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Freeze juice boxes

The freezer is your friend. Freezing your juice boxes (or water bottle, or whatever you pack for your kids to drink) not only ensures a cold refreshing drink for the kiddos at lunch, but it also keeps perishable food cold until lunchtime. By lunch, whatever you’ve frozen should be thawed.

Pre-slice apples and hold with a rubber band

Preparing fruits and veggies is half the battle in getting our kids to actually eat them. Apples are delicious, healthy, and affordable, so next time you’re at the grocery store, do yourself a favor and pick up an apple slicer for less than $5. Use this, then throw a rubber band around the apple to hold it in place.

Easy skewers

These are supposed to be lunch hacks, so you might be skeptical about seeing “skewers.” So let’s think of it as “lunch on a stuck.” Grab a pound of delishaved smoked turkey and a pack of skewers at the grocery, then instead of individually packing everything, simply fold the turkey cuts and put them on the stick, add cubed cheeses, pickles, tomatoes, or whatever your kids like. You could put an entire lunch on a couple of sticks!

Cookie cutters on a sandwich

If your kiddos are anything like ours, they hate the crust. Instead of cutting each piece off, grab a cookie cutter of your kids’ favorite characters or shapes and use them to cut the sandwiches you make.

Slice crusts with pizza cutter

Or here’s a similar hack, if you don’t have cookie cutters. You can make clean cuts with a pizza cutter without sacrificing any sandwich.