Make Ahead Lunches.... Great Time Saver

I love this idea. As a mom and as an on-call teacher who sometimes (ok often!) gets a last minute call to go to this school or that, it is nice to have some ready-to-go lunch snacks.

In my house we have a snack bin for dry snacks, granola bars, fruit snacks, yougurt bars, cereal bars, crackers, cookies, etc. I also have one of those bins in my classroom for kids who don't bring lunches or miss breakfast. (Last year I also had a small fridge in my class where I stored yougurt tubes for kids in similar situations)

But I love the idea of having cold snacks and even sandwiches or wraps ready to grab and go at any time.

COLD SNACKS BIN:

String Cheese, Babybel cheese

Yogurt smoothies or other yogurt cups

Carrots ( I found little cups with lids at Cash n Carry that I add ranch dip to them sometimes)

Apples

Sliced Oranges

Mandarin Oranges, whole

Green Peppers, sliced thinly

Celery sticks

Grapes, Cherries, Canteloupe or other seasonal fruit cut up

DRY SNACKS BIN:

Crackers or Pretzels

Homemade Granola

Granola Bars

Beef Jerkey

Trail Mix

Chips

Graham Crackers

Brownies or Homemade Cookies ( I bake up a bunch and individually bag them up)

Special Treats ( usually for a holiday – like a single candy on Halloween…)

Source: http://happymoneysaver.com/cold-lunches-in-a-day/