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.
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.