School Lunch Organization Station

by Rachel Belkin

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Once both of my kids started elementary school, and I needed to make two lunches every day, I realized I needed to come up with some sort of system of organization.
Before, I would struggle each night trying to figure out what I could scrape together to give to my son for lunch the next day. It was always stressful.
In order to reduce some of the stress of lunchmaking, I realized I needed to get everything done ahead of time. But, how and where would I do that?
I came up with a good school lunch organization station and now I'll share my lunchmaking tips with you.

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First, I bought some hanging shoe organizers and hung them up in our laundry room. I got one for each kid.

I use a cube organizer for storage and a workstation. I also hung a whiteboard behind it to keep track of the lunches for each day.

Each Sunday, I get the lunches ready for the week. All of the non-refrigerated items in the shoe rack (by day).

On the whiteboard, I write the additional refrigerated items (organized by child's name and day of week). This includes yogurts, sandwiches, and other items that should not be left out. If I can make or set out the items ahead of time, I go ahead to do this and place them in the extra fridge we have in our laundry room. If there's anything I have to wait to make that day, I underline it on the whiteboard. That's my cue or reminder. The green marker indicates their snack for that day.