I have not found any good deals lately on pudding or jello so I have been making my own for almost nothing. I have a bunch of the small ziplock containers, I make either jello or pudding the night before and toss them in their lunches the next day.
Today they had Capri Suns, clementines, ham and cheese and pudding.
I try and stay under $4-5 dollars a day for all lunches. So about $20 – $25 a week on lunches. I buy bread and rolls on sale and freeze them. I bought 13 packages of string cheese for under $.75 a bag, then I freeze them and pull some out every few days. I also freeze lunch meat and load up when I get it on sale. The snacks are always very cheap at Kroger mega events. We go through an enormous amount of fruit, I always try and price match it at Wal-Mart. The kids eat fruit for breakfast, lunch, snack and after dinner… I actually have to hide any kind of berries and the little clementines. They can eat 5 lbs of clementines in one sitting.