Let the Snack List Do the Bossing {aka The Lazy Mom's Guide to Keeping Kids Fed}

Summer brings out the lazy in me. As if that was a stretch. I love having my kids home. But I'm beginning to feel like a short-order snack chef. It seems as though someone is asking for food or popsicles or a four-course meal every ding-dang second. Only one week into summer and I'm tired of saying,

You can't have that right now. 

Quit pillaging the pantry. {It's phrases like this that certainly have my kids wishing their mom was not a former History teacher.}

Didn't you just get a snack 2 seconds ago?

Starving children would be grateful for the food we have. 

So in a rare flurry of brain power, I came up with this idea... Behold, the Summer Snack List.

I stuck the list on the door of the pantry in a clear top-loader. Whenever I'm out of one of the designated snacks, I just cross it out until I can get to the store and "replenish the coffers." {Ugh. History teacher speak again.}

  Instead of feeling like the Snack Nazi, I just refer hungry kids to the pantry door and let the list do the bossing for me. Just one more way I'm working hard to do the bare minimum this summer.

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What are your favorite summer survival tips?

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