• infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 months ago

    Make big batch of chili, fill thermos with chili, put corn chips in baggie, put thermos and chips and piece of fruit in lunboks for kid to open.

    Spend 2 hours on Sunday making chili, that is kid's lunch for MWF and then TR is a sandwich that takes 10 minutes to make the night before. Also there's enough leftover chili for a couple meals for you. This is close to what I did when I worked a fulltime warehouse-style job that took up 11 hours of my day; I would eat about 1000 calories at lunch so on average I had half packed from home and half bought in the lunch item vending machine. If I was a bit more organized/diligent I could have had 100% packed from home every day.

    It's really not as hard as it feels, once you just start doing it. In my case I learned how to make it work during a period where I had very limited income but plenty of time. Still, you can learn to make a new dish in less than a weekend.