15 easy school lunch recipes to help you pack like a pro

Step one toward successful lunch hours: Get creative with the box or bag itself. If your school allows your kids to brown bag it, decorate the outside of those plain ol’ sacks with paper cutouts, stickers, rubber stamps or one-off scrapbooking decals languishing at the bottom of your craft supplies drawer. Close the top with coloured paperclips, clothespins or a piece of patterned Washi tape. 

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A version of this article was published in our September 2014 issue with the headline "Pack like a pro," p. 106.