Reddit mentions of The Best Homemade Kids' Lunches on the Planet: Make Lunches Your Kids Will Love with More Than 200 Deliciously Nutritious Meal Ideas (Best on the Planet)

I would recommend finding a "kids lunch" cookbook like this. That really helped me when I was new to making kids lunches every day, to get some ideas besides pb&j and a bananna! My son has helped pack his own lunch since the 1st grade. Of course when he was younger, I did most of the work! But we would sit down together every weekend & make a lunch plan for the week where he picked what he wanted. It really helps with the grocery shopping too (not buying unnecessary stuff). Anyhow, when he was in grade school, every night I would make the main part (sandwich, wrap, pasta, ect.) & he would add the sides (fruit, veggie, chips, ect.). Now that he is older (13), we still make the weekly lunch plan & he makes his own lunch every night. Well, nobody's perfect, so not every night! We all as single parents have those days where it's easier to stuff cash in their backpack, right?