I am saved the frustration of madly looking in the fridge for lunch ingredients or the expense of giving everyone money to buy lunch. 
Contributed by Sally-Jane Morris