The Back to School Eating Reset: Lunches, Schedules, and Sanity

The first week of school, the lunchbox is packed the night before and everything feels manageable. By week two, most of us are scrambling at seven in the morning wondering how we lost the thread so fast. In this episode, pediatric dietitian Jill Castle shares the simple lunch framework she used with her own four kids and still walks parents through in practice today, along with a practical approach to after-school snacks and dinner timing for school-aged kids ages five to fourteen. No complicated meal plans, no pressure for variety every single day. Just a realistic, repeatable rhythm that holds up in a real family's week.