Staying Organized to Avoid the Back to School Blues

By getting your household prepared for the school season, you not only clear the clutter and streamline your family's morning routine, but teach your children the basic organizational skills that they will continue to use throughout life.

Whether you're looking for a way to make your child's school lunch more palatable or trying to save some bucks by carting your own lunch to the office, we've got some wonderful ideas for you. Doesn't a picnic sound more appealing than lunch at the cafeteria or a fast food burger? Of course it does.

Breakfast and Brunch

Start the day off right with a good breakfast. Statistics show that children who eat breakfast score higher on tests than those that don't. Click for lots of recipes to get thing off on the right foot.

Breakfast and Brunch Recipes

Whether a club resumes its monthly meetings, the school holds meetings to be informative or the fall events must be planned, the days of September seem to be filled with all types of meetings. We all need to meet and we all need to eat. Therefore, this is the time of year that you frequently hear that very familiar line, "Can you bring something?"

Back to School

Looking for back to school articles, crafts, recipes, organizing hints and more? Check out these web sites.

• MomsMenu.com Back to School Recipes
• Frugal Tips from MommySavers.com
• AlphabetSoup.com
• TheHousekeepingChannel.com
• SeedsOfKnowledge.com
• MakingFriends.com
• Childfun.com
• TheFamilyCorner.com

Books

• Tray Gourmet: How to Be Your Own Chef in the College Cafeteria
  
• The Starving Students Vegetarian Cookbook
• Sandwich
• Napkins: Lunchbag Notes from Dad
• The Starving Students Cookbook