This week, my daughter returned to school and my son began junior kindergarten. It has been an exciting week but also a bit draining trying to establish a routine. While my son will still have lunch at his daycare, we still need to prepare a snack for him and a full lunch for my daughter. Truth be told, my husband usually takes care of that. And since I'm being honest here, we don't do a very good job of planning out our meals. This makes meal prep a little more stressful than it should be. While a part of me would much rather avoid planning our meals altogether, I know it would be smarter, much more efficient and less costly to prepare a shopping list and meal ideas well in advance. When it comes to making lunches, I almost always resort to making sandwiches since they are fairly easy to prepare. But there have been times when I open the fridge door and I'm all out of deli meats and there isn't a can of tuna to be found anywhere. Yikes!